This may seem at first like an odd combination. However, physical and emotional health goes hand in hand and the great thing is that when you work on one, you automatically work on the other.
Psychotherapy means ‘attending to the soul'. If your soul is in less than optimum state, you will not be happy and your life quality and success will be impaired. Psychotherapy aims to offer a space where the soul or psyche can be gently and sensitively witnessed and any outstanding issues explored, clarified and resolved. This can be challenging at times but also incredibly rewarding. Such a process cannot be rushed - we need to be gentle with ourselves.
However, at the same time we want results and preferably sooner rather than later. We also live in a time and an environment where physical detoxification is becoming a must, not just as a one-off, but regularly. The emphasis is usually, and quite rightly, on the physical/energy aspects. But there is much more. If you truly want to make progress and take your life onto a different plane, then detoxing can help to turbo-charge your emotional and mental state as well - especially when combined with psychotherapy - which is now no longer seen as a stigma for the unfortunate but as a prime tool for self-development and enhanced life-quality.
As the saying goes; the body is the temple of the soul. But what does this actually mean? I believe it means that it is imperative that the right food is eaten (on all levels) so that the soul can flourish. People can make progress in therapy only to come to a certain level where they get stuck (in one area) until they started to work on their body. Also, I have seen people who have worked on their body, be it detoxing or yoga or whatever, who are no doubt in good shape but they nevertheless are both unhappy and confused. They have not yet addressed certain emotional and thinking issues. These things can also be sorted and sometimes more simply than people realise.
Detoxification and psychotherapy both work on the basis of getting rid of the bad stuff you don't want and putting in the good stuff that you do want. Of course there is more to it than that but on one level it is that simple.
The two also work together in the sense that detoxing help to rustle the issues out of the body where they may be stuck, so that they can be explored in the therapy and the therapy helps you process and make sense of what has arisen out of the detox. A perfect partnership then. Like anything else, finding the right person is essential - it should feel right for you and if you are doing both then each professional should be open to and familiar with, the other approach so that they can relate to what you are trying to achieve to help you succeed.
Author: Pushan Bhatia
