Dopamine - The First in a Universal System

The first in a universal system, like the first thing that we need to master is dopamine. And once you get enough dopamine, then you can switch to the serotonin systems and then you can begin to use happiness and joy as a way of getting the mind to stay. In contemplative practice, the beginning involves learning how to throttle in, right? So that the mind is, you know, whether you're following a mantra or following the breath and then learning to kind of ease up and come out of that.

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