How To Generate Dopamine To Help You Achieve Your Desires
A basic guide on understanding the power of dopamine.
Dopamine is a potent neurochemical and an essential aspect of achieving success.
Here’s what you need to know:
- As part of the brain’s reward system, dopamine is the “motivational molecule” that invokes strong desire.
- However, dopamine is really about the anticipation of a reward and not the reward itself. This is a key point that many people misunderstand about dopamine.
- Because it produces intense pleasure, dopamine is central to all cravings (and addictions) from chocolate to alcohol to sex to cocaine to shopping.
The fascinating point of all: we can produce dopamine entirely with our minds without addictive substances or engaging in addictive behaviors. That means no fear of addiction or danger of an overdose or toxic reaction.
Benefits of generating dopamine on command:
- Desire is the foundational force for success. Evoking a strong desire for something is the motivational power that pulls you towards attaining it.
- Since your brain craves these wonderful feelings from dopamine, it will work extra hard to help you get what you desire.
- The real power of commanding dopamine is to create the desire for pleasurable emotions. This gets your subconscious mind to crave good feelings and elevated states of being.
How to generate dopamine on command:
This process can be done through meditation or journaling. I recommend journaling first and then going through each of these steps in meditation.
- Get in a relaxed state and think of something you strongly desire.
- Detail what that looks like and make the picture as vivid as possible.
- Focus on the anticipation of getting what you want. A tip on how to do this is by developing the feeling of “something amazing Is about to happen in your life.”
- Reflect on the wonderful inner state attaining this desire will bring you.
- Pinpoint where and how this feels in your body. Try to intensify this feeling.
- Recall past memories of when you desperately desired or craved something.
- Write down the following statement or affirm it in your mind: “I now embrace the strongest possible desire [insert what you want]. And I release any obstacles that stand in my way. This is how my body feels when I am about to attain the thing I want the most.”
- Notice any visual symbols or images that come to you while doing this exercise from your subconscious mind.
General Tips
- Do this practice first thing in the morning to prime yourself with motivation for your day ahead.
- Never do it at night because dopamine is your motivational molecule, and the last thing you want is to get your brain fired up right before bed.
- Focus on the feeling of desire and anticipation.
Bonus Tip: Invoke The Law of Attraction (Resonance)
Use this process as a way to embody the emotions you want to feel every day.
Remember, it’s not really about landing a new job, earning more income, finding that great relationship, or creating a million-dollar business. Instead, it’s always about the feelings you believe those things will bring you. Generate dopamine to ignite a craving in your mind for the emotions you associate with achieving your goals. This is what leads to resonance — which is the art of bending reality: becoming an energetic match to your desires.
Essentially, you can use this dopamine process to train your mind to crave these elevated states of being, and in time you begin drawing them to you.
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