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ABC News anchor Dan Harris credits meditation and mindfulness with recovery from drug addiction and drug-induced panic attacks...

How Meditation Helped This News Anchor Recover from Addiction | Next Big Idea Club

Dan Harris tells Scott Barry Kaufman about how meditation helped him conquer panic attacks, beat drug addiction, and take control of his life.

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Our mind is a feverish swamp of urges, desires, and judgements. It’s fixated on the past and the future to the detriment of the here and now.”

I have a tendency toward impatience, to think about the past or future to the detriment of whatever’s happening right now, and I have the soul of a junkie. Even though I no longer use drugs, I still want them, and I have all sorts of new destructive addictions—I struggle a lot around food. The junkie has not been exorcised, although he often needs to be.

You can have healthy compulsions, and you can have negative ones. In the years after abandoning drugs, a lot of my life has been about finding healthier ways to redirect my search for dopamine. I have developed this deep meditation habit, and I think it’s largely healthy.