Crystal Prescriptions: The A-Z Guide to Over 1,200 Symptoms and Their Healing Crystals - Judy Hall 2006

Post-traumatic stress disorder
The Basics

The effect of PTSD can be far-reaching. PTSD can be a debilitating disorder, and its symptoms can have a negative impact on a number of different areas in a person’s life. In particular, PTSD can negatively affect a person’s mental health, physical health, work, and relationships… But in the midst of such grim findings, scientists also sound a note of hope for PTSD patients and their loved ones. According to them, by delving into the pathophysiology of PTSD, they have also realized that the disorder is reversible. The human brain can be re-wired… The brain is a finely-tuned instrument. It is fragile, but it is heartening to know that the brain also has an amazing capacity to regenerate. [http://healthwatchwi.com/tag/ptsd/]

PTSD is a graphic reliving of previous trauma through vivid flashbacks and nightmares. I am including the subject of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in this section because it can have ancestral (transgenerational), soul and karmic aspects as well as personal present life experiences. They play out in the background at varying levels and in different ways according to the area of life where the PTSD first arose — which may be many lifetimes ’back in time’ although in fact in PTSD there is no time as such. The trauma remains in the now. In transgenerational stress passed down a family, the person experiencing the subtle symptoms of PTSD may have no knowledge of its source. Some, but not all, memories of personal past lives may in fact be genetically transmitted ancestral memories. Although it is not uncommon for a soul to reincarnate into the same, or a similar, family line in order to heal the effects of the original trigger event.

It is not only the human brain that can regenerate in such situations; the human soul is indestructible no matter how battered or intermittently fragmented it may become. This is where the major healing needs to occur (see Part III). The effects of which are then transmitted to the physical level of being. However, the original stressor event may create thought forms that will need to be dissolved (see page 255) and soul retrieval may well be necessary (page 204) in addition to returning any spirit attachments to the light (see page 214). Healing PTSD in the present moment not only heals the past but also transmutes it so that is not transmitted to future generations.

Symptoms of PTSD

✵ Intrusive recollections — vivid flashbacks and nightmares

✵ Inability to recall trigger event

✵ Fragmented soul

✵ Chronic fatigue

✵ Hyperarousal: constantly on high alert — ’flight or fight’ mode permanently switched on

✵ Suppressed cortisol levels

✵ Dissociation (’checking out’)

✵ Functioning on ’automatic pilot’

✵ ’Memory out of whack’, unreliable, confused and intermittent

✵ False memory syndrome

✵ Inability to correctly interpret an environmental context — emotions and physical reactions occur in the body that do not relate to what is going on in the moment

✵ Inability to control emotional responses

✵ Emotional anaesthesia — ’numbness’

✵ Toxic emotions — shame, fear, anger, guilt, agitation

✵ Extreme emotional reactions

✵ Inability to experience positive emotions or enjoy activities — life is ’flat, lacklustre and depressed’

✵ Excessive ’startle response’

✵ Paranoia, feeling unsafe. Tendency to be jumpy and uncomfortable around people.

✵ Panic attacks

✵ Self-destructive activities

✵ Addiction to danger, drugs, alcohol

✵ Constant, extreme stress levels

✵ Insomnia

✵ Suicidal feelings

✵ Head or stomach aches, bowel problems

✵ ’Frozen in time’ — suspended in the past

✵ Avoidance of people, places, activities or thoughts that reactivate memories

✵ Negative belief system, e.g. ’the world is a bad place’

[Extracted from http://healthwatchwi.com/tag/ptsd/ with additions by Judy Hall]

Flashback: A spontaneous remembering of a past life or traumatic event. It may come out of the blue or be triggered by a place (déjà vu), person or object, or by touching the part of the body involved in the memory. All the senses will be involved: sight, sound, touch and smell.

PTSD and previous lives

PTSD does not simply occur from present life experiences. Previous life, intrauterine experience, and ancestral trauma may also create PTSD as may living on the site of an old trauma in those who are psychically sensitive.

Stressors that trigger re-emergence

✵ Event or emotional challenge which mirrors original cause

✵ Major life event

✵ Change in relationship(s)

✵ Lack of social support

✵ Lack of validation

✵ Vulnerability from previous trauma reignited by current events

✵ Interpersonal violation — especially by trusted others

✵ Actual or symbolic loss

✵ Beliefs are challenged by events

✵ Shattering of illusions and defensive walls

✵ Return to the site or source

✵ Regression techniques

✵ Touching a vulnerable part of the body

The hippocampus

Grid cells have attracted attention because the crystal-like structure underlying their firing fields is not, like in sensory systems, imported from the outside world, but is created within the brain itself… the map is associated with specific features and experiences, forming individualized maps that are stored in the neural networks of this brain region.

May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser¹¹

The hippocampus is where new brain cells are born and where memories are mediated.¹² It actually contains natural Magnetite crystals within it.¹³ According to Health Watch, “The most significant neurological impact of trauma is seen in the hippocampus. PTSD patients show a considerable reduction in the volume of the hippocampus. This region of the brain is responsible for memory functions. It helps an individual to record new memories and retrieve them later in response to specific and relevant environmental stimuli. The hippocampus, a direction finder ’compass’, also helps us distinguish between past and present memories.”

This means that PTSD patients no longer have the ability to discriminate between past and present. As a result, minor stressors that have very little to do with the initial trigger may have a profound impact, recreating an event as though it is happening in the present moment. Health Watch use the example of a rape victim for whom any car park will trigger a reliving because the first event occurred around parked cars. However, the fact that there are crystalline structures within the hippocampus means that crystals can be used to entrain the hippocampus back to more appropriate functioning. Preseli Bluestone or Fluorapatite is particularly useful in resetting the hippocampus, but see the A—Z Directory. And the even better news is that, as the hippocampus is where new brain cells are born, neuroplasticity means that fresh cells can forge new pathways and new memories, a process enhanced by meditation, relaxation and crystal entrainment.

By using our mind (spirit/will) to calm ourselves the new cells born in the hippocampus can help the brain forge new pathways [through] neuroplasticity.

Dan Siegel, “Understanding how your mind can heal your brain.”

Neuroplasticity: “The brain’s ability to reorganize itself by forming new neural connections throughout life. Neuroplasticity allows the neurons (nerve cells) in the brain to compensate for injury and disease and to adjust their activities in response to new situations or to changes in their environment.”

http://www.medicinenet.com