Ayurveda on Trauma

If you’ve ever been through a highly stressful event, series of events or abuse at any time in life, you’ve been through a traumatic experience. A feeling of helplessness, horror, and in some cases, the challenges of a serious injury (or the threat of one) are common after these events.

Trauma leaves its physical impact as physical pain and tension that is not the result of any other medical condition. This can happen anywhere in the body, and for trauma survivors, it is most commonly held in the core of the body, the stomach, abdomen, and low back, as well as the upper torso, chest, shoulders, and spine.

Sometimes there are no apparent physical effects but the need to protect oneself from perceived threats is stored in the memory and emotional centers of the brain, such as the hippocampus and amygdala, leading to specific emotions and behaviors.

Symptoms of Unresolved Trauma

These are some of the common symptoms of unresolved trauma, according to Dr. Zackson:

• Hypervigilance and inability to let one’s guard down

• Lack of trust and difficulty opening up to other people

• Dissociation and a persistent feeling of numbness

• Control issues, to overcompensate for feeling helpless during the traumatic incident

• Low self-esteem and feelings of worthlessness

• Anger issues and difficulty regulating emotions

• High blood pressure and cortisol levels

• Sleep difficulties, including insomnia and nightmares

• Headaches, nausea, sweating, or digestive issues

• Tightness in the chest or a pit in the stomach

• Somatic preoccupation (excessive focus and extreme distress about physical symptoms)

• Bodily memories that cause physical flashbacks of the sensations, smell, taste, pain, and pressure of the traumatic experience

• Mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, substance use disorder, or post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

  Ayusha approach

  Trauma Therapy provides a safe and confidential place for a person to talk to a professional about personal experiences, thoughts, feelings, or problems. It is a specific approach that recognizes how the traumatic experience impacts one’s mental, behavioral, emotional, physical, and spiritual well-being. This type of therapy is rooted in understanding the connection between the trauma experience and one’s emotional and behavioral responses. The purpose of trauma-focused therapy is to offer skills and strategies to assist you in better understanding, coping with,  processing emotions and memories tied to traumatic experiences, with the end goal of enabling you to create a healthier and more adaptive meaning of the experience that took place in your life.

It often requires initiative, commitment and patience to achieve this but it’s possible!. That’s why Ayusha created this program to help you throughout this journey.

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