Study Study on Yoga and meditation on PTSD

[CooCoo4CocoaPuffs]

Meditation and Yoga for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Meta-Analytic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials - PMC

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a chronic and debilitating disorder that affects the lives of 7-8% of adults in the U.S. Although several interventions demonstrate clinical effectiveness for treating PTSD, many patients continue to have ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

I’ve done Yoga off-and-on over the years and have dabbled in meditation. Decided to search this up.

 

[Friday]

There are a LOT of really useful/informative/even inspiring studies on the subject.

I’m an outlier, as I’m hypermobile so yoga is a nonstarter; and ADHD means I’m sooooo grateful most of my childhood was in SE Asia where western ideas of “meditation” can suck an egg, as “sitting with” & “clearing my mind” can f*ck right off….

…but?

Yes. Both can be very useful things to MOST people.

((If you’ve lived somewhere they’ve been “normal” for a few thousand years? Instead of a few decades? Then one also gets the “this isn’t new” variations that are just as transcendental. For we outliers. “Just” also? Very different looking, for the same end result.))

 

[Mach123]

I’m doing this and it’s extremely helpful. For me. I know it’s not for everyone because I don’t think I’ve ever shown it to anyone who thought nearly as much of it as I. Maybe because it’s free. The book I AM THAT is free online and it describes how to do what the maharaj calls nisargardatta yoga. Like Friday said this was all looked at as BS in my early life here and even warned against an anti Christ or anti Christian and we all marvel at the ‘swami’ lying on the bed of nails in the encyclopedia Brittanica.

But I’d say it changed my life or my thinking (what’s the difference) and it has certainly helped me control my out of control emotions. It takes practice like anything worth doing in life.

We were exposed to the idea forty years ago or whatever with the advent and popularity of TM or transcendental meditation which I still have no idea what that is or means but I remember wanting to learn it and you had to pay so, forget that lol. That was long before PTSD in my case . It was in the 70s I think. Anyway, it’s great and I see no conflict with Christianity or any other religious practice even though the Christians I know should take umbrage. But they take umbrage with almost everything.

 

[Mary. OoH]

Meditation and Yoga for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: A Meta-Analytic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials - PMC

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a chronic and debilitating disorder that affects the lives of 7-8% of adults in the U.S. Although several interventions demonstrate clinical effectiveness for treating PTSD, many patients continue to have ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

I’ve done Yoga off-and-on over the years and have dabbled in meditation. Decided to search this up.

Note;

"debilitating disorder that affects the lives of 7-8% of adults in the U.S. Although several interventions demonstrate clinical effectiveness for treating PTSD, many patients continue to have residual symptoms"

I worked life long to abilities, it was poorly applied yoga and meditation practices from under qualified and poorly practiced and language /translation issues.

My "Dis-Order" is evidently not experienced my all. And doctors/research least of all. My body can yell more with the physical pain the arose from listening to crap from white dressed Twats . Go, experience life, feel and aim to have a moment. Trauma is not a regular daily event. And feeling OK/ good can be dangerous to a trauma person.

Over excelled in late notice... warning PTSd sufferers- be careful with meditations and yoga. Open a valve that cannot be shut. Alters life and for people like me... that's never a healthy route.

Get a 2nd opinion, research these people and their notes and remember they are not in our body... we are.

M.Oh

 

[Lost in the Woods]

I have been doing yoga for 20 years for my neuro condition and it has really helped. I hate doing yoga but I can’t argue with the results. It has been very helpful for physical pain. It has also helped calm me when needed. I am sure it isn’t for everyone but what is. We all have to find our own path and it helps to have an open mind and a sense of adventure.

 

[Mary. OoH]

I have been doing yoga for 20 years for my neuro condition and it has really helped. I hate doing yoga but I can’t argue with the results. It has been very helpful for physical pain. It has also helped calm me when needed. I am sure it isn’t for everyone but what is. We all have to find our own path and it helps to have an open mind and a sense of adventure.

Lovely, 20 years ago the world was softer, quieter and easier. As I see with many aged people, it's ease younger generations battle to work with.

As for the practice , like my old religion or new, it's found me singing a daily tune, showing and repeating knowing. Some teachers are easy and some are pushy.

Stay neutral, do research and always consider the qualifications. We are allowed question the guidance? As all my guides reveal, currents are a fad and Ill-Ness can be an essential. I prefer ease and for each person assess to ones best self, not the audiences desire. I find abused for periods , I forget myself faster than I found my feet.

Bowling balls, have less weight.

Also sounds like a genlt approach. I believe in it, and I belive in belief. It's a caution. Yet with the correct, people, location and space. It's magic. In as real it can be. Depending on the trauma is can be defective. Worth It's time, worth the research and worth the risk.

Heart to all.... never say No to a new approach... w have seen the worst.. it's done... now imagine the unknown.

Love the focus and heart.

 

[hypervigilant]

I go to a gentle yoga class with a gentle non touching teacher where we go at our pace and levels. I have found it helpful in becoming aware of my body and sense of self. I have used meditation/ hypnosis apps to calm the noise in my brain and again it's about finding open minded, gentle practitioners with care and gentleness at the heart of their teachings.
I get people can find either or both intimidating but it's the same old story of finding someone you trust ( usually another trauma survivor)

 

[Friday]

Lovely, 20 years ago the world was softer, quieter and easier.

LMFAO… 20 years ago my life consisted of combat, genocide, cartels, human trafficking, famine, fires, earthquakes, flooding, countries in crisis, riots, etc… I suspect ease & quiet depends on where you’re standing.

 

[Mary. OoH]

Amd for many it's been rape, dis empowered, floods, fires and crisis. Has any ptsd person have a request for a defintion of a weighed fear or power. Silence is within.. when life leaves your body and sounds found within with your choking on your own blood. Does that distinguish ptsd... not really. It's a shock and a trauma and it's a order. An order of people who should never weigh up the , worse better or bad. For even a nun could be left lost and hurt ..


Thanks for the reminder of life and lives, and actions that seem beyond human
.. that's left me dream or flash back. I'll await tomorrow's awakening to refigure the reminder of those cells upon my own.


to the people still stuck in those situations.

LMFAO… 20 years ago my life consisted of combat, genocide, cartels, human trafficking, famine, fires, earthquakes, flooding, countries in crisis, riots, etc… I suspect ease & quiet depends on where you’re standing.

That seems less than funny ! 20 years ago I watched woman thrown to asylums, raped , beaten and torn. I seen enough as a child and an adult with drugs, dealers. Is this a funny topic for you. Cos maybe that is the infliction of today. The need to prove the lack of conscious response. In laughing where.. the mention of quiet is reflection from within. And the reminder of power less Ness is the moment. Maybe if you lived not watched it you would not laugh. That's disturbed.

 

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