At the Anzelmo Welness 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 talked to us about how Qigong works with plant medicines, and why it’s so effective for those suffering from heroin addiction: “It’s very useful to do Qigong before taking the plant medicines, in preparation and also to do it after. It will help reduce the amount of stress people will have before their journey. It’s normal to have stress because they know they are about to alter their nervous system very powerfully. That’s what these sacred plants do. It works in a very intense way in our brain and our nervous system. I’ve notice a big difference in the people who practice and the people who don’t practice. Those who practice are more peaceful; they have more energy and are less stressed. Their bodies are more open to receiving the medicine without fighting back or resisting the medicine.” “After they take the medicines, it will help them to get back to everyday reality. After the medicines, their perception has been altered in a big way, so it’s going to help them be grounded again, to have their own center again, and to find more ways to keep working with all the information and all the treatment they’ve just received from the medicines. It’s very useful for processing the effects of the medicines in the body.” Qigong is a vital step in The Anzelmo Welness Center program.. 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 Welness 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.
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At The Anzelmo Welness 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: “If someone comes here, they will learn some simple exercise to keep doing on their own when they go home. They need to practice 20 minutes a day. They need to stay still for a moment, relax, make their energy flow, give themselves the time, the intention of not just using your energy but recharging it.” “If they feel that they are having a craving, they should stop and do the exercises. That will change everything. The thing with addiction is that it’s very unconscious and very mechanic. There’s already a path wired into their brains and also in their nervous system, and all the cells; their whole body, a path that tells them to take drugs. Their body remembers how they feel after they take heroin so they are trying to get back to that feeling again.” “But people who are addicted to drugs are very lazy. They want to feel better fast, right away. And they don’t want to make any kind of effort. They don’t want to have to do anything to feel good except to inject themselves with heroin. But if you want to keep feeling better, you have to work for it. You need discipline. And it’s not something you’re going to get if you don’t practice. Even if it’s just five minutes, ten minutes, those ten minutes are going to help you.” “We have 24 hours a day and when our energy is focused outside of us, which is at least 12 hours or 18 hours a day, and if we don’t do a practice to actually focus or recharge ourselves in some kind of way, we’re just going to lose our energy. If we don’t put it back in some way, sooner or later, we are going to feel sick, and weak.” “We all want to feel alive, energetic, we want to find peace. But we all have different practices to get there and some of them are not intelligent or wise. And addicts have to pay a very high price for the practice they’ve chosen because they’ve damaged their nervous system. They’ve damaged their liver and their kidneys. But with Qigong, they can begin to unwind the damage they’ve caused.” “These main organs are filters that have gotten blocked by the heroin, and they stop working in their own capacity; they start to malfunction. Qigong can help it to start working again, but you have to practice. And if you practice, you will feel better. I’ve seen it over and over again. It’s so refreshing to witness how people are when they arrive, and how they are when they leave. They are so different.” Qigong is a vital step in The Anzelmo Welness Center program. 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. At The Anzelmo Welness 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.
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: Many addicts are very emotional. When we have an addiction, it’s very related with emotions. We are trying to find something outside of ourselves to calm our emotions, to make us feel better, because we don’t know how to find it inside of ourselves. So we want something external to give us the balance that we don’t have in a natural way, because we don’t know how to do it for ourselves. In general, people with addiction are trying to find something to help them get some balance in their lives, or to have more joy in their life, or to handle some issues that they have, like trauma or fear or pain. So the first thing that Qigong does it to get back a little bit of peace, peace of mind, because it works in a very direct way in our nervous system. It helps us to calm down our nervous system which has been very altered by these different substances that the patients have been consuming for years. So it’s very altered, it’s not working in a peaceful, normal way. It’s a very slow process of learning how to feel your body again. Addiction numbs your body – drugs give you peace, but it’s a fake peace because it doesn’t last. This will help them begin to feel their bodies again. There are so many things that can affect the nervous system. The principal thing is stress, and the body gets very stressed with the chemical substances that addicts are using to calm themselves. On the one hand, they feel relief for one moment, but on the other hand it’s not natural, its external – it’s something that you have to keep taking, that you have begun to medicate yourself with. And your system is going to pay for that later because it’s not natural, it’s not your own, so you away need more and more and more and more. So you end up making your own body lazy. It no longer knows how to make you feel better on your own. And that’s what Qigong does, it wakes up our capacity to heal ourselves. It allows you to do it for yourself, but it takes practice. Everything we need to be healthy and be peaceful and have joy in our lives, it’s already inside of us and just by clearing our energy channels we can start to access it again. Qigong is a vital step in a 10-part program 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, using holistic methods 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.
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 what the ancient practice of Qigong is, and why it’s so effective for those suffering from heroin addiction: “Qigong is an ancient practice — there is a drawing from the 2nd Century that shows Qigong exercises on it. It’s been here a long time. It’s an energy exercise that helps us in many ways — the first thing it does is helps us to keep our energy flowing in all of our body’s channels. The Chinese say that if we maintain our channels of energy flowing, we’ll never get sick. We’ll be connected with ourselves and with the sources of energy in nature like the earth and the sky and the ocean. We are able to receive the energy from the air, fire, water, wood, and the earth. Each source is represented by a different organ. The fire is represented by the heart, the stomach is the earth, the lungs are air, wood is the liver, and water is represented by the kidneys. The same energies that are in the natural world are also in our body, so if our channels of energy are flowing, they are always recharging themselves with a different source of energy from all around, from nature. Chinese people think in a very mythic and poetic way. They were trying to find something to make them infinite, immortal. And they did, in a way. Many Chinese people that practice Qigong live a very long time. Thousands of years ago, they felt that something was flowing in their bodies but they didn’t know what it was. So they did a lot of research on themselves. They would do experiments – some of them were not very nice — to discover the channels of energy. They discovered that there is energy that flows into our bodies. And when they started doing these exercises, they began to feel the energy flowing in different ways, so they started to make a map of the body based on the energy inside of it. And they would ask each other if they felt the same energetic movements and they said, ‘yes, yes, I feel it, too,’ and that’s how they created the map. They discovered different channels and different dots that make up the meridians which are like pathways that your chi, or energy, follows through. They discovered how to influence them to increase their levels of energy. But it’s not just that — the found out that when they are balanced they feel different — better. So they started to affect their meridians with needles, with heat, with herbs, and with exercises, all with the intention of making them flow and connecting them with another, bigger, source of energy, which is all around us, in nature. In the air that we breathe, which is the first energy source, but also in the water; and the sun, which is fire energy; and the woods, which is all the food we eat, fruits and vegetables; and the earth, which is the ground we stand on and comes into our bodies through our feet, if we are grounded properly. So they discovered these exercises to help us reconnect with these different energy sources so if we maintain our bodies, we will always be receiving energy from them, and we will always be healthy. Qigong focuses on three big energy vortexes in the body, called dantians. There’s one in the lower abdomen, the chest, and the head. The lower dantian works with the legs and the organs in the lower part of the torso – the reproductive organs. The middle dantian works with our heart and lungs, our emotions. The upper dantian works with our thoughts and our spiritual selves. But in this practice, the lower dantian is also the spiritual one because this is where we came from — the generative energy comes from this area. The Chinese found out a very important thing — you don’t have to die in pain or sick. In the West, that’s what we are taught, and often it’s true, but that’s just cultural because of how we treat our bodies here. It’s really normal here to end your life in pain and suffering. But it doesn’t have to be like that. There are different ways of leaving this body. And the Chinese are experts at that. Our body has more interesting things than what we know. It’s not a machine that we know how to properly use in this part of the world. So we need to be taught, Western people. We need to learn how to use our bodies. But once you start to feel it, it’s so powerful. QiGong is a vital step in a 10-part program 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.
