VIDEO

How Rich Roll Uses Meditation to Run and Run and Run

By Rich Roll — 2016

FindCenter Summary

This ultra-athlete makes 320-mile races feel a little easier with Headspace. Learn to meditate in ten minutes a day with the Headspace app. See more...

03:47 min

This Is Your Brain On . . .

New science tells us how to better manage our addictions.

Katharine Gammon

Constant Craving: How Digital Media Turned Us All into Dopamine Addicts

According to addiction expert Dr Anna Lembke, our smartphones are making us dopamine junkies, with each swipe, like and tweet feeding our habit. So how do we beat our digital dependency?

The Drop: How the Most Addictive Sport Can Help Us Understand Addiction and Recovery

In this revelatory and original book, award-winning author of the acclaimed surf memoir On a Wave illuminates the connection between waves, addiction, and recovery, exploring what surfing can teach us about the powerful undertow of addictive behaviors and the ways to swim free of them.

Thad Ziolkowski

Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body

In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your relationship to your achievement level.

Daniel Goleman, Richard J. Davidson

1

Meditation for Fidgety Skeptics

Too busy to meditate? Can’t turn off your brain? Curious about mindfulness but more comfortable in the gym? This book is for you. You’ll also get access to guided audio meditations on the 10% Happier app, to jumpstart your practice from day one.

Dan Harris, Jeffrey Warren, Carlye Adler

4

A Wandering Mind Is an Unhappy One

New research underlines the wisdom of being absorbed in what you do

1

The Little Book of Big Change: The No-Willpower Approach to Breaking Any Habit

No matter what your bad habit is, you have the power to change it. Drawing on a powerful combination of neuroscience and spirituality, this book will show you that you are not your habits. Rather, your habits and addictions are the result of simple brain wiring that is easily reversed.

Amy Johnson, Mark Howard (foreword)

1

Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength

Pioneering research psychologist Roy F. Baumeister collaborates with New York Times science writer John Tierney to revolutionize our understanding of the most coveted human virtue: self-control.

Roy F. Baumeister, John Tierney

1

The Science of Willpower

Contrary to popular belief, willpower is not an innate trait that you're either born with or without. Rather it's a complex mind-body response that can be compromised by stress, sleep deprivation and nutrition and that can be strengthened through certain practices.

How to Increase Willpower and Follow Through with Resolutions

Social psychologist Roy Baumeister has spent years studying how people resist temptation and break bad habits—and he's here to help.

6

1
2
Next

EXPLORE TOPIC

Addiction Recovery