The 'juice of doership'.

[Guest guest]

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Sex feels good, that is why people do

it for more than simply procreation.

Laughing is enjoyable, for that reason

people search for things that amuse

them. Touch is pleasing, therefore the

massage business thrives. These things

can become addictive due to the

pleasurable effect that they produce.

People have been exercising obsessively

for a long time but only recently was

an idea postulated as an explanation.

Laughter often begets laughter and in

large doses, has the ability to make

one feel high.

 

 

We do what makes us feel

good; human beings are naturally

pleasure seekers. It is said that with

drugs your first high is the best and

never able to be duplicated. What keeps

people using drugs, despite the

downfalls associated with use, is that

eternal quest for that ethereal feeling

that they experienced the very first

time. Pleasurable activities, like

exercising, sex, laughter, touch, etc.

can all become dangerously addictive.

Some people will do anything and

everything for 'that fix " .

 

 

So what is it that makes people search

for the next high, or feel good

experience? Exercise, sex, laughter,

and touch all produce positive effects

within the body via chemicals in the

brain. These chemicals are called

endorphins, a mixture of the two words

endogenous, meaning from within the

body, and morphine, a powerful pain

fighting drug that is also used and

abused for recreational purposes.

Endorphins are the body's internal pain

regulators.

 

 

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[Guest guest]

I am quite fascinated by the hormones

and how they make us feel how what we

feel and by that feeling, how they

drives us to do what we do.

 

I am fascinated by them partly

because, I detect their presence pretty

much all the time in my body and after

many activities and thoughts, I detect

a significant change in their flow -

sometimes, pleasant and other times,

unpleasant. I have found them

associated with each feeling I have and

I think that this feeling generated by

hormones is part of the reason I like

doing certain things and don't like

doing something else.

 

I think that the in built mechanism

rewards us to do certain things and

punish us when we do something else and

by doing so it guides and drives our

behavior to a great extent.

 

We have all seen and experienced the

euphoria and the feeling of " I/we did

it " after winning a trophy or a match.

This feeling externally shows as

pumping fists and jumping in the air

and internally it feels like euphoria

[which I think is because of release of

some pleasant feeling hormone]. And,

because of feelings like this, we get

hooked to playing, watching and

supporting " our " team.

 

But, what I find greatly more

fascinating is the smaller 'I did it'

moments that happen in great number

throughout the day! I think all these

moments and the feeling that they

generate is related to hormones and

this is what keeps addicted to the

'feeling of doer-ship'. We want to feel

this 'I did it' moment again and again.

 

 

I have found that the secretion of

this juice is not only related to 'I

did it', 'I am good', 'I won' moments;

but, it is also related to the feeling

of 'being right' and this I believe is

one reason, we insist on 'being right'

even at the cost of harming our close

relationships.

 

I think that the hormones and the

feeling that they generate keep us

bound to 'ego', 'doership' and to

'being right'. I think without

understanding them and without

surrendering their gratification; it is

difficult to change our behavior or to

let go of ego/doership addiction by

intellectual understanding alone just

as it is difficult for a drug addict

to let go of his addiction by

learning the harmful effects of the drug alone.

[Guest guest]

Harmones is how I interpret

what Dr. Hawkins called " juice

of ego " too:

 

 

 

The crux of the ego is its addiction to the juice of

positionalities. You only have to focus on that one point.

 

.... When we find out what about the ego is it that we need to

surrender? It's the experiencer. It's only the experiencing that

matters – it isn't even just the juice, it's the experience of the

juice. You don't have to surrender 10,000 things; you only have to

surrender one thing.

 

 

....

 

We're addicted to the experiencer. The experiencer perceives reality

1/10,000th of a second after reality, like a tape monitor. It's an

instantaneous read-out of what just happened. It experiences its

experience. We don't experience lunch; we experience the experience

of lunch. The experiencer is the leading edge of ego.

 

 

Here's the ultimate sacrifice: You don't have to wear sackcloth and

ashes. You surrender the experience of experiencing life. Surrender

your experiencer. Its nature is endless curiosity and searchingness;

it thinks that without that, it would die.

 

 

 

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[...]

 

> We have all seen and experienced the

> euphoria and the feeling of " I/we did

> it " after winning a trophy or a match.

> This feeling externally shows as

> pumping fists and jumping in the air

> and internally it feels like euphoria

> [which I think is because of release of

> some pleasant feeling hormone]. And,

> because of feelings like this, we get

> hooked to playing, watching and

> supporting " our " team.

>

> But, what I find greatly more

> fascinating is the smaller 'I did it'

> moments that happen in great number

> throughout the day! I think all these

> moments and the feeling that they

> generate is related to hormones and

> this is what keeps addicted to the

> 'feeling of doer-ship'. We want to feel

> this 'I did it' moment again and again.

>

>

> I have found that the secretion of

> this juice is not only related to 'I

> did it', 'I am good', 'I won' moments;

> but, it is also related to the feeling

> of 'being right' and this I believe is

> one reason, we insist on 'being right'

> even at the cost of harming our close

> relationships.

>

> I think that the hormones and the

> feeling that they generate keep us

> bound to 'ego', 'doership' and to

> 'being right'. I think without

> understanding them and without

> surrendering their gratification; it is

> difficult to change our behavior or to

> let go of ego/doership addiction by

> intellectual understanding alone just

> as it is difficult for a drug addict

> to let go of his addiction by

> learning the harmful effects of the drug alone.

>