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The Addicted Mind Podcast

05: Using Mindfulness to Overcome Addiction with Robert Cox

The Addicted Mind Podcast

Duane Osterlind, LMFT

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.7 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2017

⏱️ 23 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

Mindfulness. It’s all the rage on the internet, but a lot of people haven’t a clue what it means when they see it. We all have a different image and set of expectations about mindfulness, but what actually is it, and how can it help those on the road to recovery? Is it just a fad, or will adopting a mindfulness practice really make a difference in the way we think?

Robert Cox is a Mindfulness Master, and he has experience and success stories to share with the “Addicted Mind” community this week. Robert is also the host of two podcasts, so he knows a thing or two about making something “heady” like Mindfulness easy to digest. Robert shares the evidence scientists have gathered for the brain transforming power of mindfulness, and then teaches you a few tricks to try it out on your own. 

  • Robert defines Mindfulness based off of research. 
  • The subtle difference between mindfulness and meditation. 
  • Using mindfulness to build resistance to cravings. 
  • The current mindfulness research for treatment in addiction and autism. 
  • Changing brain chemistry through mindfulness. 
  • We can break neuron connections and rewire them by catching it early. 
  • Anyone can benefit from a mindfulness practice. 
  • “Chill” App on iPhone to help ground you. 
  • Learn a simple grounding exercise. 

Links

http://liferecoveryconsulting.com/

 

Discover more with Robert’s “Mindful Recovery” and “Listening to Autism” Podcasts.

 



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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everyone, welcome to the Addicted Mind podcast. My name's Dwayne Austerlund, and I'm your host. Today we have a very special guest. His name is Robert Cox, and he is the author of the Mindful Recovery podcast, as well as the listening to Autism podcast. And today he's going to talk about using

0:22.6

mindfulness and recovery. What is mindfulness? What's some of the research around mindfulness

0:27.5

and how you can use mindfulness to get started in the recovery process or to improve your

0:32.8

recovery process. So stay tuned and enjoy. Hello everybody. My name is Dwayne Austerlund with the

0:41.5

Addicted Mind podcast and my guest today is Robert Cox from the Mind Recovery podcast and the

0:48.5

listening to autism podcast. And today we're going to talk about mindfulness and recovery. I'm very excited to have you on, Robert.

0:56.3

Thanks for having me, Dwayne. I'm excited to be here. Awesome. So I wanted to just really jump right in,

1:02.6

and I know one of your specialties is mindfulness. And I think that we hear a lot about that all

1:09.4

over the internet. I think it's kind of the rage.

1:11.8

Everybody's talking about it.

1:13.8

But a lot of people, you know, they hear mindfulness, but they really don't know what it is or how to define it or what it looks like.

1:21.8

And they have different pictures of what mindfulness is.

1:24.6

So I would love to just kind of talk to you a little bit about, like,

1:27.9

what is mindfulness? Yeah, there's a lot of confusion out there about that. I run into it frequently

1:33.7

that, you know, either they haven't heard about it or their image of it is, you know, a monk in

1:39.3

saffron robes sitting on top of a mountain somewhere. And so, well, it's kind of related to that.

1:46.2

Or they've seen people with, you know, lots of crystals surrounding them and doing the

1:50.9

mindfulness thing.

1:51.7

And they're like, yeah, I'm not on that.

1:53.3

And I'm like, it really doesn't have to be that far out or that complicated either.

1:57.5

You don't have to find a mountain.

1:59.1

You don't have to use crystals.

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