A piece of wisdom from
July 15, 2022 · Friday
The quote
“The leisure gap — between what we have and what we feel we have — is a real measurable thing. The time is there. It is fragmented into pieces too small to do anything with.”
— Brigid Schulte · Burnout
The concept
Dopamine Detox
Restore your brain's baseline. Earn back joy.
You aren't low on willpower, your dopamine receptors are saturated. Modern life delivers more stimulation in a single morning than your nervous system was built to receive in a year. A dopamine detox is not deprivation. It is the deliberate…
A practice for today
When the next difficult feeling arrives, ask yourself: the lesson of Dopamine Detox. Restore your brain's baseline. Earn back joy.
From the Bhagavad Gita
Verse 6.35
असंशयं महाबाहो मनो दुर्निग्रहं चलम्। अभ्यासेन तु कौन्तेय वैराग्येण च गृह्यते॥
“Without doubt, O mighty-armed, the mind is difficult to control and restless. But by practice and by dispassion, it can be brought under control.”
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