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.
