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How PTSD Impacts Men and Women Differently- PTSD Ending Has A Price - by Submitted on Aug 10, 2017 from Risa RuseI guess we should identify what we need to get rid of when we want to unshackle ourselves from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD.) That is, the things we need to emotionally throw over-board in order to be able to steer our spiritual ship steady. I was reminded of this analogy when reading ...
Views: 76(3 votes) - Five Ways a Car Accident Can Shake Your Confidence - by Submitted on Aug 08, 2017 from Harper HarmonCar accidents are not just physical events. People who have been in accidents frequently report that their confidence is shaken and that they find daily life more difficult. These effects are normal. Talk to an attorney if you are involved in a car accident because he or she can help you recover ...
Views: 57 - *** How PTSD Impacts Men and Women Differently - by Submitted on Jun 27, 2017 from The RefugeIt should come as no surprise that men and women, while similar in numerous ways, are also very different. When it comes to posttraumatic stress disorder (more commonly referred to as PTSD), both men and women can be affected; however this disorder can impact men and women in very different ...
Views: 285 - PTSD Is Like Gray Clouds - by Submitted on Feb 23, 2017 from Risa RuseThere are light, gray clouds in the sky (that really effect the soul.) They are not really clouds at all, but dark forces with an evil goal! Such awful covering over the blue sky binds those with PTSD, too. One cannot reach the coat of joyfulness while grayness dampens through. The news ...
Views: 260 - Fight PTSD With God’s Armor - by Submitted on Nov 30, 2016 from Risa RuseIt is most logical that using prevention is best to combat any disaster, you see. This can be applied to combating the effects of negative emotions in PTSD. Granted, the emotional traumatic event(s) already occurred for this plight. What I am proposing is that we do not take it anymore ...
Views: 352 - PTSD Battle Skills - by Submitted on Nov 08, 2016 from Risa RuseEach experience that we survive through brings a solid skill. We need to celebrate that PTSD only wounded us, but did not kill! The battle over our minds is the stronghold of the evil enemy. Let us beware of thoughts that negate love, while filled with envy. We must remember that God ...
Views: 473 - ***What are the signs of C-PTSD? - by Submitted on Oct 27, 2016 from Dean TaraborelliDo you or someone you know suffer from C-PTSD? Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder, or C-PTSD, commonly co-occurs with addiction. C-PTSD is a complicated trauma reaction caused by enduring extreme stress over a prolonged period of time. Its frequent companion, addiction, typically evolves ...
Views: 1855 - Qigong Spoils PTSD Emotions Batter - by Submitted on Oct 18, 2016 from Risa RuseWe know that if a recipe is missing a key ingredient, it will not bake right. In the same train of thought, adding a distasteful one is an awful sight! That is kind of the way PTSD works with our negative emotions, too. The healthy, right batter of emotions are missing, so that is why we ...
Views: 553 - Qigong Turns PTSD Clock Forward - by Submitted on Oct 11, 2016 from Risa RuseThose of us who have had PTSD know what is means to be stuck in time. For me, 20 years passed by before I was able to continue to rhyme from the Divine. No, I do not think I could have moved any faster than I did, you see. Once getting over a childhood devastation in loss, another mishap ...
Views: 533 - PTSD Has A Divine Strategy - by Submitted on Sep 29, 2016 from Risa RuseWhat makes you think that it was the devil only that brought you down? It was most certainly his intention to replace your contented smile with a frown. If we contemplate on why we have PTSD, there may be reign of another reason. That sovereign power comes from the will of God to perfect in ...
Views: 453 - PTSD Relief Through Qigong Opens Two Doors - by Submitted on Sep 22, 2016 from Risa RuseWe can get used to coping with the negative symptoms of PTSD. After all, this is the way we have survived through it, you see. Having done so should be reward enough, is how we start to think. What we do not realize is that those emotions keep us unbalanced on life’s brink. Our thoughts ...
Views: 419 - How to Stay Healthy By Overcoming Stress - by Submitted on Apr 25, 2017 from Hafiz AkindeLeading a healthy life today is not an easy feat. There has been a huge shift from normal eating to horrible eating lifestyles, where people fail to exercise even after consuming lots of fast foods. This has led to a rise in health illness such as depression, high blood pressure, diabetes ...
Views: 613(1 vote) - The Core Beliefs That Plague Men - by Submitted on Sep 19, 2016 from Vivian HarteYour core beliefs are those beliefs you created when you were a child based on your experiences and how you were treated and talked to. You had certain experiences and heard the same messages over and over again from family members, peers and others, and you formed certain core beliefs about ...
Views: 1528 - Contemplate PTSD As The Ending Of Times - by Submitted on Sep 06, 2016 from Risa RuseMatthew 16:3 proclaims our failings as mankind to choose what to discern. The question evoked, “O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky,” as concern. Then Matthew proclaims, “But can ye not discern the signs of the times?” Our television broadcasts the weather forecast over, and ...
Views: 367 - PTSD Can Be Combined With Scriptural Curses - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2016 from Risa RuseIf your life seems to have been in a constant spiral down, contemplate on this. There may be forces unseen that are not just PTSD that took away your bliss. It was not until I started to study the arts of Feng Shui, and Qigong healing energy. Both are derived from ancient Chinese teachings ...
Views: 446 - Dry Scalp and Dandruff - by Submitted on Aug 23, 2016 from Pritam RawalOur perception towards dandruff and dry scalp being same is actually wrong. Dry scalp is different when compared to dandruff. The skin on our scalp renews its cells after every 24 days. That is the new skin cells are generated after 24 days while the older skin cells which are dead now, gets ...
Views: 335 - Qigong Removes PTSD As Christ Rebukes Demons - by Submitted on Aug 11, 2016 from Risa RuseThis may sound like a great deal of action in the practice of Qigong. Using a positive intent, will further the process of negativity removal along. Getting rid of negative emotions (that may invite evil spirits) needs examination. Let me explain that there is a difference between spirits, ...
Views: 492 - Qigong Replaces PTSD She Devil Attractions - by Submitted on Jul 28, 2016 from Risa RuseHaving had PTSD attracts certain personality traits in relationships. This can be very detrimental in finding healthy, positive partnerships. An example, for me is finding appropriate tenants to rent my duplex property. Interviewing them is a process of filtering out negative emotions, you ...
Views: 323 - ***Progressive Treatment for Concussion and TBI - by Submitted on Jun 29, 2016 from Dr. William PawlukBackground Traumatic brain injury (TBI) – or concussion – is a complex clinical phenomenon. The classic designations of mild, moderate, or severe TBI are based on the acute clinical presentation and do not necessarily predict the long-term outcome. Moreover, the long-held assumption that the ...
Views: 1810 - Qigong Tramples PTSD Emotions So We Can Be Ready For Christ - by Submitted on Jun 17, 2016 from Risa RuseIt is usually a very long, winding road to recovery from events of PTSD. If a person gets help right away, it may not take as long as it did for me. After hearing a preacher’s message in a sermon, a revelation transpired. He said that each of us has a seed planted by God (as I became ...
Views: 340 - Qigong Clears PTSD Emotional Guards - by Submitted on Jun 08, 2016 from Risa RuseWhen we find ourselves faced with a troublesome issue, reflect first. Be quiet, and still your senses so that the answer comes as you thirst. In silence ask yourself, “What caused this strange situation to begin?” Looking over what emotions have overflowed will keep us from a spin. You ...
Views: 361 - Qigong Opens PTSD Secret Assassin Attacks - by Submitted on May 30, 2016 from Risa Ruse1 Peter 4:12 quandary proclaims strange, fiery trials we are experiencing. This passage explains much, as customized, cruel tribulations may bring. We may have been trying our very best to get along with others. Only to be continually attacked by those we treat as sisters, and ...
Views: 385 - Qigong Destroys PTSD Infantry - by Submitted on May 20, 2016 from Risa RuseIsaiah 43:18-21 describes temptations’ power over us as being done. There God proclaims how He makes a way, once His will has begun! He arrives like the Calvary with guns blasting whether on land, or sea. The battle is not just won, but the enemy is rebuked to destruction, you see. Those ...
Views: 425 - Qigong Washes PTSD Emotions Away - by Submitted on May 04, 2016 from Risa RuseHow can we expect to drink clean water out of a dirty glass? When such is given to us, it is right to just let that grime pass. Otherwise, no matter what kind of water purifier we have it will be corrupted. It is such a waste of time, and effort to continue while success is ...
Views: 402 - Qigong Clears PTSD Making Our Purpose Possible - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2016 from Risa RuseConquering covert, and overt evil in the world starts in our own heart. Putting away our past hurts from PTSD is the way to a good, healthy start. Saint Paul’s Philippians 3:13 concentrates on eagerly moving forward. We must set our minds to move past what issues kept us going ...
Views: 370 - Transform PTSD Solitary Through Qigong Clearing - by Submitted on Apr 06, 2016 from Risa RuseThere is nothing worse than having a sapping secret to feed. It takes away precious life-force energy to make it continuously heed. PTSD is like filling up your gas tank, and emptying it getting lost. We keep using up our energy, going nowhere at a hidden cost. Some of us with trauma may ...
Views: 424 - Qigong Transforms PTSD Winter Into Spring - by Submitted on Mar 09, 2016 from Risa RuseThe seasons of the year coincides with how we can celebrate our days. Those of us with PTSD may be considered being in winter with delays. We may be still clearing out the debris of storms that came years ago. This kind of rubble comes from carrying negative emotions that grow. These ...
Views: 416 - Qigong Rebukes PTSD Stalking Ghosts - by Submitted on Mar 03, 2016 from Risa RuseWhen dealing with PTSD we need to ask ourselves a few things. It is an internal conversation, where we wait to see what the answer brings. We become our own judge, and jury when we examine each, and every fact. It is important that we are truly honest, so as to keep our ego in tact. The ...
Views: 452 - PTSD Healing Is Not Free - by Submitted on Feb 18, 2016 from Risa RuseWe should beware of merchants offering their goods for free. Examine their motives, with strings attached, for healing PTSD. Satan, and his demons are a type of merchant with strings, too. He may suggest taking the easy way out in suicide, which is true. Doctors, and therapists may make ...
Views: 476 - Qigong Replaces PTSD With Prosperity - by Submitted on Feb 10, 2016 from Risa RuseYou know success is near when friends become haters, you see. They realize there is something grander in you (they cannot be.) It was all well, and good to give us encouragement when down. After all, having to live with PTSD would make anyone frown. For years, perhaps, our past trauma ...
Views: 430 - PTSD Poverty Is Declined By Association - by Submitted on Feb 03, 2016 from Risa RuseIf we are struggling with our finances, this may be linked to our purpose, too. That will take some time to internally investigate what keeps us so blue. Having experiences linked to PTSD will affect that area, most certainly. This is because we become impoverished in our positive emotions, ...
Views: 471 - Sink PTSD Patterns To Win Against A Bully - by Submitted on Jan 28, 2016 from Risa RuseIt may have been smooth sailing for a while in our lives. Then all of a sudden something happens, and we break out in hives! We become engaged into a new storm, or situation of despair. Those with PTSD have significant events of trauma to compare. How do we manage to get out of this ...
Views: 511(1 vote) - PTSD Closes Open Doors - by Submitted on Jan 20, 2016 from Risa RuseThink earnestly, even if our life’s PTSD experience has taught us to be mean. To continue to mistreat others this way, we only allow misery to glean. By persisting to act out old behavior, we deprive ourselves, too. Instead of moving forward, we endorse what has made us blue! We react to ...
Views: 432 - Walk PTSD Out Of Life’s Closed Doors - by Submitted on Jan 12, 2016 from Risa RuseWhat a strange concept, that seems to pull away from reality. It will make more sense, if we connect PTSD to emotions of carnality. Okay, let us give these emotions a face describing the following list. The carnal man or woman connects to fear, anger, worry, stress, and lust. In ...
Views: 464 - Sing PTSD Away For A Happy New Year - by Submitted on Jan 04, 2016 from Risa RuseThe song with words, “Should old acquaintance be forgot” applies here. Those of us with PTSD need to do so in order for healing to truly adhere. New Year’s day is anytime we begin to reflect on how we can smother sorrow. For instance, “What can we get rid of today to proliferate a better ...
Views: 459 - Qigong Removes PTSD Candles On The Hurting Heart - by Submitted on Dec 16, 2015 from Risa RuseLots of candles on a cake remind us of life gone by. They can represent memories of happiness, or a sigh. Those of us with PTSD will have the latter, unfortunately. Repressing those memorable hurts protects us conditionally. We avoid counting the candles blown out to keep going, you ...
Views: 420 - Dear Dr. Romance: He has PTSD and I'm going crazy - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2015 from Tina TessinaDear Dr. Romance: I have been married for about four years now and my husband and I got married at 18 we have 3 kids all under the age of four and it gets stressful sometimes for both of us. He is in the army, he's been a soldier for almost 3 years now he was deployed ...
Views: 555(1 vote) - Qigong Releases PTSD Roadblocks Revealing A Blessing - by Submitted on Dec 01, 2015 from Risa RusePerhaps, we with PTSD have been diligent in our healing practice each day. We incorporate orchestras of alternative healing techniques, per say. For myself, using Qigong energy relieves deep-rooted, blocked emotions. Further releases of negative energy come with my own prayerful ...
Views: 462 - PTSD Famine Is Over When Faith Is Fed - by Submitted on Nov 13, 2015 from Risa RuseHaving PTSD can be compared to having a famine in our mind. It is a persistent weed-type of unnatural, inharmonious growth, this kind. Such takes over the garden of constructive thoughts in our lives. Misery proliferates not just in relationships, but a financial hole thrives! As it ...
Views: 568 - Qigong Promotes PTSD Victims Into Survivors - by Submitted on Oct 08, 2015 from Risa RuseThere is something universal to how we with PTSD react to abuse. Having experienced a trauma or two we may think trying is of no use. What is it that makes a miserably, mistreated woman ultimately stay? Her conviction to a religious conscience may be a heavy reason in play. The thing ...
Views: 402 - Qigong Pushes PTSD Aside So We Can Try Again - by Submitted on Oct 01, 2015 from Risa RusePerhaps, we have been trying all kinds of alternative healing. It is not from our lack of sincere diligence that the devil keeps stealing. What we have to realize is that staying in the same situation stagnates. Whatever positive affirmations being said, the circumstance negates. Letting ...
Views: 401 - Qigong Slashes PTSD Emotions With Sword Fingers - by Submitted on Sep 16, 2015 from Risa RuseEphesians 6:12 tell us that the battle is not ours to fight. It is God’s battle-axe we must swing with all our might! Flesh and blood cannot resist, alone, against power-hungry principalities. Such is the same for us with PTSD combating the mind’s imagined realities. We need to be armed ...
Views: 442 - The technique to combat stress - by Submitted on Sep 04, 2015 from Victor MarchioneWe all experience stress – some more than others. Although stress is a normal response, over the long-term it can have detrimental effects on your health. Combating stress is important; it can help improve your health and the stressful situation. Stress can affect the body in numerous ways by ...
Views: 507 - Qigong Evicts PTSD By Making Room For Change - by Submitted on Sep 02, 2015 from Risa RuseLet us liken our minds to the measure of a cup full, per say. No matter what the substance is, only what is within can stay. Our cups may have formerly been filled with laughter, and joy inside. Then after a traumatic event(s) only fear, and anger may stubbornly abide. Thoughts of the ...
Views: 486 - Changing PTSD Raiment With The Seasons Of Life - by Submitted on Aug 06, 2015 from Risa RuseWhat we with PTSD need to consider for healing is a seasonal, changing strategy. Without a constant attention to where we are, our progress becomes a tragedy! The things like protective mechanisms may no longer be advantageous. Those emotions of anger, and fear prevented us from becoming ...
Views: 492 - Qigong Unglues PTSD Brokenness - by Submitted on Jul 30, 2015 from Risa RuseUnlike a broken china cup, we with PTSD can be glued back together. Applying things (like giving our time) can heal like a tickling feather! Doing so not only helps others, but also takes our attention off of the past. Filling our days with caring tasks proliferates a sense of joy that may ...
Views: 515 - Rebuke PTSD Spirits Through Qigong And Prayer - by Submitted on Jun 22, 2015 from Risa RuseWhat we with PTSD need to know is in the form of a spiritual concept. It is vital for healing ourselves that negativity we daily reject. This comes in the characteristics of universal emotions, you see. There is a spirit attached, especially, to reactions of negativity. One must be in ...
Views: 508 - Qigong Hedges PTSD Fear - by Submitted on Jun 04, 2015 from Risa RuseFear may come again just when we have gotten over a chaotic season. Perhaps, God’s Divine plan for us being on the way is the reason. Elijah, in I Kings 19, is an example of how victory may turn over to fear. He was given strength to do God’s will beyond himself, and that is clear. Our ...
Views: 513 - Qigong Pulls PTSD Out So We Can Birth New Life - by Submitted on May 28, 2015 from Risa RuseAll of us (at one time or another) will experience some kind of pain. There is comfort in knowing that one-day, too, will come a greater gain. In Daniel 6:27 depicts how he was delivered from the lions' power, you see. His faith sustained him through terrific trial, like trauma in you and ...
Views: 468 - Qigong Demolishes PTSD Walls To Free Our Spirits - by Submitted on May 11, 2015 from Risa RuseJohn 14:12-14 states, “That whatever we ask in My name, the Father will do.” We can bank on that happening when we run towards our purpose to pursue! Knowing what that Divine purpose is that was created for us is key. Not asking for something that does not fulfill the Father’s will, you ...
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