- Dopamine is like salt.
You need it to survive, but too much of it would kill you.
And the reason I say this is because
this is something I'm currently learning in my own life
and I'm learning how fleeting dopamine can be.
But what I want to share with you is something
that I think will save you so much time
on the process of you creating your dream life,
and it is something that will also help you
not fall into the same trap that
I see so many people fall into.
And this is learning how to go beyond dopamine,
to manifest your dream life and exactly
step by step how to do that.
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Welcome back to another video.
My name is Aaron and I help people
expand their consciousness.
Now, in this video, I'm going to be sharing
with you the danger of dopamine,
how most people are using dopamine
to manifest what they want,
how it's still somewhat necessary,
but how do we get around needing to
constantly be stimulated by more, more, more, and more?
And let me first off say that dopamine
is something that I think has been in our society today,
we are so continuously becoming addicted
to different things in our life,
whether it's the dopamine spikes in our phone,
whether it's the dopamine that we get
from using different substances.
It's the dopamine we get from different
love relationships or dynamics.
Dopamine is in a way they say,
the reward neurotransmitter, like the reward chemical,
but that's actually not the truth.
Dopamine is the anticipation chemical.
It's what we anticipate and many people
in the law of attraction community,
they want to manifest things into their life.
They want to create things to come into their life
and a lot of times it's done from the energy of wanting,
it's done from the energy of lacking, of anticipating.
And I say this because I've recognized in my own life.
You might notice that I have a new studio behind me.
And it's because I recently moved
and I've realized how fleeting some of these things are.
I think that back in 2017, actually 2012,
I think I was addicted to cannabis.
It was something I was doing all the time,
before that it was Adderall, or at the same time.
And it was something that I felt like I needed.
It was something that I could do
and it would immediately change my state.
And I think I was also resisting going into my own pain,
maybe my childhood trauma and stuff like that.
But it's interesting, after that,
I think that in a way I may have
become addicted to meditation.
I was addicted to this new identity shift,
I was addicted to learning more
about spiritual awakening, about how reality works.
And I spent like three to five hours a day,
just like doing spiritual things
and being in the sun and doing,
these things that I think, were more beneficial for me.
But it's funny after that in 2017,
I become very intense about business.
And I can absolutely see how my business
has become a dopamine addiction.
It is something I anticipate more, more, more,
and they say that in a way,
dopamine is the molecule of more.
So the molecule of more it's like, "Can I have more?"
because it's the anticipation of more.
And just recently, I also realized this
even more so because I moved to Austin, Texas,
I bought a house in a cool area here downtown,
and then realized I want a bigger house.
This house isn't big enough for me
running an online business and doing
all these things I want to do.
So I rented out my house and I moved
to another part of Austin where I have more space.
And I'm in this awesome house now with all this space,
but I'm realizing, am I just addicted to more?
Am I just addicted to the anticipation?
Once I get and have everything that I want,
I know that there's going to be this drop in emotion
where it's like, what do I have to look forward to now?
Is it the live event? Is it this new thing?
And what I'm learning in this process is that,
and there's a book on this too,
it's called "The Molecule of More" that I've been reading.
And there's also a Joe Rogan podcast on dopamine
that came out recently that I've been listening to,
and I've realized just how addicted my mind is to more.
And in a way it has helped me.
In a way, the molecule of more
has helped me to become successful.
I became very passionate,
almost addicted to my own business back in 2017.
That created a lot of success.
At one point I was addicted to making YouTube videos.
Created a lot of success, but guess what?
As much as it rises up,
it's like then, it begins to drop down.
First off, the mechanism for understanding dopamine,
I think it's important to understand that
everything in our life has no meaning
other than the meaning we gives things.
And with that being said, what we associate with pleasure,
we will always move towards and what we associate with pain,
we will always move away from.
Back in 2017, I associated a lot of pain with making videos,
with doing things to put myself out there
because what will people think?
But then I switched it.
I started to associate pleasure with it
because I started to imagine my life,
living life on my own terms, that changed everything.
So what we associate pain and pleasure with is up to us.
But the thing is, we become addicted
to where we don't realize those things are running us.
Many people have some type of like porn addiction.
They may be addicted to toxic relationships.
Dopamine is something that's
constantly going through our body
but the key to this is becoming present.
In that book, "The Molecule of More,"
one thing it says is there's something
I think called H&N neurotransmitters
and then the dopamine transmitters.
So H&N that really just means like
here and now transmitters, which is oxytocin,
vasopressin, and different neurochemicals,
and ways that we can be more present to the moment.
And it's funny because when people smoke cannabis,
it makes them release more of those cannaboids
or it's called, that makes us just okay with being.
Now, the key to everything I'm sharing with you right now
is not that one is bad or that another is good.
It's that we must become aware
and not let these things use us,
because you'll realize that like,
people that become addicted to video games,
a lot of times they become so addicted to video games
that all that dopamine is being rushed
while they play video games,
they don't have energy for anything else.
People that have porn addictions,
they are using that energy.
They don't have energy for anything else.
It's almost like there's a certain amount of dopamine.
And when we start putting it to the things that we want
or the things that actually are beneficial for us,
we can use that as fuel, but the key is not let that use us.
Because now that I'm in this new house,
I'm realizing I gotta become okay with where I'm at,
not the anticipation of all these new things.
Can I be here and now?
And this goes back to something I teach where it goes,
it's not just about doing things
for the things that gets us,
so making videos because of the subscribers
or making the art because of the money,
it's doing it because it's also who you are.
It's what you're passionate about.
You can be in love dynamics, where it's a dopamine,
like whole bunch of chemicals and you feel crazy
and it's here and it's there and it's crazy.
Or there could be that of something where you,
it is something that grows as you go,
and you have more of a compassion.
It's not as crazy, spiky up and down.
And the thing that I'm learning to do is that
instead of using dopamine to create my dream life,
I'm becoming aware of it, I'm associating things
with pleasure that I know benefits me,
but at the same time, I'm focusing on here and now,
being present inside my own body.
And as I do that, it's what's called the middle way.
It's the middle way.
I like challenges, I think that challenges for my business,
it's something that it keeps me going.
I was listening to Joe Rogan on that podcast.
And he really was like, "I love challenges.
I need it. I need this. I need that."
And I somewhat agree with that,
but at the same time, there's the middle way.
So don't let this dopamine use you by becoming aware of it
and then the step by step thing that you do
is that you start to get more inside of your own body.
You start to put the energy in your hands and your feet.
I know that sounds very cliche and like simple,
but as you become more present here and now,
a lot of times that may also bring up
things to look at, like trauma.
One of the reasons I was smoking a lot of cannabis
is because it would take me away from having
to deal with my childhood stuff.
So it can also be a powerful healer, so it depends.
That's why just as many people are watching this,
there's that many like combinations
of how this dopamine thing can work.
But one of the things that you can begin to do
is become aware of the dopamine addictions you have,
the things that you realize you're always craving,
you always want more of and how it's never enough.
And you can start to put the awareness
in your body and be present to the moment.
And as you do that, these two things mix
is going to be the degree to which you can really
create that success in your life.
So with that being said,
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And as always, I'll talk to the next one.
Peace, much love, and namaste.