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There are two distinct types of detoxes: physiological detoxes, which obviously focus on cleaning and rebalancing our bodies, and psychological detoxes, which clear out negative thoughts and motivations. Physiological detoxes make our bodies healthier, while psychological detoxes make us happier.

As our bodies are made up of billions of cells, a proper physiological detox is actually a cellular detox, and this requires activating our cellular cleaning and repair mechanism - autophagy - for a period of time until it’s work is completed.

These days, there’s nothing complicated or mysterious about how our bodies clean and repair themselves, as the science behind it all is well understood and universally accepted.

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Psychological detoxing, on the other hand, is not so well understood, and even the definition of 'psychological detox' is debated.

Psychological processes are processes that are happening in the mind. These include our thoughts, beliefs, values, and habits. Just as our bodies accumulate debris and toxins over time, our brains also accumulate beliefs, values, and habits, some of which are likely to be negative and interfere with the quality of our lives. Essentially, a psychological detox is running a comb through this overgrown, and often contradictory, cluster of motivations to free ourselves from the malign, or just useless, ones.

The idea is to step out of our tangled 'web' of motivations for a few days - stop gripping all those strands - to allow the motivations that don't belong to blow away. This generates a huge increase in our sense of well-being, and we understand that less is more. The less we need to be happy, the easier it is to be happy. The hard becomes very easy, and we can then rationally rebuild with positive beliefs, values, and habits that take us directly to a light level of happiness and are aligned with who we really are. We stop fighting ourselves.

This is not complicated and has been well known since the time of Buddha. Indeed, the Buddhist Vipassana Meditation 10-day course is probably the best-known psychological detox, but the theory behind it is the same as in modern pragmatic psychotherapy. It's just different language and metaphors used to illustrate the same principles. For example, Buddhism sees motivations that don't innately come from within us as being essentially infections, and we detox to rid ourselves of those infections. This gives us the capacity to experience the higher emotions, such as joy and love, more directly and organically.

If our existing equilibrium of motivations is delivering the level of happiness we seek, then all is well. There's nothing we have to change, and there's no need for a psychological detox. But if not, we obviously need to change some things - keep doing the same things, and we'll get the same results. This should be obvious. Less obvious is that there's little point in trying to add extra on top of an already overgrown pile. We need to pull out the weeds first. We need to reclaim the space and energy that the weeds in our 'garden' are currently consuming before we plant fresh seeds. We have to empty out before we can refill. We need to exhale first.

In practice, we really need to experience it to 'get' it, as our ego - our brain's self-serving understanding of ourselves and the world - resists the notion that we can, or should, change. This reluctance to take responsibility for our own reality generates the classic stalemate that haunts psychotherapy rooms worldwide; people know they need to upgrade some of their actions to improve their reality, but they lack the flexibility to do so as their ego is emotionally invested in how they currently are. As a psychological detox sidesteps this resistance, it's typically more effective than a thousand sessions with a psychologist.

Humility is the gateway to Happiness

But our Ego locks the gate.

Nui & Craig

We're a husband-and-wife team. Indonesian/New Zealand.

Nui is 32 and is a qualified and registered midwife and nurse. She also offers IV drip therapy, cupping therapy, and ozone therapy.

Craig is 57. He's a NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) practitioner and has lived in India for a number of years. There he learnt alternative approaches to physical and mental health and happiness; Yoga, Tai Chi, Vipassana meditation etc. He's practiced detoxing for the last 25 years. These days, he mostly just surfs and plays tennis.

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I'm going to write a few blog posts because, while the mechanics and dynamics involved in physiological detoxification are well studied and accessible, that's not the case when it comes to the psychological dimension. Therefore, rather than repeating information anyone can readily access, I'll write a few posts regarding the psychological dimension as this is rarely explained.

The Structure of Happiness

An action or set of actions - in this case, a detox program - can only be judged by how well it achieves its objectives. As everyone's ultimate objective is happiness (no one seeks to be sad), amplifying the set of feelings we call happiness has significant value. While detoxing greatly aids this quest, we first need to have some clarity regarding what happiness actually is if we want to understand how it does so.

Vipassana Meditation.

A bit of a deep dive into how Vipassana meditation achieves the impressive results it does. Understanding how VM performs its magic might be interesting for some, and this post also defines what we mean by 'psychological' detoxing.

Aligning motivations.

We are motivated from a variety of sources; Instincts, habits, beliefs and values, along with material needs and wants, etc. As much as possible, we want them to be aligned with each other and pushing in the same direction. We don't want to be fighting against ourselves, as that's a battle we can't win.

Knowledge is power

Knowledge is power, as it's understanding cause and effect. It's understanding what forces generate what outcome. If we understand actions d+f will result in outcome x, then, if we want outcome x, we just do d+f. Very simple. But if we don't possess the relevant knowledge, we'll obviously struggle to achieve our objectives as we don't know how to.

Our relationship with food

It's only within the last handful of generations that we humans have begun eating so much and so regularly. This habit has little to do with energy requirements, but is instead largely motivated by the pleasure we experience from eating the delicious food that is readily available these days. Unfortunately, this avalanche of excess food stresses our bodies and leads to health problems and shorter life spans.

The Freudian Model

It's interesting, and perhaps useful, to note how Freud's model of our motivations and operating system is very similar to the Buddhist model and to modern pragmatic psychological models. All three deviate significantly from the mainstream model, but that's because our egos demand a more unrealistic version of ourselves.

The role of meaning in healing

By changing the meaning an event has for us, we change the effect it has on us. When it comes to generating positive change, this is where the magic happens.