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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mindfulness meditation may help people struggling with concurrent depression and Internet gaming disorder, according to a study published in PNAS Nexus. Guang-Heng Dong and colleagues treated 59 ...

The more cocaine you do, the more brazen you become. At the height of my addiction in 2010s Hong Kong, I was getting through several bags a week. It took a completely unexpected, almost accidental ...

When Ivan Pavlov was measuring dog slobber at the turn of the 20th century, he could not have imagined all the ways his classical conditioning research would shape the future of scientific discovery.

Meditation is not about sitting cross-legged on some fancy meditation mat, keeping the spine erect and the body still. It 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 ...