When you have experienced a traumatic event, even though the crisis is over you may still be experiencing, or may experience later, some strong emotional or physical reactions. It is very common, and in fact quite normal, for people to experience reactions to a particularly horrible and terrifying experience. Sometimes these reactions appear immediately after the traumatic event, a few hours, a few days later or even weeks or months may pass before the reactions appear.
The signs and symptoms of a stress reaction may last a few days, a few weeks or a few months and occasionally longer. This may be dependent on the severity of the traumatic event and the support a person has from others. A traumatic event can be so painful that people can need the assistance of a professional.
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Trauma
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Release
Allow or enable to escape from confinement; set free.
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Yoga
Trauma disconnects us from our true self. It affects us:
Somatically
The presence of somatic symptoms essentially means that the individual is feeling physical effects or problems. These can be chronic and unexplained, which calls for treatment of the symptoms. Items that one could potentially complain of include (but are not limited to) nausea, palpitations, body aches, and tremors.
Physical Pain
Your muscles tense up to protect themselves from injury when you're stressed. They tend to release again once you relax, but if you're constantly under stress, your muscles may not get the chance to relax. Tight muscles cause headaches, back and shoulder pain, and body aches.
Emotional
Chronic pain is also often accompanied by feelings of hopelessness, depression, and anxiety. Many people are familiar with the fact that emotional stress can lead to stomach aches, IBS, and headaches, but might not know that it can also cause other physical complaints and even chronic pain.
Mental
A form of stress that occurs because of how events in one’s external or internal environment are perceived, resulting in the psychological experience of distress and anxiety (Lazarus & Folkman, 1984). Mental stress is often accompanied by physiological responses (Cacioppo, 1994).
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This technique is nowadays also sometimes referred to as ‘body scan’ . Literally the word “Yoga Nidra” means the ‘Yogic Sleep’, and it is has relaxing and healing effects on the body and the mind. In Yoga Nidra the practitioner lies down on his back with the eyes closed, feet a little apart, and with the arms on the sides of the body, with the palms facing up. This posture is called Shavasana, or the corpse pose, in yoga This posture itself has a very relaxing effect on the nervous system, and also naturally allows the mind to turn inward. Along with this posture one can take the attention to different parts of the body, usually from the feet up to the head, or to the different energy centres or chakras, for example. After consciously taking one’s attention to the body, the mind then naturally goes beyond the body and transcends.
Chakra Meditation
Chakra meditations are meditations where the practitioner takes the attention or awareness to the primary chakras in the (subtle) body, and then uses either the breath, a sound or mantra, or even just one’s awareness, to balance, energize or awaken the energy in the energy centers. Due to the fact that the subtle life force energy, or Prana, and the mind are connected, this in turn affects the mind, allowing it to settle down, and finally for one to transcend the mind.
Guided Meditation
Guided meditations are those where the practitioner listens to the instructions of a teacher (or nowadays sometimes a recording, like through an app) in a calm and meditative manner. The instructions may vary from when and how to breath in and out, to gentle visualizations, or taking the awareness to parts of the body and the environment. The purpose, however, should be to come to a point where the mind settles down, expands, and finally transcends.
Prāṇāyāma is the practice of breath control in yoga. In modern yoga as exercise, it consists of synchronising the breath with movements between asanas (body movements), but is also a distinct breathing exercise on its own, usually practised after asanas. Learn the various pranayama’s:
- Bastrika
- Kapalabalti
- Nadi Shodhan
- Ujayyi Breathing
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