Inner Strength

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Alternative Health

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

Cleanse your mind and body with your breath. This is part 4 of a 7-part Overcoming Negative Habits Meditation Series, episodes 1753-1759. Give our new sip and om app a test drive for 1-week free. Receive access to 1,900+ fully guided meditations customized around a weekly theme. Select from 300+ series to fit your mood with a Clarity Journal and a Slow Down Guide customized for each theme. Brand new themes are introduced each week with brand new meditations offered daily. Connect with other meditators on the private Facebook group for app subscribers.

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All meditations are created by Mary Meckley and are her original content. Please request permission to use any of Mary's content by sending an email to Mary@sipandom.com.

Resources: Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke and Greg Keller.

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is episode 1,756. Welcome to the Daily Meditation podcast. 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 important series.
0:22.8	We're exploring the topic of addiction, managing addiction, preventing it,
0:30.1	and having insight to help others who you know who may be struggling with addiction,
0:38.1	whether you have a full-blown substance addiction,
0:43.8	which could include an addiction to a substance such as opioids or alcohol
0:50.7	or any drugs, pornography, sex, or any other destructive type of habit or addiction.
1:03.3	Or you may have a mild addiction, such as maybe you are addicted to chocolate or exercising.
1:13.6	Whatever you do consistently impacts your brain.
1:23.6	And of course, there are some good things you can do to impact your brain in a positive way such as meditation.
1:31.4	You will be very glad to know that if you struggle with a serious or mild addiction or bad habit.
1:45.7	The part of your brain that meditation activates,
1:50.9	which is the prefrontal cortex,
1:54.3	is the same part of the brain that addiction inhibits.
2:14.0	So what happens when you become addicted? It is considered to be a mutual mechanism.
2:22.5	And I'm going to share with you from life science.com. How do we get addicted?
2:34.0	Everyone's path to addiction is different. Some people try a drug or a behavior because it's interesting or they're curious.
2:36.6	Others become addicted unknowingly, such as most opioid addicts
2:44.6	didn't plan on becoming addicted.
2:49.6	They were not substance abusers. Most of these people had an injury
2:56.5	or even their wisdom teeth pulled and were given opioids and became addicted. So you can become
3:04.2	addicted without even meaning to do so.
3:09.3	What happens with addiction is that the pleasure center of your brain is activated.
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