{"id":2960,"date":"2024-04-30T10:09:59","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T14:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomme-stevenson.com\/website\/?p=2960"},"modified":"2024-04-30T10:34:26","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T14:34:26","slug":"the-dopamine-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomme-stevenson.com\/website\/the-dopamine-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dopamine Experience"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"238\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomme-stevenson.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Anger-Grief-Aurelius.png?resize=525%2C238&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2963\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomme-stevenson.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Anger-Grief-Aurelius.png?resize=1024%2C465&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomme-stevenson.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Anger-Grief-Aurelius.png?resize=300%2C136&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomme-stevenson.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Anger-Grief-Aurelius.png?resize=768%2C349&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomme-stevenson.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Anger-Grief-Aurelius.png?resize=1536%2C697&amp;ssl=1 1536w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomme-stevenson.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Anger-Grief-Aurelius.png?resize=1320%2C599&amp;ssl=1 1320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/tomme-stevenson.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Anger-Grief-Aurelius.png?w=2000&amp;ssl=1 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">The dopamine experience, the runner&#8217;s high; gambling, extreme sports, or even drugs like cocaine and methamphetamines provide an emotional thrill. They all give us a sense of being bulletproof and invisible. It is like learning to fly without learning to land. The takeoff is exhilarating, but the ground is somewhat unforgiving, as are the consequences of unbridled emotions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Ethereal Experience<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">The easiest approach to life is to let go, abandon all pretense, and allow your emotions to take over. There is something ethereal about not overanalyzing the moment. It can be momentarily euphoric to stop fighting the urge. It is a thrill-seeking behavior where anger triggers dopamine reward receptors in the brain. One of our great struggles is to build a wall between the person we are and the person God made us to be. At the moment, the person we are seems much more attractive than the person God wants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><strong>James 1:20, \"for the anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.\"<\/strong><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">Early in my adolescence, I didn&#8217;t understand the addictive nature of anger. I was a dopamine addict. Anger became its reward; the final consequences were always destructive, yet I followed the impulses in the moment without regard for them. Weirdly, I perceived the consequences as a result of the other person&#8217;s reaction, not my action. I was the victim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">The best revenge is to be unlike the one who performed the injustice. \u2013 &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/classics.mit.edu\/Antoninus\/meditations.html\">Marcus Aurelius, Meditations<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">We understand the implications of rage, but I think we underestimate its destructive characteristics. Anger is more subtle and less evil. It ebbs and flows with the circumstances of the day. Saint Augustine stated, &#8220;Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.&#8221; Anger is a slow-acting poison; the changes are driven from within, and it is hard for the angry person to notice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><strong>Ephesians 4:26, \"Be angry, and yet do not sin.\"<\/strong><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">We all get angry; it is a visceral reaction to what we perceive as injustice. It is that instantaneous impulse to react, to do something. In that dopamine rush, the question is, what? It is tough to overcome our instincts. We are not rational; we are emotional. How do we change that momentum into positive change? It does not happen by resisting the urge but by redirecting it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><strong>Proverbs 19:11, \"A man's discretion makes him slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook a transgression.\"<\/strong><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Redirecting<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">We are become a more unforgiving society. We have our truth, and you have yours, but yours is wrong. I am less and less amazed by people who will stand their ground in light of the onslaught of facts to the contrary. We become so emotionally invested in a position we can not fathom an opposing view. Any fact that disagrees with my position is a lie, a fabrication, and fake news. There is only one truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><strong>Psalm 8:6, \"You have given him dominion over the works of your hands; you have put all things under his feet.\"<\/strong><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">Redirecting our emotions is about reevaluating our perception of that truth. God oversees all things. That truth has the power to overcome any obstacle. I do not have to defend my position or even be right concerning my opinion. God has the final decision. If my position contradicts God, it will fail, even if I prevail in my argument. If my position is consistent with God&#8217;s will, it will happen whether others agree.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">Read <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Acts+5%3A34-39&amp;version=NIV\">A<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Acts+5%3A34-39&amp;version=NIV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">cts 5:34-39<\/a><\/strong>, where Gamaliel says, &#8220;For if their purpose or activity is of human origin, it will fail. But if it is from God, you will not be able to stop these men; you will only find yourselves fighting against God.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\"><br>The way to redirect anger is to believe that God is behind everything that happens. You do not have to protect yourself from injustice; God will in his time. The timing may not be to our wants, but we don&#8217;t have control over it. The underlying feelings of weakness, insecurity, and lack of control are our perceptions, not reality. We can walk away knowing that the God we worship has this. It is not about being right or wrong but about accepting God&#8217;s dominion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Final Decision<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-justify\">That is not to say that we shouldn&#8217;t speak to injustice; it is to say that it is not ours to achieve. God&#8217;s plan for us may intersect with a particular injustice, but the timing and outcome are still His. Your part is to mirror Christ; His part is to bring about changed hearts and souls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><strong>Ephesians 4:31-32, \"Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. 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