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 By the choice of the patient, the alternative to Stress Energetic Psychotherapy is the Pilgrimage to the mountain of Salvation ‘Tashtar-Ata'.
From the position of modern psychotherapy, pilgrimage is the subjectively influential psychotherapeutic tool, the effect of which is formed by the very patient who is framed to force out drug addiction voluntarily and independently. For 5 days, patient travels for more than 250 km through the mountains, carrying a symbolic stone of sorrow to the mountain of Salvation Tashtar Ata. Patient completes Pilgrimage by performing drug rejection ritual.
There is a unique, spiritual place in Kyrgyzstan known for its positive energy and ability to cure. It is called Tashtar-Ata, the Mountain of Salvation.
According to an ancient legend, pilgrims performed rituals at the Mountain of Salvation in order to overcome illnesses, fight addiction, and ask for mercy and health from the Almighty. In their prayers and hope for cure, they threw off stones, which symbolized their illnesses to the heart of the mountain.
Our clinicians have approached the work with stones from a scientific perspective, using it as symbol in psychotherapeutic training.
The completion of a 200 km Pilgrimage to the Mountain of Salvation requires a great amount of physical strength. Such strength appears from a strongly-defined psychotherapeutic influence. At the end of the pilgrimage, in spite of unbearable exhaustion, a second wave of strength empowers the patient, driven by the promise to complete this journey. The strong emotional uplifting is so sharply defined that they overcome the way up the mountain by running.
The prayers which they repeat again and again come from the very bottom of their exhausted hearts and souls.
After throwing the stone off their shoulders, the pilgrims go up the canyon, towards the trees of hawthorn in order to tie a knot from a piece of material on the branches. The gesture of ‘tying the knot' symbolizes giving up their addiction. During ancient times,  people classified the hawthorn as a sacred tree. The ritual of tying knots has been performed by different nations for many centuries as a gesture of honor to Mother Nature. After tying the knot, patients come down to the pile of stones and burn their old clothing which connects them to the past. The fire turns everything to ashes.
The whole procedure is very symbolic. The heavy past turns to ashes. The ritual of purification is complete. Every step will be remembered by the patients forever. In memories, they will always return to these moments which were left at the foothills of the mountain of salvation and which will continue to serve as strong psychotherapeutic anchor associatively reminding patients of the promises they made to stay free of drugs.
Psychotherapy by the method of ‘Tashtar Ata,' in combination with a colossal complex of medicated and non-medicated approaches in releasing physical dependence, is directed toward shaping the patients' consciousness in making serious decisions, such as changing their life style and living free of drugs permanently.
 The harsh reality is that during the period of pseudo-abstinence, patients seek ways to rid themselves of manifestations. Thus, the psychotherapy is directed toward strengthening the hope in self-belief in order to avoid drug intake under any circumstances or conditions after the treatment process is completed.
Under extreme conditions, patients can make two decisions - either to use drugs under stress and feel better temporarily, returning then to the cycle of constant drug intake, or to keep their promise given at the foothills of ‘Tashtar-Ata' and stay clean. The psychotherapeutic method ‘Tashtar-Ata' helps patients realize the meaning of strength: ‘I am' ‘I can' ‘I am strong'
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