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Reasons to Increase your Dopamine Level
- Instantly reduce procrastination
- Elevates Focus concentration libido and mood
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Methods
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Sunshine
- instantly raise your dopamine level.I personally have put [have a sunbath] onto my daily to-do list.
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The more sun exposure you receive the higher density of Dopamine receptors you will have in your brain.
- Increased receptors means you are more sensitive to Dopamine,which is a good thing(Drug addiction does the opposite).In a addiction, you need more stimulus to reach the same effects
- if it is rainy out there, tanning beds will also do tho
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Meditaion
- 65% increase in Dopamine production in a experiment,which is a thing on my daily to-do list for quite some time.
- Meditation is not just about a person sitting there and resting. It is far beyond that.
- Of course the effect it will have on people differs .But one thing is for sure, it does have an effect which you can feel after doing that.
- Normally 10-15min will do
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Physical exercise
- It is also gonna raise your dopamine level instantly, and also it is going to raise your serotonin(the feel-good hormone ) may check out more about it in this post→
- it is like tuning your brain to its best state, like the maintenance for a car engine.
- having a 15-20 mins of running will apparently boost your dopamine level,or a fast walk will also do.it will significantly give you a higher drive, motivation and focus
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Music and Dancing
- Slow music will also do
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Drink green tea
- the substance Polyphenols can boost dopamine level in the brain, and it actually works on the most needed area in the brain
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Set micro goals
- the thing i have been doing for almost a year, and it works.
- every time you do the checkbox of the to-do list, you will feel good, and that is a sign you are raising your dopamine level.
- Small thing that is easy to do
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Velvet beans
- a natural food which can increase your dopamine level
- I bought it from Amazon,a small pack of pill-like thing
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8. Whimhof Method
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Deep breath+cold shower
- Cold shower alone is phenomenal in instantly increasing dopamine level
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Breathing method
- inhale(100% full lungs)
- exhale(empty lungs to about 75%)
- inhale(100% full lungs)
- exhale(empty lungs to about 75%)
- 30 breaths like this
- empty lungs completely
- hold your breath as long as you can with the empty lungs
- inhale fully and hold your breath with full lungs for 15 seconds
- do 3-4 rounds like this
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