Havening for a quick mood boost!
Havening can Boost Your Mood!
Are you looking for a quick mood boost?
Havening touch has been shown to create Delta waves in the brain that stimulate the release of your brain’s happiness chemicals: dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin. This makes Havening an amazing technique to use when you need a quick mood boost!
Havening also has a regulating effect on your nervous system.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: learning to regulate your nervous system is the ultimate happiness hack!
Without us even realizing it, our nervous system state massively affects every aspect of our wellbeing - from our energy levels and motivations - to our immune, digestive and endocrine systems - to our perceptions, moods and emotions.
So, if you want to pave the way to a more harmonious, happy, and grounded life, nervous system regulation is foundationally important. We just can’t be our best selves when we’re consistently dysregulated.
Try this self-havening exercise to boost your mood and regulate your nervous system now!
Learn more about Havening Techniques and the science behind them
How to do Self Havening
To create those magic Delta waves that down-regulate your amygdala and stimulate the release of the happiness chemicals in your brain, you can do Havening touch on yourself. (This is called self havening.)
Havening touch can be done in 3 ways:
Rubbing your palms together
Rubbing down your arms from shoulder to elbow
Stroking your face, cheeks or forehead
It only takes 5-7 minutes of Havening touch to create calming effects in your brain, so move between these 3 types of touch (with a pace and a pressure that feels good to you) for at least 5 minutes and feel what shifts within you!
How did that self havening exercise for a quick mood boost feel to you?
How does your mood feel different now from when you started? How does your body feel? How about your breath? Let me know in the comments below!
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Hey, I’m Karena!
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