Spiritual Reset Day / Dopamine Detox Day

High Priestess Lydia CoventinaNov 19, 20236 min to read

Nov 19, 2023

It’s very common these days to get caught up in busy lives, cell phone notifications, emails, and so on; and to neglect or procrastinate spirituality. This forms the habit of not paying attention to priorities.

Cell phone notifications, youtube videos, scrolling through social media, playing video/phone games, and the like, all create dopamine rushes leading to the need for more quick actions that give more dopamine rushes. This can cause a form of addiction for many people, and causes people to neglect other priorities.

This also causes mild depression for people when they are away from their phones, internet, or games for long, as their brain is accustomed to quick dopamine rushes.

These quick dopamine rushes prevent people from the ability to sit down for extended periods of time for spiritual practices, and makes it difficult for people to enjoy normal things in life. Exercise is a healthy way to get a healthy dopamine rush, but as it requires more time and effort than scrolling through phones, a lot of people are unwilling to do this. Most people want the quick and easy, anything instant.

It isn’t just dopamine. Endless scrolling activates the part of the brain that enjoys learning new information, and endless scrolling keeps us hooked to see “just one more… just 5 more….” Humans enjoy learning new information, so it is easy to trick ourselves into thinking it’s good to “be caught up”, not realizing that there are more important and satisfying things that can be done instead.

A lot of people upon waking check their cell phones for notifications, which can then lead to the distraction of scrolling through social media, which then leads to rushing to get ready to go to work. Time wasted, on things that are actually not even important. And if the first thing you see or hear about is bad news, or something that annoys you in any way, it sets a bad tone to start your day with.

Humans are creatures of habit, as the saying goes; it can be very difficult to begin to prioritize spiritual practices. A lot of people want to add more spirituality into their day, but get overwhelmed thinking about how to start doing it on a daily basis.

One thing that will help, for when you are caught up in notifications and neglecting your spiritual practices, is to do a full-on “spiritual reset day”. Take a day (or just a section of a day), any day that works for you, and focus purely on spiritual practices. By telling yourself that it’s only for one day, you will be more likely to succeed for that day.

-No scrolling or checking notifications. Log out of social media, turn off notifications. Even better if you do this the night before, so when you wake up, you won't have a bunch of notifications calling for your attention. If you’re a parent you might need your phone for your children to contact you, but ignore unrelated texts. All unnecessary texts and other notifications can wait. Tell yourself that you will make replies tomorrow instead.

Something to consider is that many things are urgent, but not actually important. Texts and emails have a sense of urgency to reply, but the vast majority are not actually important. Think about that for a moment.

-No internet or video games. If you go online, you will be tempted to check your usual internet stuff, and then you’ll be sucked down the rabbit hole and have a difficult time escaping.

-Optional, you can combine this with doing a caffeine-free day to help your body recover from dependency on caffeine. The previous points will help you recover from overloading your brain with dopamine rushes, so you can combine this day with no caffeine too.

-If you start to feel in a slump from the lack of dopamine rush and caffeine, you can do those Tibetan Breaths you’ve heard about but have not yet made the time to do. These will give you a rush of energy that you can then program for healing or whatever goal you are working towards.

-For a healthy dopamine boost, exercise! Even just 10 minutes will give a boost for those of you who are more sedentary. Get your heart rate up and work your muscles. Taking care of the physical body helps the mind and spiritual body, too.

-Now is the day to sit for a longer period of time to get guidance from your GD or contact any Demon you’ve been meaning to. You have saved extra time from not going online, so do the summoning, and sit and wait without rushing off to do something else. Meditate on the Demon’s sigil for longer, this will also help your mind and improve your visualization skills.

-You can combine the above with practicing trance, or trancing for longer than you normally do. And then, you can add a new meditation you have been meaning to do, or practice with different Color energy, as an example.

-Since you have more time in the day, do extra-long hatha yoga. Do those asanas you’ve been meaning to try, do the ones you’ve been neglecting or forgot about because they’re not in your habitual routine. Focus more fully while in each pose, don’t let yourself daydream or think about work or friends. Make sure your phone is set to silent (only if this is a reasonable option).

-This is also a good day to read books you have heard mentioned here but have not made the time for yet. Nietzsche or Marcus Aurelius, for example. Feel your mind improve and strengthen, in ways that watching tv and youtube never will.

-At the end of the day, review your day with High Priest Zevios’s Introspective Meditation: Increasing Conscious Awareness meditation. See how your mind feels from the effects of changing your usual day to one focused more on spirituality.

Now that you have done this, you can do a spiritual reset day / dopamine detox day on a weekly/monthly basis, or whenever you feel the need to do it. And, you will be more able to incorporate one or more additional spiritual practices on a daily basis now. You’ve had the success of doing one day, that feeling can be carried forward :)

Further reading, for effects on the brain from infinite scrolling, “doomscrolling”, etc:
https://www.bustle.com/wellness/what-happens-to-your-brain-when-you-scroll-through-social-media-for-hours
https://freedom.to/blog/infinite-scroll/

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This also causes mild depression for people when they are away from their phones, internet, or games for long, as their brain is accustomed to quick dopamine rushes.

-No internet or video games. If you go online, you will be tempted to check your usual internet stuff, and then you’ll be sucked down the rabbit hole and have a difficult time escaping.

Nov 19, 2023#1

You are working really hard. And we all appreciate it very much.

Great article! I will read it again in a spare moment.

Thank you again, dear High Priestess Lydia.

Nov 19, 2023#2

This is the targeted message.

[HPSsaid:
Lydia" post_id=473316 time=1700402173 user_id=57]
It’s very common these days to get caught up in busy lives, cell phone notifications, emails, and so on; and to neglect or procrastinate spirituality. This forms the habit of not paying attention to priorities.
Cell phone notifications, youtube videos, scrolling through social media, playing video/phone games, and the like, all create dopamine rushes leading to the need for more quick actions that give more dopamine rushes. This can cause a form of addiction for many people, and causes people to neglect other priorities.
This also causes mild depression for people when they are away from their phones, internet, or games for long, as their brain is accustomed to quick dopamine rushes.

Lydia, thank you! A very good post!

Young people now have problems with computer addiction (online games, for example Fortnite) and with social networks.

I don 't use social networks in principle .networks, because one of the reasons is that you just can't get out of them, to put it briefly.

In my opinion, the most important thing is to be able to focus on the priorities of spiritual and material development, and to be able to forget about all the garbage that prevents development.

«You will find on the left of the halls of Hades a spring, and standing by it a white cypress. Do not approach this spring at all. You will find another, from the Lake of Memory, with cold water flowing from it. Guardians stand before it. Say: 'I am a child of Earth and starry Heaven, but my race is of Heaven alone. You know this yourselves. I am parched with thirst and am perishing. Give me quickly the cold water flowing from the Lake of Memory.' And they will give you to drink from the sacred spring, and after that you will reign among the other heroes» - From the Petelia Tablet (300-200 BCE)

[HPSsaid:
Lydia" post_id=473316 time=1700402173 user_id=57]
It’s very common these days to get caught up in busy lives, cell phone notifications, emails, and so on; and to neglect or procrastinate spirituality. This forms the habit of not paying attention to priorities.
Cell phone notifications, youtube videos, scrolling through social media, playing video/phone games, and the like, all create dopamine rushes leading to the need for more quick actions that give more dopamine rushes. This can cause a form of addiction for many people, and causes people to neglect other priorities.
This also causes mild depression for people when they are away from their phones, internet, or games for long, as their brain is accustomed to quick dopamine rushes.

Lydia, thank you! A very good post!

Young people now have problems with computer addiction (online games, for example Fortnite) and with social networks.

I don 't use social networks in principle .networks, because one of the reasons is that you just can't get out of them, to put it briefly.

In my opinion, the most important thing is to be able to focus on the priorities of spiritual and material development, and to be able to forget about all the garbage that prevents development.

Nov 19, 2023#3

Funny how last night I decided that today I wanted to stay off my phone/laptop.. only to get online today for marking the stupid 'I have worked this week box' and then decided on checking something else.

I am off now though. Have a good day everyone!

Temporarily inactive.

Nov 19, 2023#4

Thank you!!

I'm still learning, the same way as you do, the same way as we all do.

Zevist Since 15 Jan 2018 | LAURENTUM'S PROJECTS ARCHIVE |

Nov 19, 2023#5

Great Sermon!

I have been meaning to try to fix my dopamine, and this is a nice way, *but not complete -->*.

An average man will have their dopamine level 90% from scrolling, notifications, etc, and 10% from their work and other, mostly important things.

That's the problem, people get dopamine from unimportant things, and so they enjoy wasting their time.

As a beginner, meditation itself won't give much dopamine, and a lot fails because of this. Dopamine is the thing that drives us, and if something gives little or no dopamine, than we would not like to do that thing especially not every day.

Actual work, for example contributing for the JoS will also give you little dopamine compared to "notifications, scrolling.." but neither your work, for example office work would give you much dopamine, and since you are forced to go to work, a lot of people hate it.

We must learn to enjoy important things. If we enjoy it, it gives more dopamine and we will have the will to do it again.

*-->*

To complete it, we must try to enjoy things that are important, as I said already. Things like decorating/customizing, getting comfortable, having a routine are ways to get to like things.

We must try meditations, and do meditations that we enjoy, and not only meditations that are necessary to do.
We must build an altar that we actually like. This is probably the only practical functionality of an altar.

The good thing is, once you done something every day, for longer periods, you will do it regardless.
It goes the same way with meditation. You might have a hard time meditate every day as a beginner, and I also had a hard time with this, but once I had like a 4 month streak of meditations, I just couldn't stop now. I feel like it's a part of my life and I couldn't not meditate. I would meditate regardless of the situation because I feel like that I can't skip, and I also like, and enjoy meditation.

So even if you don't try to like mediation, and you take the harder way, you will eventually like it, but it is much easier to try to like it, and do meditations that gives more dopamine than the others.

So what you need to do:

-Don't do things that are not important but gives dopamine
-Try to have more dopamine from important things.

Great Sermon!

I have been meaning to try to fix my dopamine, and this is a nice way, *but not complete -->*.

An average man will have their dopamine level 90% from scrolling, notifications, etc, and 10% from their work and other, mostly important things.

That's the problem, people get dopamine from unimportant things, and so they enjoy wasting their time.

We must learn to enjoy important things. If we enjoy it, it gives more dopamine and we will have the will to do it again.

*-->*

To complete it, we must try to enjoy things that are important, as I said already. Things like decorating/customizing, getting comfortable, having a routine are ways to get to like things.

So what you need to do:

-Don't do things that are not important but gives dopamine
-Try to have more dopamine from important things.

Nov 19, 2023#6

Thank you for this HPS Lydia! In today's world it is absolutely necessary to be aware of how dopamine works and how damaging it is to not have an healthy dopamine system. We are surrounded with things that release excessive amounts of dopamine in the brain, causing addiction and many other problems. This kind of excessive stimulation also makes it very hard to focus and relax, affecting our meditations negatively.

Also when we flood our brain with excessive amounts of dopamine, some of our dopamine receptors get "shut down" and everything feels way less pleasurable. Motivation and mood are affected as well since these are both regulated by the dopamine system as well.

The way I do it is that I put a limit each day to the amount of time I can use my phone for enteirtainment, and I work the rest of the day. I try to be as disciplined as possible and it works.

Lastly I'd advice everyone to do a lot of research on this dopamine topic, it's very important, don't underestimate it.

"All that is needed to change the course of history is the will of one single man. You can make all the difference."

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The way I do it is that I put a limit each day to the amount of time I can use my phone for enteirtainment, and I work the rest of the day. I try to be as disciplined as possible and it works.

Lastly I'd advice everyone to do a lot of research on this dopamine topic, it's very important, don't underestimate it.

Nov 19, 2023#7

AristocraticDragon666said:
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Brother, with all due respect, but if you quote the whole post and you also have a gigantic signature it takes about one full minute to scroll your post.

"All that is needed to change the course of history is the will of one single man. You can make all the difference."

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Nov 19, 2023#8

Thank you Lydia, a most helpful post. I was sick and I fell off from my spiritual activities, Yoga and Rituals. Now that I am healthier I am starting to get into it again on a regular and sufficient level.

However, this day off is certainly what I need to do. Every time I will feel somehow falling off my routine, I will do this to reset the rewarding feeling of doing what is necessary, doing what is right.

The spiritual advancement is number one thing in life and must be prioritized. Every other concern, material, emotional etc. should only serve to maximize the spiritual development. If you are spiritually advanced, everything else comes on its own.

HAIL ZEUS!

Nov 19, 2023#9

Wow, exactly what I was needed, Thank you High Priestess! Long time since I read such motivational text.

If anyone search for other books(Nietzsche is the best, but not easy to understand), I can suggest the next books:
- Thucydides: The peloponisian war
Nietzsche mentioned that he is a 'cure for Plato', and truly a remarkable book from a more honest, more 'human-like' age, free from all morality. 'The strong do as they will, yet the weak suffer, what they must'.
- Odyssey by Homer
Long, but worth to read, Homer speaks of the world and life with such joy, its increadible. Also, our Gods have an Important role in the story, and also full of strong characters(Odysseus is strong, wise and merciless, when it needs to be). You can also read Iliad, but I didnt have time for it yet.
- Papyrus of Ani
A book full of methaphores, but great spiritual messages when you understand it, like measuring the hearts of the dead.

“Out of life's school of war—what doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.”
“Have I been understood?—*Dionysus versus the crucified*.—“

Wow, exactly what I was needed, Thank you High Priestess! Long time since I read such motivational text.

Nov 19, 2023#10

Great article, Thank you High Priestess Lydia.

Nov 19, 2023#11

I so have to do this. Thanks HPS Lydia!

Nov 19, 2023#12

Thank you very much HPS!

This came at the right time when I was pondering on "digital addiction", so it means a lot!

Nov 20, 2023#13

What you mention here High Priestess Lydia is so incredibly important.

This transition into a digital society has been a great thing for humanity. But much of this still needs to be adapted to how humans are, and we need to adapt properly to this. It hasn't been a smooth transition as much of humanity gets so immersed in this that disconnecting is very difficult, even for Zevism.

We are so surrounded by this constant stream of digital content and information, humanity still hasn't had time to adapt.

I am a big computer nerd and have a large interest into this kind of technology, emulation of computer systems, operating systems, specific gaming consoles and processor chipsets, and I realise the need of disconnecting.. it can be very overwhelming.

Recently this past year ended up in a factory manufacturing electronics, and so this has become a big part of my life currently, for better or for worse.

Digital technology and electronics strike me as a very mind numbing field.

It's very easy to be consumed by all this.

It takes a certain type of mind as the work to build these things is so monotonous and robotic it would make most people run out of these factories in search of better work. I've literally had coworkers and people do this, just get so wrapped up by it they had to leave they hated every minute and it burdened them mentally.. just can break the mind.

It's truthfully that intense mentally in my opinion based on my experiences.

There absolutely has to be a balance. We cannot be completely consumed by this or it comes with alot of issues and consequences.

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What you mention here High Priestess Lydia is so incredibly important.

We are so surrounded by this constant stream of digital content and information, humanity still hasn't had time to adapt.

Recently this past year ended up in a factory manufacturing electronics, and so this has become a big part of my life currently, for better or for worse.

Digital technology and electronics strike me as a very mind numbing field.

It's very easy to be consumed by all this.

It's truthfully that intense mentally in my opinion based on my experiences.

There absolutely has to be a balance. We cannot be completely consumed by this or it comes with alot of issues and consequences.

Nov 20, 2023#14

This was great for me to see especially as someone who loves coffee. I have a love-hate relationship with caffeine and switching to decaf does not last long :lol: Luckily I don't have social media. It's a waste. Thank you for this sermon HPS :)

Nov 20, 2023#15

[HPSsaid:
Lydia" post_id=473316 time=1700402173 user_id=57]
-If you start to feel in a slump from the lack of dopamine rush and caffeine, you can do those Tibetan Breaths you’ve heard about but have not yet made the time to do. These will give you a rush of energy that you can then program for healing or whatever goal you are working towards.

Tummo breathing?

I found instructions online. Are these accurate in your opinion?

Sit in a comfortable position with the eyes closed and the hands on the stomach.
Try to relax the mind as much as possible.
Visualize a fire inside the stomach near the navel by imagining being a hollow balloon with a ball of fire inside. This visualization should continue throughout the meditation.

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[HPSsaid:
Lydia" post_id=473316 time=1700402173 user_id=57]
-If you start to feel in a slump from the lack of dopamine rush and caffeine, you can do those Tibetan Breaths you’ve heard about but have not yet made the time to do. These will give you a rush of energy that you can then program for healing or whatever goal you are working towards.

Tummo breathing?

I found instructions online. Are these accurate in your opinion?

Sit in a comfortable position with the eyes closed and the hands on the stomach.
Try to relax the mind as much as possible.
Visualize a fire inside the stomach near the navel by imagining being a hollow balloon with a ball of fire inside. This visualization should continue throughout the meditation.

Nov 20, 2023#16

Staying on guard in regards to the digital world is very important, especially as I believe the enemy has corrupted it in order to intentionally destroy our attention span.

Even with all the studies showing how bad it is for us, many companies resist employing preventative solutions. Why does the scrolling need to be infinite, for example, with no way to turn it off? This is a direct encouragement to binge.

Staying on guard in regards to the digital world is very important, especially as I believe the enemy has corrupted it in order to intentionally destroy our attention span.

Nov 20, 2023#17

Thank you, This was just what I needed to read

Nov 20, 2023#18

Blitzkreig [JGsaid:
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Staying on guard in regards to the digital world is very important, especially as I believe the enemy has corrupted it in order to intentionally destroy our attention span.
Even with all the studies showing how bad it is for us, many companies resist employing preventative solutions. Why does the scrolling need to be infinite, for example, with no way to turn it off? This is a direct encouragement to binge.

Hi brother ..I have mailed you asking some important doubt .please do reply when you are free

Blitzkreig [JGsaid:
" post_id=473444 time=1700434762 user_id=21286]
Staying on guard in regards to the digital world is very important, especially as I believe the enemy has corrupted it in order to intentionally destroy our attention span.
Even with all the studies showing how bad it is for us, many companies resist employing preventative solutions. Why does the scrolling need to be infinite, for example, with no way to turn it off? This is a direct encouragement to binge.

Hi brother ..I have mailed you asking some important doubt .please do reply when you are free

Nov 20, 2023#19

Ok Lydia, what do you think is good void meditation or conciouse living as taught in the east (India ) for daydreams and those who can't control the mind.