In Your Own Hands – Applying Mindfulness to ADD/ADHD Treatment

Every Monday, my blog post “In Your Own Hands” is where I’ll be featuring articles I find interesting or that I think are a good resource to help you take charge of your health. What articles have you read recently that caught your attention? Leave a comment and let me know.

Mindfulness & ADD/ADHD – Creating a Powerful Option
Stephanie Nash shares how mindfulness is another option to treating ADD and ADHD.

How to Use Meditation as a Pain Reliever
Based on a study, morphine can normally reduce pain by 25% while meditation is able to reduce the intensity of the pain by 40%.

Mindfulness Moment: Use Your Five Senses
Take a look at how you can use your five senses and mindfulness to relieve chronic pain.

Mental Illness and Self-Acceptance
Self-acceptance can go a long ways when coping with a mental illness.

Mindfulness Meditation Helps Break Smoking Addiction
Researcher have found that a few hours of instruction in mindfulness meditation decreased the amount of cigarettes smokers smoke as well as shown increased activity in areas of the brain associated with self-control.