The question of whether a person should be held accountable for acts committed while under the influence, is a conundrum we have been struggling with for ages. Even today there are still widely differing opinions. Depending on cultural, judicial, religious and personal values, attitudes range from leniency to rigid condemnation. Social and Personal Realities We...
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PTSD: Complex Trauma: PTSD Symptoms: Complex PTSD Symptoms
People can develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) when they experience, observe or hear about a terrifying event involving disaster, death, injury, violation, disorder, illness or separation. It can also evolve from developmental trauma or long exposure to stressful conditions. It can even emerge from a number of sequential, seemingly less disturbing, incidents. The exhaustive effects...
What You Need to Know about PTSD and CPTSD
People can develop post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) when they experience, observe or hear about a terrifying event involving disaster, death, injury, violation, disorder, illness or separation. It can also evolve from developmental trauma or long exposure to stressful conditions. It can even emerge from a number of sequential, seemingly less disturbing, incidents. The exhaustive effects...
Is Healing From PTSD or CPTSD Really Possible?
People who suspect they have post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), or the more severe form, known as complex post-traumatic stress disorder (CPTSD), often want to know whether these disorders really can be successfully healed. The irony is that most PTSD and CPTSD victims suffer from hyperarousal and what is known as the “freeze-fight-flight” syndrome. These symptoms...
Using Your Power of Belief
Belief as a Skill, Not a Fantasy Belief is often treated as something vague and mystical, but in practice it is a mental skill you can train. It is the ability to hold a picture of a goal in your mind, trust that it is worth pursuing, and continue taking action even when the result...
Visualisation Activates the Mind
Visualisation techniques involve the systematic practice of creating a detailed mental picture of a desired and peaceful outcome or environment. Getting into the cockpit of our brains and designing our thought patterns in creative, positive, organised and intuitive ways, can alter our lives for the better. Visualization Activates the Mind: The Power of Mental Imagery...
Ways to Awaken Your Hidden Power
Your conscious mind is the sharp tip of a vast depth of knowledge and understanding that your sub-conscious is able to process. Learning how to use your sub-consciousness is a fundamental tool in discovering your many hidden abilities and talents.
You Can Learn to “Flow” More and Stress Less
Flow is frequently associated with reducing stress and general anxiety as it slows down the rush and enables your induction of a state of flow that disconnect from obtrusive thoughts and permits us to focus on tasks with seemingly effortless ease.