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...
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.
Reframing Your Beliefs With Cognitive Restructuring
Cognitive restructuring used for stress management the primary objective is to switch stress inducing thoughts or cognitive distortions with much more mindful thoughts that do not amplify the stress any further. The practical application of CR is to look at the stressors with a completely new point of view and then to interpret them in...
The Impact of Cognitive Restructuring and Mindfulness
Cognitive restructuring using mindfulness is a process of identifying and dispelling irrational or nonproductive thoughts better known as cognitive distortions all-or-nothing thinking, magical thinking, generalisation, magnification, and or emotional reasoning, which are frequently associated with mental health issues. Cognitive restructuring is a core part of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and works hand in hand with...