So we all know the best way to avoid temptation is to keep your mind busy and your body active. Through reading a lot of peoples journals and entries, a vast majority of us tend to feel these urges/temptations/relapses coming on when we're bored and alone, and thus our brain slows down and defaults to the easiest path, go and PMO. I know that has definitely been the case for myself.
So in order to try ease your days, it's recommended to be proactive, create a routine and try fill your day with natural dopamine producing activities. Some of the more commonly and well known categories of activities are exercise (particularly aerobic), socialising, playing or listening to music, meditation, or reading. But basically it can be anything which you find enjoyable and rewarding.
Myself. The most effective and useful activities I find to help me through are: going to the gym, martial arts, running, meditation, playing piano, putting on some good upbeat tunes, and hanging out with friends.
I'm always willing to give new things a go, particularly anything physical or adrenalin pumping, but find sometimes my mind becomes so overwhelmed or blank when boredom hits or I've got some downtime. To combat this, I keep a list on my phone of ideas I get throughout the day so I can simply have a quick look at that, then off I go. Lately I've been getting a bit dry on thoughts so figured why not create something similar here where everyone can contribute and thus a huge variety of ideas can all be in one place. Hopefully able to provide others with some inspiration or motivation to try something new also and can be a quick reference point to look at whenever feeling bored or down.
So please, feel free to add your most enjoyable, dopamine producing activities and we can create a smorgasboard of happy times for people to pick and choose from. It can be as little or as adventurous as you like. We all have varying amounts of spare time to kill (be it 5 minutes, to a whole day, or even a week) so all ideas are a great idea.
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So in order to try ease your days, it's recommended to be proactive, create a routine and try fill your day with natural dopamine producing activities. Some of the more commonly and well known categories of activities are exercise (particularly aerobic), socialising, playing or listening to music, meditation, or reading. But basically it can be anything which you find enjoyable and rewarding.
Myself. The most effective and useful activities I find to help me through are: going to the gym, martial arts, running, meditation, playing piano, putting on some good upbeat tunes, and hanging out with friends.
I'm always willing to give new things a go, particularly anything physical or adrenalin pumping, but find sometimes my mind becomes so overwhelmed or blank when boredom hits or I've got some downtime. To combat this, I keep a list on my phone of ideas I get throughout the day so I can simply have a quick look at that, then off I go. Lately I've been getting a bit dry on thoughts so figured why not create something similar here where everyone can contribute and thus a huge variety of ideas can all be in one place. Hopefully able to provide others with some inspiration or motivation to try something new also and can be a quick reference point to look at whenever feeling bored or down.
So please, feel free to add your most enjoyable, dopamine producing activities and we can create a smorgasboard of happy times for people to pick and choose from. It can be as little or as adventurous as you like. We all have varying amounts of spare time to kill (be it 5 minutes, to a whole day, or even a week) so all ideas are a great idea.
Start adding!!
