The Power of Mindfulness and Meditation During Rehab

Drug addiction recovery is never easy, but always worth it. With the help of a professional drug addiction rehabilitation facility, you have the potential to overcome your addictions and renew your life. During your stay at a drug addiction rehab facility, you are likely to learn many things that will ultimately enable your success.

Mindfulness and meditation may be taught during your rehab stay — and if not, mindfulness and meditation may be learned individually, then applied within a drug addiction recovery setting. These tools will ground recovering individuals and enhance mental stamina and wellbeing.

Mindfulness

Mindfulness is more than just paying attention to things around you. Mindfulness involves focusing on remaining present in a moment, focusing all energy on evaluating exactly how individuals feel during a specific instance.

Mindfulness has many facets, including body scanning and targeted sensory recognition. In each instance individuals focus on the sensations of both mind and body, validating the emotions and sensations as they go.

By practicing mindfulness throughout the drug addiction recovery process, individuals are better equipped to handle the difficulties that are faced. Mindfulness allows for recovering individuals to validate the feelings of frustration, hope and fear that mix within them — thus giving them the chance to appropriately deal with them.

Therapists and counselors at rehabilitation facilities can always help recovering individuals perfect mindfulness practices and deal with the self-realizations that come with mindfulness and meditation. 

Meditation

Meditation comes with many facets, both guided and unguided. Meditation is time dedicated to contemplation and thought, and is often accompanied by breathing exercises. Deep diaphragm breathing lowers heartrate and decreases stress levels. Because of the calm brought by deep breathing, effective meditation is made possible.

Meditation can be practiced in hundreds of ways — this makes meditation completely customizable, thus highly impactful for all who practice this ancient art. Meditation music and guided tracks can be found on popular phone apps and are accessible to everyone. These apps are wonderful for beginners and experts alike.

Meditation lowers stress, but individuals in stressful situations aren’t always in a place where a full meditation session is possible. Therapists at a rehab facility can teach simple meditation techniques that can be performed at any time or place.

These tricks — and meditation in general — allow for those recovering from a drug addiction to get in touch with themselves again. As the deeper issues involved with addictions come to light, it is important to have a safe place of calm and serenity to go to that allows your mind to rejuvenate.

These skills will follow you post-rehab and give you the tools you need to battle the stresses of everyday life.

Maddison Driggs is a health writer for Fusion 360, an SEO and content marketing agency. Information provided by Odyssey House. Follow on Twitter.