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Well, basically it's the inability of the mind to process a traumatic occurrence. An injury is understood to be an even that has extreme sensory and emotional components that the mind is simply unable to process that recollection and emotions that were related around that memory become stuck. And that is why a person suffering from PTSD will constantly re live that memory in the form of flash-backs memories that are recurring or or ideas that are intrusive and other forms of reactivity of your brain.
Fundamentally, the head is trying to heal that trauma and that is why it reoccurs, but the mind is put, it doesn't learn the best way to do this.
Mindfulness Therapy
So, during Mindfulness Therapy (link), which is my specialty, we work on altering the underlying structure of that recollection along with the wounding emotions associated with that memory. We look in the way in which we see the memory and emotions internally, because that's really what has to change - our internal picture. Vision is each emotion that we experience has it is own individual imagery structure inside and the natural language of emotion - how it is seen by us internally.
During Mindfulness Therapy sessions we look really closely at this vision to find out the way that it works. Often, we find there are certain subjects. For instance, the imagery is too large, too close and it has quite bright or extreme color. These properties are what really create the emotional distress, the stress, the panic, not the real historical event itself. It's how that image is seen by us internally.
When we bring mindfulness to the internal graphic, we begin to view the construction and we can begin to alter that structure, we start to discover means of making the vision smaller, moving it farther away, changing it is color, and other matters that we are able to shift knowingly that truly possess the effect of defusing and resolving the emotional trauma.
So, that is one essential bit of Mindfulness Therapy - really chaining the internal imagery of the trauma. Alter the imagery, the mental intensity is changed by you and eventually that traumatic memory can solve itself and become integrated into our memory that is general. We cease experiencing those recurring symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
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Welcome! I'd like to talk to you today about Online Therapy for PTSD, online treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. Now PTSD is quite common, actually, and basically it refers to the stress and anxiety that are experienced when we witness a traumatic event, and a trauma is simply an event that we are unable to process. It's basically a situation where there is sensory and emotional overload. The mind is unable to process that memory and resolve it so that it just becomes part of past experience. We find ourselves reliving events over and over again. So working with PTSD will involve some from of psychotherapy and it is very important that you seek help.
There are many sources of help available and this form of psychotherapy that I am offering now is called Mindfulness Therapy, and this is a very good way of helping you change the way you relate to emotions, and that's very important, because if you fight your emotions or try to avoid them, or seek other behaviors to stop yourself facing your emotions, they are not able to heal, and it is very important that your emotions are allowed to heal. That requires that you learn to sit with your emotions, that's the term we use in Mindfulness Therapy…very important indeed, and that's what I teach. So, if you are interested in Online Therapy for helping you with your PTSD, please visit my website, email me, and ask your questions, and then we can discuss if Mindfulness Therapy would be a good choice for you. Thank you.
Welcome! I'd like to talk to you today about Online Therapy for PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder. Now PTSD is quite common, actually, and basically it refers to the stress and anxiety that are experienced when we witness a traumatic event, and a trauma is simply an event that we are unable to process. It's basically a situation where there is sensory and emotional overload. The mind is unable to process that memory and resolve it so that it just becomes part of past experience. We find ourselves reliving events over and over again. So working with PTSD will involve some from of psychotherapy and it is very important that you seek help. There are many sources of help available and this form of psychotherapy that I am offering now is called Mindfulness Therapy, and this is a very good way of helping you change the way you relate to emotions, and that's very important, because if you fight your emotions or try to avoid them, or seek other behaviors to stop yourself facing your emotions, they are not able to heal, and it is very important that your emotions are allowed to heal. That requires that you learn to sit with your emotions, that's the term we use in Mindfulness Therapy…very important indeed, and that's what I teach. So, if you are interested in Online Therapy for helping you with your PTSD, please visit my website, email me, and ask your questions, and then we can discuss if Mindfulness Therapy would be a good choice for you. Thank you.
Welcome! I want to talk to you personally today about Online Treatment for PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder. Now PTSD is quite common, actually, and basically it describes the stress and nervousness that are experienced when we witness a traumatic occurrence, plus an injury is simply an event that we are not able to process. It's basically a situation where there's mental and sensory overload. The mind is unable to process that recollection so that it only becomes part of previous experience and resolve it. We find ourselves reliving events over and over again.
Working with PTSD will require some from of psychotherapy and it's also crucial that you seek help. That requires which you learn how to sit together with your emotions, that's the term we use in Mindfulness Therapy...really significant indeed, which is what I teach.
So, if you are interested in Online Therapy for helping you with your PTSD, please fill in the Contact Form visit my website, and get your questions, and then we can discuss if Mindfulness Therapy would be a great pick for you. Thank you.
Online Mindfulness-based Treatment for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) first came to the attention of doctors during the First World War when relatively large numbers of soldiers returned from combat exhibiting intense emotional distress in which they seemed to re-live the terrifying events of war long after the event. However, war is only one context in which PTSD arises. Later, it became clear that this phenomenon of delayed emotional reactivity could result from many other contexts such as accidents and illness, physical assault, rape or witnessing acts of violence and devastation, natural or man-made. Childhood abuse is now recognized as one of the major sources of PTSD.
In general PTSD can be defined as severe recurrent emotional anxiety reactions that originate from an intense and traumatic experience. A trauma occurs when there is a combination of sensory and emotional overload that cannot be processed and integrated into the psyche. A war scenario provides many intense visual, auditory and contextual stimuli that are completely foreign to the average person, as does sexual abuse, rape or witnessing a car accident. Context plays a very important part as in the case of childhood abuse, where the child’s model of how his parents should behave cannot be reconciled with the parent’s actual behavior. The experience of intense fear that accompanies trauma becomes encoded into the internal memory imprint of the associated sensory experiences. The unprocessed sensory experiences and associated emotional reactivity become submerged and repressed in the subconscious mind as a core emotional complex. When the appropriate stressors are present or when the suppressive activities of the ego are weakened, as is the case during sleep this repressed emotional complex is activated leading to a repeat experience of the emotional trauma, often with the associated visual imagery in the form of flashbacks. Like other core emotional complexes, the repression is never complete and negative emotional energy leaks into present experience leading to general anxiety, phobias, recurrent anger, sleep difficulties, depression, obsessive-compulsive behaviors and substance abuse. These can be described as the layers of secondary reactivity that form around the primary trauma reaction and which, in their own way, shield the core emotional complex from further processing and integration by the psyche.
There are many approaches to treating PTSD, some involving medication and others focussed on psychotherapy. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is a particularly useful approach, because it focuses on the client’s actual patterns of habitual negative thinking and beliefs and attempts to change these into more positive and functional forms. The form of cognitive therapy described in this article is called Mindfulness Meditation Therapy (MMT), which can be defined as the direct application of mindfulness to an emotional complex to facilitate transformation and resolution. Mindfulness describes a particular form of awareness that is present-centered, direct and non-reactive towards an object of awareness. It is best described as the combination of PRESENCE and INVESTIGATION in which there is an openness of mind and heart to fully experience and know what is present in our field of awareness. Presence is one of the most important components of sensitive listening as when we are listening to a friend who is suffering. As we know from experience, simply being there with him or her in this way with complete attention and presence is often more important than what we say or do. In this same way, learning to be fully present for our emotional suffering is highly therapeutic and is perhaps one of the major contributions to the healing process. The other aspect of mindfulness is simply learning to recognize all the patterns of habitual reactivity that takes us away from being fully present for our emotional suffering. Meditation in the context of MMT refers to the direct application of mindfulness and presence to the emotional suffering itself, which becomes the object of our meditation. In general, during MMT, we allow the emotional complex to unfold and differentiate into more and more subtle content. This differentiation into specific feelings, memories and sensory content leads to direct transformation of emotional complexes and literally makes the complex easier to digest.
Traumatic memories have a specific internal structure in the form of intense imagery. This imagery may be photographic in quality, revealing the actual memory of the traumatic event, but more often it also includes abstract elements of color, shape and movement in something resembling a surrealistic collage. Whatever the form of the imagery, this internal representation is an essential part of what is required to produce intense emotional reactions. This is referred to as the Structural Theory of Emotions, where emotional energy is encoded in the specific sub-modalities of size, color, intensity, movement and texture. An intense emotion is likely to be encoded in intense colors such as red and orange and the imagery is likely to be large and close in the person’s inner visual field, whereas neutral emotions are likely encoded in neutral colors such as pale blue or white and appear small and far away. It is by becoming aware of this internal structure of the imagery that encodes the emotional energy of the trauma that we can explore the possibility of changing the imagery and thus changing the emotional intensity of a traumatic memory. This concept is developed to an art in the therapeutic modality called Neuro-Linguistic Programming, or NLP. Just as language is made of words that represent internal experience, imagery represents the natural language of the mind – the mind thinks in pictures and uses inner imagery to organize experience and memory.
The Structural Theory of Emotions proposes that by changing the structure of the imagery it is possible to change the intensity of the emotional reaction. Thus, if the color changes from intense red to soft yellow and the imagery becomes smaller and further away, it is very likely that the emotion will be much less intense. However, for this to work effectively the imagery must arise experientially from the emotional felt sense, rather than be created through deliberate visualization. Similarly, the direction of change must arise experientially, rather than be imposed externally. In this way, the client maintains close presence with his inner experience and knows that what happens is meaningful and relevant to his or her specific transformational process. This is why mindfulness is such an important part of the transformational process, because it allows us to be exquisitely sensitive to what is meaningful and what is not. The investigative dimension of mindfulness also provides the best approach to uncover the detailed inner structure of the emotion and provide meaningful content.
A central focus in MMT is to uncover this internal structure of the traumatic memory and then to investigate this experiential content. There is no attempt to interpret what arises, only to experience fully and know completely whatever arises. This process essentially de-constructs the emotional complex into smaller parts that the psyche can digest and integrate into more stable configurations that do not continue to generate emotional suffering. Of course, this requires considerable preliminary preparation so that the client can experience the internal imagery without becoming overwhelmed by it. This preliminary phase of MMT is focused on establishing the Mindfulness Based Relationship (MBR) in which there is sufficient stability and non-reactivity to allow the imagery to unfold into present awareness. There are many approaches to achieve the right MBR, such as watching the imagery as if projected on a screen or placing the imagery at some distance in front. Through mindfulness and careful investigation, the client can discover for himself what works best for establishing the MBR. However, once a client begins to witness specific details about the imagery, he inevitably finds it much easier to establish the MBR, because the specific content gives him a specific focus and this tends to prevent hyper-reactivity. The MBR is an essential part of the transformation process for many reasons, the primary reason being that it allows the compacted emotional complex to unfold into more manageable parts. At another level, the MBR allows the client to fundamentally change the way that he relates to his inner emotional experience and he begins to break free from seeing himself as a victim of the emotional trauma. This in itself is an essential requirement for change.
Throughout the whole process of MMT, the client is repeatedly exposed to the source of his fear, but in new ways that don’t involve being overwhelmed. This exposure desensitization effect is regarded by most schools of psychotherapy as an essential part of overcoming PTSD and Mindfulness Meditation Therapy provides a very subtle and specific way of doing this.
"Mindfulness Online Therapy: The Effective, Convenient and Affordable Choice for Anxiety Disorders."
Peter Strong, PhD, is a Mindfulness Psychotherapist, Online Therapist, Spiritual Teacher, Medical Research Scientist and Author, based in Boulder, Colorado. He was born in the UK and educated at the University of Oxford.
I provide online psychotherapy via Skype for help with anxiety, depression, PTSD and addictions using Mindfulness Therapy.
Go to https://pdmstrong.wordpress.com to learn more and feel free to contact me if you are looking for an online therapist who specializes in Mindfulness Therapy.
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