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PTSD Is Not A Disorder Of The Psyche

It Is A Memory-Energy Overload In The Mind

Yoga Breathing heals PTSD. It is the natural process meant to be used.

In 1986 I brought a yoga breathing program to the Matawan Minimum Security Prison in New Jersey and offered ten sessions to the convicts that volunteered. At the start of the program one of them said, "I brought Vietnam home with me." By the sixth session he remarked, "I don't even think about Vietnam anymore." After eleven years he finally was free of painful memory.

Since then I have helped many others heal of PTSD with yoga breathing. All emotional problems stemming from emotional trauma are a form of PTSD.

PTSD is not a disorder of the psyche...the psyche is sound. PTSD is a condition of the mind, the memory organ. The mind automatically (and appropriately) launches its overload of painful memory at the psyche creating the flashbacks. This is a healable memory condition.

To understand how the mind manages painful memory we must examine its technology. To do this we must define things appropriately:

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The mind is the organ of memory. We store memory in and retrieve it from the mind. The entire body...not the brain alone...is the mind. Memory is stored outside of the psyche in the body/mind...the memory organ.
   
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Emotions are energies. Like other energies, they flow. Emotional energies must flow out...they most be expressed. If emotion is not expressed...if suppressed...it flows into, and is stored in, the body. This is an improper storage of memory. Emotions must not ever become memory.
 
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During moments of great stress, as in combat, a great deal of emotion (fear, anger, sadness) is generated and not expressed. These intense emotions flow into the mind and accumulate, becoming a major overload of energy.
 
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To the mind emotions are foreign matter...an irritant. As do other organs, the mind automatically takes action to purge itself of irritant.

   
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Using its memory retrieval function, the mind repeatedly moves emotional energies (with the associated picture memories) up against the psyche so the psyche will reclaim it and express it out of the mind. These automatic memory retrieval activities become the disturbing flashbacks.
   
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People with PTSD have strong mental barriers erected (it's the ego) that prevent them from accepting the returning painful emotions. This resistance keeps PTSD in place and continues disturbing the psyche.

To heal PTSD the rising painful memories must be reclaimed. Their discomfort must be embraced and expressed...and healing takes place.

Yoga breathing supports this by dissolving our mental barriers...it gets the ego out of the way. It makes us sufficiently vulnerable to take back painful memories and express them.

Emotions must be purged from the mind, not covered over by pharma-ceutical drugs that are certain to worsen the condition. Such drugs become the cap on a potentially dangerous pressure cooker. They are the seeds of suicide, fostered by a hazardous psychiatry.

Psychiatry must stop worshipping at the altar of medication and awaken to its god of pharma as a false deity.


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