Posts Tagged ‘UNDERSTANDING’
8
Apr
Posted by Marty in C-PTSD Characteristics. Tagged: ACTION, AWARENESS, C-PTSD, Helplesness, MINDFULNESS, PTSD, TRAUMA, UNDERSTANDING. Leave a Comment
Anneli Wiberg
- Learned helplessness is when a person begins to believe that they have no control over a situation, even when they do.
Description: The mantra of the person who suffers from Learned Helplessness is: “What’s the point in trying?”
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This illustrates the importance of taking daily action. When we exert the effort to heal each day, we demonstrate we are not helpless. Actually doing overcomes thinking every time!
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Never give up, Never give in, always try to be present and accept life. SIMPLE.
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23
Mar
Posted by Marty in Coping with Trauma Related Dissociation. Tagged: ACCEPTANCE, C-PTSD, DISASSOCIATION, PTSD, THOUGHTS, TRAUMA, UNDERSTANDING. 6 Comments
Most dissociative parts influence your experience from the inside rather than exert complete control, that is, through passive influence.
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In fact, many parts never take complete control of a person, but are only experienced internally.
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Frequent switching may be a sign of severe stress and inner conflict in most individuals.
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This why we feel conflicted at times, confused because our internal space is in turmoil from our childhood Trauma.
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5
Feb
Posted by Marty in Assorted. Tagged: ACCEPTANCE, ATTITUDE, AWARENESS, C-PTSD, HEALING, INSPIRATION, MINDFULNESS, UNDERSTANDING. 2 Comments
From Wisdom Wide and Deep by Shaila Catherine:
“Insight is not intended to foster cleverness, speculation, or intellectual knowledge. Insight refers to an immediate knowing that will move you beyond the fragmentation of the conceptual mind. Problems arise only through how you conceive of things. You make experience problematic by conceiving of the impermanent as permanent, by interpreting that which is unreliable as satisfactory, and by viewing what is impermanent and unreliable as self.”
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In plain English, we can not think our way out or follow the ego. The ego is impermanent and unreliable, needing approval and energy from us to exist. Be here and experience now, instead of getting lost in cognitive wandering.
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18
Nov
Posted by Marty in Assorted. Tagged: ACCEPTANCE, ACTION, ANALOGY, C-PTSD, COMBAT, HEALING, Loss, RECOVERY, TOOLS, UNDERSTANDING. 3 Comments
Dan Heller
Loss, like time is a man-made concept that confuses the mind into believing them real. We wither and die, so creating delusional loss brings misery.
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Let us address the concept of loss related to our trauma. It does not exist. I lost nothing in childhood till this moment. My life has so many breaths whether I feel loss and suffer or let go and live free.
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Adopting loss is the only loss we can experience. Everything withers so accept our frailty and be here to experience all of life. Desires bring loss with expectations of others responsibility.
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My healing began when I accepted full responsibility for me right now.
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13
Nov
Posted by Marty in Assorted. Tagged: ACCEPTANCE, ACTION, ANALOGY, ARTICLE, C-PTSD, MINDFULNESS, PTSD, SURRENDER, THOUGHTS, TRAUMA, UNDERSTANDING. Leave a Comment
Balanced by Pratt (an alter of outsider artist, Kim Noble)
Let us explore the resistance that I run into dealing with the ego. many people are afraid to lose the ego and proclaim all its functions and necessity.
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People need to relax and understand the ego is not that important and impossible to extinguish. We work to keep biased random thoughts, filled with emotion from our consciousness with mindfulness.
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The cognitive side is like a submarine, hiding the expansive world from us. If the conscious ego is always present, we limit life tremendously. many may think this submarine is all there is but that is a delusion.
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I direct my ego and cognitive side to where I want to focus. That decision is not an end, it is a means to be here totally. I surrender control of my ego for experiencing all of now and the next now, unencumbered by thought.
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I realized my ego was a prison of an immature adolescent who gets angry, resentful and feels not quite good enough.
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That lowly description of me or you is a joke.
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We have unlimited potential for expansion and happiness, joy and sadness.
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We are in a small row boat on a quick paced current of the river of life. We will never see the same landscape or drink the same water ever again.
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Rowing upstream or into the current is useless and tires us out. Life marches ahead whether we stop or not.
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Life is wasted every time we row into the past. It is over.
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Mindfulness enables us to use the oars to navigate the present not waste energy rowing against life.
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8
Nov
Posted by Marty in Assorted. Tagged: ACCEPTANCE, ACTION, AWARENESS, C-PTSD, MEDITATION, MINDFULNESS, PTSD, TRAUMA, UNDERSTANDING. 5 Comments
Let us print out a breathing track model and trace five or so breath cycles with eyes open. Repeat and then close the eyes and focus for 5 or so breaths. We are not counting, we are following our finger, then our breath, letting this image and pace fill our mind.
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Master this small moment in time during the day. Keep practicing everyday for a week. Observe the difference at the end of a week. Evaluate, if this mindfulness has made an impact!
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Imagine this little five breath practice being the start of your new mind, a free and calm one. One with full self esteem and peacefulness. One filled with opportunity and reality.
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Only you can heal yourself, not a pill, a friend, a therapist or a therapy. Life is not a destination it is a moment to moment nightmare or adventure, our choice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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2
Oct
Posted by Marty in Shaila Catherine(Focused and Fearless). Tagged: ACCEPTANCE, ANALOGY, anxiety, ATTACHMENTS, Focused and Fearless, MINDFULNESS, PTSD, RECOVERY, Shaila Catherine(Focused and Fearless), THOUGHTS, TOOLS, TRAUMA, TRIGGERS, UNDERSTANDING. 2 Comments
Exploring awkward, uncomfortable or annoying can shed light on emotions and perspective on the minds role. These emotions are only slightly negative and easier to work with than fear or anger.
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Search out a person who annoys you or a situation you feel awkward in, then focus on your breath and let go. Let awkward exist on its own without engaging it, that is without thought.
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Practice this scenarios until awkward shifts and becomes something entirely different. Awkward left alone fades quickly. Engaging awkward helps it grow and leads to avoidance.
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Healing comes with staying present when trigger fears arrive or explode. This is called integration. Avoidance is the polar opposite. If we leave this moment to grip emotions or thought, trauma grows.
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Mindfulness makes integrating, staying present without thought possible. Our trauma is stored in our amygdala, a mind organ that can not be accessed consciously. We know this because we all have tried to talk our way out of fear and trauma many times.
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17
Sep
Posted by Marty in Assorted. Tagged: C-PTSD, COPING, DISASSOCIATION, MINDFULNESS, PTSD, THOUGHTS, TOOLS, UNDERSTANDING. 2 Comments
Skejten Olaf Rrude
Why do we react so intensely to emotion with PTSD? It is a mind function we all share. All have felt sad, mad, depressed, fearful, anxious and hopefully calm or joyful.
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Then, maybe it is our relationship with emotions that makes us very different. Depends on what emotions we grab or chase after. Chasing after pleasure seems beneficial in the short term, does it not? Why then does sacrifice and action contain so much satisfaction and joy.
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I can see most people chase or desire things that hold no happiness. Thinking only of ourselves seems beneficial in the short term. Is it really? Mother Theresa sure has joy and calm, a sense of letting her actions be her thought.
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Actions always trump emotions or thought. How quickly can you let an emotion fade? Explore what influence we have directing our attention. Get the breathing track model and explore emotions during the day.
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25
Aug
Posted by Marty in Assorted. Tagged: ACCEPTANCE, ATTITUDE, COPING, EFFORT, EXERCISE, HEALING, TOOLS, UNDERSTANDING. Leave a Comment
13 Masks of the Subconscious by Tobin James Mueller
“Whatever one frequently thinks and ponders upon,
That will become the inclination of the mind.”
_ The Buddha_
_(many many centuries ago)
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“Whatever fires together wires together.”
_Buddha’s Brain by Rick Hanson.
_(Modern Neuroscience 2010)
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31
Jul
Posted by Marty in Assorted. Tagged: ACCEPTANCE, ACTION, anxiety, AWARENESS, C-PTSD, DISASSOCIATION, MINDFULNESS, PTSD, THE BRAIN, THOUGHTS, TRAUMA, UNDERSTANDING. 2 Comments
Evariste Carpenter
Thoughts are only air unless we dwell on them.
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I could stop here and repeat that sentence for three more paragraphs.
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Thoughts are Air unless we Dwell!!!!! On them!!!!
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Dwell!!!!
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Dwell!!!!
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Do not dwell, let go and heal.
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