Veterans Found Relief Together
Male veterans (average age 61) showed decreased depression after 8 weeks of Hatha yoga, with added benefit from practicing alongside fellow veterans.
Male veterans (average age 61) showed decreased depression after 8 weeks of Hatha yoga, with added benefit from practicing alongside fellow veterans.
You already know what you should do. That’s not the problem. The problem is that knowing doesn’t hold. You mean well, right up until there’s something at stake. A competitive moment. A conversation that matters. A situation where the right thing is expensive. And then some other mechanism takes over, and you do the thing you didn’t quite mean to do. You have a story about it afterward. Everyone has this experience. The interesting question isn’t why — evolution explains that clearly enough. The interesting question is whether there’s a different foundation for ethics. One that doesn’t depend on willpower in the moment. Here’s what the yoga tradition actually says about this, which is not what most teachers say. Ahimsa — non-harming — shows up…
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After 10 weeks of trauma-informed yoga, 52% of women with chronic treatment-resistant PTSD no longer met diagnostic criteria, versus 21% in the control group.
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