Going through a withdrawal at the moment, after realising how it was deeply affecting my 'deep' sleep. e.g., waking up tired, body clock (on my garmin) was always really low, only able to get about 5-6 hrs sleep, not able to fall asleep again after waking up... started down this path with magnesium, b5, fish oil, trace elements (celtic salt), etc, and it all culminated in my dropping coffee... spent 2 days in beed because i'm just so tired. i hate that it has this power over me, what's worse is that i never even used to drink it until I was about 35, i spent my whole life hating it, the smell of it, the taste, i was the only adult who would still order hot chocolates while everyone else drank a coffee...
yes! i don’t track my sleep too carefully, so it took me a while to discover that maybe coffee was messing up my full sleep clock or ability to have deeper sleep. the first two days i was FKED up too so don’t worry!!! it gets much better.
Everything you said makes perfect sense and is indeed a microcosm of the rest of life for many people today. When I was in high school I was a loser, no denying that. I struggled socially and academically. I got addicted to video games and I wasn’t even good at that lol. In video games, I could vent and feel like a boss being a supersoldier or an assassin. Eventually, I clawed my way out of this addiction when I realized that I wasn’t accomplishing anything in video games actually and that it was just basically a doping session that I used to avoid facing reality. I got into my first physical fight with someone close to me over a video game. Of all the things I could have fought for this ended up being the first? Not country, family, or God but games?!?!? Like coffee and many other things on the drug spectrum, video games are like dopamine treadmills. But it's weird because like with cocaine we take it to opiate ourselves sort of but we intellectual now that it is an illusion. It has no true substance. Coffee gives us the illusion of energy and we become slaves to it. As a Christian, I believe that the devil loves vulnerable people because vulnerable people are very open to change. Video games, partying, drugs, and social media are all material anchors in the world that keep us from being drawn to God and the funny thing is that intellectually we know something is off yet we keep doing it! It amazes me how bad the enslavement to meaningless pleasures can be. I saw this one CZcamsr who in one video shared that she dropped Christianity simply because it taught against masturbation, which she is very much addicted to. This stuff is so tragic and frightening to me that I wish I was making it up. It says in the Bible in Matthew 6:19-21 “Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." King Solomon in the Bible was given wisdom by God but his weakness was lust and so he had hundreds of concubines and simped for them, turning from God to please them instead. We all have substance-like weaknesses that we can become slaves to and if we aren't careful we can become just as hollow as they are.
thank you for sharing your video game story! it made me lol reading it. at the end of the day i believe we all can feel into what kind of lives we want to live and what we want to spend our day to day engaging in. sometimes the intellect that tells us something is off is a signal from our body and intuition. God is a great anchor of course as well. lastly, i personally don’t think most things are inherently meaningful or meaningless, it all comes down to understanding how you feel about it in your own life and being empowered to make changes where you want to to improve the quality and experience of your life! thank you for your comment and happy Sunday
@@allygong As an emotional person I do think that feelings are very important and an integral part of what makes us human. However, I don't think that feelings make good masters since they come and go. Sometimes our feelings are in disagreement with certain principles or if our hearts are not in the right place it can birth unhealthy feelings too. Like I very rarely feel like getting exercise and when I was trapped in my video game addiction there were a lot of things I didn't feel like doing. Going outside was one of them lol. Regarding meaning I guess maybe everything can have meaning but there is good meaning and bad meaning.
Going through a withdrawal at the moment, after realising how it was deeply affecting my 'deep' sleep. e.g., waking up tired, body clock (on my garmin) was always really low, only able to get about 5-6 hrs sleep, not able to fall asleep again after waking up... started down this path with magnesium, b5, fish oil, trace elements (celtic salt), etc, and it all culminated in my dropping coffee... spent 2 days in beed because i'm just so tired. i hate that it has this power over me, what's worse is that i never even used to drink it until I was about 35, i spent my whole life hating it, the smell of it, the taste, i was the only adult who would still order hot chocolates while everyone else drank a coffee...
yes! i don’t track my sleep too carefully, so it took me a while to discover that maybe coffee was messing up my full sleep clock or ability to have deeper sleep. the first two days i was FKED up too so don’t worry!!! it gets much better.
Everything you said makes perfect sense and is indeed a microcosm of the rest of life for many people today.
When I was in high school I was a loser, no denying that. I struggled socially and academically. I got addicted to video games and I wasn’t even good at that lol. In video games, I could vent and feel like a boss being a supersoldier or an assassin. Eventually, I clawed my way out of this addiction when I realized that I wasn’t accomplishing anything in video games actually and that it was just basically a doping session that I used to avoid facing reality. I got into my first physical fight with someone close to me over a video game. Of all the things I could have fought for this ended up being the first? Not country, family, or God but games?!?!?
Like coffee and many other things on the drug spectrum, video games are like dopamine treadmills. But it's weird because like with cocaine we take it to opiate ourselves sort of but we intellectual now that it is an illusion. It has no true substance. Coffee gives us the illusion of energy and we become slaves to it.
As a Christian, I believe that the devil loves vulnerable people because vulnerable people are very open to change. Video games, partying, drugs, and social media are all material anchors in the world that keep us from being drawn to God and the funny thing is that intellectually we know something is off yet we keep doing it!
It amazes me how bad the enslavement to meaningless pleasures can be. I saw this one CZcamsr who in one video shared that she dropped Christianity simply because it taught against masturbation, which she is very much addicted to. This stuff is so tragic and frightening to me that I wish I was making it up.
It says in the Bible in Matthew 6:19-21
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal, but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."
King Solomon in the Bible was given wisdom by God but his weakness was lust and so he had hundreds of concubines and simped for them, turning from God to please them instead. We all have substance-like weaknesses that we can become slaves to and if we aren't careful we can become just as hollow as they are.
thank you for sharing your video game story! it made me lol reading it. at the end of the day i believe we all can feel into what kind of lives we want to live and what we want to spend our day to day engaging in. sometimes the intellect that tells us something is off is a signal from our body and intuition. God is a great anchor of course as well. lastly, i personally don’t think most things are inherently meaningful or meaningless, it all comes down to understanding how you feel about it in your own life and being empowered to make changes where you want to to improve the quality and experience of your life! thank you for your comment and happy Sunday
@@allygong As an emotional person I do think that feelings are very important and an integral part of what makes us human. However, I don't think that feelings make good masters since they come and go. Sometimes our feelings are in disagreement with certain principles or if our hearts are not in the right place it can birth unhealthy feelings too.
Like I very rarely feel like getting exercise and when I was trapped in my video game addiction there were a lot of things I didn't feel like doing. Going outside was one of them lol.
Regarding meaning I guess maybe everything can have meaning but there is good meaning and bad meaning.
I have never heard so much Californian accent from someone on CZcams before.
🌊🌊 haha that’s me 💯
...and after watching Daniel Amen, I quit eating sugar and recently switched to fruits
you’re welcome! 😄🤣
I get you but also have you never heard of decaf coffee before? 😭
yess but i’m so unhinged, i’ll drink like 4 cups of that daily and get so dehydrated
literally no self control when it comes to coffee lmao 😭