Happiness and Seon Buddhist meditation

Hwansan Sunim, who has studied Seon Buddhism under the guidance of Korean zen master Songdam at Yonghwasa Temple in Incheon, South Korea, shares Seon Buddhist principles for dealing with life's challenges through his instructional YouTube video series:

Practicing mindfulness meditation, which emphasizes identifying and distancing oneself from certain thoughts - without judging them - weakened chocolate cravings among people with a self-declared sweet tooth, Canadian researchers say

Apparently the trick is to distance yourself from your cravings by thinking of craving-related thoughts as separate from yourself. Mindfulness meditation teaches us that we are not our thoughts and that we can take control over our thoughts in a relatively short period of time. To do that, the goal is to create mental distance between oneself and one's cravings, identifying a craving as simply a thought. The technique may work by changing mental habits over time, training the brain to rewire itself into a state in which cravings are not as strong, and in which negative habits have been broken down and replaced with positive thinking.

Body Scan

This can be done either lying down or sitting in a chair: