Bread for the Souls Blog

A place where I occasionally leave my writtings.

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Francisco Negroni

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“Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.”

— Dalai Lama

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“I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.”

— D. H. Lawrence

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“Never stop being a good person because of bad people.”

— Unknown

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Im weighing in on the discourse. We need to start putting sea monsters on maps again.

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 Supernova Remnant  Hu6 & SNR G206.9+2.3 © astrofalls

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(1) Irina Iriser (2) Nazar Sharafutdinov

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Quote of the day

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I’m seeing a lot of people saying this post changed their brain chemistry, and as a neuroscientist I wanted to say yes!!! Yes it does!

Wanting something requires dopamine signaling, but liking something doesn’t.

If you have a mental illness/disorder that affects dopamine, you might feel that you don’t want to do the things that you like. You do still like them. You will appreciate having done them.

Let your likes guide you.

(If you want to read more, here’s one experimental paper about it. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5171207/ This theory called the incentive-sensitization theory was originally created to explain behaviors in addiction but can be applied elsewhere as well)

Rewards are both ‘liked’ and ‘wanted’, and those two words seem almost interchangeable. However, the brain circuitry that mediates the psych

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A Sun Pillar Over Ontario

Credits: Rick Stankiewicz, Peterborough Astronomical Association

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"A-meow-zing," Cosmic Cat's Paw ©

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“Behind every beautiful thing there’s some kind of pain.”

— Bob Dylan

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Reblog if you think the person you reblogged this from deserves to be happy.