DOPEamine

There's a great idealism and Identity crash coming for millennials. The major battle to change the world will be met with a stark reality that we can't change everything and everyone. Millennials have been fed this idea that we can should be anything we want, which isn't going to work out. But even so, we can get started now in moving towards acceptance on a personal level to have a greater actual...

If you've heard of the golden rule and the platinum rule then I'd like to introduce the Diamond Rule and play with this idea for a bit. I talk about how the Enneagram is useful for reverse engineering what someone needs and is experiencing on the inside. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/happychemicals/message Get full access to DOPEamine at dopeamine.substack.co...

Today on happy Chemicals I'm playing with the idea of using your Myers-Briggs subtype to suggest that there is a wealth building trajectory for that type. Which one are you? And do you resonate with that direction? Does it excite you? Let me know! 😎 🤘🏽 💜 --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/happychemicals/message Get full access to DOPEamine at dopeamine.substac...

This is a rollercoaster of an episode talking about what I believe is the religion-izing of the previous generational Awakening or new age spiritualism. I explore some of my own cynicism around that and the relationship to cultural events in the US and world events emerging via some of the patterns share in Spiral Dynamics and generational theory. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.sp...

I was recently reminded of how late insane Asylums existed into the 20th century and how they must very much play a part in the zeitgeist of mental health awareness and resistance to emerging systems. This episode plays with what that could mean for the deeper programming of fear within myself and older generations who are apprehensive of the emerging mental health marketplace. --- Send in a voice...

Today I'm talking about the importance of being where you are and the necessities of each level of developmental through whichever developmental spiral you're getting to know. I reference the work of Dr. Keith Witt and Jeff Salzmann on The Daily Evolver and their episode about the three types of suffering. I also talk about personality disorders and one-sidedness stuckness in our development. Cour...

What did I discover on the journey of creating this podcast? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/happychemicals/message Get full access to DOPEamine at dopeamine.substack.com/subscribe

Emoji is not something I expected to be grateful for today but I was just notified that July 17th is World Emoji Day, prompting me to think about Emoji's impact on the world, what it’s meant for communication and exploring what the future of what short form emotional communication looks like. Considering subscribing to my substack at letsgocnote.substack.com to contribute to my work here on Open S...

I’m using this space to experiment with new projects and this next one is called Sticky Notes, a private podcast about remembering progress from the past to better focus on the future and have a greater gratitude for the present. For now, this will only live on this substack feed. So, please consider becoming a paid subscriber to support this and future projects. 😎🤘🏼💜🙏🏽 Get full access to DO...

On this episode of Dopamine and Other Happy Chemicals, Christian Rivera talks about thesis and anthesis. Is it okay to have opposing views of something? How is that still attachment? And can it be a bad thing to be antithetical? --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/happychemicals/message Get full access to DOPEamine at dopeamine.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode of Dopamine and Other Happy Chemicals, Christian Rivera talks about how we affect each other, can better socialize, and setting better boundaries. ----------------- Podcast Version at http://www.anchor.fm/happychemicals INTP Personality Type Courses: http://www.happychemicals.org Support on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/happychemicals Personality Hacker Personality Test: https://...

In this episode of Dopamine and Other Happy Chemicals, Christian Rivera talks about removing the obstacles limiting growth. ----------------- Podcast Version at http://www.anchor.fm/happychemicals INTP Personality Type Courses: http://www.happychemicals.org Support on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/happychemicals Personality Hacker Personality Test: https://ca157.isrefer.com/go/phpt/letsgocnote/...

In this episode of Dopamine and Other Happy Chemicals, Christian Rivera talks about getting to know his own chemical happenings and what that means for life going forward. ----------------- Podcast Version at http://www.anchor.fm/happychemicals INTP Personality Type Courses: http://www.happychemicals.org Support on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/happychemicals Personality Hacker Personality Test:...

In this episode of Dopamine and Other Happy Chemicals, Christian Rivera talks about creative staleness, stuckness, and reluctance in our processes using the process Enneagram and what he calls The Creative Process Enneagram. Inspired by The Nine Sided Circle YouTube channel: https://youtu.be/pApYndFoHmY   ------------------ Podcast Version at http://www.anchor.fm/happychemicals INTP Personality Ty...

In this episode of Dopamine and Other Happy Chemicals, Christian Rivera talks about the decision to start writing a book to help define the next chapter of his life. You can follow the progress at http://letsgocnote.substack.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/happychemicals/message Get full access to DOPEamine at dopeamine.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode of Dopamine and Other Happy Chemicals, Christian Rivera talks about growth versus purity and how it's easy to get locked into trying to be perfect, to deny our humanity, to race towards enlightenment as end state of nirvana to hide within. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/happychemicals/message Get full access to DOPEamine at dopeamine.substack.c...

In this episode of Dopamine and Other Happy Chemicals, Christian Rivera talks about Accepting Dyslexia and Finding a New Path Forward. Christian has various book ideas that he has difficulty writing and is trying to discovery a new way to get these ideas out into the world. To find a new way starts with accepting the current circumstance. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com...

In this episode of Dopamine and Other Happy Chemicals, Christian Rivera talks about anima/Animus, Shadow, Self, Ego, and Persona as elements of our psychology that we get to know as we develop. In a sense, this is the psychological map developed by Carl Jung to help us explore the unconscious. He also talks about how the Anima is over sexualized by young men. --- Send in a voice message: https://p...

In this episode of Dopamine and Other Happy Chemicals, Christian Rivera talks about the shadow being magnetic and how what we resist persists. He talks about triggers, offenses, and how that reveals the desire of repressed subpersonalities. In this case, he shares some of his relationship to being triggered by Enneagram 2s, their persistence for connection, and how he's beginning to empathize by s...

In this episode of Dopamine and Other Happy Chemicals, Christian Rivera talks about making life easier for himself by getting to know his Four Tendencies type and Wealth Dynamics profile. These two systems have been great for helping me get out of my own way, create more in my own way and put good energy out into the world. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/happy...

In this episode of Dopamine and Other Happy Chemicals, Christian Rivera talks about lightening up a bit in terms of the topics to cover but also how being serious about morals or ethics tends to backfire. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/happychemicals/message Get full access to DOPEamine at dopeamine.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode of Dopamine and Other Happy Chemicals, Christian Rivera talks about mastering your personality and what it means to truly introspect and get to know yourself. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/happychemicals/message Get full access to DOPEamine at dopeamine.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode of Dopamine and Other Happy Chemicals, Christian Rivera explores why there's a sudden surge in identifying with ADHD. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/happychemicals/message Get full access to DOPEamine at dopeamine.substack.com/subscribe

In this episode of Dopamine and Other Happy Chemicals, Christian Rivera talks about spirituality becoming a loaded word, meaning that it's a word is expanding in its definition or morphing definition based on who is using the word and the worldview they're speaking from. Christian uses Spiral Dynamics to share what he notices about how each worldview is using the word spirituality and what it mean...

In this episode of Dopamine and Other Happy Chemicals, Christian Rivera talks about porn addiction and mental dissociations that he's experienced most of his life. From what was originally thought to be a cyclothymia bipolar response is becoming more obvious as a type of C-PSTD flight-freeze coping mechanism. He shares this as an INTP who is opening a window into his ENTJ shadow self, getting to k...