Living sober means dopamine is your biggest high.

Don’t let this rush be your new addiction.

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I got smacked with a big hit of dopamine this morning. I was floating. Literally dancing around the house.

Then I felt this jolt. A reality check. A call from the wild telling me to channel this hormone.

I’ve gotten used to listening to these cues in my head. So they come more frequently. And are louder.

I responded to this silly voice with her crazy ideas. “Ok so what exactly am I supposed to be doing with this tasty hormone high?”

And she said, “Take it to your meditation. Settle down. Clear the chatter. Connect with your spaciousness. And bring the intensity of this hormone into the spaciousness.”

So I did. I’ve learned to be obedient to this voice. Even though I have always hated that word obedience. This higher-self voice has been rewarding my compliance handsomely with a deeper sense of connection.

What I began to experience is tingling. I’ve studied and believe in the chakras that are the energy power centers in our body. I started feeling tingling in my throat (power center), third eye (intuition), and the top of my head (crown/ the connection with a higher source).

My head had so much pressure I thought I was on the verge of a headache.

I sat and took it all in.

No Doping

I’ve had this idea running through my head lately that we can use the internet as a channel of connection instead of just another highway to heII. Another addiction trap.

I’m rebranding the internet. The World Wide Web robbing us in broad daylight, sucking us into a great black abyss, leading us down long winding roads into deep dark rabbit holes.

The new identity is World Wide Wake-up

A land where we go to connect. To be inspired. To lift each other up. To see how others have carved a path of Joy and financial freedom and kinship.

I look forward to hanging out with you here.

You like me! You really like me!

Sally Fields got a bad rap and is the poster child for this quote. Even though she was gravely misunderstood, she put a spotlight on this beautiful example of one of our biggest failings as humans.

We’re like rabid dogs going after the rush we feel from being acknowledged.

Our little kid inside us starts jumping up and down trying to shove these shiny jewels into all the hurt feelings.

The jewels saying:

I did it right!

I’m worthy because someone thinks I am!

I belong because someone looked my way!

I’m special because my post got hearted!

And it’s fine to feel accepted and loved. That’s the ultimate goal. We just need a heavy dose of honesty.

Is the “like” rush we get really the road to Joy?

We all know Yoda knew what he was talking about. “Use it for the Force!” The Force of Good. And not just a temporary quick fix high. Deep-seed it. Extrapolate the juicy intensity and feed that part to your soul.

I learned this idea years ago working with a very powerful, intuitive, connected spiritual teacher. It took me til now to understand how to apply it practically.

You don’t have to be a monk and give up the feel-good

Dopamine is like shooting up. You can continue to inject yourself with the rush just by thinking about the event that triggered it. You can keep getting a hit. But it will eventually dissolve and lose the power to pleasure when the dramas and traumas of life seep in and take over.

Another option is you can use this rush as fuel to connect with your higher self.

We don’t have to give up the feel good. Instead we can learn to transform it.

Here’s what works for me.

1. Meditate in the downtime so you can be stronger in the chaotic times.

2. Strengthen the connection with your spaciousness inside. Eckhart Tolle is a great coach for this. He was one of those lucky? ones to hit rock bottom and have a “spontaneous  awakening” coming out of the dark place.

3. Write online to get to know yourself. Get a mentor. Unfold your journey in public. It’s a great way to grow the courage needed for deep dive soul work.

4. Stay open and obedient (there’s that sticky word again!) to hearing internal reminders to connect/redirect your energy throughout the day in the times of distress and in the times of hormone rush happy highs. The lows and highs are no different. They both pull us away from our authentic self.

Final Thoughts

My motivation to know and live Joy has opened my eyes to the slippery ways of hormone-high happy triggers.

They seem harmless. They make us feel good in the moment. But they have their own kind of hangover. The craving for more. The inability to feel after the let down. They become a crutch. Junk for the junkie.

I want to teach our kids how to be the creators and connectors to their Joy filled lives. F$ck Generational Wealth. We need Generational Joy to set this world right and share the authentic high of unconditional Love.

Tell me in your comments if any of this strikes a cord.

My highest and best wishes to you and your unfolding.