Army’s New PTSD Treatments: Yoga, Reiki, ‘Bioenergy’ – Danger Room from Wired.com
The military is scrambling for new ways to treat the brain injuries and post-traumatic stress of troops returning home from war. And every kind of therapy — no matter how far outside the accepted medical form — is being considered. The Army just unveiled a $4 million program to investigate everything from “spiritual ministry, transcendental meditation, [and] yoga” to “bioenergies such as Qi gong, Reiki, [and] distant healing” to mend the psyches of wounded troops.
As many as 17 percent of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans have some form of post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, one congressional study estimates. Nearly 3,300 troops have suffered traumatic brain injury, or TBI, according to statistics assembled last summer. And the lifetime costs of treating these ailments could pile up to as much as $35 billion, a Columbia University report guesses.
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I wrote an article with meditation techniques specifically for returning soldiers. It can be found at (http://curtremington.com/wordpress/?p=7).
The techniques are based on meditations I learned during a clairvoyant training program. They are great for releasing stress, pain, anger and guilt. Along with some “warrior meditations,” I included “spiritual questions related to war” and suggestions for “getting on with life.”
To any soldiers reading this, thank you. Please try my meditations, and I hope you will find them helpful. I use them every day.
Sincerely,
Curt Remington