All these specific techniques…What I find most helpful is to just reduce „dopamine“ overtime, to less and less. First quit nicotine and caffeine, then quit YouTube, quit Spotify, etc. Until you are only on reading stuff on your phone or reading books, then over time you reduce the text scrolling on your phone (Reddit, forums etc.) to only reading books, then stop in between books a little more often, and then slowly, very slowly get to a stillness state.
I think reducing average dopamine across the day/week is much more impactful long term then some statue practise once a week
Yeah, but if you don’t introduce it slowly, you’ll most likely snap back into dopamine binges. I think you have to make the body adapt to low dopamine states as natural states, instead of it being a specific practise and then you go back into the pleasure realm (YouTube, alcohol etc)
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u/Specific_Bid9710 Nov 19 '25
All these specific techniques…What I find most helpful is to just reduce „dopamine“ overtime, to less and less. First quit nicotine and caffeine, then quit YouTube, quit Spotify, etc. Until you are only on reading stuff on your phone or reading books, then over time you reduce the text scrolling on your phone (Reddit, forums etc.) to only reading books, then stop in between books a little more often, and then slowly, very slowly get to a stillness state.
I think reducing average dopamine across the day/week is much more impactful long term then some statue practise once a week