No thought or reasoning can explain addiction, it makes no sense at all.
It appears that we accidentally stumble upon a substance that makes us feel good or stops us feeling bad, but eventually that substance makes us feel worse and the only way we know how to deal with it is to take more. The cycle is madness. It is almost as though addiction becomes part of our identity and strikes at the core of our very being. Addiction seems to be ingrained at a far deeper level than thought, at a subconscious level and a visual level too i.e your imagination

During our work with addiction, we've helped numerous people get clean and rebuild their lives, they have all found their own individual solutions but all have one thing in common. They have changed the way they think. They no longer see themselves in terms of their drink or drug use. They have changed their mental picture of themselves and in so doing changed their reality.

Visualisation therapy is a way of reaching and changing these underlying pictures. It is a form of self-hypnosis or meditation that you can use to promote, physical, emotional and mental health by imagining positive and desired outcomes to specific situations.

Visualisation therapy helps in a number of ways. It can help to desensitise triggers for cravings, help you ride out cravings (crave surfing), rehearse drug refusal scenarios, help personal growth, construct your ‘clean self' and manage underlying emotional distress, trauma and depression.

Our clients often describe experiencing a growing sense of wholeness and well-being and many report reaching a point where they no longer want to use.

On a neurological level you actually change your brain chemistry and function. Visualisation therapy promotes activity in the right side of the brain which is related to creativity and emotions, it changes brain wave patterns, increasing the flow of low frequency, calming alpha brain waves and stimulates the release of neurochemicals such as dopamine, which are depleted through cocaine use, making you feel better and reducing the effects of withdrawal and in time creating a sense of wholeness.