Amor
Jedi
I think one of the things all machines have in common is the ability to configuration, to program, to set up and for every machine is required it's own sets of tools and types of screws. Every machine has a driver, a user, a responsible person to attend for the machines doings. Not all the drivers are equal. Ones are more sleepy than the others. The drivers awareness is the cause for how machine eventually will be maintained, used and for what purpose. Some machine users maintain their machines by themselves and some rely on the mechanic. In many cases when it comes to our world it is in our best interests to be our own mechanics or atleast understand about the work that is being done. To answer your question. Who do you consider yourself, the peace of meat and bones, the soup of mental landscapes or the one who can take the spoon and mix it all up, and put its own ingredients in to the mix?
When it comes to habits I am no expert. One of the thought I get are not breaking them but replacing. Due to nature of our physiology the non doing part most often is more difficult than doing. Nothing stays in complete vacuum for very long time or atleast in this density of reality. The darkness and silence of our minds are filled with its own colours and sounds. The time will pass anyways. I am not sure what kind of habits you are talking about, but from what I experienced so far most of them are rooted in dopamine baseline and peaks as dopamine is an excitory neurotransmitter it is at root of physical emotions and impulses. It is the energy for satisfaction, gratification, pleasure, wanting, focus and commitment, sense of purpose. Even dopamine and testosterone levels are tied together. It's very powerful brain chemical rooted in emotional triggers and programs. Music, conversations, physical activity, sex, nicotine, drugs, cold shower. Everything effects dopamine. Notice how all the movies have music in certain scenes and notice how that affect emotional states. It is usually not the scene it self that evokes emotions, but the music. While the music opens up a portal in the watcher by heightened emotional state the program is remembered by the brain. I will share a video Dr Huberman discussing briefly how the brain learns and memorise most efficiently through release of adrenaline which is connected to dopamine as well. So if it is difficult to keep a habit dopamine is something worth considering as it can be programed by us finding satisfaction in whatever we are doing by managing its levels and activities that are affecting the baseline.
The last two videos maybe very long. The author have put time stamps in the description for those wanting to skip through.
When it comes to habits I am no expert. One of the thought I get are not breaking them but replacing. Due to nature of our physiology the non doing part most often is more difficult than doing. Nothing stays in complete vacuum for very long time or atleast in this density of reality. The darkness and silence of our minds are filled with its own colours and sounds. The time will pass anyways. I am not sure what kind of habits you are talking about, but from what I experienced so far most of them are rooted in dopamine baseline and peaks as dopamine is an excitory neurotransmitter it is at root of physical emotions and impulses. It is the energy for satisfaction, gratification, pleasure, wanting, focus and commitment, sense of purpose. Even dopamine and testosterone levels are tied together. It's very powerful brain chemical rooted in emotional triggers and programs. Music, conversations, physical activity, sex, nicotine, drugs, cold shower. Everything effects dopamine. Notice how all the movies have music in certain scenes and notice how that affect emotional states. It is usually not the scene it self that evokes emotions, but the music. While the music opens up a portal in the watcher by heightened emotional state the program is remembered by the brain. I will share a video Dr Huberman discussing briefly how the brain learns and memorise most efficiently through release of adrenaline which is connected to dopamine as well. So if it is difficult to keep a habit dopamine is something worth considering as it can be programed by us finding satisfaction in whatever we are doing by managing its levels and activities that are affecting the baseline.
The last two videos maybe very long. The author have put time stamps in the description for those wanting to skip through.
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