Our morning routine of doom scrolling through unachievable social media standards is impacting our reward sensitivity and impacting our brain health. It is paralyzing our brain’s reward center from accepting we have positive achievements and desensitizing our brains to what is possible. We are being pushed to unachievable limits by manipulated social media and this creates crisis.
Daniel Wysocki Ed.S., a counselor in Jonesboro, AR suggests that modifying our daily routine is an effective way to break unhealthy habits. Replacing the smartphone alarm with an analog alarm clock. This will unchain our brain to the common unhealthy brain habit of waking up and having a negative focus. Most people don’t derive much benefit from a negative focus. You will feel more pain and more disappointment practicing and preparing for things to go wrong. By not making this change and prioritizing our brain health we will miss positive experiences and we disrupt the physical pathways related to allowing us to be cognitively flexible.
