Meditation apps such as Calm, Headspace and Aura promote meditating every day for a happier and more peaceful life. They state that with daily meditation, true tranquility and mindfulness are easy to ...

"You know you're an alcoholic when you misplace things--like a decade." (Paul Williams) Jon Kabat-Zinn, the founder of mindfulness meditation in Western medicine, cleverly titled one of his ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Fighting addiction can be tough, but one local man has started a recovery program with a unique way to thrive through recovery. Refuge Recovery, a treatment center for those ...

A treatment for addiction problems based on meditation-like techniques can be helpful as a supplement to help someone get out of addiction. Scientific and mathematical arguments are given for this in ...

Have you ever enjoyed an activity so much so that you can’t imagine what life would be like without it? If so, then you’ve experienced addiction. Although we commonly consider addiction in relation to ...

If you’ve found yourself in a cycle of codependent relationships, rest assured that there is a way out. Learning how to overcome codependency will take some deep inner work, but with the help of ...

Many people who undergo treatment for addiction will relapse and begin using drugs again soon after their therapy ends, but a new study suggests that meditation techniques may help prevent such ...

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A recent JAMA Network Open study investigated the efficacy and underlying neural mechanism of mindfulness meditation (MM) intervention for treating adults with Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD). IGD is ...

Outcome measures for mindfulness meditation (MM) and progressive muscle relaxation (PMR) treatments. Changes for Internet gaming disorder participants from pre- to post-treatment in the MM and PMR ...

One of the first steps in dealing with addiction is to discover the emotional cause of it, whether it is fear, depression, anxiety, or pessimism. Many times these unwholesome thoughts and beliefs come ...

A new paper suggests that rehabilitation strategies coupling meditation-like practices with drug and behavior therapies are more helpful than drug-plus-talk therapy alone when helping people overcome ...