Title: Shopping IS Good For You: How Manolos Can Save Your Life
Headings: Shopping IS Good For You: How Manolos Can Save Your Life
Shopping IS Good For You: How Manolos Can Save Your Life
Content: it's actually good for your mental and physical health. It releases mood-lifting endorphins, boosts your immune system, keeps your brain nimble, and even fulfills basic social needs. And I'm sure that's exactly what my wife has in mind when she makes me spend two hours looking at sweaters at the Gap. Can't buy me love? There already is a well-established link between shopping and a heightened sense of happiness. Maybe flipping through the racks at Macy's isn't quite as strenuous as 60 minutes on the treadmill or as fun as a romp in the sack with your significant other, but assuming you enjoy it, shopping will give you the same kind of high by releasing a flood of endorphins--the feel-good chemicals in your brain, says Nancy Irwin, Psy. D., a Los Angeles–based psychotherapist. " Shopping can be extremely thrilling," Irwin says. " It's a peak experience to get a hell of a deal." Academics who have measured shopping's effect on the brain tend to agree.