Dopamine, Desire, and the Return to True Joy

We live in a world designed around dopamine.

But more than that — we live inside food and lifestyle systems designed to harvest it.

The modern food system is engineered not primarily for nourishment, but for:

• Maximum palatability

• Maximum shelf life

• Maximum profit

• Maximum repeat consumption

This means many foods are designed to be hyper-rewarding to the brain (high sugar, high fat, high salt, artificial flavoring), while being low in the minerals, fiber, enzymes, and micronutrients that actually create satiety and cellular health.

So we become:

Stimulated… but not nourished.

Full… but not satisfied.

Eating… yet still starving.

Not starving for calories — starving for nutrients, for coherence, for life force.

This keeps the nervous system in a loop of craving and relief — chasing dopamine instead of resting in joy.

This is not a personal failure. It is a systemic design.

Dopamine vs. Joy

Dopamine is a spike — a hit, a rush, a “better for a moment.”

Joy is a state — a sense of wholeness, safety, and presence.

Dopamine is external.

Joy is internal.

Dopamine says: “Take this so you don’t have to feel that.”

Joy says: “You are safe to feel.”

From a Modern Mystery School perspective, when the nervous system is dysregulated and the subtle bodies are out of alignment, the soul looks for something external to regulate what has become fragmented internally.

Healing is the act of stepping out of that loop.

What Healing and Initiation Are Actually Doing

Healing modalities like Soul Retrieval, Emotional Cord Cutting, and Crystal Rites are designed to restore coherence across the emotional, mental, spiritual, and physical bodies.

They gently:

• Retrieve fragmented aspects of the self that withdrew during trauma or stress

• Release energetic cords to people, identities, and experiences that no longer serve

• Re-align the subtle bodies so the system can exit survival mode

These healings help clear what is in the way of your natural state of presence and wholeness.

Empower Thyself, however, is not a healing — it is a class and initiation.

It is designed to teach you how to:

• Strengthen and regulate your own energetic field

• Develop self-authority, sovereignty, and inner alignment

• Become conscious and responsible with your emotional and spiritual state

• Live from choice rather than compulsion

Healing clears the distortions.

Empower Thyself trains you to live coherently once they’re cleared.

Together, they support a return to self-trust, presence, and true joy.

When You Truly Love Yourself

You stop seeking stimulation to replace nourishment.

You stop seeking relief to replace safety.

You stop seeking fullness to replace connection.

You still enjoy food — but you seek food that feeds you.

You still enjoy pleasure — but you don’t use it to disappear.

You still enjoy comfort — but you don’t require it to survive.

True joy is not the absence of desire.

It is the absence of needing something outside yourself to feel okay.

That is what healing and initiation return you to.

Yourself.

Work With Me

In-person Modern Mystery School healings are offered at:

Aili Healing Center

Orlando, Florida

A few Available sessions include:

• Soul Retrieval

• Emotional Cord Cutting

• Crystal Rites

Empower Thyself is offered as a class and initiation for those who feel called to deepen into self-mastery, sovereignty, and energetic responsibility.

✨ Book a healing or class here: www.makesyoustronger.club