Mindfulness for Healing from Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
All human beings have a tendency to relive trauma even decades after it has ended. Those living with the effects of complex post-traumatic stress disorder tend to ruminate and live their lives in a morass of flashbacks and pain.
Mindfulness is an ability that is vital to helping a person heal from traumatic events of the past. It is the ability for a person to be fully present and not overly reactive to what’s going on around us.
All Humans Possesses Mindfulness
Mindfulness is a quality that all people possess, it's not something that needs to be learned, we just need to learn to use it. Yet, while mindfulness is inborn it must be cultivated through the motions of sitting, walking, moving, and standing in a meditative and purposeful way.
Mindfulness and meditation are very closely related practices and often the procedure is termed mindfulness meditation. Mindfulness meditation offers us a time in our lives when we can unleash our minds and experience peace through awareness of the now.
When we practice mindfulness, we reduce stress, gain insight and awareness, and increase our attention to our well-being.
