FREE Mental Health Micro Guide #30

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This issue is proudly brought to you

as part of an ongoing project with the Lighthouse Team

at YMCA Exeter

supporting residents and key workers

in mental health education and recovery.

This week: understanding PTSD

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The Question: How do we understand PTSD?

PTSD can push us out of order and back through time.

Here are 4 small ways to push back.

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The Time-Saver: Understanding PTSD

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The Pause Portal: Deodar Glen, Killerton Estate (Speed)

Feel the need for speed?

And what does that speed mean?

Is it efficiency?

Is it work rate?

Is it "red-lining" it?

This scene in Deodar Glen, Killerton Estate, Devon UK is full of different speeds.

The flurry of notes as the birds sing.

Dunnock. Blackcap. Blackbird. Robin.

The slow grazing of the longhorn cattle consuming grass and brush alike.

The invisible growth of the pines as they sway in the slightest breeze.

But it's not just about what we see and hear-

it's about what continues.

A robin forages 50% of it's bodyweight each day.

4x that if feeding fledglings.

A longhorn produces 10 gallons of milk each day

and forages 14kg of grass, brush and shrubs each day.

A pine tree intercepts 10, 000 watts of solar energy each daylight hour

absorbs 60g of carbon each day

and provides enough oxygen each day for 4 people.

And all of these processes have been continuing

for hundreds of thousands of years relatively unchanged.

Perhaps what works is right under our nose

but we speed past it.

Use this time now among the pines

to slow your breathing

and not rush away.

Try it and se what difference it makes.

(fwd is aiming to have all video content accompanied with a descriptive transcript so that we can benefit from the wisdom and character of all who engage. The descriptive transcript can be found under the video in Youtube.)

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