Evoking Endorphins

BradensEye
4 min readMay 4, 2024
A stack of black 45rpm records, with the female author’s left thumb with matching black nail polish holding up the top record showing the orange background title “Just For Laughs”.
Just Right, Photo by BradensEye featuring an apropos Jeannie Reynolds find from Lusscroft Farm 2022

Aglow

Ascension
accents
Evoking
endorphins
Euphoria
To be found
felicitously
grounding
When you’re lost
At all cost

Opportunities for pleasure are all around you, especially if you include things like the rainbow glitter of the tiny grains of sand in a sidewalk, the sound of water falling into a tub, the sense of connection in talking with a friend, or the reassurance that comes from the stove working when you need to make dinner. ~Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence by Rick Hanson, Ph.D.

Satiably stroking our soma is the sweetest aroma. I acutely attribute an articulated caliber of living to anyone with faithful adhesion to its finer fundamentals. That positioning of your Einsteinery smarts to elongate the heart of any matter(s). Placing joie de vivre reins duly with you. Yet, we staff our schedules with crammed cruddiness. We’re so quick to reside within our worries. Tunnel vision too easily swipes us away from receiving or spinning our splendor. We gloss over giving our intervals the precise preciousness they frequently hold. Rushing past chances to fill ourselves with effects that leave us carefree. Merriment breaks most stalements. Personally, it’s time for propitious lightening in my uni plus metaverses. The density of 2024 has been defectively onerous thus far. Sometimes we ought to be reminded about these anytime options.

I shall forever seek refuge in the sublimery of happy items. Getting the F outside. Staying there awhile beyond what your list-making, child, career, or any human-nagging noggin prefers. (Wherein, all aforementioned really should thank you later for this extension of your chillax and patience cup being refilled a bit.) Going for a long cruising convertible drive. Those moments when you’re so blissed out in the throes of a massage that you’ve forgotten every transgression ever laid upon you. The vintage lover that you believed considered you irrelevant affectionately texting you before one fateful evening’s now dreamy zzz’s. Dancing without your pants on or maybe also sans panties. Grabbing a gaggle of grand folks to have a giggle fest with. Perfecting your poker face with a belly-full of chuckles. Laughing as if everyone is watching and the contagion is real. Hilarity surging your highs.

And a bold world for me, yeah-yeah
Stars when you shine you know how I feel ~
Feeling Good by Nina Simone

Prior to you losing the plot is the reason I’m here today delirious with the trivially cheery pieces that I think we’re ripe for mining. This isn’t that you’ve gotta be a bubbly frontrunner daily. Rather, I’m reflecting on the avenues that I’ve used to circumvent all of my confrontations for the sake of injecting y’all with my buoyancy bonbons. I’ll have the constant diet of unstressing success, please. Actually, why don’t ya supersize it for me additionally. I’m of the mind that creation is best enunciated by our ecstasies. Installing your own individual upgrades is more convenient than you may trust. Although, it’s such squandering to miss all of the possibilities for rapture at our fingertips. There are so many ways that we exit the enjoyment of existence. Instead, I want anybody to know that they have endless access to refreshing their attitudes. Mood boostery molecules off the hook!

Remember, while it’s not okay to kill people, it’s a fabulous use of your energy to kill it as in blitzed-out kiddish acrobatic prancing about, that tub of ice cream, or experimenting with any yummy life leisure. At some point, my psyche, which typically processes in pictures, began associating the word ‘endorphins’ with dolphins. I mean, in proportionate accordance it tracks perceptively for me. The mere idea of those leapingly idyllic flipperesque creatures instantaneously calls forth jubilation in each of my bones. In equal measure and I might not be the only one, the simple thought of them brings amusement into play for my bodily exultation. A complete cellular symphony. Often, we can do better by swimming through our hours with organized kindness. If you solely sort one spot of epicness in during your planetary rollick let it be positivity reliance at the ready.

Showcasing a brown surfboard sign stating in varied pastel colors of yellow, blue, pink, and green: “Get a glow before you go, have a drink, relax & chill, enjoy, smile, giggle, laugh” leaning against a sparse green-leafed tree, next to the pale green tarmac of the Thailand Samui Airport at sunny daytime with bright blue skies with puffy white clouds in the background.
Even On the Go, Photo by BradensEye featuring a favorite airport/sign at USM aka Koh Samui, where you’re all but guaranteed to see rare pink dolphin dalliance

Always is the gateway to procuring refinement.

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BradensEye

LOVER of life. Especially people, places, philanthropy, pondering, and photography.