Meditation is a powerful tool for reducing stress and healing from physical and emotional trauma.

Meditation and PTSD

After suffering a traumatic event, normal functioning is often disrupted. Symptoms like those categorized by Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) arise, including lowered resilience to stress, abrupt shifts in mood states, feeling unsafe and heightened to one’s surroundings and having vivid intrusive memories or  “flashbacks” of the traumatic event.  Take a closer look at PTSD at the NIMH page.

By practicing meditation, the mind deals with the emotional complexities of trauma while the body learns to relax to a state of rest. With continued meditation practice, the symptoms of PTSD are often reduced. [click to continue…]

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