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A Meditation for Healing Addiction
Let’s face it: in some form or another we all suffer from addiction. These days we often turn to drugs, alcohol, food, sex, work, the Internet and many other addictions in an effort to avoid feeli…
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Are You An Undercover Addict?
After graduating college, I went to Europe for a month-long summer study program. Sitting around the big dinner table one of those first nights, a fellow Yank asked one of the European students what t…
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Can Your Commitment To Health Handle Temptation?
Have you ever noticed how every single time you recommit to healthy living, you get sick? (By you, of course, I mean me. And maybe it's not every single time, but it feels like that right this minu…
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Meditation as a Way Through Addiction
Alcohol, cigarettes and drugs cause untold damage, but their users derive some kind of pleasure from them, or at least relief from the massive stress that they would otherwise feel. But by exposing th…
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Can Yoga Fight Addiction?
The latest episode of URBAN YOGIS on The Chopra Well features the story of a healer and recovering addict who discovered the path to recovery through yoga, meditation, and martial arts. Abdi was fif…
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A Nicotine Vaccine?
Scientists are developing a nicotine vaccine that, with just one injection, will prevent the pleasure-triggering chemicals in tobacco from ever reaching the brain. The vaccine is still being tested in…
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Mind Your Butts: Addiction And Accountability
This is a spaghetti jar full of cigarette butts that I collected this morning from the sidewalks, parking spots, and driveways of my little neighborhood. It was a catalytic mix of emotions that called…
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Xanax and Alcohol
Xanax is a tranquilizer used to treat anxiety, generally making a person feel calmer, because it depresses the central nervous system. One major effect it has is slowing the rate of breathing. Alcohol…
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How Rock Stars Are Helping People Find Hope
Join the Milkshake movement now and you could win a pair of TOMS shoes and a FEED bag! Sign up here for a chance to win. Hope. Sometimes it's a matter of life and death. For 5 days, in the sprin…
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Are You A Carboholic? How To Break the Addiction
By Monica Wilcox Excuse me, are you going to eat your dinner roll? This was the running topic of dinner conversation during my college years. Not, “Have you studied up on Pavlov’s theory?” or “H…
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Nice message and I'm glad the tortoise did not get hit
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