IV — Dopamine, Serotonin, and the Social Self

Dopamine and serotonin govern our everyday feelings and moods. When their levels are high, we feel high, and the neurotransmitters in our brain are feverish with activity. We feel alive and can sense every part of the life around us. Conversely, the lack of production of both dopamine and serotonin severely restrict our ability to feel the abundance of life and all of its wonderful activity, and we can feel down and depressed, and in severe cases even suicidal. When we are socially alive, socially interactive, and feel a sense of worth, a sense of well being, dopamine and serotonin are produced, and this is a recipe for happiness. This is why we must always start off our journey with self-love, the love of ourselves, and only by so doing can we initiate the attraction of others, and when this is achieved, the dopamine and serotonin will flow evermore with abundance. When we possess and express an undying self-belief in ourselves and how we interact with all the universe around us, we are powerful, and in this generation of power at the resonant level, serotonin is released with evermore frequency, and this enhances the charm we feel, and the laws of attraction feel this pull, and we are given that which we desire.

All humans have an innate desire to fit in, be accepted, and whether you are conscious of this or not, it is often the case. Even those who reject wanting to fit in are at the same time rejecting their natural need to be accepted within the social norm. Psychology refers to it as the normative social influence. We are social all social being by our very nature, as is every living creature on the planet, otherwise, they wouldn't exist, and they would have died out many hundreds of thousands of years ago. Those who do sense consciousness within them to decline to take part in the social spectrum and arena of life do so as either a reaction to normative social influence or simply as a desire to pursue their own existence bereft of any external influence. We are in a constant duality of both seeing others, and of how others perceive us. This can often give rise to much confusion regarding our identity in the reality of which is us.

Almost from the beginning of when we take our first breath upon this earth, we are shaped by our environment. Our beings react with every second, every hour, and every day to the changing circumstances of time and place. Most of the time we are unconscious of this evolution of adaptation of our beings, but at the resonant level, every second counts, as it were, and the resonant fields of living in the now and in the future are being shaped by the tiny vibrations of environment which the resonance within us feel and create.