Yoga Detox
Finding freedom from addictions through yoga, meditation and some inner space.
By Jo De Rosa
Y
ou are not your addiction, and it’s time to let it go.
Whether it is a compulsion to over drink or eat, or an
obsession to shop, have sex, or scream at the kids,
when we notice that we are out of balance we can use
our practice to pull us up and out.
We have so many tools as yogis that effortlessly leap across
to recovery, and from any struggle that we experience in life. Our
meditation practice is the ideal training ground for letting go and
uniting with the god that is within all of us. The answers are already
there; the potential just waiting for you to claim it, and all you have
to do is connect with who you really are. But how do you do that?
When we meditate we are used to the concept of letting our
thoughts pass by. Eventually, through many hours on the cushion,Inner space
we realise that thoughts are always going to be there but we choose
to not indulge in them. We begin to comprehend the space in-
between the thoughts and ‘us’. ‘Us’ as pure consciousness; ‘us’ as
energy that doesn’t even know how to be addicted, angry or anxious;
the part of us that holds the blueprint for sobriety, joy and freedom.
Tap into that space now.SNOW GLOBE MEDITATION
Sit quietly and close your eyes. Notice the sounds around you,
allowing them to remind you to be present; let go of thoughts and
come back to the sounds. Over and over again.
Then reach into the void, just beyond your physical body
Beyond your shoulders
Beyond your knees
Beyond your head
Beyond your face and heartExpand your consciousness and become aware that you are more
than your physical body.
Now your life is in a snow globe out in front of you, and you are
watching what is inside. Perhaps there is drama, the addiction,
problems and debt. The struggle is in there; sometimes calm but
when the snow globe gets shaken up it all erupts, life becomes“Whether it is a compulsion to over
drink or eat, or an obsession to shop,
have sex, or scream at the kids, when
we notice that we are out of balance
we can use our practice to pull us up
and out.”