Posts Tagged ‘MILITARY’
28
Mar
Posted by Marty in Assorted. Tagged: ACCEPTANCE, C-PTSD, MILITARY, MINDFULNESS, PTSD. 1 Comment
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Awareness, the practice of mindfulness seems mundane, boring and frustrating because it is awkward and difficult to let thoughts fade.
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The ego is constantly bombarding us with more and more emotional triggers.
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We find ourselves constantly wrapped up in thought, losing focus on the breath, time after time.
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It is these challenging moments that we decide to continue or quit.
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It is easy to quit, to discount this practice of breath work and cease all effort.
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it takes discipline, willpower, desire or heart to continue when things seem hopeless.
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funny, I did not feel helpless or hopeless because my goal was all out effort.
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giving total effort to my practice everyday, was enough happiness and accomplishment for me.
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It was a triumph to keep up my willpower in the face of few results.
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Giving up was losing, surrendering to suffering from now on.
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THe correct action is all that separates you from opportunity and happiness.
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5
Mar
Posted by Marty in Assorted. Tagged: ACCEPTANCE, AWARENESS, C-PTSD, JUDGMENT, MEDITATION, MILITARY, MINDFULNESS, PTSD, THOUGHTS. Leave a Comment
Shaila Catherine:
Most people perceive things through the distortion of desire, aversion, or delusion; grasping for objects with thoughts, “I like this, I don’t like this,” or grasping for self with assumptions of “I am this, I am not this.”
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Use mindfulness to go below desire, aversion or delusion. try eliminating any judging of people, things or situations. Less judgment brings more calm. Less desire brings more peace and a chance at happiness.
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Let the I fade as we go below consciousness to our real self, a,perfect being, all of us.
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30
Nov
Posted by Marty in Assorted. Tagged: ACCEPTANCE, C-PTSD, EMOTIONS, MILITARY, MINDFULNESS, PTSD. 1 Comment
Emotions are a tiny, tiny part of the mind. We do not have to avoid or bring fear to own mind mechanisms.
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Rather than avoid or run, drop the storyline attached to the emotion and feel that emotion intensely. Do not judge it, observe it while focusing on the breath.
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Get to know where certain emotions settle and what body sensations accompany each emotion. Discover our real emotion without judgment and thought.
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Let the emotion fill the body. Observe emotions as the naturally arrive, stay a while then exit. See how they leave the body and how soon they exit without the storyline feeding them.
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We grasp emotions and become that emotion at times. look how long resentment and anger can be with us. then again, take the storyline away and watch the opposite.
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Can you bring up an emotion, then feel the opposite emotion? Explore everything, discover who we are and what our capabilities are without judgment.
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Know your emotions intimately and life will change..
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28
Nov
Posted by Marty in Assorted. Tagged: ACCEPTANCE, AWARENESS, C-PTSD, FOCUS, HEALING, INSPIRATION, MEDITATION, MILITARY, MINDFULNESS, PTSD. Leave a Comment
George Hendrick Brietner
I strive to love all of me every day and often.
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I am perfect. My feelings and emotions are impermanent, weak and fleeting – without real power.
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My true self is the only permanent thing about me.
I am striving to live each minute in the present, bringing awareness to my mind.
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My inner self guides me and is always present in this moment.
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Everything fades, clearing this moment for opportunity to fully blossom.
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My true self is the power of my organism and I bring stillness everyday to my quiet mind.
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I try my best everyday with calm, experiencing life as a miracle.
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Thoughts are delusions, powerless next to my true self.
Living in the moment solves all things, permitting them to exist on their own.
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I am responsible for me, period. Others are responsible for their actions without my involvement.
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Pick one or a few and call your cell phone and repeat in a message. Play that message throughout the day. make this practice habit and good things will come your way.
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Take small actions like this and heal.
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22
Nov
Posted by Marty in Assorted. Tagged: ACCEPTANCE, C-PTSD, COMBAT, COMBAT PTSD, MILITARY, PTSD. 1 Comment
Jacek Yerka
Women may be at greater risk of developing post-traumatic stress disorder than men because of what researchers call their “heightened fear response.”
California scientists examined individuals with PTSD symptoms and found that the women in the study developed a stronger fear response than the men during so-called “conditioning tasks.” Then – once conditioned to respond fearfully – the women were more likely to have stronger responses to fear-inducing situations and actions.
University of California at San Francisco researchers, affiliated with the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center and its Northern California Institute for Research and Education, suggest this might reflect a pre-existing vulnerability, or might develop in a gender-dependent way as PTSD manifests itself.
“Differences in the learning of fear may be one mechanism that may be important in the development of PTSD,” said Sabra Inslicht, a UCSF assistant professor of psychiatry and the lead author of a study into the topic published in the Oct. 26 online edition of the Journal of Psychiatric Research.
Dr. Inslicht continued:
The preliminary findings of our experiment suggest that women with PTSD had greater fear-conditioning responses than did men with PTSD. This suggests that there may be differences in how men and women learn to fear. That may be one reason that the rates of PTSD are higher in women compared to men.
The research continues. Read more: http://nation.time.com/2012/11/21/are-female-troops-more-likely-to-get-ptsd/#ixzz2Cy0p2xLi
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Does that mean women are more susceptible to cortisol dumps. We become more sensitive with each cortisol release and that path becomes a highway to hell. Stop thinking and practice mindfulness.
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Stop engaging thought and emotion or avoiding all together. be here to experience unhappy without bias and live fully.
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21
Nov
Posted by Marty in Assorted. Tagged: ACCEPTANCE, C-PTSD, COMBAT, MILITARY, MINDFULNESS, PTSD. 3 Comments
PsychCentral:
“Traumatic experiences in childhood — not combat — may predict which soldiers develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to new research.
Most studies on PTSD in soldiers following service in war zones do not include measures of PTSD symptoms prior to deployment and thus suffer from a baseline problem,” said psychological scientist Dorthe Berntsen, Ph.D., of Aarhus University in Denmark, who worked with a team of Danish and American researchers on the study.
“Only a few studies have examined pre- to post-deployment changes in PTSD symptoms, and most only use a single before-and-after measure.
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“We were surprised that stressful experiences during childhood seemed to play such a central role in discriminating the resilient versus non-resilient groups,” said Berntsen. “These results should make psychologists question prevailing assumptions about PTSD and its development.”
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My thoughts:
There is a cortisol test now. Tests cortisol levels upon waking and a hour hour later. exults show if a persons nervous system is more vulnerable to exposure to trauma. We could screen those with traumatic childhoods or past traumas into support roles, greatly decreasing PTSD with a almost no cost solution
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I can not believe we are just studying this. ones it not seem evident those with trauma would be more vulnerable. Who needs to do a study to realize this.
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Common sense seems as scarce as plutonium around PTSD. We can teach them to kill; Next we may someday teach them how to get their sanity and lives back. Where are the Mash units for our mentally wounded soldiers. need to see a broken bone or blood to recognize the seriousness of this. on average one soldier has committed suicide a day this year.
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15
Nov
Posted by Marty in Assorted. Tagged: ACCEPTANCE, ACTION, COPING, MILITARY, MINDFULNESS, PTSD. 1 Comment
Joep Hommerson
Thanks for your reply Marty,
I think we can have an interesting conversation regarding this.
Dropping the shame…..
I still have a part that is very scared and being shutdown, hated and isolated means that no one can hurt me again and the stuck emotions stay packed away.
I challenge it, no longer bury it so I can find not necessarily what happened to me, but to allow this “shame protection” to ease off. They say that part of the brain that has these childhood emotions has no sense of time and is still stuck there.
I know this is not how I want to live, I want real love, real internal freedom and real attachment to those I care about, and I hope I can openly receive their love.
I have experienced this freedom to a certain level before, and I want more of it and want it real.
I have been dragging the anchor through the sand way to long in my life
For years I have found ways of burying this or pushing it to the side, “it” was ok as long as I did not challenge the protection that it wanted.
I have noticed that as I now challenge the thoughts that are “created to be hated” (protection) the thoughts have a sense of endangerment – As I challenge or let the fear go, another irrational fear will replace it, but often a more fearful thought to ensure this “safety” emotional shutdown?remains.
I know this part of me wants an unescapable shutdown, thinking its safer to be alone, within myself, so creates this to acheive this.
As incredibly hard and sometimes exhausting as this process is, I can not let the shame shutdown rule my life, I deserve better even though this part thinks its safer to be nothing.
When its safer to be shutdown and not being who I could be, then the process has to remain open.
Your thoughts.
Kindest regards
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it is never safer to be shut down, that is the ego’s opinion and way of controlling your thoughts and direction. You will only know by trusting, then letting go and staying present. thought and cognitive beliefs around all this are false. Not true a delusion backed by our body mechanism of defense, that is all.
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Your so called protection does not stop your life of suffering, fear, terror or misery. What are you really protecting, not what you think? All your worry brings you sadness and steals your real life. We can not see this cognitively or will you heal by thinking your way out. it will never happen..
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13
Nov
Posted by Marty in Assorted. Tagged: ACCEPTANCE, ACTION, AWARENESS, C-PTSD, Letting go, MEDITATION, MILITARY, MINDFULNESS, PTSD. 1 Comment
satoshi-sakamoto
While practicing mindfulness (Breathing Track) imagine trauma thoughts and emotions are inside a pillow on your lap. The scary, anxiety riddled, emotional thoughts are captured in the feathers.
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notice these thoughts and emotions are outside our true self, not in the seat of power for our organism, the mind. It is easier to observe them from this distance.
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Thoughts are not even appendages, just air without action. Creations of our self-made egos. My thoughts fade quickly without attention.
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When thoughts fade quickly, little impact stays with us. Each release frees us from the cognitive anchor, each time we LET GO!!!!!!!!!!!
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Simple, quick and precise action collapses PTSD from its core. Do the daily work and heal!!!!!
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LET GO!!!!
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13
Nov
Posted by Marty in Assorted. Tagged: ACTION, C-PTSD, COMBAT PTSD, Courage, FEAR, MILITARY, MINDFULNESS, PTSD, resistance, SURRENDER, TRAUMA, TRUST. 3 Comments
We need to develop focus, applying it correctly with every negative emotion or thought. Courage is needed to keep practicing everyday, rain or shine.
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The will to take action, everyday, serves anyone wanting to heal from PTSD. Courage to let the thoughts go, to not resist by tensing up, recoiling in a protective crouch.
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Surrender like our heart is a large butterfly net, catching these scary, anxious, emotional thoughts. Feel the emotional content enter your open heart.
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Surrender by giving in to all resistance. it takes courage and trust.
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A daily mindfulness practice, applied correctly provides both of these ingredients.
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Concentrate on the effort we give daily, not the thoughtful storyline, containing emotional entices by the ego.
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Only you can heal you. A therapist can direct and assist but never heal you. We heal ourselves from the inside or other side I believe.
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I have never said this is the only way out but it is a way out. Any healing way calls for action.
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12
Nov
Posted by Marty in Assorted. Tagged: C-PTSD, COMBAT, COMBAT PTSD, Courage, determination, EGO, MILITARY, MINDFULNESS, PTSD, willpower. 4 Comments
Adversity confronts every human constantly, really. Our ego wants us to believe others have it made, so it opens up negative feeling and emotions for us.
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The ego gains control of our life’s direction, when we engage the storyline of trauma. We dissociate or leave this moment to think about the past or predict the future, totally futile and harmful behavior for us.
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Totally harmful and futile behavior for PTSD people to engage in. Please reread a thousands times a day.
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Please add, I exert all energy to let go of the storyline and stay present!
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Recite positive affirmations when trauma triggers arrive. Physically exercise to exhaustion.
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Take action and develop ways to keep moving when scary shit appears. Having a plan does nothing until action happens. Move and exist here and now with multiple ways of coping.
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Be able to focus on the breath and let go. Practice instead of avoiding or dissociating. Battle for your mental life.
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Never give up; Never give in; Try as hard as you can until healing begins or we need sleep. Then get up and apply effort the next day. No goals, just all out effort and the resistance of thinking.
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Think of my model as a long sharp needle and C-PTSD a great big ballon. The thickness of the balloon depends on the intensity and longevity of our trauma experience and subsequent behavior after the trauma. My laser sharp needle penetrates the vast trauma network at its core. Handle thoughts with mindful focus and PTSD collapses from within.
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