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More Dopamine, Please!

More Dopamine, Please!

  • For humans, rats, and all animals , the desire and motivation to pursue sex arise largely from a neurochemical called dopamine.
  • Dopamine amps up the centerpiece of the primitive part of the brain—the reward system. It’s where we experience cravings and pleasure, and where we get addicted.
  • At the top of our human reward list are food, sex, love, friendship, and novelty. These are called ‘natural reinforcers,’ as contrasted with addictive chemicals.
  • Sexual stimulation offers the biggest natural blast of dopamine available to your reward circuitry.
  • Dopamine’s nickname is molecule of addiction.

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ARISTOTLE

"I count him braver who overcomes his desires than who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self"

ARISTOTLE

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More Pleasure Seeking Leads To Less Pleasure

More Pleasure Seeking Leads To Less Pleasure

  • Excess consumption (food or sex) is the signal to your primitive brain that you have hit the evolutionary jackpot. With continued daily over-consumption, high levels of dopamine trigger the production of the protein DeltaFosB.
  • DeltaFosB acts on the reward circuit, stronger nerve connections are behind all learning. This process is called neuroplasticity. The more intense the experience, the stronger the connections. The stronger the connections, the easier it is for electrical impulses to travel along this new pathway.

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Impacts

Impacts

  • This habit distracts the person towards his/her goals, dreams, better life and good mental health.
  • This addiction at any age can ruin the relationship between couples, in career or social life. Many a times one is unable to realize this.
  • Sex is a powerful motivational force which plays a vital role in evolving human race but due to the frequent watching of porn and masturbation, the quality of sex decreases.
  • It decreases human connection and people are becoming uncomfortable becoming social. This happens because one creates a different world in his/her brain and is most comfortable in it

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Free From Porn

Free From Porn

  • Men who developed an understanding of how their brain worked and how they were reinforcing negative, self-destructive habits were able to cut pornography out of their lives completely. They were once again attracted to their wives and girlfriends, and the symptoms disappeared.
  • The brain is changeable - you can reverse your symptoms and replace your negative habits with positive ones.
  • People find after quitting that their social anxiety and shyness disappears.
  • They can look people in the eyes again, have higher self-esteem and better senses of humour, and have increased female attraction.

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Benefits Of Not Watching Porn

Benefits Of Not Watching Porn

  • Self-esteem increases
  • Good at management in emotional level
  • Energetic at every work
  • Positivity and sociable easily
  • Concentration increases
  • Comfort zone increases with talking to people
  • Relationship benefits
  • No more guilt

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Tips and Strategies For Overcoming The Addiction

Tips and Strategies For Overcoming The Addiction

  • Delete all pornography.
  • Change your environment.
  • Keep a journal and record your progress.
  • Engage in regular exercise. Exercise distracts your brain from urges, improves self-confidence and fitness, helps improve your mood.
  • Try out cold showers.
  • Get outside in nature, walk through the park, breathe the fresh air.
  • Get outside and socialise.
  • Meditation and prayer help repair the control centre of your brain.
  • Engage in exciting, meaningful and productive habits and activities.
  • Learn more about what’s happening in your brain and how addiction works.

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Reset Your Brain

Reset Your Brain

  • For the start, at least for one month or seven days one has to stay away from sexual activities. One has to be consistent in it. This period may be tough but this is the rebooting period for a better and healthy future.
  • In this period, one has to rediscover one’s existence in the life without porn. By this one’s mind will shut down and restart.
  • It’s Ok to relapse, Start again with greater enthusiasm.
  • DON’T GIVE EXCUSES!!

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ARISTOTLE

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.”

ARISTOTLE

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