In this episode of Dopamine and Other Happy Chemicals, Christian Rivera talks about Accepting Dyslexia and Finding a New Path Forward. Christian has various book ideas that he has difficulty writing and is trying to discovery a new way to get these ideas out into the world. To find a new way starts with accepting the current circumstance. 

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Dopamine and Other Happy Chemicals acts as an online journal for Christian Rivera, an INTP and Creative Director, who is sharing his personal growth experience for others to learn from.

I talk about personality, Myers-Briggs, the work of Carl Jung, Ram Dass, Sadhguru, Alan Watts, The Enneagram, Depth Psychology, Archetypes, Mental Health, our chemical experiences, the collective unconscious, shadow, ego, and self.

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In this episode of Dopamine and Other Happy Chemicals, Christian Rivera talks about the decision to start writing a book to help define the next chapter of his life. You can follow the progress at http://letsgocnote.substack.com

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In this episode of Dopamine and Other Happy Chemicals, Christian Rivera talks about growth versus purity and how it's easy to get locked into trying to be perfect, to deny our humanity, to race towards enlightenment as end state of nirvana to hide within.

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In this episode of Dopamine and Other Happy Chemicals, Christian Rivera talks about Accepting Dyslexia and Finding a New Path Forward. Christian has various book ideas that he has difficulty writing and is trying to discovery a new way to get these ideas out into the world. To find a new way starts with accepting the current circumstance.

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In this episode of Dopamine and Other Happy Chemicals, Christian Rivera asks how the does the trickster Se Manifest for INTPs? The trickster functions is the shadow function that trips us up, makes us assume that we're experiencing is what we have control over. Because it's so far down in our awareness it can appear in a shadow sense and operate unconsciously.

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In this episode of Dopamine and Other Happy Chemicals, Christian Rivera talks about anima/Animus, Shadow, Self, Ego, and Persona as elements of our psychology that we get to know as we develop. In a sense, this is the psychological map developed by Carl Jung to help us explore the unconscious. He also talks about how the Anima is over sexualized by young men.

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In this episode of Dopamine and Other Happy Chemicals, Christian Rivera talks about his experience with being triggered by an personality type. Specifically Enneagram type 2s have been an issue for him in the past and is now realizing how that is being reflected as someone within his own shadow behavior.

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In this episode of Dopamine and Other Happy Chemicals, Christian Rivera talks about making sense of chaos and complexity using spiral dynamics integral for personal growth. He looks at how spiral dynamics and the levels of development connect socially to how personality enthusiasts interact on social media and what it takes to focus on yourself for your own growth. He references Ken Wilber and Doshin Roshi's work.

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Podcast Version at http://www.anchor.fm/happychemicals

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Dopamine and Other Happy Chemicals acts as an online journal for Christian Rivera, an INTP and Creative Director, who is sharing his personal growth experience for others to learn from.

I talk about personality, Myers-Briggs, the work of Carl Jung, Ram Dass, Sadhguru, Alan Watts, The Enneagram, Depth Psychology, Archetypes, Mental Health, our chemical experiences, the collective unconscious, shadow, ego, and self.

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In this episode of Dopamine and Other Happy Chemicals, Christian Rivera talks about the shadow being magnetic and how what we resist persists. He talks about triggers, offenses, and how that reveals the desire of repressed subpersonalities. In this case, he shares some of his relationship to being triggered by Enneagram 2s, their persistence for connection, and how he's beginning to empathize by seeing that within himself.

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In this episode of Dopamine and Other Happy Chemicals, Christian Rivera talks about 6-Green and using Spiral Dynamics for Personal growth. This level is about countering the abundance of 5-orange with an awareness of limits and cycles. This is a place of personal shadow discovery and recovering an emotional connection to self.

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