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Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Transcendental Meditation Helps Military Veterans Combat Stress

Deployed to Afghanistan in 2009, 34-year-old Luke Jensen says his nearly two-month experience as a military police officer took its toll on his mental health. Once back home in Ohio, things continued to spiral down.

"I had put a gun to my head in front of my wife and children. That's how intense it was," Jensen says. "Everything was setting me off. Punching holes through my walls. Punching holes through doors. My children walking on eggshells around me."

Counseling, various therapies and medications didn't work. But in 2011, Jensen says he got his life back with transcendental meditation.

"I noticed very soon, I started sleeping better, and just that alone was huge," Jensen says.
Jensen shared his story at a recent conference exploring meditation as a means of overcoming posttraumatic stress disorder and preventing suicides in the military.
"You have one veteran committing suicide every hour in the United States," says Bob Roth, executive director of the David Lynch Foundation. "Thirty times more vets commit suicide then die in combat."

The David Lynch Foundation organized the conference. The nonprofit launched Operation Warrior Wellness three years ago to provide veterans, military personnel and their families free training in transcendental meditation. (MORE)

Source: manhattan.nyi.com

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