Stress for Success: Meditation Helps Balance the PTSD Brain

After experiencing horrific events where physical harm either occurred or was threatened such as violent assaults, natural disasters, health emergencies or military combat, some people develop post-traumatic stress disorder.

Managing such trauma is significantly easier for those who experienced only mild early childhood threats that were followed by physical activity to burn off stress hormones and by periods of calm and security, and received supportive parenting (more on this at stressforsuccess.blogspot.com.)

For some soldiers, this means their vulnerability to war trauma actually began in childhood. The more childhood upheaval, the more vulnerability to:

- Overreacting to challenges because their stress hormones are too easily triggered. (MORE)