Fleet MaullThe Entrepreneur’s Zen Master

What if your thoughts are shaping your brain - and your reality - in real time?

13 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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Meditation increases dopamine by up to 65%, rivaling the spike from fentanyl or cocaine. The speaker argues this makes meditation a rewarding, potentially addictive practice that offers altered consciousness without substances.

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Meditation releases in your brain are highly addictive. Dopamine rises up to 65% in the brains of meditators. A 65% rise in dopamine. Dopamine is your reward molecule. It works on the part of the brain that has reward neurotransmitters, receptors, and so docks with those receptors. And meditation is producing a lot of it in your brain. So the same neurochemical that you get in the reward when you take fentanyl or cocaine or heroin or alcohol or smoking, Or chocolate. All of these things are the reward system and they're mediated by dopamine. So you get lots of dopamine and you just get addicted to meditation. Serotonin has the same chemical structure as psilocybin, magic mushrooms. People say, do you take magic mushrooms? I say, no, I meditate.