How Does The Devil\u2019s Dopamine Keep Us In Dysregulation Hell?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Making It Easy To Accept \u201cHelp\u201d.<\/h4>\n
Bad day?\u00a0 No problem, a quick trip to the liquor store, dispensary, or other place to pick up our \u201cpoison of choice\u201d is the first step.\u00a0 It\u2019s easy, convenient, relatively cheap, and makes the pains of our experiences just melt away, so we can deal with them later.
We all know later never comes though, and that\u2019s where the catch is.\u00a0 Before any meaningful effort is made to change, we need to first understand WHY.\u00a0 Why is it SO important to change our approaches, despite the fact these are such common practices everywhere?<\/p>\n
Eliminate The Issue at The Root.<\/h4>\n
Seeds of dysregulation are first planted at the site of the incident.\u00a0 We experience emotions when our values and morals come into conflict with the experience.\u00a0 These experiences serve to forcibly destroy our previously held beliefs and values about the world and others. We have been conditioned to \u201cbe strong\u201d and hold all of our emotions in.\u00a0 This advice is well intended, but contextually inappropriate, and unhelpful.\u00a0 We absolutely need to keep it together while the experience is unfolding, until it\u2019s conclusion.\u00a0 After that is where things start becoming problematic.<\/p>\n
Understanding The Root.<\/h4>\n
Emotions are a prompt.\u00a0 Emotions should not serve as a guiding light, as they are muddied by ego, and our own biases based on our learned perspectives.\u00a0 Often, emotions\u00a0 cover other emotions making things even more confusing.\u00a0 Anger is an epinephrine that overpowers the root emotion.\u00a0 Our body does this because feelings of guilt, shame, abandonment, grief, failure, etc, are too much, and too painful to keep moving.\u00a0 They hold us in a stasis hell, and that\u2019s where anger steps in to take over.\u00a0 If anger is a pretty consistent feeling, or anger words are primarily used to describe things, this is a big red flag to investigate.<\/p>\n
Forward Movement.<\/h4>\n
This is one of the hardest steps to take, but is the beginning of the path of true healing \u2013 acknowledgement.\u00a0 It\u2019s hard to see how we fall, or get an accurate gauge of where we are with emotional blinders on.\u00a0 We need to sit with these underlying emotions, face them, dissect them, and observe parts of the experience we may not have realized.\u00a0 More often than not, there are good points on the other end of things we fail to observe because we are wired to collect survival data.\u00a0 We need to collect ALL the data though, to get an accurate read of situation.\u00a0 The experience may have been horrible, but what was learned?\u00a0 Were there good observations?\u00a0 Did we still do well, following our moral compass in a stressful and out of control (initially) situation?\u00a0 How did my co-workers, friends, or peers do?\u00a0 These are only a few bigger themes, with more to be discovered.<\/p>\n
The Ugly Truth.<\/h4>\n
Trapped emotion will cause \u201celectrical irregularities\u201d in our nervous system, for lack of better way of describing it.\u00a0 These emotions still need to be released or \u201cdischarged\u201d from our bodies or the cycle of dysregulation will continue.\u00a0 This is an extremely difficult thing to do, due to well intended, but incorrect social conditioning.\u00a0 We bury and try to forget things, or ease the pain, but the pain will always come back unless we let it out ourselves.\u00a0 It\u2019s not constructive to voice these things publicly for two reasons.\u00a0 1. Others will try and help you by easing your pain.\u00a0 This doesn\u2019t address the problem and only serves to prolong it.\u00a0 2.\u00a0 Your pain is yours and has to be let out.\u00a0 Having a sanctuary to do so matters.<\/p>\n
The Benefits To Confronting The Issue At The Source.<\/h4>\n
Performance.\u00a0 A clear head, and a regulated body make for a much stronger mind\/body connection while interacting with the world.\u00a0 It\u2019s easier to see the truth for what it is by being able to notice more.\u00a0 By doing that we stress less, and can make a better game plan to navigate what\u2019s in front of us.\u00a0 A regulated body doesn\u2019t have \u201cpower leaks\u201d as much, physically.\u00a0 We have more energy to do the things we like, and not feel like we\u2019ve been run over by a steamroller afterwards.\u00a0 Awareness of the emotional states of others becomes a lot clearer as well.\u00a0 If we want to truly help each other this is important, as it influences the descriptive language in a more contextually appropriate manner.\u00a0 It\u2019s much easier being present with and for someone when we don\u2019t have our own big distractions.<\/p>\n
Cheap Dopamine Kills.<\/h4>\n
Engaging in the devil\u2019s dopamine serves to prolong and torture our minds and bodies.\u00a0 A real quick cheat sheet looks like this: is it internal, or external?\u00a0 Making our peace with things helps us to understand more of our character, our morals, our world, and our place in it.\u00a0 Using substances to help temporarily offload pain serves only to give us temporary relief to be marginally more functional in the short term, but will destroy us long term.\u00a0 Please look after yourself first, and then your friends.<\/p>\n
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Thanks for reading! \u2013 Grant<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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