5 Habits That Are Silently Destroying Your Mind: Know them Now To Avoid Them

 There are five silent habits that could be slowly destroying your mind without you even realizing it and the second one is certainly the most underestimated, but it is just as harmful as all the others. And the worst part is that there is a good chance that you are being seriously harmed by it. Below are five silent habits that is destroying your mind:

 

1. watching porn.

Few people know, but the brains of those who frequently consume pornography undergo structural changes.  Because every time you consume it, you release sky- high levels of dopamine into your brain's reward system.  And the problem is that this exaggerated discharge deregulates your receptors.  Then they begin to desensitize themselves, that is, they need increasingly stronger stimuli just to generate the same feeling of pleasure as before. 

That's why so many people are entering increasingly extreme, bizarre content and opening several tabs at the same time, because the brain is always asking for more.  But this same mechanism that traps you in this cycle also makes things that should naturally give you pleasure, such as working, going out with friends and having a real relationship with another person, start to seem boring.  That's because your brain basically starts craving that spike of easy, immediate pleasure that comes from that fantasy shown on the screen.  And the result is that you start to isolate yourself, lose motivation, purpose and even focus, because your mind becomes foggy.  This is what is known as brain fog.  But there is one more problem with all this that almost no one talks about.  Besides what I've already said, there's also the emotional cycle of guilt, emptiness and shame that comes after you finish your ritual.  And according to the Hawkins scale of consciousness, which is basically a ranking of human emotions according to the vibrational frequency emitted by each state, guilt and shame are among the lowest emotional frequencies a human being can experience.  And then, in other words, they paralyze you, they suck your energy and they make you feel unworthy of change.  And when you repeat this cycle, over and over again, they begin to shape your identity to the point where you begin to see yourself as worthless, out of control, and incapable of evolving. 

 

2.  Listening to stupid music. 

Have you ever stopped to think how the music you listen to every day shapes how you see yourself without you realizing it?  It seems like an exaggeration, but it isn't.  When you listen to a certain type of music repeatedly, it creates a familiarity in your mind and your brain kind of loves to seek out what is familiar, even if it doesn't feel good.  The problem is that most of the songs most listened to today follow practically the same pattern.  They encourage violence, drug use, trivialize sex and transform human beings into simple objects of pleasure. And you know what's worse?  We get used to it, we become desensitized to such filthy things to the point that we even start to enjoy listening to those lyrics and find it normal.  But what many people don't realize is that when you're going through a difficult phase in your relationship and you put on, for example, that country song "sofrência", it even seems like it's going to help, right?  It gives the impression that you are drowning your sorrows and that it will alleviate what you are feeling.  But no.  This just reinforces that horrible feeling for longer and keeps you stuck in the same low frequency.  So, if you listen to songs that say the world is lost, that you can't trust anyone, that it's every man for himself, that man is this, woman is that, you will start to see the world exactly that way.  That is a fact.  And the worst part is, if you don't pay attention to this, you will experience terrible symptoms and have no idea what causes it.  And I can assure you, a good part of that could be coming from the music you listen to frequently.

 

3.  Avoid boredom at all costs.

Nowadays, we do everything we can to avoid feeling bored, but the fact is that this habit is messing with your reward system.  Because before you start to feel the slightest sign of boredom, you open TikTok, listen to a song, send a message to someone, play something, all so as not to spend a single minute with your own thoughts.  But the thing is that our brain works just like a scale, where on one side there is pleasure and on the other there is pain.  And the brain always wants to keep that balance even.  So, if you are constantly leaning, filling your head with stimuli, the other side automatically becomes heavier, that is, you start to feel more tired, more empty and more suffering. 

This is so serious that research shows that those who constantly seek pleasure, especially strong and easy stimuli, begin to lose the sensitivity to feel pleasure in simple things, such as a family lunch, a walk or a deep conversation.  This is because the dopaminergic system becomes so demanding that it only responds to increasingly intense stimuli.  And then, the more you run away from boredom, the more boring things seem, because it makes the brain lose its reference.  After all, if everything is pleasurable, then nothing else is pleasurable.  It's like eating your favorite food every day and for every meal of the week.  There will come a time when you won't be able to bear looking at it anymore. So, instead of running away, try to live with boredom from time to time.  Let it come, because it is in this space that your brain rests and reorganizes itself.  And that's how you start to feel real pleasure in life again, without having to stuff yourself with artificial stimuli all the time.

 

4. consuming too much fast content. 

This unbridled consumption of fast-paced content is really deteriorating your mind.  And that's where this term that you've probably heard of came from, brain rot.  This term only started to gain traction in recent times, precisely after the consumption of ultra-fast, short and mind-blowing videos became a standard.  Because each video changes context every 3 seconds.  You see a dance, then a meme, then a tragic news story, then a podcast cut.  All this without any connection.  It's a very hectic context switch and your brain is not designed to process all of that. It works like this.  Every time you see something new and interesting, your dopamine system is activated to make you seek out the next stimulus.  But when this happens all day long, your brain goes into a constant state of seeking immediate rewards that don't require effort.  And the result of this is that you start to lose the ability to focus on longer things, to go deeper, to sustain boredom, to reflect and even worse, your emotional foundation is completely destroyed, because this excess of stimulation can generate chronic anxiety.  That's why so many people today feel mentally exhausted, anxious and unproductive and can't even explain why. 

 

5. consume news, gossip or anything that is negative. 

Few people realize, but what you consume daily literally becomes the filter through which you see the world, as well as the music you listen to.  So, if you spend the day watching tragedy, violence, gossip, fighting or controversy, your mind starts to believe that the world is made up of only that.  This is because the brain does not differentiate very well between what you consume and what you live.  In other words, emotionally he reacts as if it were a direct part of his reality.  And as a consequence of this, you begin to develop a distorted, pessimistic and paranoid worldview, where you begin to think that you can no longer trust anyone, that everything will go wrong, that human beings are rotten, that there is no hope left.  And the more you believe this, the more you reinforce these connections in your brain, thus creating a vicious cycle.  But it doesn't stop there, because this excess of negative content also activates your alert system all the time, because the accumulation of negative news that you watch puts your body in a state of mild, more chronic stress, because the brain's amygdala, which is responsible for identifying threats, becomes hyper activated and this drains your energy, increases your anxiety and always leaves you with that feeling that something bad is about to happen, even when everything is fine.  And then the saddest thing is that you become a more cynical, more closed, more toxic person, the kind of person who pushes others away and doesn't even realize it.  And do you want to know what the biggest problem is?  It's just that you think this is doing you good, because somehow you 're staying informed.  This way you will never be caught off guard by something that could harm your life.  At least that's the story you tell yourself to justify this habit.  But deep down you are just feeding a toxic mental programming that will destroy your mental health.  Of course, eventually we will all be exposed to this content and that's part of it, but when these things you said become daily habits, your mind becomes a time bomb that sooner or later will explode.  But just like any other habit, you can change them no matter how strong they are.  And if you want to know the easiest and quickest method to do this, check out the David Goggins secrets of transformation.  Share with your friends