Originally published January 31 2006
Psychiatrist believes alcohol cravings can be overcome by meditating
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
University of Queensland psychiatrist David Kavanagh believes that people who crave alcohol can overcome their yearnings with meditation.
A Queensland researcher says meditation is one way to overcome alcohol cravings.
University of Queensland psychiatrist David Kavanagh says consuming too much alcohol is a particular problem at this time of year.
Professor Kavanagh says meditation can help people disengage from cravings and tolerate the discomfort associated with them.
He says one method that may help is loading the brain with a different image, such as chocolate.
"The human brain actually can't manage too much of the same kind of information at once and it seems that there are at least two kinds of memory stores that people have," he said.
"One is the verbal kind and the other one is involving kind of visual and spatial information, and if you load that up with one thing, it's very hard to load that up with something else."
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