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Who Gets Better from Combat Stress (and How)

By Belleruth Naparstek — 2011

There are several studies claiming a 70-percent improvement rate for returning warriors who are treated for combat stress with various cognitive behavioral therapies and/or prolonged exposure strategies. But this is a misleading number.

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The Extraordinary Power of the Imagination in Healing

You could argue that there’s three coding languages, one being your native language, the second being mathematics, [or] ways of representing the world internally to yourself, and the third is through imagery.

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How Weight Lifting Helped One Writer Work Through Her PTSD

Personal trainer and former competitive weight lifter Laura Khoudari discusses her research and her experience with strength training as an embodied movement practice that has helped her heal from her own trauma and help other trauma survivors.

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Deepak Chopra Discusses the Role of Alternative Medicine and Spirituality in Wellbeing

Integrated medicine expert Deepak Chopra joined USC’s dean of religious life in virtual conversation through Visions and Voices’ Thrive series

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Three Principles of Guided Imagery

To the body, images created in the mind can be almost as real as actual, external events. The mind doesn’t quite get the difference. That’s why, when we read a recipe, we start to salivate and get hungrier.

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The Art of Healing

Catherine Ann Lombard explores how imagery and artistic expression can help clients cope with cancer.

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Guided Therapeutic Imagery

Guided therapeutic imagery, a technique in which mental health professionals help individuals in therapy focus on mental images in order to evoke feelings of relaxation, is based on the concept of mind-body connection.

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