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.