Hello everyone! I want to apologize for my previous posts containing 'chakras.' I have no experience with chakras so please disregard what I said about them.
I realized I was thinking way too abstract about my life. Chakras are not important. What is important are the facts. Dopamine is a chemical that has a huge impact on our lives. Addictions and dopamine go hand and hand. Why? Dopamine = pleasure. Plain and simple. What happens when we do things like thrill seeking, computer gaming, pornography, or extreme sexual behavior? We get a huge splash of dopamine in our brains. This huge splash feels much more pleasurable than the usual steady stream of dopamine we receive during our days, like completing our chores or playing with our children and friends. Cpnsequently, we start avoiding things like chores, friends, and everyday behavior and start seeking the dopamine surges more and more. We see people playing video games for 5 to 6 hours, we see people who have sex with a different person each week, we see people who are going off bigger and higher jumps out on mountains or fisherman trying to angle larger and heavier fish. Yes, this is all the same chemical. Dopamine.
Is there a solution? Absolutely, and it's knowledge. Knowing that chasing huge dopamine surges will cause you to enjoy the steady dopamine stream of your days, you can avoid chasing the dopamine splashes all together. Give up your thrill-seeking addiction and grind through a couple of weeks of agony. Once you pu,ll through a month or so, you won't miss the highs at all. You'll be enjoying a more steady, noticable stream of pleasure throughout your day! Don't forget to relax though! Stress can rob you from pleasure faster than a pick-pocket in a mall!
Stephen
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