Re: Nutritional Treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Thanks for your validation. I use a meditation that is based on
grounding, running energy, and activating and clearing out the chakras - while
also recognizing that I am spirit and so is everyone else on the planet.
My meditation posture is sitting, hands at my side in a relaxed position, feet
flat on the floor uncrossed, and turning within. I won't go into a lot of
details because I don't wish to invite invalidation if it doesn't meet the expectations
of other meditators. However, if you go to the link that I provided about
a woman who was incarcerated and declared insane who healed through meditation
at http://intentions.wordpress.com/about/
you will find that she uses a form of meditation in which she "melts
into" herself. That's similar to what I practice except that I allow
all energies that are not me to flow down my grounding (a connection you as
spirit make between your first chakra and the center of the planet).
Grounding is a flow, a dumping ground, it is not static and you will only let go
of things that are blocking you.
My PTSD healing was not easy and I don't in any way want to imply that it
was. My source of pain had been there for decades and I never knew it and
once I got in touch with it I denied it was there until - I began to re-experience
my pain all over my body in vivid detail. I think that anyone who knows
they are dealing with PTSD knows exactly what I mean. My body did not want
to meditate. It tried every which way to turn away from my pain but I
forced myself to sit and look at what really happened in my life. It took
me a long time to actually get through it, but after a month or two of facing
and admitting it, the journey became easier. It is something that I will
never forget yet there are no longer any triggers or fear or anything else
associated with it other than a memory. I counseled for about six months
and never told my counselor or anyone else that I contemplated suicide. I
knew that if I did I would be incarcerated. I also refused all offers of
medication - and an offer of hypnosis from my counselor. I learned
self-hypnosis many years ago but what I've learned since then leads me to
believe that it does more damage than it does good, and in the hands of the
wrong person - including experienced counselors, it can cause severe problems.
My pain originated in early childhood. We rationalize all sorts of
debilitating things that happen to us in childhood because we think our world is
normal, and generally it isn't. Then when we reach adulthood we once more
rationalize events in childhood as "it didn't really hurt" or
"others had it worse than I did" and all sorts of excuses - anything
except admitting that we/I as an individual had pain. I am an ex-Marine
front-line rifle carrying combat veteran of Korea, and later in my service time
survived an airplane disaster in which the pilot was killed in the crash.
I will take both my combat and air experiences many times over rather than go
through my childhood difficulties - any day. I can relate to anyone who
had abuse in childhood, either male or female. Yes I had to deal with my
military experiences too but they were much easier than the childhood
experiences.
Best to you in dealing with your PTSD.