Close your eyes. Breathe deeply a few times. Try to think of calming, positive things, like a field of daisies or a bowl of ice cream (unless your are lactose intolerant). Positive thinking is a legitimate way to release endorphins! It has even been known to "ease pain even if a medication is physically ineffective" in certain cases.
Taking the power of positive thinking a step further, another way to make yourself feel better is to meditate. Meditation typically involves sitting in a quiet, comfortable environment. The point is to try and relax not only the muscles in your mind, but also that muscle in your head--the brain! Every day stressful things happen to each and every one of us, and those things weigh heavily on your brain. Meditation is a way to relieve your mind of needless trash and waste that is clogging it constantly. Veterans to the meditation game call it "freeing your mind".
Meditation can improve your concentration and help you to focus on what is most important in life. It also has bodily health benefits, including "improvement of body luster and general health--when your mind focuses on a particular part of the body, the blood flow to that part increases and cells receive more oxygen and other nutrients in abundance. Today, many of the film stars and fashion models include meditation in their daily regimen."
The best part is, positive thinking requires no effort and very little time. However, if you work hard on your meditation, perhaps you too can, like Buddha, achieve Nirvana. If scientists today were able to run tests on Buddha's pituitary glands, surely they would see immense endorphin activity.
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