replenish your dopamine supply five easy ways during your porn brain rewire i'm dr trish lee
in this video we are going to quickly talk about number one what is dopamine and how does it become
depleted when you watch porn then we're going to talk about number two five easy ways that you can
replenish your dopamine supply so you can feel and perform better in your life okay so let's dig in
number one what's dopamine and how does it become depleted dopamine is a very important
neurotransmitter in your brain that is associated with learning motivation and pleasure so basically
the behaviors that you engage in that give you pleasure become those behaviors linked in your
brain neurochemically to pleasure and so when you get so much pleasure from a porn session
what happens is you are desensitizing the reward center in your brain by basically flooding it with
dopamine and depleting the supply of dopamine in your brain and body so that's why after you get
done watching porn you feel numbed out you feel hazy you feel good but it's artificially created
but you feel like you have been toasted right so the reason that is is because of this dopamine
depletion so what we need to do so you can feel good again in your life is to replenish your
dopamine so let's talk about the five easy ways and then i would be remiss if i didn't mention
the fact that we will also be training your brain to get dopamine in the world from your real life
so you don't need to go into the screen to get dopamine anymore okay so five easy ways number one
exercise so if you don't have a consistent exercise habit i encourage you to get one going
today crank some workouts not only does it give your brain dopamine but it gives your brain and
body all of the perfect neurochemical cocktail all the neurotransmitters you need to feel and perform
great and i know that it can be difficult to drag yourself to do a workout but man is it worth it
and a twofer is if you can go outside be in nature and be in sunlight while you're getting your
workout in because we know that there's vitamin d from sun therapy and being outside attunes your
brain to the natural calm focused state of nature so it really becomes a three-fer is that a word
but go work out outside what i do is i pull all my stuff out thankfully my home has a driveway
in the back so it's kind of like having concrete in the backyard where nobody can see me work out
except for the dudes who are building the house across uh the way which hopefully they will be
done soon but i've gotten used to them so nobody can really watch me work out but i'll pull out
the bench and the weights i pull out the general my boxing dummy i pull out my yoga mat i crank a
workout outside every single day thankfully where i live in north carolina it's beautiful most days
of the year so i'm able to do that year round sun nature and a great workout and then i couple it
with the next thing music i crank up the tunes all day every day in different capacities so i like to
put on light jazz to ease myself into the day when i'm working out i have an awesome workout playlist
or i use all the um services but on spotify i'll check out the workout playlists that are there
i'll go old school 90s workout 2000s workout playlist super fun i will crank up those tunes
one of my new favorite tunes unstoppable by sia i know what you're thinking that's not new dr trish
because that's the exact same thing my daughter said when i said my new jam is unstoppable she's
like mama that's not new and i'm like i know but it's new to me i've been playing it on repeat now
here's how you can be successful in your workout body weight training and cardio don't overthink it
if you don't work out you don't need the bench you don't need the weights you don't need the general
all you need is your body and you can do it in the clothes you're wearing you don't even need
to change that's the beauty of this body weight training is just using your own body weight as
the heavy thing that you're using to give your muscles uh some tension and to be able to crank up
the electrical energy in your body in your brain get blood flowing get everything going so push-ups
your go-to is push-ups nothing more simple than dropping right next to your desk and cranking as
many push-ups as you can working out to exhaustion meaning that you work harder and longer than you
think you can can really crank the neurochemicals into your system and make you feel great replenish
that dopamine cardio at the same time you can do jumping jacks you can do high knees running
in place you can just jog in place you can skip rope or you can skip imaginary rope easy peasy
get the body moving cardio body weight training crank up the tunes get some sun get outside okay
let's move on from there eating healthy which obviously goes along with a healthy lifestyle so
i've told you before ditch the crinkly bags and don't eat anything in a crinkly bag but let's
take it one more step here another thing that you can do is to eat bananas they're naturally high
in dopamine and they will help you feel great at the same time eating nuts or nut butter can
help you also so but bananas with peanut butter or almond butter is very healthy for you it's a
great mix of protein and of carbs don't eat the overly ripe bananas go towards underly
ripe that's a word because they have less sugar in them so that's a great snack protein carbs going
to keep you feeling great and get some dopamine into your system also while we're while we are
replenishing your dopamine next brain training train your brain with your muse headband when
your brain is existing out in the extremes of too much slow speed that creates overwhelm and fatigue
and too much fast speed that makes you feel anxious and overdrive go go go hyper vigilant
stressed out the best thing that you can do is to get your brain out of this mode this is cortisol
producing mode when you train your brain using the muse headband you're bringing these extremes
towards the middle towards medium speed of calm focus when you're in this flow state in the zone
in the middle you will be making more dopamine on a general basis you will feel common focused and
your brain will thank you the link for the muse headband is below i use mine all the time to stay
in this healthy spot so i don't feel all jacked up and stressed out i keep my brain in the middle
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how you can get and keep it in the middle okay so after you're done brain training your last
last number five we're on number five ways of replenishing your dopamine
is to get physical touch and intimacy so when you hug someone or when you're snuggling on the couch
that's very healthy ways of getting dopamine you also get serotonin for happiness and
oxytocin for connection which that's what your brain is looking for when it goes into the screen
this way hug somebody i grew up in a home where physical touch wasn't a thing and
my brothers and sisters my parents never hugged they still don't but thankfully i also
married someone who is really good at physical touch and he's taught me over the years to to
hug people and to touch people and honestly he's a close talker it's gotten him in trouble sometimes
he never watches my video so he won't know that i'm telling you this but that man comes
in close and he will hug anybody he'll touch anybody even in covent i'm like dude you can't
touch people like that during covet and he's like kovitch schmovid and then he goes in for the hug
and people are like dude you're too close but he's really good at physical touch and
so what it does is it brings connection to me and to all of our kids and he's taught me to
hug my kids more and to to hold their hands and to sit close without it feeling uncomfortable
magical in terms of replenishing your dopamine so go snuggle with the honey
go hug your kids give your grandma a hug physical touch is so important so go out there and touch
somebody and hug somebody that you love so you can replenish the dopamine now before we wrap it up
remember we're also talking about a porn brain rewire so let's just go down those five one more
time and think about how you can use these five strategies to replenish your dopamine as a way
to consistently get dopamine from your real life so your brain won't want to or need to go into
the screen so number one is exercise if you build a habit of exercise daily daily you'll be giving
your brain dopamine from the world in a healthy way so get your exercise routine planned and
schedule it in go outside crank the body weight training and the cardio get some sun be in nature
boom exercise number one number two is music crank up your favorite kind of music even if
it's classical music i love to put on classical music i put on pachelbel's canon in d to relax
in the evening i'll put on different types of jazz music really love jazz it's so good it's so
complex and has calming and stimul stimulating factors to it so does classical music
or you can just crank up some m m yep still on my m m okay eat healthy remember you can
get a combination of bananas and healthy nuts like almond almonds to be able to give your brain
protein and healthy carbs for sustained energy and a boost of dopamine if you eat healthy fruits and
vegetables with healthy fat and healthy protein on a daily basis and you stay away from the junk food
your brain and body get more dopamine that is sustained and stable it's not getting
the highs and the lows from unhealthy fat from simple carbs that burn down to sugar from junk
food stabilize the system and your dopamine will be stable also and you won't have to replenish it
brain training get the headband if it's in the cards for you people tell me all the
time they don't know how but they know that the headband is helping them to feel better
it's because the headband's bringing their brain into this medium mode and so that they are feeling
better on a daily basis calm and focused in the zone the headband will help you lastly
don't forget give somebody a hug become a hugger i was introduced to someone uh i'm trying to think
when it was and my friend chanel said you know i kind of went in like hi because you don't know
these days in covid and the person kind of leaned in and then they're like oh sorry and chanel goes
don't worry she's a hugger too be a hugger okay if you're looking for help on this journey please
reach out drishley.com we'd love to help you and as always control your brain or it'll control you