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1. How can Meditation help Drug Addicts?
Meditation is a tool that can be used to understand ones mind. People use meditation
as tool to reduce mental conflicts. Addiction to drugs can be broken by meditation.
There are many who do not think that meditation can help a drug addict, but then
there are many who believe it and many who claim that it has set them free from
drug addiction. Therefore meditation cannot be totally disapproved as a remedy for
addicts.
In most cases, the path to addiction begins with the mind. It begins with the subject
getting really worried or reaching a situation where he or she is unable to find
solution to a problem. At this point of time, the subject is willing to receive anything
that can either solve the problem or help them forget the problem. Therefore instead
of finding a real solution, a drug is used to forget the problem.
Drugs give a high to the addict and takes them to a zone were they can no longer
feel the real issues of life. Over a period of time, the addict completely loses interest
in the normal world and will try to stay in the abnormal world as long as possible.
This is the period where addicts will do everything in their power to get the required
drug.
According to Sunshine Summit Lodge, meditation is a technique that allows
people to read their own mind. This allows them to recognize the insecurities and
past moments in life that drove them towards their addiction. Under the effect of
drugs, the mind loses control of the body, but during meditation the subject begins
the process of helping the mind to regain control of the body. It is important to realize
that when an individual gets addicted to drugs, the actions of that person are largely
controlled by the cravings of the body. Drugs cause the mind to lose control of the
body.

2. Sunshine Summit Lodge believes when the mind starts gaining the control back,
the subject will start thinking in a rational way and will realize the damage that has
happened. Meditation can be used along with psychotherapy and under medical
guidance. Since meditation does not cost anything and can be done at any place and
at anytime, it becomes a very handy tool.
There are many books that have been written about meditation and information
about it can be found online as well. The more you know about it, the more
effectively it can be done.