Spirituality as a Therapy for Alcohol Addiction

Abstract

Addiction is a craved feeling that originates within a person regarding a certain object. It encompasses behavioural and cognitive characteristics of the individual. The addict is always willing to sacrifice, invest anything to be attached with the addictive object. This research focuses on how the alcoholism can be traced using spiritual care of the person. The process is making the individual aware of the cognitive functioning and to understand the mentality and then avoiding the addictive behaviour through a positive spiritual care. Spirituality is carried out by constructs such as personality, cognition, culture etc. Addiction therapists tend to explore the ways and means of spirituality in addiction assessment and treatment. Spirituality can be used from the very beginning of the addiction therapeutic process. Mixed methodology issued in this research. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were used. Therefore, this involves the secondary data collection along with an analytic approach in the discussion. A randomly selected five persons were selected in the case studies. A spirituality based therapeutic center was selected to do the case studies. The participants stayed residentially for three months. The observations and interviews were carried for six months. In the case studies it could find that spirituality-based practices such as meditation, dhamma preaching, dhamma chanting, determination pooja can be considered effective means of reducing the addictive behaviour and changes the person in a positive way. Therefore, the spiritual care can be recommended as a successful method of behavioural and cognitive changes in addictions in long term therapeutic process.