During the last number of years, it has been acknowledged more than ever that there is a connection between mental and physical well-being and that mental well-being is just as important as physical well-being. Mental health issues have been on the increase globally and even more so over the last 3 years resulting from the global world-wide pandemic, Covid-19. A person’s health is one of, if not the, most important possessions a person can have. Mal Weeraratne has been most of his life learning about and understanding the root causes of health and well-being and has dedicated his book ‘Emotional Detox Through Bodywork: A Woman’s Guide to Healing and Awakening’ to answering questions relating to how to heal and recovery from an imbalance within one’s body. As a pioneer in his field, Mal Weeraratne developed a ground-breaking approach to mental and physical well-being through the Body Therapy. Using a technique called Emotional Detox, the patient can experience relief from issues arising from the interaction between the body and the mind.

It is the premise of ancient eastern techniques, that there is a connection between the body and the mind and when there is an imbalance of either body or mind, this can seriously impact the other. In other words, a person born with a disability or a genetic illness, cannot be said to have “caused” this by themselves and that rather this is an outcome of circumstances over which they have had no control. This in turn may cause hardship on the individual’s life which affects their outlook, rendering them mentally imbalanced. A mental imbalance can be experienced as depression, thoughts of self-harm, or result in choices which are not favorable for that person, such as toxic or co-dependent relationships.

Likewise, when a person experiences an imbalance in their mental well-being, which could also result from genetics or chemical predispositions or resulting from them observing their exterior world and identifying problems and issues which cause them undue stress, resulting in disorders such as insomnia, weight loss or weight gain, an imbalance in hormones and so on. Similarly, that imbalance can affect the physical health of an individual and manifest in diseases such as heart problems, lowered immune systems which can result in susceptibility to contracting opportunistic bacteria and viruses, or leaving the body prone to the likes of irritable bowel syndrome, acne and chronic pain and fatigue.

No matter the source of a physical or mental problem, imbalances in one aspect of the person’s body can affect other aspects of the body in a never-ending cycle of ill-health, disease and even be the cause of accidents in their workplace or social life, as well as increasing thoughts of self-harm.

Mal Weeraratne’s simple body-work techniques will alleviate the body of ailments and illnesses which it suffers as the result of mental or physical health. As a wellness practitioner, the techniques used are non-invasive and complimentary to any of the usual allopathic treatments which a person may be using meaning there is no risk to the individual. If you are someone who can relate to the idea of augmenting your usual therapies, Mal Weeraratne may just have the answer you are looking for.

Mal Weeraratne, author of Emotional Detox through Bodywork, is the founder of the Tantric Journey, the school of Healing and Awakening and Emotional Detox and the School of Holistic Body Therapy. As founder of Tantric Journey and a pioneer of deep bodywork. Mal Weeraratne has worked in the field of Emotional Detox since 1994 and has treated over 3000 clients from the UK, USA, Europe and Asia.

As an expert in emotional detox Mal Weeraratne’s techniques are designed to assist you in releasing negative emotions which have been stored up within the physical body as a result of emotions and experiences we encounter throughout our lives. We subsequently build up belief systems which we then use as a guide for the rest of our lives, using them to “tell us” that, “based on xyz emotion / experience which we have had before” we should respond accordingly. Sometimes the residues of the emotions and experiences we have had before, will dictate to our bodies which will respond as if a trigger or even a reminder of previous experiences and emotions are real, even when they haven’t even occurred again. Our body remembers these past events and the accompanying stress, anxiety or negative feeling we felt at the time by storing negative emotions. A build-up of these negative feelings can lead us into mental, emotion or physical imbalance and subsequently diseases can form.

Detoxing the body of its emotional imbalances can result in improved physical, mental and emotional fitness and well-being being restored. Emotional detox will not only help remove the negative emotions which have been stored in the body but can also eradicate the underlying beliefs, patterns and behaviours which we develop to protect ourselves, when they are no longer required or serving us. Patterns which may have developed as a defence mechanism may no longer be required and yet the body’s innate responses may still be triggered, leaving us responding negatively to a situation which no longer requires the same heightened responses.

Facing the truth behind our emotions and behaviours can only be done once we clear the body of its attachment to them otherwise, we are assured of perpetuating these learnt responses time and time again, ensuring a self-sabotaging regime which brings unnecessary stress to our lives leading to disease. Once these emotions have been cleared, we have the ability to look within with enlighten clarity and reassess whether the beliefs we have learned to protect ourselves, are still required. Once we realise that this is no longer the case, we are able to move forward without recreating negative behaviours and patterns in our lives which Mal Weeraratne, world authority on Tantra and emotional release, says can offer deep and transformative healing for mind, body and soul. Mal Weeraratne had acknowledged that his powerful emotional detox technique, detailed in the Tantric Journey, allows both men and women to ‘’start living a blissful and meaningful life again that is free from the weight of past, negative trauma’’.