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[jules32sthings]

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[nat1em0xd]

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[mon-ster-chen]

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[anutheauthor]

Concrete Jungle - Why I Love It So Much?

[gl1tterybl00d]

5 steps to not kill yourself:

1. Eat McDonald's

2. Eat McDonald's

3. Eat McDonald's

4. Eat McDonald's

5. Eat McDonald's

[mattdavid12]

“The stock market is a device to transfer money from the impatient to the patient.”📈💰

[rawagglomeration]

One day, we'll live at the top👆🏾💪🏾

[financialninja]

Impact Of Pornography Addiction on Your Mind| How Porn affects Your Mind

Do you intentionally live in an isolated room in your house to watch porn? Do you use all your internet on porn consumption?do you avoid social gathering to enjoy porn?Hi everyone, in this video you are going to learn how porn affects your mind.Lets begin, According to Wikipedia, Pornography addiction is the scientifically controversial application of an addiction model to the use of pornography. Pornography may be part of compulsive behavior with negative consequences to one’s physical, mental, social, or financial well-being. The World Health Organization has recognized compulsive sexual behavior disorder (CSBD) as an “impulsive control disorder”.It is a major cause of depression, loneliness, relationship problems, and other challenges. If you become addicted to pornography you will experience a loss of friendships, ending of relationships and losing moral values. Both children and adults continue to see porn despite the negative outcomes of porn such as feeling of hopeless, low mood. They lose the control of their mind to stop themselves to engage in this harmful behavior.

Your brain starts to see the porn, drugs, weeds, social media and other artificially generated stimulants as important to survival. Our intense focus on porn annihilates our desire & wants that are not important for survival. You also store huge porn videos on your device to control your emergent urges.You spent countless hours , days thinking about this destructive habit as important survival need.As a result important mechanism in brain gets activated.

Mechanism

You need to understand the mechanism of the bran rewards system so you can fight with this addiction when needed.

Your brain’s reward system is the part that responds to important survival resources. The main component is dopamine- one neurotransmitter of the brain. Neurotransmitters are chemical messengers that your body can’t function without. They carry chemical signals from one neuron to the next target cell. The next target cell can be another nerve cell, a muscle cell, or a gland.Important survival resources are food shelter achievements and social achievements. The amount of dopamine released when you encounter a stimulation determines how addictive the stimulus is. The amount of dopamine released when you eat your favorite food is approximately 150% of normal production. The use of nicotine in cigarettes and sexual intercourse increases dopamine production by approximately 200% and 250% of the normal production of dopamine. When you see porn, your dopamine production increases far more than the production of dopamine in the case of sexual intercourse and maintains that production far longer. The addictive drug nicotine shows an initial higher spike and starts to decrease its output much faster than pornography. So as a result different biological processes emerge in your body to maintain that resource. This results in addiction.

So first biological processes sensitization begins.

Sensitization

When high-level dopamine stimulation occurs then sensitization begins. Those scenes of porn become glued to your brain creating highly superior memories that stick to your brain creating a huge desire to crave more of those scenes. Your brain associate the use of porn with phone, laptop, chrome book and isolated places in your home. So they become the triggers. Next time when you experience any of those events, your brain starts to recognize triggers craving for to seek more of sensitization. So you start to fall for that stimulus.

Desensitization

Dopamine is released by synapses and received by receptor sites in general functioning. When receptor sites receive dopamine you experience a feeling of pleasure. Dopamine production increases dramatically when pornography is introduced to the brain. Our brain do not like that over stimulation. It wants a state of homeostasis(a state of balance among all body systems required for body to survive and function correctly). Our brain prevents damage by reducing the ability to receive stimulation. Our brain changes how neurons function by removing receptor sites leading to desensitization.

Going to restaurants with friends, good food, achievements, and dating are some of the major sources of stimulation. These important activities are normal for seeking pleasure. Loss of receptor sites during desensitization alters how a person experiences a normal source of pleasure. Slowly these important activities become less enjoyable for us leading to seeking higher sources of dopamine production such as pornography. If you are addicted to porn you automatically isolate yourself from family friends and intimate partners. You seek less achievements & more isolated place to watch porn. Other non-pornographic sources become useless sources of seeking pleasure. Slowly you start to become addicted to masturbation.

Hypofrontality

Sensitization and desensitization are thrusting force that pushes you toward addiction. Now you are addicted to pornography in addition to masturbation. So work of Hypofrontality is to ensure that addiction to masturbation and porn is stayed. So it is more damaging to your health because you lose control of your conscious willpower to stop this addiction and choose something healthy for you.

The anterior cingulate and orbital frontal cortex, two parts of the brain work in such a way as to discard your reward system to increase dopamine. For example, you want to bunk your college lecture or school to hang out with friends.

This type of behavior increases dopamine levels but there’s also a chance of getting caught by your parents. So our anterior cingulate and orbital frontal cortex stop this kind of act to prevent any hostile unfavorable consequences for us. As a result, we decide not to bunk college or school. This is also the mechanism that helps us to reach our goals and not fall for short-term gratification all the time.

When you repeatedly expose yourself to porn and masturbation you resist your ability to stop it from reoccurring. So our brain tells us to get porn videos & mmasturbation by any means necessary. This is Hypofrontality.

Hypofrontality is the rewiring of the brain’s action to discard the brain’s reward system when an impulse of porn generates in the mind. When you reach this stage you realize that you lose control of your willpower to stop yourself from watching porn. You feel like you are on autopilot mode. you try to stop yourself but the urges inside you starts to disturb your mind and body.

Some of you move from pornography to smoking weed drugs nicotine cocaine amphetamine. Then your morals start to degrade rapidly. Anxiety kicks in. You start to believe that there’s nothing harmful with porn. All those actions which support the fact that porn is bad are judged to be wrong and misinformation to you. That’s why some people avoid monogamous relationship, religious activities, social gatherings,

Altered stress system

Your stress system in the prefrontal cortex of the brain is designed to handle the stress of goals, loved ones, family, friends, and finances. When exposed to porn masturbation and substance abuse, the stress system of our body is seized by it. When triggers of porn and drugs are not being acted on, the body starts releasing stress hormones affecting our heart rate digestion, and blood pressure. So you must react to it by watching porn and smoking weed. So discomfort of altered stress system and stress hormones make it very hard to avoid those addictions.

Role of development of pornography

At some stages, we are more prone to porn addiction and fewer abilities to overpower it. Some of the brain structures are not fully developed and activated before and until the age of 25. The areas of the brain that are supposed to prevent the reward system from getting out of control are not effective for young children. This is why the role of parents is necessary during this age. As the person approaches age 25 his reasoning area/the frontal cortex gets better to determine the negative consequences of his/her addiction behaviors.

Averaged children aged between 9-12 years first start to see porn because of easy access to an internet connection. Some students go to friends’ houses without propersupervision, they start to see porn. They also talk about it at school. School girls start to develop their breasts and curiosity starts to kick in about sexuality. Their brain reward system tells them that porn is highly rewarding and important so a Hypofrontality-like situation develops. The cause is their anterior cingulate and orbital frontal cortex parts are not well developed at this age and are not able to discard the addiction.

So it’s vitally important that the parents ensure that their children get no exposure to porn Or have minimal access to an internet. Living without internet is quite not possible these days. You can install software that blocks harmful websites.

Those addicted children often grow up thinking and feeling weak when unable to break addiction. Children are easy target to porn addiction as they have little mechanism in their disposal to fight addiction on their own.

I know you are fighting all alone and you want to end this addiction. That’s why you are here. If you don’t know your addiction levels then next step is crucial for you.

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How to find out your addiction levels

I will ask you few questions and If you score between 2-4 then you are at serious risk of getting this porn addiction. If you get more than 4 marks then you are in dangerous position of addiction. Please say true to yourself. Comment your marks

1. Do you sometimes feel powerless to stop the urge to view pornography or do masturbation?

2. Do you frequently spend money to watch porn?

3. have you tried without success to stop views porns?

4. Do you spend a significant portion of yo

ur time viewing pornography or engaging in activities that will help you to access pornography?

5. Do you neglect family, social or

work responsibilities to view porn?

6. Do you continue to watch porn

despite the potential for negative consequences?

7. Have you had a decrease in satisfaction

from pornography, or the need to increase the riskiness or frequency of pornography use over time?

8. Have you avoided social opportunities,

or have considered avoiding social opportunities, so that you have more time to use or view porn?

9. Do you become anxious, stressed or irritable if you don’t have an access porn?

10. Do you store porn videos on your phone laptop ipad chromebook?

11. Have you lost track of large chunks of time because you absorbed yourself in porn use?

12. do you feel you are living a secret life because of use of porn?

Conclusion

Because of porn addiction, you may experience agitation, emotional dysregulation, sleep disturbances, regrets and other negative consequences. You often feel frustrated and low mood. Fortunately people overcome this challenge with correct guidance. If you are need immediate assistance then please visit medical professional or psychologist. A professional psychologist guidance is more valuable than this blog. Thanks for reading. Wish you a happy beginning

[vatale1]

How stress relief can improve your physical health.

Stress, a pervasive and often insidious aspect of modern life, has significant implications for physical health. While the body’s stress response is a natural and necessary mechanism for survival, chronic stress can lead to a multitude of health problems. This essay explores how stress relief can improve physical health, examining the physiological effects of stress, the benefits of various stress reduction techniques, and the overall impact on well-being.

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[thinkagain344]

How to control your thoughts and emotions?????????

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

How to control your thoughts and emotions

Gauthaam Buddha once said,

"The mind is everything. What you think you become."

This is a powerful reminder that we have the power to create our own reality.

By controlling our thoughts and emotions, we can create a life that is filled with happiness, peace, and abundance.

It is not always easy to control our thoughts and emotions, but it is possible with practice.

The more we practice, the easier it becomes to stay focused on the positive and to let go of the negative.

When we have control over our minds, we are able to achieve anything we set our minds to.

We are able to overcome obstacles, reach our goals, and create a life that we love.

So, if you are looking to improve your life, start by controlling your thoughts and emotions.

It is the key to a happy and successful life. Here are a few tips to help you get started:

1st one is Pay attention to your thoughts.

Notice what you are thinking about throughout the day. Are your thoughts positive or negative?

the second one is Challenge your negative thoughts.

When you have a negative thought, don't just accept it as true. Instead, challenge it. Ask yourself if there is any evidence to support the thought. Often, you will find that there is no evidence to support the negative thought and that it is simply based on fear or insecurity.

the third one is Replace your negative thoughts

with positive thoughts. Once you have challenged your negative thoughts, replace them with positive thoughts. Focus on the things that you are grateful for, the things that you are good at, and the things that you want to achieve.

the last one is Practice mindfulness.

Mindfulness is the practice of paying attention to the present moment without judgment.

When you practice mindfulness, you are able to let go of your thoughts and emotions and simply be.

This can help you to reduce stress, improve your focus, and increase your happiness.

Remember, the mind is everything.

What you think you become.

So, if you want to create a better life, start by controlling your thoughts and emotions.

Be happy

Think again and win your life

[jules32sthings]

i worked really hard this year on myself even with all this trouble i had in 2024. from body and mind. there is still much to do but still i m very happy with myself and the path i go.

[zibethrose]

Recognize that life is gifted to you for your dynamic growth, for your soul expansion and life supports you by exposing you to as many possibilities for your personal growth. The true self seeks release not restraint. So have courage and express who you are at a soul level. It is only through being authentic that you live a purposeful life. For your soul's purpose is bringing you back to yourself. The soul conspires to direct you towards situations and people that will facilitate healing and growth to ensure you thrive on your earthly sojourn.

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[leonor3nono]

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[anutheauthor]

Different Ways To Let Go When You Are Clinging?

I saw this movie on Netflix called – ‘Laapata Ladies’ roughly translated into ‘Missing Ladies’. It’s about rural India in the North where women, after marriage, wear a veil over their heads, cannot utter their husband’s name, and follow their husband. Since new brides wear the same kind of veil and all they can see is their husband’s shoes – there is a mix-up, and brides get exchanged…Anyway,…

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