# @science on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-09-09T03:00:19.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Science 🧬 (@science) — https://gondola.cc/science

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A feel-good attitude is generated from the neurons in our brains. To understand the effect positive and negative feelings have on our mindset, we need to know how our brain functions. Our brain controls our emotions in the amygdala. The amygdala regulates and responds to positive emotions like joy or negative emotions like anxiety or depression. Positive thinking changes the chemistry of the brain, affecting genetic markers, and can change brain cells. The change in genetic traits is a catalyst for our well-being and future generations. Positive thinking is also associated with an increase in cells that boost your immune system. Essentially, positive energy is a soldier that protects your mind and body from harmful influences. Healthy emotions create a buffer and can suppress negative emotions such as depression or post-traumatic stress disorder.⁠
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Our brain’s chemistry affects how we feel. Cortisol decreases when we think happy thoughts or feel joy, and the brain creates serotonin in response to our positive emotions. When serotonin levels are normal, one feels happy, calm, less anxious, more focused, and emotionally stable.⁠
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Positive emotions impact the brain’s prefrontal cortex, located in the front of the brain. When the prefrontal cortex is activated, there is an increase in activity and zeal. The increase in positivity leads to heightened mental reactions, including enhanced creative thinking, intellectual adaptability, and an increase in the brain’s capacity to process information. Our attention span is increased, and we think in terms of “we” instead of “me.”⁠
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Source: National Institutes of Health⁠
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#brain #amygdala #brainfunctions #positivity #thoughts #biology #science

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