The mind-body connection plays a prominent role in holistic wellness and your personal journey with recovery from substance use disorder (SUD) and mental illness.
Because of the mind-body connection’s role in healing, Avalon Malibu integrates this concept into all of our treatment programs to ensure you are supported through comprehensive, evidence-based, and holistic programming.
What Is the Mind-Body Connection?
Documented by research, the mind-body connection relates to the fact that your mind is intricately and undoubtedly connected to your body. It essentially implies that what is occurring within your mind (a thought, belief, or chemical imbalance) directly impacts your body (such as a feeling you experience in your body or a physical health condition).
What Does the Mind-Body Connection Look and Feel Like?
Perhaps you have been experiencing anxious thoughts, chronic worry, or depressed moods. Any of these mental states may manifest in your body, including an upset stomach, muscle tension, fatigue, and restlessness, all of which are also physical symptoms of anxiety and depression.
How to Support Your Mind-Body Connection
There are several ways in which you can begin to become aware of, honor, and support the role the mind-body connection has in your journey toward holistic wellness, healing, and recovery. It is important to remember that this can look different for everyone, and what works for you may not work for another. Here are some suggestions:
- Develop Awareness: This is the first step toward cultivating any sort of change in your life. Without awareness, you do not know what you do not know. This may include bringing more consciousness to your thoughts, feelings, and any mental illness concerns you may be experiencing. Note how these mental states feel within your body. Doing so will increase the connection you have with your mind and body, giving you insight into how to trust and support this relationship.
- Practice Yoga: Yoga is a powerful practice rooted in the belief that the mind and body are intricately connected and play equal roles in healing. Yoga incorporates the body’s physical movement through various poses and stretches while simultaneously bringing attention to the breath and incorporating meditation to help you settle and accept both your mind and body.
- Focus On Your Whole Self: Holistic wellness suggests all parts of yourself and your life are interconnected. For example, this means your physical wellness is connected to your financial wellness and your financial wellness to your mental wellness. Everything has a ripple effect, and through improving one area of wellness in your life, another area is often to follow.
Exploring and honoring the mind-body connections is a catalyst for any change you are looking to make or challenge you are ready to overcome in your life.
The mind-body connection has been studied for many years and plays an integral role in many treatment programs for mental health and substance use disorder. At Avalon Malibu, our professionals are trained to recognize this connection and support you as you explore it for yourself and begin to honor it. At our luxury treatment center, you will be among peers and professionals who create and encourage a supportive environment for holistic healing. To learn more, call us today at (844) 857-5992.
