This is awesome! We love Dr Brewer. Good luck to you!

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Is this a long form way of saying be mindful when perusing a meaningful/pleasurable activity to achieve a state of flow? I find cooking, cleaning, swimming and even table tennis are activities which lend themselves to bringing me in the moment. And as such also help to achieve a relaxed state of flow.

@@thetruthwillsetyoufree9209 Short form way of getting rid of a headache: take aspirin. However the long form or explanation why aspirin works justifies your taking the drug, how and when to take it, and informs you of its many uses. Mindfulness is more important than advertised, but its explanations poorly justify it, as mindfulness is key to understanding and managing 'flow' states, as described in this longer form explanation. The Contingency Management of Positive Affect Affect and Motivation Opioid and dopamine systems represent bundles of neurons or ‘nuclei’ in the mid brain that are respectively responsible for the affective states of pleasure and attentive arousal, and sub-serve the neural processes that govern motivation. Opioid and dopamine systems are activated by different stimuli either virtual (cognitive) or real Eating and drinking, having sex, and relaxing or resting all activate opioid systems, whereas the anticipation or experience of positive act-outcome discrepancy (or positive surprises or meaning) activate dopamine systems. Opioid and dopamine systems can co-activate each other Taking our pleasures increases our attentive arousal, and increasing our attentive arousal accentuates our pleasure. If these systems are concurrently activated both are accentuated or affectively ‘bootstrapped’, as both pleasure and attentive arousal will be higher due to their synergistic effects. Opioid and dopamine systems can be co-activated through the arrangement of specific act-outcome expectancies or response contingencies As characterized by the well documented ‘flow response’ (pp.82-86), consistently applied contingencies that elicit pleasurable resting states and consistent attentive arousal result in self-reports of heightened pleasure and energy. This emotional experience can be easily replicated by simultaneously applied contingencies that elicit rest (mindfulness protocols) and meaning (imminent productive behavior and its uniform positive implications). To achieve complete rest and accentuate positive affect, these contingencies must be applied for periods of at least a half hour or more. Just as one sets meditative sessions to last for a set time period and frequency to be effective, so mindfulness and meaning sessions must be similarly arranged, with cumulative sessions if possible charted to provide proper feedback of efficacy. Finally, the intensity of positive affect will scale to the importance or salience of moment to moment meaningful behavior, with the more meaningful the task the higher the pleasurable affect. Implications Affect is as much an aspect of how information is arranged as what information is, or the abstract rather than normative properties of response contingencies. It follows that as a positively affective state, happiness is not just a product of what we think, but how we think, and derives not only from our pleasures but also from our incentives. Positive incentives can accentuate those very pleasures that we wish to maximize, and conversely, associated pleasure will increase the ‘appetitive value’ of incentives (or in other words, increase the value of productive work), and all sustained by simple choices within our grasp, as is ultimately happiness itself.

How did you go Tahar?

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@@guygoddard552 I relapsed but i'm okay know. thank u for asking.

@@RiaHealth thank you for your concern, it's not alcohol.

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I see it as genuine interest and care. I don’t think she should change her personality - I find it quite charming.