I’m gonna stick to a “dopamine detox” for a week starting from
[13/06/20]
Ending on
[20/06/20]
A Dopamine Detox is basically the avoidance of all base vices, as to deliberately make yourself bored to resensitize yourself to experience, and reset the chemical soup in your mind so that you’re motivated again to do actual productive things.
To get yourself out of your rut and to become productive you need boredom or "dopaminergic ammo" to give yourself the neuro chemical desire to actually step outside of your comfort zone. Our culture is a "novelty culture", which is a built around hooking in to your brain and keeping you constantly stimulated in a zombie like trance, so that people can extract money from you.
What boring yourself does is starves those pathways and resets the mind out of that zombie like trance. So here are the rules.
What I Can do
Meditate
Read
Write
Exercise
What I Can’t do
Use the Internet
Watch Television
Use Social Media
Socialising
Use any Screen
Eat Junk Food
No Substances
No Music
Etc...
Anything that I find stimulating is banned. Until 20/06/20, then I can slowly give myself back vices and keep them in a schedule, to find it easier for me to make my schedule stick.