How to manage video game addiction

In this lesson you'll learn what is mindfulness and how you can use it to overcome your video game addiction. 

This exercise will introduce you to mindfulness.

In this lesson you'll learn exactly how mindfulness can help you quit playing video games all day. 

Mindfulness is breathing is one of the most basic mindfulness exercises. It will progressively train your mindfulness muscles which will increase your impulse control. Allowing you to overcome your video game addiction. 

In this video you'll learn your mind keeps you addicted and how to overcome it. 

In this lesson you'll learn how to train your mindfulness muscles while eating. 

In this lesson you'll learn how to let go of your addictive past. 

In this lesson you'll learn how you have to accept reality to overcome your addiction. 

This meditation will give you insight into your emotions. 

You need to train your mindfulness skills in order to overcome your video game addiction. In this lesson you'll learn how to create a daily mindfulness practice. 

Mindfulness will allow you to experience your urges to play video games without acting on them. . That's why in this lesson you'll learn how to train your mindfulness muscles with by observing your body. It will give you another tool for training your mindfulness muscles, which you need to do if you want to overcome your video game addiction.

This is a written companion guide to the creating your mindfulness practice lesson. 

We often use video games to escape from our negative emotions. Regularly practicing this mindfulness exercise will teach you how to make friends with your negative emotions instead of escaping from them. 

Managing negative emotions is very important for a a recovering addict. That's why in this lesson you'll learn how to use the mindful question method to better manage your emotions. 

This is the written companion to learning the mindful question method. 

Experiential avoidance, which is escaping from negative emotions is the main motivator for behavioral addictions such as video game addictions. That's why I'll give you another exercise that will train your emotional management skills. 

This exercise will directly train you in willingness and in accepting your life as it is. 

This exercise will allow you to reflect on the negative things in your life that strengthen your video game addiction. 

Many video game addicts find that their concentration has been destroyed by games. That's why we've included this meditation exercise. So you can train your mindfulness skills even when you have problems concentrating. 

This will elaborate further on how to meditate even after your concentration  has been destroyed by video games. 

In this worksheet you'll reflect about using mindfulness to overcome your video game addiction. 

In this lesson you'll learn how the story you tell yourself strengthens your video game addiction and how to overcome it. 

This meditation exercise will teach you how to let go of your addictive thoughts. 

In this section you'll learn about cognitive defusion and how this skill will help you quit your video game addiction. 

This exercise will help you realize that you're not your addictive thoughts. 

In this exercise you'll learn how to take away the power from your addictive thoughts. 

This is yet another technique that will help you take away the power from your addictive thoughts. 

In this lesson you'll learn how you're not your addiction. 

In this lesson you'll learn about FEAR and how it relates to your video game addiction. 

This is yet another meditation exercise that will help you overcome your video game addiction. 

In this lesson you'll learn how you're not your addictive thoughts. 

In this worksheet you'll learn how to overcome pathological thought patterns that keep you addicted to video games. 

In this lesson you'll learn  the essence of self destructive thinking that makes you addicted.

In this lesson you'll learn advanced cognitive behavioral strategies that will help you heal the thoughts that  keep you addicted to games. 

In this lesson you'll learn acupressure desensitization. A simple technique that will help you lower the intensity of your urges to play video games. 

In this lesson you'll learn advanced strategies that will help you use acupressure desensitization to lower your urges to play video games. 

In this written guide you'll learn everything you need to know about acupressure desensitization to use it to overcome your video game addiction 

In this lesson you'll learn even more strategies of using acupressure desensitization to lower your addictive urges. 

In this worksheet you'll learn how to take the power away from your triggers using acupressure desensitization. 

To overcome your video game addiction you will need a sense of purpose. Something that you want your life to be about. This section will help you with identifying it. 

In this lesson you'll learn about values and how they relate to quitting playing video games. 

In this lesson you'll learn how identifying your values will help you overcome your video game addiction. 

In this lesson you'll learn about commitment and how it relates to overcoming video game addiction. 

This meditation will help you become clear on your values. 

This mindfulness exercise will make the concept of values clearer to you. 

In this lesson you'll learn how to structure your life to kick video games out of it. 

In this worksheet we'll work on identifying and prioritizing your values. 

In this lesson you'll learn a powerful urge management technique called "urge surfing". It will allow you to feel your urges to play video games without acting on them. 

This is a written explanation of the urge surfing technique. 

In this lesson you'll learn TAP a very simple technique which combines urge surfing with acupressure desensitization to help you manage your urges to play video games. 

In this lesson you'll be given 4 self compassion meditations. We have learned that a lot of video game addicts experience a lot of guilt over the years they spend playing video games all day. These meditations will teach you how to forgive yourself for the time you've wasted on games. 

Congratulations. You've finished the course. In this lesson you'll learn where to go from here.