Addiction treatment cannot focus just on not using drugs or alcohol. It must also address the necessary healing that needs to occur within the mind, body, and spirit. At Santé Center for Healing, one component of that healing process often includes mindfulness meditation. It is a holistic way to help center yourself and reach a higher level of healing.

What Is Mindfulness Meditation?

Many people facing addiction need to look deeper to understand the underlying cause of it. This is generally mental health or emotional cause. It could be due to anxiety or depression. For some people, it’s trauma or fear. When you are not dealing with this problem but using drugs and alcohol to mask it, that creates a powerful addiction. With mindfulness meditation, the goal is to help develop an understanding of why this addiction is occurring. This allows individuals to recognize different paths of recovery to help overcome addiction.

One aspect of this type of meditation is overcoming the wanting mind. A wanting mind is one in which we want something to make us feel better or soothe the pain we feel (and often, it is not just physical pain but also emotional). In a wanting mindset, a person is always looking for something more, expecting that the thing we seek will make us feel better. For those with drug or alcohol addiction, that “thing” is the substance of your choice. The problem is, no matter how much you get, it’s never enough.

Nothing will make it better until and unless you deal with the underlying cause of your addiction. With mindfulness meditation, we aim to focus on just that. This form of meditation can be a part of any addiction therapy service we offer at Santé Center for Healing, including:

How Can You Use This Technique?

When you work with our team, we’ll teach you about mindfulness meditation, including how to use it to achieve your goals. You can start doing this today. Here are some tips for doing so:

Be mindful about where you are and what you are doing, always
Focus on your breathing instead of the anxiety building
Work to improve compassion in your life
Reorganize and clear your thoughts
Be realistic about what’s happening at that moment

Whether you’re a professional trying to balance a stressful daily work life or an individual struggling to find their way, mindfulness meditation can be one of the best ways to refocus at that moment to bring yourself back to what’s really happening. By learning to recognize your thought patterns, you can stop yourself from reaching towards substances to make the pain and “wanting” go away.

We can use this type of meditation for all types of care, including mental illness treatment and substance abuse treatment. Though not the whole treatment plan, it is one component of many of the services we offer. You will learn about it through our residential treatment programs, intensive outpatient treatment, and ongoing treatment. As a component of the holistic drug treatment options we offer, you will find that our team provides you with the tools and resources you need to overcome your addiction so you can work towards healing and long-term health and wellbeing.

Find the Comprehensive Treatment Necessary at Sante Center for Healing

Mindfulness meditation is one of the many program options we offer at Santé Center for Healing to help you to heal and recover from addiction and mental health disorders. Mindfulness is just one of the holistic therapies we offer. Some of the other therapeutic options we offer to clients in our addiction treatment programs include: