Aug 24, 2026 · 36 min · 13 segments
It's simple, but not easy. To learn delayed gratification you have t learn how to re-interpret your mind and the sensations that flow through you and apply edits "upstream" where the thoughts…
Bardia RezHost
What is delayed gratification? Delayed gratification is the ability to pause and sit with the compulsion, right? You want something and so you learn to delay it.
You know, connection to yourself, connection to your soul, connection to your clarity, your values, your goals.
You know, connection to the universe, God, connection to family, friends, the support system, accountability.
Because if you look at what addiction is, which is the compulsive, you're doing something compulsively over and over and over again, despite harmful consequences.
It's like this looping cycle of doing and repetition and same behavior, same substance over and over and over again.
I don't know where you're specifically at on your journey, but if you keep drinking alcohol, the amount of reward and relief that you gain from it is going to be increasingly less until your brain and body become so dependent on it that you feel like you have to drink in order to feel normal.
Applying rules, strategies, techniques to manage and moderate your drinking, that's not how it works.
When you do that without applied effort and you don't have to get the rest of your brain and organs and energy system moving to gain that dopamine and GABA for relief or reward or whatever it is that you're seeking in your life, You will destroy the functioning of the system.
The system will go into deeper and deeper layers of withdrawal and you will feel like complete shit in the absence of alcohol.
What is delayed gratification? Delayed gratification is the ability to pause and sit with the compulsion, right? You want something and so you learn to delay it.
You know, connection to yourself, connection to your soul, connection to your clarity, your values, your goals.
You know, connection to the universe, God, connection to family, friends, the support system, accountability.
Because if you look at what addiction is, which is the compulsive, you're doing something compulsively over and over and over again, despite harmful consequences.
It's like this looping cycle of doing and repetition and same behavior, same substance over and over and over again.
I don't know where you're specifically at on your journey, but if you keep drinking alcohol, the amount of reward and relief that you gain from it is going to be increasingly less until your brain and body become so dependent on it that you feel like you have to drink in order to feel normal.
Applying rules, strategies, techniques to manage and moderate your drinking, that's not how it works.
When you do that without applied effort and you don't have to get the rest of your brain and organs and energy system moving to gain that dopamine and GABA for relief or reward or whatever it is that you're seeking in your life, You will destroy the functioning of the system.
The system will go into deeper and deeper layers of withdrawal and you will feel like complete shit in the absence of alcohol.
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