Muslims and Addiction part 1: This Is Controlling Your Motivation & Satisfaction

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For so long, after reverting to Islam, I wondered why I couldn’t become the Muslim I needed to be. Then after decades of trial and error, I found that I could reverse engineer my challenges and find solutions.

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00:00 - Intro
01:02 - Chapter One: Avoiding Mirrors
02:15 - Chapter Two: Lost in Buckets
07:37 - Chapter Three: Blast Radius
11:15 - Chapter Four: Out of Bounds
16:09 - Chapter Five: We're in This Together
18:39 - Chapter Six: Holding a Burning Ember

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This is part three of a four-part series on addiction. I feel it’s beneficial to dig into the causes of our many life challenges, such as:

- Not practicing the Deen to our full potential.
- Not being able to stick to a diet or exercise plan.
- Why am I feeling anxious or defeated lately?
- Why do I feel annoyed with others and prefer to be alone?
- Why do I feel unmotivated
- Why can't I finish what I start?

Life is hard, but over the last 51 years, I've learned quite a bit about what drove me to fail with my mental and physical health, relationships, work, and finances.

I’m by no means near my goals as a Muslim, Husband, Father, or Friend, but I must do my best each day, even if I only improve by 1%.

Allah's Messenger (ﷺ) said, "Do good deeds properly, sincerely, and moderately and know that your deeds will not make you enter Paradise and that the most beloved deed to Allah is the most regular and constant even if it were little."
This applies to our personal development as well inshAllah.

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Sources for this videos content:
- The Noble Quran
- Sahih Al-Bukhari
- Sahih Muslim
- Dopamine Nation - Anna Lembke
- The Molecule of More - Daniel Z. Lieberman
- In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts - Gabor Matê, MD
- Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain, Enhanced Fourth Edition - Mark F. Bear, Barry W. Connors, Michael A. Paradiso
- The Neuroscience of Addiction - Francesca Mapua Filbey
- Affective Neuroscience - Jaak Panksepp
- Hooked - Nir Eyal
- Your Brain On Porn - Gary Wilson
- Chasing Dopamine - MD FASAM, Rick Campana

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