Boosting Your Mental Health With Endorphins

Mental health is a major cause of concern for many people around the globe. Endorphins can be a natural boost to your emotional well-being.

What are endorphins?

Endorphins are natural hormones that your brain releases when it senses happiness. These endorphins tell you all is well with your body.

You know that relaxed state you feel after a delicious meal, a good workout, a good laugh or great sex? That is the impact that endorphins have on you.

Endorphins are produced in the pituitary gland and the hypothalamus gland and release an opioid-like secretion that masks pain with a natural analgesic and tells the body that all is ok with the world.

The more often you can stimulate your brain to release these natural hormones, the better you will feel, and the easier it will be to put yourself into this happy state of being. Endorphins cannot be bought; only through your own effort can you bring them into being.

How can I create endorphins?

While the creation of endorphins is not effortless, it can be easy. Here are a few simple ways in which you can boost your mental health through endorphins:

• Go for a run - even a one-mile run can have a hugely positive impact

• Play your favourite songs and dance along to them

• Put on your favourite comedy film or comedian’s show - laughing is good for the mind, body and soul

• Seduce your partner and have sex (or bring yourself to climax if you don’t have a sexual partner)

• Listen to your favourite album and sing along at the top of your lungs

• Get acupuncture

• Have a massage

• Meditate

• Eat delicious food (dark chocolate is great for endorphins!)

• Spend time socialising with close friends - a bit of harmless gossip can be fun

Happy creates happy; it is a cycle that you should never break, and you should take every chance to spur these hormones on. Let them do what they do naturally; light their fire and reap the benefits!