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7 Aug

Our Mind: Negative is Velcro ; Positive is Teflon!!!!

Posted by Marty in Assorted. Tagged: ACCEPTANCE, C-PTSD, MEMORY, MINDFULNESS, PTSD, RECOVERY. 1 Comment

Olga Boznansk

Our Mind’s axis is slanted toward the negative. Just like the evening news, negative makes headlines and has a bigger impact.

Our task demands we input more positives while not engaging the negative. If we select a past memory that is neutral or slightly positive, a small visual appears in our view. Then, we fill in the tone of this experience.

This memory will be viewed as negative since our depressed tone will influence our view of life.though. Our input from feeling depressed affects our memories in a negative way.

Memories are not stored complete, only a small part of an event unless it is a trauma memory. Know that these memories are not accurate because they were stored before we healed. They have the fear of PTSD’s tinted glasses to experience the situation in the first place.

We adjust to accommodate this negative slant with daily affirmations along with giving up any negative self talk. We are reprogramming our ego to resemble our true self, a small input everyday.

11 Jul

Buddha’s Brain:…Negativity Bias!!!

Posted by Marty in Assorted. Tagged: ACCEPTANCE, AWARENESS, C-PTSD, MEMORY, MINDFULNESS, PTSD, THOUGHTS. 2 Comments

John Christian Claussen Dahl

“As you can see, your brain has a built-in “negativity bias“ that primes you for avoidance.

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This bias makes you suffer in a variety of ways. For starters, it generates an unpleasant background of anxiety, which for some people can be quite intense; anxiety also makes it harder to bring attention inward for self-awareness or contemplative practice, since the brain keeps scanning to make sure there is no problem.

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The negativity bias fosters or intensifies other unpleasant emotions, such as anger, sorrow, depression, guilt, and shame. It highlights past losses and failures, it downplays present abilities, and it exaggerates future obstacles.

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Consequently, the mind continually tends to render unfair verdicts about a person’s character, conduct, and possibilities. The weight of those judgments can really wear you down.”

15 Nov

Memory: Inaccurate and Biased

Posted by Marty in Assorted. Tagged: ACCEPTANCE, ANALOGY, AWARENESS, FLASHBACKS, FOCUS, HEALING, JUDGMENT, MEMORY, MINDFULNESS, PTSD. Leave a Comment

Memory is not stored in full, in fact small snippets are only stored. We fill in the rest with our current negative slant of complex PTSD.

It is highly inaccurate and filled with the flight or fight drug cortisol to reinforce false power.

Memories have no power outside our heads. Others could care less about our past thoughts. Why do we think our memory or trigger thoughts have such power? Cortisol!

Can we discount and let memory fade without our participation. Absolutely. We can actually dwell in this present moment entirely without any influence from memory or thought.

Join me and Anneli, and Alex and Ali.

2 Nov

Memory issues?

Posted by Marty in Assorted. Tagged: ARTICLES, C-PTSD, MEMORY, PTSD, THE BRAIN, TRAUMA. 1 Comment

Emotional working memory capacity in post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

Participants with a lifetime history of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and trauma-exposed controls with no PTSD history completed an emotional working memory capacity (eWMC) task. The task required them to remember lists of neutral words over short intervals while simultaneously processing sentences describing dysfunctional trauma-related thoughts (relative to neutral control sentences). The task was designed to operationalise an everyday cognitive challenge for those with mental health problems such as PTSD; namely, the ability to carry out simple, routine tasks with emotionally benign material, while at the same time tackling emotional laden intrusive thoughts and feelings. eWMC performance, indexed as the ability to remember the word lists in the context of trauma sentences, relative to neutral sentences, was poorer overall in the PTSD group compared with controls, suggestive of a particular difficulty employing working memory in emotion-related contexts in those with a history of PTSD. The possible implications for developing affective working memory training as an adjunctive treatment for PTSD are explored.

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