What More Can I Do To Help My PTSD

In this discussion Ed proposes 4 questions that you might have already asked yourself, or not, that begin the inner inquiry of healing your ptsd with a deeper understanding of your own process and how you hold your ptsd condition within you. These questions can reveal to you, your mindset, and the wounds that lie hidden beneath your recognition, what healing needs to be done.

In this discussion, Ed establishes the first two steps to working on your ptsd. When a trigger hits the first thing we need to learn is how to regulate (or integrate our mind and body) so that we can bring our mind back on line and begin to return to the moment and then with our brain online we can discover what must be done in the moment and discover what wounds and beliefs are being triggered. As the expression goes we need to Regulate first then integrate what happened second.

This second discussion introduces the powerful relationship between the mind and body. The fact is that the central nervous system links the mind and body together so that every thought sends a physical sensation to the body and every physical sensation sends a corresponding message to the brain. Recognizing this we can use this relationship to regulate ourselves and then release the wounds and traumas in both the mind and body together. This ability is already wired within us and one only needs to learn how to create the environment that allows this healing to occur.

In this discussion Ed discusses the practices that we can learn and initiate to engage the cortex to regulate and come back fully online. With the understanding of the mind body relationship we can understand how meditation, movement, yoga, dance, and music asks the cortex to engage with the body and it MUST respond and regulation is achieved. Ed discusses the nuances of each of these approaches and speaks to their pros and cons.

Ed has dedicated a separate discussion on breathe exercises as a regulating exercise because of its exceptional results above the rest. While everyone is welcome to choose their own activity, breathe holds a lead over the others due to the body's need for oxygen to survive. When someone holds their breathe is sends a powerful message to the survival monitoring parts of the brain and since breathe is the number one need of the body, after food and water, the brain automatically comes online instantly. In this discussion Ed suggests 2 powerful breath exercises as well as what to look for in a breathe exercise if one wants to choose their own.

In this discussion Ed teaches you and takes you through the technique that, again, relies on the mindbody relationship to heal the mental and physical wounds together. It begins with a meditation and then becomes a mindful release technique that allows the wound to be release from the mind and body in a similar fashion as it was incurred. This is necessary because if we release the mental wound without releasing the physical wound the mental wound will return.

In this last discussion Ed summarizes the discussions and reminds everyone that he is available to them long after the course is completed. In this summary the emphasis is on creating a protocol of the steps and working them into your day so that the daily incremental healings will compound into incredible freedom and release of the ptsd symptoms and triggers.