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Joy Circuits

A collection of 6 posts

The Solution? The Emotional Brain
Joy Circuits

The Solution? The Emotional Brain

We need the emotional brain now more than ever. It's our wisdom, hope and joy. Perhaps COVID will help us honor the most powerful part of our body: the elusive emotional brain.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
1 min read
Covid Coping? The 5 Needs
Laurel's Life .

Covid Coping? The 5 Needs

After nine weeks of shelter-in-place, it's a good time to focus on the five needs: safety, love, comfort, pleasure and purpose. With my dog on my lap, I had all 5.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
Children: Wired for Joy
Emotional Brain

Children: Wired for Joy

With my new grandson in mind, I committed to using my brain's natural pathway from stress to joy even more often, so I could transmit it to him.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
3 min read
Joy as Natural Medicine
BBH Science

Joy as Natural Medicine

That momentary experience of joy? That's just what the doctor ordered. Legions of chemicals comfort and heal us. EBT helps you create moments of joy (score "Joy Points" as a way to live your best life!

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
1 min read
What Toddlers Need Most
Emotional Brain

What Toddlers Need Most

As parents, we think about security for our children. What's the most powerful source of security? It's beautiful circuits that move them through stress to joy.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
The Loneliness Cure
Brain states

The Loneliness Cure

We give ourselves an emotional cleanse each time we use the EBT Tools. Then our mind opens up and we see the grace, beauty, and mystery of life in unexpected ways. Loneliness vanishes. The cure is within.

  • Laurel Mellin
    Laurel Mellin
2 min read
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