Breaking Negative Patterns
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
4.1 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 27 March 2019
⏱️ 13 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is episode 1,756. |
| 0:04.0 | Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Mary Meckley and I hope you are doing well today and thank you for joining us as we continue midweek through this week's |
| 0:20.9 | Important series. We're exploring the topic of addiction, managing addiction, preventing |
| 0:29.1 | it, and having insight to help others who you know who may be struggling with addiction. |
| 0:38.0 | Whether you have a full-blown substance addiction, which could include an addiction to a substance such as opioids or alcohol or any drugs, type of habit or addiction. Or you may have a mild addiction such as maybe you are addicted to |
| 1:11.2 | chocolate or exercising whatever you do consistently impacts your brain. brain. |
| 1:24.0 | And of course, there are some good things you can do to impact your brain in a positive way such as meditation. |
| 1:31.0 | You will be very glad to know that if you struggle with a serious |
| 1:40.3 | or mild addiction or bad habit. The part of your brain that meditation activates, which is the |
| 1:52.0 | pre-frontal cortex is the same part of the brain that addiction |
| 1:59.6 | inhibits. So what happens when you become addicted? |
| 2:07.0 | It is considered to be a mutual mechanism. |
| 2:15.0 | And I'm going to share with you from life science.com, |
| 2:20.0 | how do we get addicted? |
| 2:24.0 | Everyone's path to addiction is different. |
| 2:29.0 | Some people try a drug or behavior because it's interesting or they're curious. |
| 2:36.0 | Others become addicted unknowingly, such as most opioid addicts didn't plan on becoming addicted. They were not |
| 2:50.2 | substance abusers. Most of these people had an injury or even their wisdom teeth |
| 2:58.4 | polled and were given opioids and became addicted. |
| 3:03.1 | So you can become addicted without even meaning to do so. |
| 3:10.4 | What happens with addiction is that the pleasure center of your brain is activated? |
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