Meditation-PTSD

  PTSD symptoms include panic attacks, anxiety attacks, physical impulses to fight or flight and dissociative disorders Disruption of any kind is hard. PTSD symptoms can be very disruptive, bringing on overwhelming terror, the tsunami of a panic attack, rage that comes up and takes over within a split second. At those times, it can [...]

  Practical Meditation Tips for Trauma Survivors Slow down. Don’t try to sit longer than you can. If 1 minute is where you start, enjoy and savor that one minute. You’ll be able to build up from there. If you try to push through and sit longer than you are ready for, you may find [...]

  Phase Oriented Treatment is a steady, reliable course toward healing PTSD. In the past twenty years we’ve seen the rise of Phase Oriented Treatment approach to support the healing of PTSD. Phase Oriented Treatment was originally written about by Pierre Janet a hundred years ago and is now considered the standard of care for [...]

  Mindfulness Meditation Practice Suggestions Find a quiet place, free from distractions. Turn off the phone, put your cat in the other room, remind yourself you can do your to-do list later, etc. External distractions are hard, but internal distractions are often much worse! Freeing your external world of as much as you can will [...]

Mindfulness Meditation allows you to notice your life without getting lost in it or overwhelmed by it As a trauma survivor you can benefit from mindfulness meditation by cultivating your ability to witness life. With that you can notice what’s happening without getting carried away by it, or need to shut down around it. Mindfulness [...]

  Meditation can be defined as a vast multi-prismed path to being present Rumi may have described meditation best: There are thousands of ways to kneel and kiss the ground. Here is the very simple truth. There isn’t one way to know yourself. There isn’t one way to know your inner world. Or become calm, [...]

  Buddhist Practice of Loving Kindness Meditation Loving kindness meditation is a beautiful antidote to the negative messages trauma survivors live with. It’s a Buddhist practice of meditation that helps cultivate the gentle, loving kindness that soothes and nurtures the pain of a trauma history. When I work with someone who is just starting out [...]

  Treatment for PTSD: Internal Family Systems Model The Internal Family Systems model includes the body but from an understanding that the body/mind is subdivided into various “parts.” Developed by Richard Schwartz, PhD the IFS model takes traditional family therapy and explored what happens with the internal family system (hence the name!) This model describes way [...]

Integrating Psychotherapy As You Learn How To Meditate One of the most important things you can learn is an internal, psychological map for this transpersonal world of meditation. Having this psychological map will help you frame acute, internal experiences. This will help you discriminate between experiences that you can observe through meditation and those that [...]

  How To Meditate When You Have a Trauma History When you have a trauma history, life gets a little trickier. This is absolutely true if you want to figure out how to meditate. Doesn’t mean it’s not possible. In fact, learning to meditate will be incredibly helpful — it just might mean learning new [...]