Those affected by addictions habitually have interaction in compulsive behaviors to avoid feelings of depression, anxiety, and other distressing mood states. Holistic Therapy offers opportunities to securely experience painful emotions whereas learning ways in which to manage harmful thoughts and behaviors.

Several addictions recovery treatment programs focus on the distorted thinking and damaging behavior of the addict with less attention to the underlying depression and anxiety that drive negative thoughts and behavior. At best addicts in treatment would possibly attend lectures and participate in teams where speakers and participants speak regarding and share these feelings, but they seldom provide sufficient opportunities for addicts to directly and safely experience what they're feeling and to creatively manage their feelings.

Holistic Therapy incorporates strategies that do exactly this. Through a skillful mixing of eastern methods of healing with western ways of psychotherapy Holistic Therapy teaches recovering people the way to use their senses to assess what their emotions are telling them and a way to effectively manage the associated distress.

We have at least seven senses--bit, taste, smell, hearing, sight, balance, and internal sensations. Every second of every day our senses are selecting up info, sending it to our brain, with our body consequently responding depending on how the brain interprets the data. Short of some quite brain injury our responses will continuously embrace feelings.

Stunning to many recovering addicts is the thought that we cannot feel a thought. They are additionally shocked to find out that depression and anxiety and alternative uncomfortable feelings are continuously physical sensation in some form. But, an idea will elicit a great deal of physical distress within the body if the brain interprets that thought as some reasonably threat to the body.

For example, a worry of any kind usually has some kind of thought attached to it. However it's not the thought that a person is feeling but the body's response to that thought.

Through a complex process the brain interprets the "worry" thought as a threat to the body and immediately begins making ready it to defend itself by pouring adrenalin, cortisol, and a host of other chemicals into the body to organize it to fight, flee, freeze, or hide. That's how the brain responds to any stress. And the felt sensation of these changes and several others is tension, tightness, pressure, heaviness or a number of other physical feelings.

These changes are commonly although not perpetually consciously experienced as depression and/or anxiety. At their most powerful, these changes can elicit the excruciating pain associated to a heart attack. With no means to slow this method down it's not shocking that recovery fails.

Holistic Therapy teaches us the way to effectively and consistently ease those distressing physical sensations by noticing what each of the senses is picking up. By helping to identify what thoughts are occurring and the way the body is feeling Holistic Therapy provides recovering of us the facility to manage the depression and anxiety that fuels addictive behavior.

As kith and kin we suppose, feel, sense, and do. We have a tendency to additionally have a mind-body-spirit that needs careful tending if we are to measure peacefully and productively. Recovering from addiction, healing from the damaging consequences of addiction needs a treatment program to interact all these components of Self. Otherwise, what results could be a temporary respite with relapse following on its heels.