Feeling Chemicals

Hate, love, happiness... we know how it "feels" because the feeling is tied to a chemical in the brain that, once activated, allows us to feel.

When someone says "I just want to be happy" what they actually mean is that they want the chemicals related to happiness to be within acceptable parameters within the brain. How these chemicals are activated may vary from person to person. Reading may make some people happy, for example, and make someone else miserable.

It's possible to activate these feelings through artificial means.

“...Part of the process of discovering your Life Purpose has to do with being in touch with your feelings. Your feelings are clue to what your life purpose is all about. By noticing how you feel about things, you’ll discover what you value and what you don’t. Things that don’t trigger much emotion probably aren’t tied to your purpose or the application of it - at least for now....”

-Chuck Goetschel

Our entire being is dependent on chemical reactions within the brain. It's through them that we design our life. We make decisions based on how we feel which means that a chemical imbalance, artificial or otherwise, could be the difference between a life of success or failure. We must be aware of these nuances with biological life and not make important decisions when our emotions are high. A calm, collected, demeanor is a much better time to make decisions than under the influence of an emotion running wild.