Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), is one of the mental and psychological disorders that usually disturb the mind and steal the mental peace of a person. It is a mental disorder that shows symptoms within a month of the respective event due to which the patient suffers PTSD. Healing trauma with mindfulness is one of the best ways to practice. Let’s discuss how.
Mindfulness is another way of meditation that helps you dig inside yourself to know the inner you and realise the present happenings. It helps you focus and be aware of what you are doing, what is the major cause of your suffering, and what do you feel inside?
In the case of post-traumatic stress disorder, maximum people stay in that moment only. They are unable to balance between the past and present. It becomes difficult for them to move on and accept the happening of the event that caused this stress. Mindfulness can help them in many ways to overcome PTSD.
Trauma is the consequence of the inability to control emotions. There could be two ways a person may express its trauma.
First, the person may not talk about it and try to show that he/she is absolutely fine but deep inside their mental condition is getting worse. It usually happens with people who resist sharing their fears and sorrows.
Second, people who are too frightened that they express too much which affects their daily life dramatically.
With the help of mindfulness, the one who is unable to express themselves gets the courage to speak about their fears and stress. Eventually, get peace of mind. On the other side, furious people could relax their minds and come to the senses to share their feelings peacefully.
It can not happen in a day or two; it is a long process. However, you can see behavioural changes in yourself from the first week. To get better and faster results, practice mindfulness every day.
As we already said, it becomes difficult for a person to accept a particular event that causes serious stress in their mind. Their ability to understand the difference between the past and present starts muddling. The consequences could be moderate to worst depending on the criticality of the situation.
Awareness is an essential key to meditation. In the beginning, you may feel like going into flashbacks and hurt yourself by thinking about it. However, that doesn’t mean you can not get out of it, or you should stop meditating. Always remember, it is easier to accept the fact rather than escape from it.
Mindfulness improves your concentration and controls your breath. Also, one should start from its own body scan. It could be done by mentally digging in your body at every part of it. When you are done scanning your entire body, try relaxing your muscles, and letting all your worries flow out of your body. This way, you can get back in your senses, and you will have enough power to accept the event that happened.
Many traumatic patients do not even know that they are suffering from PTSD, so they feel more hated due to their unpredictable reactions, overall behaviour with others and constant mood swings. Moreover, you may blame yourself for all the wrong things happening around you. You may feel unworthy and unloved or, sometimes, not deserved to be loved.
Mindfulness works as introspection, which helps you understand your own mind. You get to know about your fear, worries, stress, and things that are bothering you deep inside. Further, it will improves your mood and willpower to accept those negative feelings and come over them.
This way, one starts feeling good and makes a connection with themselves which helps to boost feel-good hormones and accelerates inner confidence. Self-love can bounce back in your life with boosted self-confidence.
More often, people suffering from PTSD forgets to take care of themselves. Staying up all night, fasting, not moving for long hours, working till late, not interacting with anyone, etc. All this worsens the trauma disorder.
We understand that self-love and self-care just vanish off in the traumatic situation, but that is required, at least if you are willing to get out of the trauma.
Through mindfulness, you can get your life back as it helps relax the mind and releases feel-good hormones. It can drive you back to the track where you feel the importance of self-care. Mindfulness reverses back your life to normal certainly yet steadily.
We understand that being in a situation where you are unable to get out of that trauma is not an easy task. Still, if you are reading this, that means you have already decided and taken a step ahead to finally get out of this trauma.
Mindfulness and emotional trauma have a direct relation in terms of getting out of it. If you practice mindfulness religiously every day, you can get the best result even faster than others. Be firm with your routine, and soon you will realize the power of mindfulness as you will feel self-love, inner confidence and a person who is back to life. Start practicing mindfulness today, and share your experience in the comment section.