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On life's energy dashboard, endorphins act like an auto-activated pain relief skill when characters are injured. When you feel exhausted, downhearted, or even think you're on the brink of giving up, they slowly release in your body to dull pain and inject a small yet genuine sense of joy.

Endorphins aren’t meant to help you escape pain but rather to keep moving forward despite it. Sometimes, managing to complete tasks on the verge of collapse or laughing while feeling lost isn't numbness; it's endorphins unlocking the survival wisdom of 'finding joy amidst adversity.'

What Endorphins Do For You

Endorphins are regulators of pain and pleasure. They won't make you forget pain, but they will help you powerfully traverse through it.

• They alleviate physical pain and stabilize emotions, acting as natural painkillers.
• They bring feelings of relaxation and pleasure, like draping a protective shield over the soul.
• They are secreted in large amounts after exercise, laughter, music, and crying.

How to Trigger Endorphins Daily

The switch for endorphins hides between ‘getting the body moving’ and ‘emotional release’:

• Exercise: Fast walking, jogging, squats, dancing—get the body to activate its natural pain-relief mechanism.
• Laughter: Watch comedies, joke around with people, maintain a sense of humor about life.
• Creativity and Music: Immersing yourself in focus and involvement naturally generates a flow of happiness.
• Moderate Challenges: Cold showers, hiking, learning new skills—slight discomfort can evoke new pleasure thresholds.

Micro Practices to Activate Endorphins

• Three-minute heartful laughter: Watch a video that makes you laugh out loud, reminding your body of the feeling of joy.
• Five-minute physical challenge: Five minutes of continuous squatting or fast walking, savoring the moment your body shifts from soreness to warmth.
• Fifteen-minute flow time: Drawing, writing, making tea, listening to music—focus on the present as the softest pain relief method.

Common Pitfalls with Endorphins

A trap with endorphins is mistaking them as an escape sedative from pain.

• Over pursuing pleasure: Using exercise, stimuli, or entertainment to fill emptiness, which ultimately leaves the body fatigued.
• Emotional numbness: Suppressing genuine sadness under a facade of 'happiness.'
• Relying on stress peaks: Gaining emotional highs from anxiety or arguments can trick the body into believing that’s the state of living.

True endorphins mean facing pain honestly while still willing to laugh.

Key Scene Strategies

• Overwhelming stress: Release energy through exercise or deep breathing to let endorphins naturally flow back.
• Emotional lows: Allow yourself to cry, sing, create; these are outlets for emotional cycling.
• Long-term burnout: Schedule 'purposeless happiness,' doing small things that bring joy, not utility.

Endorphin Energy Gauge

You can observe your endorphin status through a 'happiness gauge':

• Self-questioning moments: Did you have moments today that made you smile or relax? Did you release stress through physical activity or creation? Are you nurturing pain or avoiding it?
• Gauging method: Score your 'happiness gauge' from 0–10 every night, writing one sentence: What was the most relaxing or comforting moment today?

When you learn to wisely use endorphins and no longer cover real pain with false happiness, allowing pain to become the nutrient from which joy is generated, your happiness gauge will become increasingly stable. At that point, you are no longer merely a player reliant on external stimuli, but a character who can rearrange rhythms amidst challenges, finding joy amidst adversity. True resilience is not fleeing pain, but learning to laugh within it.