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Urge Surfing: Beat Cravings and Relapse with a Mindfulness Technique
For the next 10 seconds, try not to think of a pink elephant…Impossible, right?! The fact is, the more you try to suppress an impulse to use drugs or alcohol the more fixated your mind becomes on that very impulse, and this is bad news for anyone serious about maintaining their sobriety. Fortunately, you don’t have to drink or use and you don’t have to fight or suppress your cravings, all you have to do is surf over them and they’ll disappear – using a proven mindfulness technique known as urge surfing.
Mindfulness and Depression: Learning to Feel Good Again
How Mindfulness can overcome depression, teach us how to ignore unwanted thoughts and help us choose what is healthy for ourselves.
What is Adventure Therapy?
What is adventure therapy and why is it an effective in the treatment of substance abuse? Understand this form of experiential therapy and how it promotes overall well-being.
How to Handle Negative Emotions without Drugs or Alcohol - Using Mindfulness and Mental Imagery to Cope with Uncomfortable Feelings
Learn distress tolerance skills like mindfulness and imagery so you can handle uncomfortable feelings with out needing to get drunk or high.
Reverse the Health Consequences of Chronic Stress with ‘The Relaxation Response’
Could 10 minutes a day save your life? You can’t avoid stress, but if you’re smart, you can use techniques like ‘the relaxation response’ to offset the chronic health consequences. Read on to learn how to get started…
Binge Eating: Learn Mindful Eating to Gain Conscious Control over Your Binges
By learning to eat mindfully, even when binging, you can retake conscious control over an automatic behavior.
A Review of the Science Supporting Meditation as a Treatment for Substance Abuse
Can sitting quietly and focusing on mindfulness of breath really help you to manage cravings and overcome relapse as well as other forms of addiction treatment? Read descriptions of a few clinical research studies which show just how well the ancient practice of meditation seems to work as a complementary treatment for substance abuse and addiction.
Mindfulness Meditation – Research Says It Changes Your Brain in Just 8 Weeks
A growing mountain of evidence points to meditation’s effectiveness in controlling and reversing conditions as varied as anxiety and depression to high blood pressure and diabetes, but new research out of Massachusetts General Hospital shows that just 8 weeks of meditation training and practice actually results in physical grey matter changes in the hippocampus.
Learning to Forgive Yourself and Let Go of Guilt and Shame
Alcoholics and addicts do things in active addiction which leave them feeling guilt and shame. Learn what you can do to get over your guilt and shame to forgive yourself and let go of the past.
Beat Gambling Addiction, Sex Addiction or Internet Addiction with this 4 Step Program
Dr. Jeffrey Schwartz and his Four Step Program - through mindful awareness you can learn to overcome internet, gambling and sex cravings as you retrain your brain to stop sending such urgent messages of need.