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Dopamine Nation

Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence - Anna Lembke

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/31/1090009509/addiction-how-to-break-the-cycle-and-find-balance

• pleasure and pain are co-located in the brain, they work like opposite sites of a balance (teeter totter)
• how do we not lose ourselves in the chase for the

https://medium.com/@adiralee/i-tried-a-7-day-dopamine-detox-31955186db1d

https://www.sunsama.com/blog/dopamine-detox-how-to-take-back-control-of-your-life

Sabbath as Traditional Dopamine Reset Practice?

Could the practice of sabbath be a traditional way of doing a dopamine reset each week?

Meditation or Nondoing as Dopamine Break Practice

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2021/aug/22/how-digital-media-turned-us-all-into-dopamine-addicts-and-what-we-can-do-to-break-the-cycle

Niksen is an increasingly popular Dutch relaxation technique where you relinquish control and just … stop. When thoughts occur, you don’t interrogate them or imagine them being carried away on balloons, you just let them occur. At a time when meditative practices can feel like yet another thing to do, niksen is liberatingly simple. Stop doing everything right now. Congratulations, you just did a niksen. It is essentially sanctioned daydreaming. ¹

Footnotes

1. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2019/jul/22/people-just-do-nothing-is-the-dutch-concept-of-niksen-the-best-way-to-relax ↩