30/11/2025
It's unfair to your nervous system, if you enjoy the thrill of amping it up, but not have the awareness and/or skills to bring it back down.
Having all that adrenaline, cortisol, dopamine, glutamate, serotonin and endorphins bathing your brain can be exhilarating and addictive.
It's not surprising that we can want more and more and more.
The brain doesn't discriminate if the thrill comes from work or leisure, nervous system excitement is nervous system excitement.
It doesn't care if it is fuelled by anger, fear, excitement, anxiety or happiness, it just knows that it is elevated.
WARNING:
There's a payoff to this excessive intensity seeking behaviour.
Because our nervous systems aren't designed to be this high so regularly, some compensatory changes have to happen.
1. The receptors (locks) for these chemicals (keys) get told to reduce in numbers to protect the brain.
This means that the sensitivity level for these chemicals will decrease. Higher amounts of these chemicals will be needed to get the same "adrenaline high".
The cycle continues until structural changes occur in the brain.
This helps to "normalise" reactivity to uncertain stimulus.
2. These chemicals at high amounts, on a prolonged basis, are neurotoxic.
This causes brain cell death, particularly in parts of your brain that regulate the circuits of excitement, making it harder to quit the behaviors.
Learn to listen to your nervous system's voice as well as your thoughts of desire.
Sure, have your hits of pleasure and excitement, AND equally, actively do things that help calm your nervous system and come right down to "low" on a regular basis.
You can do this by INTENTIONALLY slowing the speed of your walking and talking, and by INTENTIONALLY changing your posture to reflect relaxation eg. softening shoulders, loosing your jaw, sitting with your hands in your lap.
This will keep your nervous system healthy and balanced so you can enjoy the benefits of both ends of your nervous system spectrum, as well as a healthy brain.
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