is addicted to exercise. Both addictions to exercise and addictions to drugs access the brain’s limbic system, which contains an essential “reward circuit”. This reward circuit is what teaches us to associate functions essential to life, such as eating, with a pleasurable feeling. The limbic system is also the emotional centre of the brain. This is the same area that a person addicted to cocaine would be tapping into, which explains not only the altered emotional states of someone on cocaine
Summary: In this journal, the authors reflect on the strategies of Mindfulness-Meditation (MM) as a useful technique for college students who experience enormous levels of stress, anxiety, and other cyclical disorders. Multiple intervention conductivity studies were done on college students at least 18 years of age or older and focused on the levels of stress in relation with components of mindfulness-based stress reduction traits. The study concludes that with the growing number of students that