Categories: Benefits of Meditation, Blog, Meditation and Military
Polytrauma, as the name suggests, is when an individual sustains multiple traumatic injuries, including: hearing loss, loss of limbs, blindness, broken bones, burns… Polytrauma is common among soldiers and those serving our country in the armed forces. It is often the result of injuries from an improvised explosive device or a rocket-propelled grenade. The pain that comes […]
Categories: Blog, Exercising Your Mind, Healthcare and Meditation, Meditation and Emotions
Welcome to part four of my short series on mental resiliency and compassion fatigue. This will be the last installment in this series, but before we get started, let’s just do a quick recap of what’s been discussed so far. Please, if you have not read the first three parts, make sure you read them […]
Categories: Blog, Exercising Your Mind
Welcome to the third installment of my series on mental resiliency. Let’s start off with a quick recap of what we’ve covered so far: In the first part we talked about compassion fatigue — secondary traumatic stress disorder — and how that ties into having a resilient mind; and in the second part we talked […]
Categories: Blog, Exercising Your Mind, Healthcare and Meditation, Meditation and Emotions
Last week we talked about compassion fatigue – secondary traumatic stress disorder – and touched briefly on how it plays into mental resiliency. This week we are going to talk all about resilience, and the difference between people with resilient minds – those who bounce back from emotional adversity quickly – and people with fragile […]
Categories: Blog, Exercising Your Mind, Healthcare and Meditation, Meditation and Military
Today’s post is the first part of a short series I’m beginning on the subject of building up your own mental resiliency. Before I really delve into the nuts and bolts of this subject, I want to spend some time just talking about compassion fatigue – what it is, how it ties into mental resiliency, […]
Categories: Blog, Meditation and Military
Deployment is one of the most stressful things a soldier has to deal with. Obviously, whenever a soldier is deployed, there is the risk of being injured in combat. Soldiers also have to deal with the stress of leaving their loved ones behind, which may include their spouse and children. In fact, deployment is not […]
Categories: Blog, Meditation and Military
According to the Center for Disease Control and Preventions – CDC – traumatic brain injury – TBI – is a serious public health issue in the United States. The CDC estimates that about 1.7 million people suffer from a TBI each year. A TBI is a severe blow or jolt to the head that can […]
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Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental illness many war veterans suffer from upon returning home from active duty. It is classified as an anxiety disorder and encompasses a wide array of symptoms. One of the common symptoms of PTSD is apathy, which is generally defined as a lack of caring and motivation. When you […]
Categories: Benefits of Meditation, Healthcare and Meditation
Calling someone crazy is generally meant in jest, but real mental disorders and illnesses are no laughing matter. One in four American adults experience a mental health disorder in a given year. About 2.4 million Americans, or 1.1 percent of the adult population, lives with schizophrenia. Living and functioning in day to day life with […]
Categories: Blog, Meditation and Military
Instances of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have been documented as far back as 490 BC. In America, it has been a prevalent issue among returning veterans since before the Vietnam War. The anxiety related disorder is not limited to veterans, it also affects people who have experienced an event often relating to injury, death or […]
