Over time (and it may be a while) more natural sugars will be the only ones that satisfy you. Our bodies need natural sugar and foods of the Earth element. And there are many “health food junk foods” that are sweetened with honey and natural sugar from fruit. Although these are not as nutritious as a piece of fruit or carrot juice, they are not harmful like refined sugar and flour. I say minimize the damage and do your best to keep your body drug addiction at peace without ingesting the known addictive foods – refined sugar being on the top of the list.

Treatment Centers

One way to cultivate addiction meditation kundalini a relaxed abdominal area is to practice long deep abdominal breathing. Lie on your back, place your hands on your belly, let your inhale push your hands up and exhale relax the hands back down. Many women in classes I have taught have experienced dramatic increases of energy with this simple breathing exercise. Breath of Fire is a great navel breath as is the 4 Part Energizing Breath which I covered in our very first lesson. Do this 3-5 minute exercise 3 or more times a day, especially at moments when you are being pulled to a compulsive, addictive behavior. Kundalini Yoga began as a treatment modality when 3HO ashram staff members in Washington, D.C.

Superhealth: Kundalini Yoga & Meditation for Addiction Recovery

SuperHealth, the country’s first alternative health center for the treatment of addictions in Tucson, Arizona was created from this Washington DC experience. SuperHealth developed into a systematized program with customized treatment plans for behavioral addictions including stress, substance abuse, other unhealthy habits and emotional disorders. The effects of meditation are mastered when they are established as part of a Sadhana, which translates to  ‘daily practice’.

Take Control of Chaos: Kriya to Take Control and Become Your Own Authority

In 2004, a lifelong goal of Yogi Bhajan, that his teachings to be brought back to India, became a reality. The Punjab government invited SuperHealth to conduct a 90 day pilot project for drug users in Amritsar, India. In October of that year, with a team of professional volunteers, the program opened to serve ten clients. In order to target these blockages from cannabinoids binding to the fatty sheath of the spine, you can practice this meditation whenever it suits you. Contrary to common thought, rationality and intuition go hand in hand.

• More deeply ingrained patterns may take longer to correct.
• Begin the process of expansion to open yourself to this huge opportunity to evolve.
• The second step is to embrace it, NOT deny it or try to suppress it.
• It physically stimulates the pineal gland in our foreheads, which helps to regulate hormones.

Kundalini Yoga advances the spiritual quest that Alcoholics Anonymous finds integral to recovery so it serves as a good supplement to the 12 steps. Explore the need for auric expansiveness, particularly in the interest in energetic diversity. Open yourself to energetic uniqueness and diversity in belief systems, values, and individual expression of human life. Cultivate the strength of the body-mind system to accept yourself as you are and others as they are, knowing that this will change and transform with the hands of time. Mukta Kaur Khalsa, Ph.D. is the director of SuperHealth and personally trained with Yogi Bhajan for thirtyyears.