Way back to evolution, when we hunt and gather food. We need, to be social, food rich in carbohydrates, and other stuff. So, our brain gradually evolves itself to produce more dopamine for these tasks.
In today’s society, we are completely surrounded by instant gratification. We can get a dopamine high whenever we want. This ends up messing with our natural production of dopamine. And we can even get addicted to social media, games, etc.
Dopamine Detox follows a simple logic. We just eliminate high dopamine activities for some time. And then, we started getting bored, and in the end, even the low dopamine activity becomes interesting.
Dopamine Detox have some similar effects of Mindfulness. In one way or other, it’s the same thing! In mindfulness practices you do some low-dopamine tasks (like: meditation) and slowly the low-dopamine task(meditation), becomes easier and easier to do.
The only difference in Dopamine Detox and Mindfulness is- In mindfulness practices your goal can be multiple(like- self-discovery, self-control, or spirituality), But the only goal of Dopamine Detox is to reduce the crave of high-dopamine activities(social media, games,etc) to do low-dopamine activity without being bored.