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Alternative Therapy For PTSD
PTSD Is Not A Disorder Of The Psyche

It Is An Energy Overload In The Mind (The Organ Of Memory)

•• Yoga Breath Therapy Readily Heals PTSD ••

In 1986 I brought a yoga breathing program to the Matawan Minimum Security Prison in New Jersey, offering 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 was finally free of painful memory.

PTSD is not a condition of the psyche but of the mind, the organ of memory. It is an extreme memory condition where the mind is doing its job properly yet has a disturbing effect on the psyche.

To understand this we must examine the technology of the mind, our information database, and to do this we must define things appropriately:

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The mind is the organ of memory. We store memory information in and retrieve it from the mind. The entire body is the mind...not the brain. Therefore, memory is stored outside of the psyche in the body/mind.
   
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Emotions are energies. Like all other energies, they flow. Emotions must flow out...they must be expressed. If emotion is not expressed...if suppressed...it flows into and gets stored in the body/mind. This is an improper storage of energy...emotions must never 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. The energies of these intense emotions flow into the body/mind and accumulate, eventually becoming a major overload of energy.
   
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To the body/mind emotion is foreign matter...it is an irritant. As do other organs, the mind automatically takes action to purge itself of irritating foreign matter. (The lungs cough, the nose sneezes.)
   
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With its memory retrieval function the mind repeatedly sends emotional energies (with associated picture memory) to the psyche so the psyche will embrace it and express it out of the mind. These automatic memory retrieval activities are the disturbing flashbacks.
   
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People with PTSD have strong mental barriers...the ego...that prevent them from accepting the returning painful emotions. (The ego is an effective cap on the mind.) This keeps emotional memories stuck in the mind and they continue disturbing the psyche as flashbacks.

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

Yoga breathing powerfully supports this by deflating the ego...then we are sufficiently vulnerable to accept painful memories and express them. With a few breathing sessions PTSD is completely healed.

Viewed as alternative healing for PTSD, breathing is a natural process and must be considered primary therapy.

Drugs should not separate you from your suppressed emotions. Drugs are antithetical to what is required for healing. Emotions must be purged from the mind, not covered over by pharmaceutical drugs that only maintain the condition and are certain to worsen it. Such drugs become the cap on a potentially dangerous pressure cooker. They are the seeds of suicide.

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Nicholas Jouvanis, B.S. - Yoga Breath Therapist
Edison, New Jersey, Middlesex County

Call Me At: 1-732-248-9369
nicholasj@thespiritualkey.com

Yoga Breath Therapy - alternative therapy for
PTSD, anxiety, bipolar, depression, emotional trauma.

Yoga breathing is called rebirthing, conscious breathing, cosmic breathing, vivation, holotropic breathwork...alternative to psychotherapy.