Denmark Vesey

Cés said...

II, I agree with that. We are all addicted to something in a sort of way. Society reminds the human being of its weaknesses and desires which are fulfilled with short satisfactions. Dopamine is a natural substance produced in the brain, usually associated with good feelings, satisfactions, etc.

Mild elevations in Dopamine are associated with addictions. Nicotine, cocaine, and other substances produce a feeling of excited euphoria by increasing Dopamine levels in the brain. Too much of these chemicals/substances and we feel “wired” as moderate levels of Dopamine make us hyperstimulated – paying too much attention to our environment due to being overstimulated and unable to separate what’s important and what is not.

In an ADHD child, low levels of Dopamine don’t allow the child to focus or attend to anything in the environment, looking very physically hyperactive when running about the room or switching from activity-to-activity due to their lack of focus. As Dopamine levels increase above the normal range, our ability to focus increases to the point of being paranoid. Mild elevations make the environment overly stimulating and excited.

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There are also some scientific studies that say addiction is genetic, which makes some sense.

From a personal and spiritual point of view, not scientific; there is always a need for something to fulfill our lives in some way, and most people tend to fulfill those gaps with drugs, alcohol, television, food, sex and short satisfactions. Very few strive for long enduring spiritual satisfactions.

Then people with these habits in my opinion are satisfied with "artificial happiness". A feeling stimulated in the brain by chemical substances. Our own beings experiencing life look always to find new things to satisfy the body and the mind, not the spirit as many confuse the mind with the spirit. The only way to satisfy the spirit is if your mind enters a state of silence, neutrality, no thinking. And this is beacuse the spirit also needs to feed itself with inner peace.

Everything we feel is in the brain, created in the brain and stimulated by the brain. In other words reality only exists in the brain. Everything we feel, see and touch is in the brain, not outside of us. But the majority of people don't understand its own universal divinity and satisfies themselves with outside material, not inner peace.