“Addiction is a compulsive habit or a repetitive pattern that has become such because we've developed a maladaptive relationship with an external coping mechanism as a way to numb, sedate, or medicate the God-shaped hole inside of our soul.” – Ronnie Landis
Wellness + Wisdom Episode 560
Ronnie Landis, holistic health expert, joins Josh Trent on the Wellness + Wisdom podcast episode 560 to discuss the psychology of addiction and how to find a path to inner peace.
Is addiction to social media, food, porn, or drugs stopping you from reaching your full potential?
In this episode, you will find out what role dopamine plays in addictive behavior, why we're not actually addicted to the drug itself but to the anticipation of it, and how watching porn is hurting us.
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Listen To Episode 560 As Ronnie Landis Uncovers:
[01:30] The Power of Choice = Freedom
- Ronnie Landis
- W+W 349 Ronnie Landis | Rethinking Veganism: The 10 Year Journey Back Home
- W+W 122 The Truth About Nutrients – Ronnie Landis
- The Addiction Free Lifestyle by Ronnie Landis
- Gabor Maté
- Why people chase pleasure to avoid pain.
- How the power of choice can set you free from the Matrix.
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
[08:05] The Root Cause of Addiction
- The definition of addiction.
- Why the spiritual crisis is the main problem.
- Richard Rudd
- How you can connect to the God-shaped hole.
- Why authenticity doesn't equal perfection.
[22:10] Karma, Dharma + Overstimulation
- The avoidance of self-responsibility.
- How trauma lives outside of time and space.
- Why heart diseases are one of the most common causes of death.
- Psychosclerosis: the hardening of our psyche.
- The karma and dharma of addiction.
- How overstimulation impacts your nervous system.
- Ronnie's caffeine addiction.
[45:55] Coping Strategies + How Pornography Alters Your Brain
- Why we shouldn't put other people on a pedestal.
- 462 Ben Greenfield: Should You STOP Using Plant Medicines? Wisdom on Microdosing, The Muscle of Faith + How to Grow Your Spiritual Strength
- The sedative effect of watching movies and how we live vicariously through characters and other people.
- Our shadow and phantom files.
- How you can identify your coping strategies.
- Why climax is a mini death.
- How watching pornography is hurting us.
- Paul Levy | Wetiko: Break Free From Collective Mass Psychosis
- How our brain reacts to pornography through chemical signals.
[01:11:40] You Are Responsible for Your Addiction
- 288 Greg Woodhill: What Porn Does To The Brain & Heart
- Your Brain on Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction by Gary Wilson
- Your cravings are symptoms of wanting to be heard.
- How dopamine drives motivation.
- Why attention leaks stop Ronnie from manifesting reality.
- JoshTrent.com/PornFree
- Nobody makes you addicted apart from you.
- 543 Kelly Brogan MD | How to Love ALL Your Parts + Be Self-Sovereign
[01:24:10] Sexual Energy Transmutation
- Why you should put what's inside you on paper.
- How mastering your sexual energy makes you more resilient to other temptations.
- 536 SOLOCAST | Mental Health | Gender Dysphoria + OCD: When A “Helping Hand” Harms The Innocence of Children + Society
- Why semen retention is a right of passage process.
- Choosing to master your impulses, reactions, triggers, and stress responses.
- Micro-existential threats.
- You can upgrade your programming without external mechanisms.
[01:37:15] How Dopamine Creates Addictive Behavior
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- How to flip the reward system.
- The influence of light exposure on dopamine and serotonin.
- How the dopamine response defines if something is going to be addictive for you.
- Switching from seeking novelty to productivity.
- Why relationships are our teachers and mirrors.
[01:51:20] Self-Regulation + Self-Forgiveness
- Why self-judgment is one of the first reactions when starting addiction recovery.
- Addiction is a self-regulation strategy.
- Why we need to regulate our micro stress responses.
- How self-forgiveness helps us heal.
- What creates guilt and shame causes us to isolate.
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Why nutrition and brain chemistry matter in healing addiction.
Power Quotes From The Show
What You Gravitate Towards Isn't Random
“The external things that we gravitate towards aren't random. There's actually a one-for-one energetic vibrational frequency connection to how we feel within ourselves, the things that we're choosing, and the effect that the things we choose, have on our body or consciousness.” – Ronnie Landis
The Addiction Symptoms
“We live in a culture that values stimulation, overwhelm, and stress. These are things that are symptoms of a deep problem that we are starting to acknowledge but nobody really knows what to do about it because we're also addicted to the compounds, the substances, and the patterns that produce the symptoms themselves.” – Ronnie Landis
Addiction Probability
“The probability of something becoming addictive is how much dopamine it produces and how easily accessible it is to you in any given moment.” – Ronnie Landis
Dopamine + Anticipation of The Experience
“Dopamine is produced as an anticipation for a future event. You get dopamine from the anticipation of a particular experience that's posed in the future. But once you have the experience, that dopamine baseline goes down. You get a little bit of a hit upon the moment of arrival but then the more you do it, the less of the pleasure you get, and then you need to do more of it to keep the dopamine baseline steady.” – Ronnie Landis
Links From Today's Show
- Ronnie Landis
- W+W 349 Ronnie Landis | Rethinking Veganism: The 10 Year Journey Back Home
- W+W 122 The Truth About Nutrients – Ronnie Landis
- The Addiction Free Lifestyle by Ronnie Landis
- Gabor Maté
- A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
- Richard Rudd
- 462 Ben Greenfield: Should You STOP Using Plant Medicines? Wisdom on Microdosing, The Muscle of Faith + How to Grow Your Spiritual Strength
- Paul Levy | Wetiko: Break Free From Collective Mass Psychosis
- 288 Greg Woodhill: What Porn Does To The Brain & Heart
- Your Brain on Porn: Internet Pornography and the Emerging Science of Addiction by Gary Wilson
- JoshTrent.com/PornFree
- 543 Kelly Brogan MD | How to Love ALL Your Parts + Be Self-Sovereign
- 536 SOLOCAST | Mental Health | Gender Dysphoria + OCD: When A “Helping Hand” Harms The Innocence of Children + Society
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- Ronnie Landis
About Ronnie Landis
Ronnie Landis is a leading expert in holistic health, natural nutrition, and human potential. He helps people from driven entrepreneurs, athletes, visionary artists, actors/actresses, and intuitive healers, to stay-at-home moms and dads to perform at their best mentally, emotionally, and physically.
Ronnie’s work ranges from exploring the fringes of cutting-edge health sciences, food-based nutrition, innovative supplementation strategies, and a deep passion for helping people overcome long-held mental and emotional roadblocks so they can experience every area of their life at their full potential.
Ronnie is a public speaker and teacher, a published author of multiple books, host of two popular podcasts, a transformation and peak performance coach, and above all else a man who deeply values life and has devoted his life to uplifting and inspiring the lives of as many people as he can reach through his mission, his work, and his message.
