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How opioid-dopamine interactions can explain common varieties of personal experience, the case of peak experience ‘Being in the moment’ or mindfulness induces relaxation, which increases opioid activity that causes pleasure. If concurrent persistent meaningful ideation occurs (meaning is defined as thinking of or doing actions that have branching novel positive implications, or a variant of positive thinking), this induces a feeling of arousal as mediated by dopamine systems. Dopamine and opioid systems are synergistic, or reciprocally stimulate each other, causing feelings of greater pleasure and arousal, or ecstatic states. This explains why ‘loving kindness’ meditation, savoring, peak, or flow experiences that incorporate relaxation and ‘meaning’ are affectively different from mindfulness, yet nonetheless represent unremarkable and simple neural processes that can be explained and replicated with ease by anyone. My arguments are based on the research of the distinguished affective neuroscientist Kent Berridge of the University of Michigan, who was kind to vet my argument linked below for accuracy and to provide an endorsement in its preface. In an article from the ‘Scientific American’ linked below, Berridge and Kringelbach detail how opioid and dopamine systems act and interact to induce positive affect sites.lsa.umich.edu/berridge-lab/wp-content/uploads/sites/743/2019/10/Kringelbach-Berridge-2012-Joyful-mind-Sci-Am.pdf A more formal explanation for a lay audience from affective neuroscience is provided on pp. 44-51 in a little open-source book on the psychology of rest linked below. Flow and peak experience is explained on pp. 82-87 www.scribd.com/doc/284056765/The-Book-of-Rest-The-Odd-Psychology-of-Doing-Nothing

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