Not really, you get the idea here and from there decide if and when you will apply it. And it’s a cycle, you enter fasting period, you go out of it, so on
I've been doing it once every 3 months for 2 weeks. Dopamine fasting is more about cutting down or stopping things what you love the most for certain period of time ,just be by yourself and detach from things you love or are dependent on or enjoy the most .what I can tell you is it refreshes you quite a bit and gives lot of perspective ..
@Flemming dopamine fasting is not shutting yourself from all activities. You're just supposed to take a break from activities that trigger dopamine like social media, video games, any pleasure seeking activities, watching movies or shows, junk food. By doing this over a period of time you'll find things like working out or doing better at your work or school and any healthy activity will seem interesting.
I don't think detaching from things you love will help. I think it's detaching from things that causes an unhealthy amount of dopamine release in the reward pathway that puts you in pain later. People may love things that add value to their lives and the world which also releases dopamine. It's staying away from the behaviours or activities that overstimulate your brain and can ruin you.
5:18 >>> These words have become an "earworm" for me. "There is value biochemically, physiologically, evolutionarily in being bored and being alone with your thoughts"
@@Wand_mdin ramadhan we don’t eat during the day and this is a form of dopamine fasting i guess, cause we are forcing ourselves to not eat since dopamine can be released by food
There is a HUGE difference between pleasure and happiness. Pleasure is temporary, easy. Happiness lingers, and can be permanent, yet is created slowly, increnentally. I recommend a book, The Hacking of the American Mind, by Robert H. Lustig, who also wrote a book on sugar addiction, Fat Chance.
i did an outward bound course before high school in 2019 and thinking back it was a major dopamine fast. For 10 days: no electronics devices, social interaction was just 14 people i never met before, hiked/canoed for majority of the day, slept outdoors, food was limited and no sweets, and to top it off 20 hour self isolation period at the end. I came back a new person.
@@sandeshbhandare7238 speak for yourself. I live in the global south and eventhough extreme poverty has decreased substantially, extreme inequality is also on the rise. People are trapped in the middle income trap on their day to day jobs void of any life changing opportunities while the rich gets richer from corruption.
Best way to dopamine fast is to go to a place where there is no internet and also only cook and prepare your food, and hang out with family and friends. For me this place is deep in Oaxaca, Mexico in a village where my grandparents live. Everytime I come back from a vacation there my brain feels completely refreshed and motivated.
Well it seems that all those long boring Sundays I spent as a kid and teenager through the seventies in the uk probably did me some good after all. Not much in the way of a dopamine rush on a February Sunday afternoon for a 13 year old on a Yorkshire council estate in 1975. Character building I think they would call it.
Oh god, the SHEER BOREDOM of being a child in the last century were astounding. Luckily i grew up in the nineties so it wasn't so bad for me, but whenever I visited my grandmothers place it was like being thrown back in time thirty years and the boredom was absolutely crippling. I've seen adults talk about the boredome of the 70s (or even before) and it sounds basically traumatic.
Would you not then just get addicted to pain? Like how people get hooked on cutting and other forms of self-harming behaviours - including flagellation, restrictive eating, abstinence from pleasure, or less intentional forms like skin picking. I know you said "worthwhile pain", but we humans are not great at self-discipline or discernment sometimes, especially it seems when it comes to dopamine. It feels like a dangerously slippery slope to actively seek out pain in order to get your dopamine fix from it...
@@HelenMarieOCI see what you’re saying. I think the approach much rather should be… seeking out to do the things we know we need to do, but finding it hard to do. Not refraining from “the (necessary) hard things”, and that would include exercising… or even abstaining from sugary foods, reading from some etc..
It's not dopamine fasting. It's normalizing our dopamine receptor. It'a simple, just get less contact with any device for starter. If it's hard, force it, bit by bit. Don't too much. The relapse is a pain in the ass.
It is dopamine fasting, everyone here is trying to revert their brains to a state before technology and modern society.. (Not beneficial for technology or modern society)
Yeah bro its just that nothing really gets me excited and i am going to do nofap, hope it works and also i'll be reducing my phone usage down to twice a week for 10 minutes only
i am 17 years old. I was addicted to anime, reels, RUclips, nonstop music and other internet related things like shopping and games. I quit all of these at the same time because I was aiming to score high in my exams. After a few days I experienced sudden stress and anxiety and was confused about what was going on with me. I had gotten anhedonia because of sudden drop of dopamine and was very very scared about my future. It's been 1 month and I'm still having a few symptoms. I get a lot of mood swings, I don't enjoy anything as much as I used to before, I get scared of many things, I get suicidal thoughts even though I would never do such a thing. These suicidal thoughts make me overthink and give so much distress that I disconnect from the world and just keep thinking about why all this is happening to me. There have been a few positive changes since the past month. It's very difficult for me to handle this. I'm glad I have such wonderful parents and friends and that is why I get panicked and scared about getting suicidal thoughts. Please tell me what I can do to have a speedy recovery so I can enjoy life again. I really really hope this is temporary.
This happened to me. For few weeks it's overwhelming. I just kept thinking about future and took inspiration to be a realistic anime char. Well, my diet, exercise and some time fasting made me mindful in my work. Sometimes this happens due to low T hormone.
I had a similar situation, I took up on a hobby playing acoustic drum, chopping vegetables, cleaning utensils, dancing alone listening to music, while doing these things I make my brain remember that being bored is natural and perfectly ok, I feel much better after I do these things, it's kind of meditative. Also I used to procrastinate things While I was addicted, so I started making a TODO list and assign priority to them, I execute and tick them one by one, this helps me... Please try this I hope a speedy recovery to you.
I think the reason of it is that u didn't pay attention to the relevant things during the use of reels etc but since now u have stopped u have time to think. You are thinking abt ur career and things like how and what am i gonna do? is it late?? questions like that. U are reflecting on urself. Just do deep breathing and tell ur mind that everything is going to be okay, and u are on the way to become a better version of urself. It will help a lot. Good luck
At the end, when she said, it’s better to get the dopamine directly and paying for it upfront… Is that basically saying it’s best to get your dopamine organically like exercising being outside or reading a book? 📕 as opposed to social media scrolling video games and binge watching TV. I feel those things are like the junk food of entertainment.
Interesting. Many religions (including my own) recommend periods of fasting. In my own faith it’s for many reasons, but a big one is by fasting from something that is good (that is, there is nothing wrong with it in itself), you are better able to have self control to say no to things that are destructive. It’s practice in self control. It’s recommended for limited periods, not all the time.
I like the idea, but I think there is also some responsibility among creators of addictive apps and devices, to acknowledge this. And to build product with that in mind.
The whole thing is fuelled for market. Aimed for the attention of highest possible consumers. It is upon the user to see that, what we use does not end up using us. We should be wary of what terms and conditions we accept for the service we get .
One solution though. Pay for the services we use and then as part of payment agreement, a clause which do not allow to show advertisements or share userdata with any external entity. If some sort of such generic license model is proposed and adopted (somewhat philosophically similar to open source SW licences), then it might go away. Like if youtube says there is adv free mode based on "blahblah" license model and comes at blablah price per month. That could kill the root cause (companies need money, users dont pay, so companies choose to sell the users to others who will pay)
Yeah but it’s not their responsibility for us to control our psychology. Think of it like another obstacle to get over, not easily put it on someone else to do the hard work for us!
But then what if i start to think deeply. Then i begin enjoying thinking deeply and before i realize i am daydreaming which i am again enjoying. Then am i not feeding the dopamine by daydreaming??
I think this helped me arrive closer to the answer to my question. “What is this “pain”?And I am now seeing this pain is just a biological mechanism. Where I keep thinking this inability to just sit still is bc I don’t want to face myself, my traumas/problems, insecurities and I’m seeking endless distraction from that. I’m the one attaching this meaning to the pain. But this pain just is
Just what I was looking for to find an answer to the Question “ why am I feeling weightless sometimes like I stare at stuff and my mind gets blank. Couldn’t find the actual answer until I came up with this video and it says that the more you have fun the more consequences will it have as a pain. 😢
Idiot This is different type of fasting she's talking about Why to relate everything to your religion??? The scientist in this video is most probably a Christian, did she mention it???
My performance has degraded since I was in my final year at school. Thanks to internet and digital devices, I have still been experiencing the issues regarding focused attention 😓 Edit: I have read Dopamine Detox by Thibaut Meurisse and applied the 48-hour rule. Accordingly, it worked well for me. I am thinking of following the rules in the book
At one point in the video it says a dopamine fast of 24 hours will balance you, then later we are told it takes 30 days for the "gremlins" to get off the balance when you are avoiding behaviours that causes you problems. So which is it, balance after 24 hours or 30 days? A dopamine fast sounds like my life. I'm retired, have no family, do not leave home more than 3 or 4 times a month, have few friends (well, only one actually) , a poor appetite, and the majority of my time is spent reading (I use the internet for a short time each day, and use no social media). I also write in my journal every day. My dopamine levels must be very low, but as dopamine is a natural part of the human condition, surely you can suffer from low levels as much as high. I also feel that what you do during a dopamine fast would not have an effect for many people, being outside in nature, writing, and even meditation can be so pleasurable that surely you are still being stimulated to produce the dopamine.
30 days is what ONE particular person recommends and they focused the fast on ONE dopamine source eg a certain drug or activity. The 24 hour on the other hand is fasting from all electronic stimulation. You've demonstrated a potential RACING MIND, one that moves fast but struggles to concentrate on details and therefore misses KEY TAKEAWAYS. The 24 hour or just a few hours ELECTRONICS FAST may be good to try for better focus.
You seem to be a very mentally strong person. These “new” theories such as these are perhaps just flavour of the month topic. There will be another new theory in a few years.
In 30 days it become harmonal balance. Whe u go for 24 hour away for walk etc that means stay with self and nature. Dopamine release when u r imagining thungs. When u r totally present in momen u r not produce high dose of dopamine
I find pleasure in silence, meditation, immersion in nature, and withdrawal from society. I don't know about others, but I suspect I'm not "dopamine fasting" when I do these things. I feel high at those times, maybe it's not dopamine? IDK. Then again, I'm not a social media doom scroll kind of guy. I find little pleasure there. edit: My weekly day of silence was often my best day of the week. It's sad I don't do it anymore. #2 I get it now, my dopamine fast is my daily life at work. /satire
"There is also some evidence that the brain releases more dopamine when we meditate. The change in consciousness that occurs during meditation may trigger its release."
I became a hermit in 2010. My only connection with real Humans is minimal and I take a break from digital Media every night. Sometimes, every day, too. ✌❤🎶 Also, I don't eat pharmaceuticals like so many Americans do. They tend to rot the brain.
So, it requires going deep. Dopamine is a good thing. The problem is a "dopamine spike". So, the "high amount of pleasure in short amount of time" is the problem. Because after this, the body balances out and makes dopamine's baseline level lower and that's what we feel as a "hangover". So, better call it "dopamine management" in order to keep it maximized all the time evenly. And what you do is a very efective way to do that.
The last part of the video where she explains to pay for dopamine gave me goosebumps thinking about the magic and complexity and fairness in our creation.
Sounds like she's suggesting you should train yourself to enjoy pain , so to forget about pleasure . Furthermore , refraining for 30 days for an addict , will only excel irate their destructive behavior , once they return to active addiction . SHE SHOULD KNOW THAT !
I wish people would heed this when they enter cinemas, by turning off their phones, instead of flashing around their bright screens while the rest of us are trying to watch a movie.
I am watching this video because I never had so much comfort in my life at all levels as I have now but at the same time never felt so bored and lacking aliveness before. I feel that this is due to the lack of challenges in my life and having a life with so much comfort. I do notice though that when I return after a few days out in nature for example, that my motivation to do new things is higher
The ironic thing is that watching youtube videos also release short term dopamine. This is why you got easily addicted to youtube, instagram, or any social media that reward anyone with short time investment. Why go to the Gym or Working on a project if you can get the same reward with 5 minute investment ?
Just for a bit of perspective on how electronics effect people, i am in the middle between 2 groups of people. 1. The typical, college age student in modern society. Uses their phone a lot. 2. A friend group which is primarily religious, uses their phones far less often times not at all in any social situations. I have noticed the second group is consistently happier, and more outgoing specifically because they rarely have that kind of stimulation. We could all benifit from a significant reduction or compete elimination of idle dopamine. Dopamine is meant to make us strive for more of whatever is releasing it. Why should we do an activity that only continues to release more dopamine, but only wastes time and gets you nowhere?
Production of this video nicely done! Fascinating concept - simple but profound!! Could be applied rapidly into other forms of dopamine / brain connection…need say more !?!
If you actually want to benefit from this, you need to change your lifestyle. A temporary fast won't do anything unless you remove or significantly decrease your use of highly dopaminergic things (like social media, video games, drugs, etc) from your life in the long term.
And Islam knew that 1400 yrs ago thats why we do Fast for one month its not just abt not eating and drinking its all about not doing anything bad even thinking bad
Thank you for this information. My dopamine will suffice due to this prosperous technique bestowed upon me by your highness. I shall skip everything else and start my dopamine fast journey. Im gonna love this new life and a new era in my future which im going to build.
Plenty of addictive video game consoles and arcades in the 80s. Heck, TV was was much better then too. Flashy Neon lighting was popular. Music and vinyl was in full swing. I'd say, you'd need to go a few decades further for better dopamine regulation.
There's a video? I probably won't watch it. I'm already wearing headphones with Music playing from my playlists. I mostly just mess around on RUclips. I like reading what others think the best.
I would like to increase my dopamine to extreme levels and try to keep it there so that I can also get rid of the hopelessness in the morning. How can I get euphoric on dopamine / Dopamine overdose - without having to take synthetic or is it only possible with argonists etc.? I wanna be high on dopamine so that im focussed, stay active and full of creativity with pure euphoric and touchable empathic. -- you have a good life. ->
Well were doing that 1month in every year, and it's running for thousand years.. in my religion it's called Ramadan. And we all love that month. It's a magical month
There is much more wisdom in many old beliefs and practices than most people realise. The traditional practices of Christians during the 40 days of lent were far more severe than today - they intermittent fasted throughout by not eating before 3pm, something we now know boosts the repair pathways of the body. There were also two days of total fast, as well as adopting a pescatarian or vegetarian diet throughout. There are 4 major and 2 minor fasting days in orthodox Judaism. Both fasting and the practice of withdrawing from the world to meditate and cleanse are key aspects Hinduism and Buddhism. The more you look at it, the more it seems every religion appears to instill practices that are psychologically and physically beneficial. It seems to me that until recently, this was not properly understood to be universally beneficial rather than spiritually beneficial to believers of a given faith.
You see this with people that constantly chase after new sexual partners and encounters. They seem to live more miserable and chaotic lives compared to monogamous people comfortable with just one partner for most of their lives.
I think life is very stressful and dangerous still, we don’t die without watering hole, but driving in traffic everyday is pretty bad, is it why we still need dopamine boost?
Yes. I recommend Jackson Browne singing, "Doctor My Eyes". It's been my personal ear glue since about 3 weeks ago. I especially love the rhythm and the guitars and the drums. Oh, and, the lyrics, of course, about the evil and the good. 🙂
In the Jewish tradition, shabbat observance is essentially dopamine fasting. It is blissful to stay totally disconnected from mental noise and meaningless social connections at least one day a week
Irony is we are watching this also on a addictive platform.
Not really, you get the idea here and from there decide if and when you will apply it. And it’s a cycle, you enter fasting period, you go out of it, so on
@@joonotfins Well it's the beginning then it goes on......
Well, actually, I'm also watching "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", at the same time. It's a beautiful day outside but much too hot.
Addiction to learn new stuff
So true
"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone" -Blaise Pascal (in the 1600s!)
Yeah coz our brain was not built to sit idle
Men sure have problems, eh?
If thats your reasoning will be using stone and aticks until now
Dumb quote
Love it !
I've been doing it once every 3 months for 2 weeks. Dopamine fasting is more about cutting down or stopping things what you love the most for certain period of time ,just be by yourself and detach from things you love or are dependent on or enjoy the most .what I can tell you is it refreshes you quite a bit and gives lot of perspective ..
You, not Me. Balance is my choice and, I'm anti-religious delusions. ✌
Try having a job, not really something that is doable.
@@flemming1286 it's doable if you find a way to work around it, we've got people who go to the gym, school, then work. You can do it
@Flemming dopamine fasting is not shutting yourself from all activities. You're just supposed to take a break from activities that trigger dopamine like social media, video games, any pleasure seeking activities, watching movies or shows, junk food.
By doing this over a period of time you'll find things like working out or doing better at your work or school and any healthy activity will seem interesting.
I don't think detaching from things you love will help. I think it's detaching from things that causes an unhealthy amount of dopamine release in the reward pathway that puts you in pain later. People may love things that add value to their lives and the world which also releases dopamine. It's staying away from the behaviours or activities that overstimulate your brain and can ruin you.
5:18 >>> These words have become an "earworm" for me.
"There is value biochemically, physiologically, evolutionarily in being bored and being alone with your thoughts"
Salam Alikum Muhammad, did you try these tips to fast from Dopamine? And how was it. It’s Ramadan and I want to start dopamine fasting
@@Wand_mdin ramadhan we don’t eat during the day and this is a form of dopamine fasting i guess, cause we are forcing ourselves to not eat since dopamine can be released by food
There is a HUGE difference between pleasure and happiness.
Pleasure is temporary, easy.
Happiness lingers, and can be permanent, yet is created slowly, increnentally.
I recommend a book, The Hacking of the American Mind, by Robert H. Lustig, who also wrote a book on sugar addiction, Fat Chance.
Probably Humans haven't much time remaining before the electricity goes out, so not to worry. Climate Change will fix everything. 😜
im just trying to get rich, happiness can wait for now.
thanks for the recommendations
Best of luck 👍@@newt2120
all emotions are fleeting. including happiness. all mans problems come from thinking
i did an outward bound course before high school in 2019 and thinking back it was a major dopamine fast. For 10 days: no electronics devices, social interaction was just 14 people i never met before, hiked/canoed for majority of the day, slept outdoors, food was limited and no sweets, and to top it off 20 hour self isolation period at the end. I came back a new person.
What was a fictional thing?
@@bunk95 No, it's a nonprofit outdoor course that operates in 35 countries. It's been going for 80 years. Very real.
I seriously feel like despite all the abundance, this era is truly the worst time for anyone to be growing up.
i agree, i think its also because this era's quite new with technology and modern addictions, i wish i was born much later as well
Nop. It’s the best time because there is far less poverty.
@@sandeshbhandare7238 speak for yourself. I live in the global south and eventhough extreme poverty has decreased substantially, extreme inequality is also on the rise. People are trapped in the middle income trap on their day to day jobs void of any life changing opportunities while the rich gets richer from corruption.
tell that to the lost generation
@@sandeshbhandare7238the suicide rate has only gone up. Our standards keep going up and people cannot get happy.
I think we actually need a balance in everything. Don't over indulge in social devices, keep a balance with offline activities and u r good.
Social devices are fictional. Humans cant be social with human slaves, human who aren’t enslaved when human slaves still live.
Best way to dopamine fast is to go to a place where there is no internet and also only cook and prepare your food, and hang out with family and friends. For me this place is deep in Oaxaca, Mexico in a village where my grandparents live. Everytime I come back from a vacation there my brain feels completely refreshed and motivated.
Or just go outside without your phone and wallet.
@@kanister21 I heard the advice to stare at a wall long enough until work becomes your dopamine
Dopamine fasting is fictional.
@@kanister21dopamine fasting is fictional.
@@jichaelmorgan3796something lied about as advice?
Well it seems that all those long boring Sundays I spent as a kid and teenager through the seventies in the uk probably did me some good after all. Not much in the way of a dopamine rush on a February Sunday afternoon for a 13 year old on a Yorkshire council estate in 1975. Character building I think they would call it.
Oh god, the SHEER BOREDOM of being a child in the last century were astounding. Luckily i grew up in the nineties so it wasn't so bad for me, but whenever I visited my grandmothers place it was like being thrown back in time thirty years and the boredom was absolutely crippling. I've seen adults talk about the boredome of the 70s (or even before) and it sounds basically traumatic.
Dopamine fasting is great, but I also recommend pursuing worthwhile pain. The classical example is of course exercise, but there are many others.
What are the other ones?
Ice baths
Would you not then just get addicted to pain? Like how people get hooked on cutting and other forms of self-harming behaviours - including flagellation, restrictive eating, abstinence from pleasure, or less intentional forms like skin picking. I know you said "worthwhile pain", but we humans are not great at self-discipline or discernment sometimes, especially it seems when it comes to dopamine.
It feels like a dangerously slippery slope to actively seek out pain in order to get your dopamine fix from it...
@@HelenMarieOCI see what you’re saying. I think the approach much rather should be… seeking out to do the things we know we need to do, but finding it hard to do. Not refraining from “the (necessary) hard things”, and that would include exercising… or even abstaining from sugary foods, reading from some etc..
It's not dopamine fasting. It's normalizing our dopamine receptor.
It'a simple, just get less contact with any device for starter. If it's hard, force it, bit by bit. Don't too much. The relapse is a pain in the ass.
It is dopamine fasting, everyone here is trying to revert their brains to a state before technology and modern society.. (Not beneficial for technology or modern society)
Yeah bro its just that nothing really gets me excited and i am going to do nofap, hope it works and also i'll be reducing my phone usage down to twice a week for 10 minutes only
“Dopamine receptor” and not dopamine receptor.
Did you ever check if a human slave has the body parts required to speak?
i am 17 years old. I was addicted to anime, reels, RUclips, nonstop music and other internet related things like shopping and games. I quit all of these at the same time because I was aiming to score high in my exams. After a few days I experienced sudden stress and anxiety and was confused about what was going on with me. I had gotten anhedonia because of sudden drop of dopamine and was very very scared about my future. It's been 1 month and I'm still having a few symptoms.
I get a lot of mood swings, I don't enjoy anything as much as I used to before, I get scared of many things, I get suicidal thoughts even though I would never do such a thing. These suicidal thoughts make me overthink and give so much distress that I disconnect from the world and just keep thinking about why all this is happening to me.
There have been a few positive changes since the past month. It's very difficult for me to handle this. I'm glad I have such wonderful parents and friends and that is why I get panicked and scared about getting suicidal thoughts. Please tell me what I can do to have a speedy recovery so I can enjoy life again. I really really hope this is temporary.
This happened to me. For few weeks it's overwhelming. I just kept thinking about future and took inspiration to be a realistic anime char. Well, my diet, exercise and some time fasting made me mindful in my work.
Sometimes this happens due to low T hormone.
I had a similar situation, I took up on a hobby playing acoustic drum, chopping vegetables, cleaning utensils, dancing alone listening to music, while doing these things I make my brain remember that being bored is natural and perfectly ok, I feel much better after I do these things, it's kind of meditative. Also I used to procrastinate things While I was addicted, so I started making a TODO list and assign priority to them, I execute and tick them one by one, this helps me... Please try this I hope a speedy recovery to you.
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I think the reason of it is that u didn't pay attention to the relevant things during the use of reels etc but since now u have stopped u have time to think. You are thinking abt ur career and things like how and what am i gonna do? is it late?? questions like that. U are reflecting on urself. Just do deep breathing and tell ur mind that everything is going to be okay, and u are on the way to become a better version of urself. It will help a lot. Good luck
It can take up to 1-2 years after addiction to fully heal. Over time the dopamine receptors should slowly go back to nornal
At the end, when she said, it’s better to get the dopamine directly and paying for it upfront… Is that basically saying it’s best to get your dopamine organically like exercising being outside or reading a book? 📕 as opposed to social media scrolling video games and binge watching TV. I feel those things are like the junk food of entertainment.
Interesting. Many religions (including my own) recommend periods of fasting. In my own faith it’s for many reasons, but a big one is by fasting from something that is good (that is, there is nothing wrong with it in itself), you are better able to have self control to say no to things that are destructive. It’s practice in self control. It’s recommended for limited periods, not all the time.
Grandma you need whiskey or Blues Martini 😂
Dopamine detox is a real game changer, once you get the hang of it.
Everyone who is trying: Keep going, you got this 💪🏻
Yes sir
Dopamine detox is fictional.
I like the idea, but I think there is also some responsibility among creators of addictive apps and devices, to acknowledge this. And to build product with that in mind.
Yea, and their responsibility is towards the investors. Thats capitalism
The whole thing is fuelled for market. Aimed for the attention of highest possible consumers. It is upon the user to see that, what we use does not end up using us. We should be wary of what terms and conditions we accept for the service we get .
One solution though. Pay for the services we use and then as part of payment agreement, a clause which do not allow to show advertisements or share userdata with any external entity. If some sort of such generic license model is proposed and adopted (somewhat philosophically similar to open source SW licences), then it might go away. Like if youtube says there is adv free mode based on "blahblah" license model and comes at blablah price per month. That could kill the root cause (companies need money, users dont pay, so companies choose to sell the users to others who will pay)
@@NishanthSalahudeen ikr they're just doing the job they get paid for
Yeah but it’s not their responsibility for us to control our psychology. Think of it like another obstacle to get over, not easily put it on someone else to do the hard work for us!
This is incredible! Thank you!
Meditate, journal, drink, walk, and think
Drink?
But then what if i start to think deeply. Then i begin enjoying thinking deeply and before i realize i am daydreaming which i am again enjoying. Then am i not feeding the dopamine by daydreaming??
I think this helped me arrive closer to the answer to my question. “What is this “pain”?And I am now seeing this pain is just a biological mechanism. Where I keep thinking this inability to just sit still is bc I don’t want to face myself, my traumas/problems, insecurities and I’m seeking endless distraction from that. I’m the one attaching this meaning to the pain. But this pain just is
Just what I was looking for to find an answer to the Question “ why am I feeling weightless sometimes like I stare at stuff and my mind gets blank. Couldn’t find the actual answer until I came up with this video and it says that the more you have fun the more consequences will it have as a pain. 😢
That is why we fast in Islam for a month every year to purify our souls, bodies and thoughts
Idiot
This is different type of fasting she's talking about
Why to relate everything to your religion???
The scientist in this video is most probably a Christian, did she mention it???
My performance has degraded since I was in my final year at school. Thanks to internet and digital devices, I have still been experiencing the issues regarding focused attention 😓
Edit: I have read Dopamine Detox by Thibaut Meurisse and applied the 48-hour rule. Accordingly, it worked well for me. I am thinking of following the rules in the book
Same
what's the 48 hour rule?
@@SanusiAdewale Research on internet
The slaves version of performance?
@@SanusiAdewale Refraining from excitements for 48 long hours
6:35 OK, but exercising also gives you dopamine, as the act itself is rewarding. Like Runner's high
Superb info.... much needed in today's day n age
At one point in the video it says a dopamine fast of 24 hours will balance you, then later we are told it takes 30 days for the "gremlins" to get off the balance when you are avoiding behaviours that causes you problems. So which is it, balance after 24 hours or 30 days?
A dopamine fast sounds like my life. I'm retired, have no family, do not leave home more than 3 or 4 times a month, have few friends (well, only one actually) , a poor appetite, and the majority of my time is spent reading (I use the internet for a short time each day, and use no social media). I also write in my journal every day. My dopamine levels must be very low, but as dopamine is a natural part of the human condition, surely you can suffer from low levels as much as high.
I also feel that what you do during a dopamine fast would not have an effect for many people, being outside in nature, writing, and even meditation can be so pleasurable that surely you are still being stimulated to produce the dopamine.
30 days is what ONE particular person recommends and they focused the fast on ONE dopamine source eg a certain drug or activity.
The 24 hour on the other hand is fasting from all electronic stimulation.
You've demonstrated a potential RACING MIND, one that moves fast but struggles to concentrate on details and therefore misses KEY TAKEAWAYS. The 24 hour or just a few hours ELECTRONICS FAST may be good to try for better focus.
You seem to be a very mentally strong person. These “new” theories such as these are perhaps just flavour of the month topic. There will be another new theory in a few years.
In 30 days it become harmonal balance. Whe u go for 24 hour away for walk etc that means stay with self and nature. Dopamine release when u r imagining thungs. When u r totally present in momen u r not produce high dose of dopamine
Its fiction.
2:53 Just 1 day in once a quarter
Meditate
Journal
Walk
No socializing or read books or even your own journal
I find pleasure in silence, meditation, immersion in nature, and withdrawal from society. I don't know about others, but I suspect I'm not "dopamine fasting" when I do these things. I feel high at those times, maybe it's not dopamine? IDK. Then again, I'm not a social media doom scroll kind of guy. I find little pleasure there.
edit: My weekly day of silence was often my best day of the week. It's sad I don't do it anymore.
#2 I get it now, my dopamine fast is my daily life at work.
/satire
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"There is also some evidence that the brain releases more dopamine when we meditate. The change in consciousness that occurs during meditation may trigger its release."
I became a hermit in 2010. My only connection with real Humans is minimal and I take a break from digital Media every night. Sometimes, every day, too. ✌❤🎶 Also, I don't eat pharmaceuticals like so many Americans do. They tend to rot the brain.
So, it requires going deep. Dopamine is a good thing. The problem is a "dopamine spike". So, the "high amount of pleasure in short amount of time" is the problem. Because after this, the body balances out and makes dopamine's baseline level lower and that's what we feel as a "hangover".
So, better call it "dopamine management" in order to keep it maximized all the time evenly. And what you do is a very efective way to do that.
@@acharich 😂
I moved house and have not connected the net yet, been reading more and less screens 🙌
I ❤ the pay for it up front analogy/strategy. Never heard it put that way before💪🏾...
The last part of the video where she explains to pay for dopamine gave me goosebumps thinking about the magic and complexity and fairness in our creation.
She explains..? You check that that slave has the body parts required to speak?
Sounds like she's suggesting you should train yourself to enjoy pain , so to forget about pleasure .
Furthermore , refraining for 30 days for an addict , will only excel irate their destructive behavior , once they return to active addiction .
SHE SHOULD KNOW THAT !
A slave in the video has the body parts required to speak?
I wish people would heed this when they enter cinemas, by turning off their phones, instead of flashing around their bright screens while the rest of us are trying to watch a movie.
Can you blame us, we have to sit through half an hour worth of boring adverts before we even get to the film
Could we get more resources and literature on this topic?
Interesting, informative, and encouraging. Thank you!
it's called shabbat, six days do your work but rest on the seventh day (whether it's Saturday or Sunday for ye)
I am watching this video because I never had so much comfort in my life at all levels as I have now but at the same time never felt so bored and lacking aliveness before. I feel that this is due to the lack of challenges in my life and having a life with so much comfort.
I do notice though that when I return after a few days out in nature for example, that my motivation to do new things is higher
Rather than seeing the dopamine as a villain, try to use it as a tool to gain good habits.
And yet this video is visually very much stimulating 😂
Sometimes the lack of dophamine causes their one problems
Lack of fiction causes what problem?
The ironic thing is that watching youtube videos also release short term dopamine. This is why you got easily addicted to youtube, instagram, or any social media that reward anyone with short time investment. Why go to the Gym or Working on a project if you can get the same reward with 5 minute investment ?
I cook and bake. I'm especially good with sauces and devil's food cake with chocolate icing. 😊
I spend about 6 weeks on retreat with no electronics and lots of nature and meditation.
Wonderful! Now I got a hip excuse for my self-induced coma on social media.
So the tech executives that got us hooked on this stuff are now getting off it themselves. Good job, bros.
Just for a bit of perspective on how electronics effect people, i am in the middle between 2 groups of people.
1. The typical, college age student in modern society. Uses their phone a lot.
2. A friend group which is primarily religious, uses their phones far less often times not at all in any social situations.
I have noticed the second group is consistently happier, and more outgoing specifically because they rarely have that kind of stimulation.
We could all benifit from a significant reduction or compete elimination of idle dopamine.
Dopamine is meant to make us strive for more of whatever is releasing it. Why should we do an activity that only continues to release more dopamine, but only wastes time and gets you nowhere?
Jesus Christ is my new dopamine. It's free and doesn't cost anything.
I'm doing this right now.. hopefully it will do me good..
Production of this video nicely done! Fascinating concept - simple but profound!! Could be applied rapidly into other forms of dopamine / brain connection…need say more !?!
If you actually want to benefit from this, you need to change your lifestyle. A temporary fast won't do anything unless you remove or significantly decrease your use of highly dopaminergic things (like social media, video games, drugs, etc) from your life in the long term.
And Islam knew that 1400 yrs ago thats why we do Fast for one month its not just abt not eating and drinking its all about not doing anything bad even thinking bad
His dopamine fasting sounds like the instruction for observing the Sabbath...
2:44 -- how did cannabis become 10 times more potent than 50 or 100 years ago??
More importantly, why did they misinform that cannabis releases significant amounts of dopamine? This new reefer madness is such BS.
Techbro discovers the value of disconnecting and going outside
Thank you for this information. My dopamine will suffice due to this prosperous technique bestowed upon me by your highness. I shall skip everything else and start my dopamine fast journey. Im gonna love this new life and a new era in my future which im going to build.
Great stuff! I take a break from cocaine 3 days outta the week just to reset. Ill try 4 days next month.
Are you a slave?
I like this video. I think I need something like this right now.
I was going to say, what about exercise? Glad it’s even better than the fast.
Thanks for sharing 🙏
Dopamine fasting sounds like life in the 1980s
that is why they had so many kids
Plenty of addictive video game consoles and arcades in the 80s. Heck, TV was was much better then too. Flashy Neon lighting was popular. Music and vinyl was in full swing. I'd say, you'd need to go a few decades further for better dopamine regulation.
5:20 most important part of the video begins here
It takes a lot of Discipline to follow through with one of these.
I want to read books but my brain says you have the Netflix, youtube, blah blah, watch them 😭
Halfway through the vid, and I haven't turned it off yet. Useful points. My start of day routine is good, but I see I need to add some things.
Facintating stuff! Thanks.
3:56 best part
Irony that all this is communicated on social media via mobiles.
I think this all the time on these type of videos
Social media and mobile devices are fictional things…
I guess I don't have this problem. I don't have a "hangover" effect as I don't take drugs and avoid excess sugar.
Its fiction not a problem.
"Pay for your dopamine upfront". I've said for a decade "taking drugs is like taking out a loan of happy with 200% interest".
Just to note, I am currently high 😅
Maybe I should take up some of this stuff and so get some
dopamine induced joy in life
The level of stimulating graphics in this video is interesting
There's a video? I probably won't watch it. I'm already wearing headphones with Music playing from my playlists. I mostly just mess around on RUclips. I like reading what others think the best.
thank you! so helpful
Someone's out there changing his life 180 degrees after watching this.
Naww
Very interesting. Thank you.
I would like to increase my dopamine to extreme levels and try to keep it there so that I can also get rid of the hopelessness in the morning.
How can I get euphoric on dopamine / Dopamine overdose - without having to take synthetic or is it only possible with argonists etc.?
I wanna be high on dopamine so that im focussed, stay active and full of creativity with pure euphoric and touchable empathic.
-- you have a good life. ->
ADHD here. I need more dopamine
Wow just about to post to same thing lol
Very informative video 👍
I have anhedonia. My entire life has been one big dopamine fast.
Well were doing that 1month in every year, and it's running for thousand years.. in my religion it's called Ramadan. And we all love that month. It's a magical month
There is much more wisdom in many old beliefs and practices than most people realise.
The traditional practices of Christians during the 40 days of lent were far more severe than today - they intermittent fasted throughout by not eating before 3pm, something we now know boosts the repair pathways of the body. There were also two days of total fast, as well as adopting a pescatarian or vegetarian diet throughout.
There are 4 major and 2 minor fasting days in orthodox Judaism.
Both fasting and the practice of withdrawing from the world to meditate and cleanse are key aspects Hinduism and Buddhism.
The more you look at it, the more it seems every religion appears to instill practices that are psychologically and physically beneficial. It seems to me that until recently, this was not properly understood to be universally beneficial rather than spiritually beneficial to believers of a given faith.
Try to learn Vipassana meditation🧘♀️
Great Information
That’s a very easy method to detox. Good article
In our line of work we call it a "Digital Detox". And yes, it works wonders! :)
it sounds great i will do it every saturday from now on along with my fast
The video editing kind of proves the point...
Delay reward by instilling a healthy habit instead of a short term fix.
Wow. A *lot* of unsubstantiated claims in this video.
I fast and pray every Sunday. I’ve found it as a forest reset.
Good vid that explains stuff to help me think about it
I am now more confused than before watching this. Do I fast 1 day? Do I fast 30 days?
You see this with people that constantly chase after new sexual partners and encounters. They seem to live more miserable and chaotic lives compared to monogamous people comfortable with just one partner for most of their lives.
I think life is very stressful and dangerous still, we don’t die without watering hole, but driving in traffic everyday is pretty bad, is it why we still need dopamine boost?
Good, This was one of my random research to heal that time . The after effect from narsistic abuse.
Ok but what if you get dopamine from basically everything even without phones or socializing 😂
Because of my ADHD my fast are normally short lived it’s very unfortunate.
Can I listen to music/ podcasts while fasting ?
Yes. I recommend Jackson Browne singing, "Doctor My Eyes". It's been my personal ear glue since about 3 weeks ago. I especially love the rhythm and the guitars and the drums. Oh, and, the lyrics, of course, about the evil and the good. 🙂
actually no, you are letting your brain rest, be devoid of stimulating things so it has time to rewire itself
If you want to do that, no, you can't. That's the point
Thank you 🥲
Simple way do this ' Vipashyana ' one week program
We(most of us) are social creatures.
so People people people. Find the right types of people for you to socialise/ hangout with. It’s simple as that.
In the Jewish tradition, shabbat observance is essentially dopamine fasting. It is blissful to stay totally disconnected from mental noise and meaningless social connections at least one day a week
For those who are interested. In Islam we do speritual and physical fasting for 30/29 days each year
3:27 the most ever ever in the world ever ever, sooooo repetitive for almost every thing, stopt using sooo much such espressions.