How does Qigong help people suffering from addiction?
At The Anzelmo Wellness Center we have carefully selected various therapies as part of our detox plan and recovery program. These therapies help you on a physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual level, in order to make your transition into a sober lifestyle as easy as possible after your Ibogaine treatment. When a recovering addict opens up new body and mind pathways of thought, emotion and being, new vibrations are created, thus disrupting and decreasing previous addiction memory pathways.
As you remove your old habit — addiction — we want to replace it with new habits: positive and supportive techniques that you will take with you when you leave and start rebuilding your life. Our Qigong instructor talked to us about how Qigong works, and why it’s so effective for those suffering from heroin addiction:
“Qigong helps us to get back to all the energy that we have lost to addiction. By doing this energy exercise, we help ourselves to retrieve it. We redistribute the energy in all the channels in a flowing way,” she says.
“For recovering addicts, Qigong helps to reduce stress by letting go of old energy that is obstructing the free flow of energy through your body. Once we reduce these blocks, we reduce the amount of stress that we carry and our bodies can start to heal themselves.”
“Qigong helps to return all the energy that we’ve lost to addiction — bad thoughts, unhealthy emotions, etc. It helps our bodies get stronger and helps us maintain a peaceful state. It helps us have more strength and more willpower so we don’t relapse.”
“If they do the practice, step by step they will start to feel that it’s not really necessary to go and do the same things that they used to do to relax or find peace. They find that they don’t need a drug anymore to help them feel good. They have the power to make themselves feel good, inside of themselves, that they can access whenever they want.”
QiGong is a vital step at The Anzelmo Wellness Center. We have found that this ancient Chinese practice will not only increase vitality but is directly able to re-direct cravings into emotional balance…in five short minutes.
The Anzelmo Wellness Center is an integrated clinic dedicated to healing severe addiction, deep trauma, and other challenges that life hands us. Our treatment philosophy combines the best of Western treatment modalities with ancient healing techniques and traditional indigenous wisdom.
