Study Study on Yoga and meditation on PTSD

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

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 residual ...

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.

 

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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.))