{"id":646,"date":"2025-03-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/?p=646"},"modified":"2025-04-25T11:36:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T11:36:23","slug":"when-the-urge-to-gamble-strikes-try-mindfulness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/when-the-urge-to-gamble-strikes-try-mindfulness\/","title":{"rendered":"When the urge to gamble strikes, try mindfulness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/when-the-urge-to-gamble-strikes-try-mindfulness_tjq6.640.jpg\">March Madness might be a great time to practice some mindfulness skills.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an experiment to try at home: Listen to a <a href=\"https:\/\/me.mashable.com\/digital-culture\/27236\/endless-gambling-ads-have-become-the-scourge-of-sports-podcasts\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sports podcast<\/a>, scroll social media, or use an app with native ads, and see how many times you encounter an ad for online gambling. <\/p>\n<p>The double dare version of the experiment is to attempt it during March Madness, \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March Madness might be a great time to practice some mindfulness skills. Here&#8217;s an experiment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":650,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions\/650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/panacealenses.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}