From the body-mind perspective drugs feel good because they create a temporary union of body, mind and spirit. If the process of recovery does not capture this sense of union it can result in a feeling of chronic lack - as if something crucially important is missing in life. This is a major contributor to the cycle of addiction. In TCM quality of life and a sense of fulfilment is dependent on the effective functioning of the organs. As drugs temporarily and artificially enhance the function of organs, they produce emotional, physiological and spiritual states in accord with the true nature of the organ.
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After working in the area of holistic health (specialising in drug-related conditions) for many years now I have realised that, in order for most ex-heavy drug users to feel really good again, the journey that the drugs started needs to continue but via beneficial methods. This is because drug-users crave not the drugs, but the exhilarating, euphoric or blissful states that some drugs can generate and these states need to be recaptured to counter the inevitable post-drug low-level depression and sense of emptiness. Through my own twenty-year commitment to the path of self-realisation and spiritual seeking, I have been able to not only recapture the euphoria and excitement of my initial forays into the world of altered states, but to have had much more profound experiences than anything drugs could generate. Continue reading ‘HEALING A DRUG PAST’
As a therapist specialising in holistic drug repair, I find I am now working with two distinct groups: drug-users and the parents of drug-users. Often the latter are much more distraught and desperate than the former. Particularly those parents who never used drugs themselves but, following government advice to ‘talk to their children about drugs’, initiated conversations that, due to the powerful emotions involved, became increasingly more confrontational until their relationship with their children broke down. These parents initially tried to be understanding (like the parents on the anti-drug television campaigns) but driven by the raw anguish of seeing their children destroy themselves and the agony of their own powerlessness to change the situation, ended up blaming, criticising and verbally attacking their children. This is not the way the scenario plays out on TV but unfortunately it is all too common in real life. Continue reading ‘DON’T TALK TO YOUR CHILDREN ABOUT DRUGS’
I have spent the last year researching and writing my latest book “Drug Repair That Works” and working almost exclusively with hard-drug users. As a therapist you often attract clients that assist you on your own healing path and the last twelve months have also been a revelatory journey to the heart of psychosis. I came to understand that in Traditional Chinese medicine this is a journey of the separation of Yin and Yang or body and mind. However, as I finished the manuscript, I started to see non-drug using clients presenting with panic and anxiety disorders, bulimia, anorexia, IBS, itchy skin, anger issues and excessive sexual behaviours. These symptoms too were arising from lifestyles that had led to the separation of Yin and Yang. In a way, the drug users’ symptoms exemplified the conditions the rest of the population were potentially heading for but at a much slower rate. The solution for all of us is to reunite Yin and Yang and we do this by living the perfect day. Continue reading ‘THE NEW WAY OF LIVING by Jost Sauer’
Living Now magazine – October 2005 issue 78 Come Again, Ejaculation, Affairs and
Yin and Yang p48-51
COME AGAIN? EJACULATION, AFFAIRS AND YIN AND YANG
by Jost Sauer
In Western medicine, sex is not considered an integral part of health, in Traditional Chinese Medicine though, sexual practices are considered to have a huge impact on health by affecting levels of ‘Jing’, a substance which determines your basic constitutional strength and vitality. Jing is supposed be carefully managed but there are lots of things that we do that can contribute to its decline, and consequently an earlier death, and excessive ejaculation in men is one of these.
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Living Now magazine – September 2005 issue 77 Drugs, Spirituality and the New Age p.28-29
DRUGS, SPIRITUALITY AND THE NEW AGE
My first acid trip was, I thought, a beautiful spiritual experience. It satisfied the deepest desires of my soul. I understood the ultimate goal of human existence. I felt utterly complete. It was as if a filter had been removed and all my senses could finally function at optimum level. I could taste colour, see sound, hear people’s thoughts. I felt I was an integral part of a something much bigger than myself. I had cosmic significance and I wanted more. I spent the following decade chasing that state through drugs but I never again recaptured that perfect intoxicating mix of exhilaration, liberation and euphoria; the thrill of the realisation that the world was going to change and the anticipation of a life of limitless opportunity and wonder stretching ahead of me. Instead, the magical, colourful hippie world collapsed and my dreams vanished with it. The drugs that I used to try to generate that state took me to the depths of despair and the brink of death. I became a speed-addict and anarchist, I lost my passion to change the world and I was left with depression, emptiness and a sense of loss. It took me years of experiential and theoretical research into health, fitness and self-improvement to regain some excitement about life and to discover that what I had been searching for had been within me all the time.
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