The Chase That Never Ends: Dopamine, Desire, & the Paradox of Wanting

We keep chasing more or endless future desires yet never feel enough. This is the paradox of desire: the more we seek outside of ourselves, the farther we get from what we truly want. From our neurobiology to the hedonic treadmill to the myth of Sisyphus, it's really our unconscious cravings or an overwhelming feeling we're seeking to avoid that trap us in endless cycles. Our compulsions and cravings become a way we unconscious regulate ourselves, when we don't do it consciously. Addiction erodes willpower and will is the soul’s ability to self-organize into conscious aligned choice. The antidote is presence: shifting from craving to awareness and from wanting to being.