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Marten's avatar

Ice bath, is what Wim Hof suggested some times ago, Highly effective !!!!

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mo's avatar

His breathing technique helps but I haven't found the courage yet to take baths ice cubes. I imagine first superheating in a sauna, then a plunge in frigid water is the "easier' way to break through the PTSD.

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mo's avatar

Celia, I realize you're struggling and I'm not making fun at you with my imaginary silly shit.

I'm doing some volunteer work today because I find that in-service-to-others invariably takes me out of my head. Not bragging/virtue signaling. I'm only saying this because I believe it's a template for humans in general.

Blessings !

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JamesDuff's avatar

Agreed the moment I start driving client to medical appointments of all types, focusing on them I’m out of my head, into the task.

I will check this out. Trauma is very common now.,

I know what abandonment is.

Btw thanks for the movie 🎥 suggestion Beyond Christmas 🎄 old movies are so delightful.

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mo's avatar

Good on you, mate !

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My Friend Lisa's avatar

Please lost christmas movies

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JamesDuff's avatar

Please explain?

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My Friend Lisa's avatar

Oh you had said you got some good movie recommendations yes?

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Thomas Vincze's avatar

Yes there's a great book by Kelly McGonigal called The Upside of Stress that has many different examples of people turning their traumatic experiences into something positive through a shift in their attitude to whatever they went through.

Through service for example people can find themselves experiencing great emotional healing.

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mo's avatar

I don't have her book however did watch her do a year 2013TED talk thanks to your suggestion.

Also took a peek at your Substack, going back as far as your May 9 restack about J.S. Bach.

I wrote both of them down as reminders. You.ve enrichened my day and beyond.

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Thomas Vincze's avatar

I'm delighted to hear that my post provided some positive service to you, mo!

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JamesDuff's avatar

Well a couple: just watched Beyond Christmas 1940 romantic movie,

Charlie Brown Christmas

My favorite It’s Wonderful Life

Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer

You can google Christmas Movies 🎥

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Luvvvy's avatar

I think everybody needs to look deeply inside and address their personal issues. Job one is to stop denying, avoiding, hoarding and projecting your inner crap outwards and instead, deal with it. This clearing of your energy is what will really help others. Thank you for this post and the links, I look forward to learning more.

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Cosima laus Deo's avatar

TRE is what has helped me the most in healing my trauma. Thanks for posting this Celia, and thanks for the zoom today. I was so sorry and stunned to hear about how you’ve been attacked as a journalist in ways that can inflict trauma and PTSD. You’re very strong to keep on going and I commend and respect you for it.

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Wayne Copeland's avatar

The healing power of love ❤️ ... thanks for this very apt message at this time Celia!

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Lovejoy's avatar

Thank you for sharing. This makes me think of whole body vibration machines (sometimes found at the gym) and how they may aid in shaking things up and allowing space for healing. Best wishes to all on their healing journeys!

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Rio de January's avatar

That first video is wonderful!... I also highly recommend this video by D. Alec Zeck of The Way Forward interviewing Brook McPoyle about fascia:

https://thewayfwrd.com/podcast/musical-breathwork-the-liquid-crystal-matrix-with-brooke-mcpoyle/

I admit that I almost clicked out of the interview of Ms. Poyle when I first started watching it because she looks so young and like a hipster with a knit hat on - LOL! (And I'm an oldster at 56 who was foolishly thinking a quite young, hipster looking person couldn't know much.) It turns out that she is stunningly intelligent, very articulate and knows a ton about lots of things, including fascia...

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Mark Harris's avatar

the majority of citizens have associated the traumas inflicted upon them during "covid" as protective; all too many will go the rest of their lives linking those traumas to their preservation. it's fascinating to observe how Jordan Peterson has dealt with the trauma inflicted upon him by Canadian hoodlum-bureaucrats. he speaks glowingly of America the haven even conferring X-Men status to Trump and his new entourage. Peterson's naïveté about this country's history is equally alarming and endearing. in a recent interview, he dismisses the credo of power as "self-devouring". I beg to differ. e.g., the CCP, now almost a century old, is still going strong. I regard his new opus as myth-making with a vengeance.

about fifteen years ago, frustrated by the apparent lack of "hiv/AIDS" dissidents to land the knockout blow, I posed a simple question to myself: were as many "hiv+" people dying as was supposed to be the case. I checked the mortality figures for South Africa as compared with the supposedly rapid rate of infection. ("according to available data, the HIV positive rate in South Africa in the year 2000 was approximately 24.5% based on antenatal surveys, representing a significant increase from 0.7% in 1990.") there was no corresponding die-off (the purported prophylaxis, a recent invention, was unaffordable for most). to my mind, this discrepancy was decisive. it didn't matter. no one bothered to listen. the myth by then was well-ingrained and mere reality had been superseded.

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