2024 Author: Harry Day | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 15:43
It affects our mood. It stands out when we achieve results and recognize them. When we look, we use, we get something new. New impressions, acquaintances, trips, entertainment. Constant novelty. Something impressive. Dopamine brings pleasure, energy, good mood.
But if something becomes habitual to us, dopamine decreases. Therefore, everyday life is so difficult to endure. And we are drawn to new experiences and new people. And someone to constant new achievements. Because I got it, I got used to it, dopamine decreased and that's it, it's boring.
If you get dopamine from one source, then you become addicted to it. The stronger the stimulant, the stronger the addiction. The less effort, the stronger the addiction.
Drugs give light dopamine. The dose is strong, the experience is cool, but it's empty dopamine. There is no achievement for which you were praised, you appropriated the result and received a dose of dopamine.
Other people's money, easy money (lottery, winnings) - the same easy but empty dopamine.
Dopamine is produced when you are able to notice your accomplishments and take them for yourself. For dopamine, it doesn't matter whether it's a big achievement or a small one. He will stand out in any way. But here we can not notice small achievements, and wait only for large ones, it is difficult to achieve and therefore remain hungry and dissatisfied.
If you want to regulate your dopamine levels, I recommend:
1. New impressions - dopamine. In order not to depend constantly on one source - look for new ones, let there be several. Then they do not become boring so quickly. Add variety to old hobbies, deepen them.
2. Analyze your achievements in 3 days. Write them down. See what you think are your accomplishments. For dopamine, it's not size that's important, it's performance. You washed the dishes, took out the trash, made the bed - noticed this, appropriated it as a result, praised yourself, and here's dopamine for you. Received a portion.
3. The art of small steps - you have a big task, but you cannot master it with a running start. You look at him, you understand that this is not real, you lose heart and you go into apathy. What's important here is to divide the big goal into small, clear, accessible, concrete steps. We took one small step and praised ourselves. If it doesn't work, then you are stopping yourself with something. Most likely you devalue the result. Here it is important to understand how dopamine works and deliberately manually tweak. Small step - noticed, appropriated, praised.
4. If you have divided the case into small steps, and they cause stress for you, then even smaller steps are needed. Take steps that aren't stressful. When you are stressed, cortisol is released and it will be difficult for you to move around with pleasure. For example, I decided to write an article. She opened the book. 1 time, 2 times, 3 times. Only when the opening of the book has ceased to cause me stress do I start reading the material. 1 page day and stop. 1 page the second day and stop until the stress goes away and start a new one.
5. Also divide unpleasant affairs into very small steps. The body will be less stressed. Less stress - less cortisol - less resistance - more confidence!
Good luck with your dopamine friendship.
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