Alternative Health and Addictions of various sorts.
Addiction of various types is common, and is really a symptom of a problem not really the problem itself.
To be honest it is character structure (emotional blocks) behind all addiction. Phallic character (genital primacy with revenge pre-genital blocks) types are most prone to addiction of various sorts.
You have only to look at the number of sportspeople and actors who are prone to addiction. Most of those people in those industries are Phallic character types. See Man in the Trap for an understanding of these Character Structures.
In order to understand more about this whole process of
character structure and armouring and it’s controlled release in psychotherapy you will need to read books by Wilhelm Reich and/or the best summary of Reich’s work which is “Man in the Trap” by Dr. Elsworth Baker, one of Reich’s foremost assistants.
The world though as usual does not like that truth and so replaces it with the usual stuff such as pharmaceutical drugs, or also nowadays dubious compartments such as drug and alcohol counsellors!
In other words they try to treat the symptom, not the cause, in addiction, cancer and everything else. Capitalism loves compartments, it stops people seeing the wider truth
and it is very profitable for those who control the system.
In most cases addicts of any description will want to concentrate on their addiction rather than the causes behind that symptom, so do not encourage that too much. Gestalt techniques will soon start to bring up other material though and you can start to deal with the underlying issues.
Of course the person has to have some will to get better, sometimes you cannot achieve much but that is the case with all psychotherapy not only addiction problems.
Gestalt Therapy used properly can cure addiction and other psychological problems, if the patient has any goodwill towards life left to stick at the therapy. Infact if you know enough you can pull people back from the brink of death in many cases just with Gestalt Therapy. Of course most therapists of any type do not have such skills in it!
Wilhelm Reich’s bioenergetic therapy is of course even better but needs complex training in it and that is hard to find (especially nowadays 60 years after Reich’s death).
But it can at least help or even cure addiction if all you have are things like Acupuncture, Sujok, Colour therapy, Homeopathy and other Alternative Health approaches. Bowen Therapy and similar approaches can also often achieve quite a lot.
Spectrochrome Colour Therapy is well worth trying for any disease including addictions. See my other pages on these approaches on this website.
Of course such cures do not solve the emotional blocks, just change the way they manifest ultimately. Still stopping smoking, drinking etcetera is better than not stopping.
Ear acupuncture and acupressure is often used for treating addiction, and has a fair success rate. Homeopathy and Bach Remedies also have success sometimes, as do various other approaches. For example the Bach Oak (Quercus Robur) flower remedy can often help with alcoholism.
There are even some addiction points on some maps of the microsystems of the body, just as there are cancer points and reflective areas for instance, as well as protocols that have been developed which usually help with addiction problems.
Hand mudras can certainly help, such as Kalesvara mudra and Gyan (brain) mudra for addiction, see my mudra pages.
Remember you can often adapt protocols from one modality to another, such as looking at the sequence of ear acupuncture for addiction and then following the same or similar procedures using hand or foot or other microsystems.
Hand mudras can help, such as Kalesvara mudra and Gyan (brain) mudra for addiction, see my mudra pages. These are simple to use and can help with most problems.
Of course you have to experiment, some ideas work and some don’t in this world. Various books have protocols for addiction for hand, foot and other modalities. In general the brain, spine and glands and a few organs are in the protocols.
Sujok is perhaps the best way to simply and comprehensively apply such strategies in a sophisticated manner. Other things though can also be adapted in similar ways.
Remember too much intervention is no good, let one thing work through before adding another. Let one remedy continue until it stops working before trying another remedy
(as in homeopathic dosing).
One microsystem may work where another is less
effective for a given problem. As so many detailed microsystems exist now you have a lot of options. The more you learn the more you may be able to come up with an answer.
For example you have the Sujok microsystems along with scalp, nose, abdomen, long bones and many others available.
Paul Nogier’s three phase approach may also be the answer to some recalcitrant cases. In this theory different stages of a disease cause the energetic reflecting areas to move so you can treat it better if you know the charts for his three phases.
Some best books to help deal with addiction
Man in the Trap by Dr Elsworth Baker
Any books by Dr Wilhelm Reich
Gestalt Therapy Book by Perls, Hefferline and
Goodman.
Taoist Internal exercises by Stephen Chang.
Any Reflexology book
Let There be Light by Darius Dinshah