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Dealing with 3am Black Dog

Steve Rowe

Dealing the 3am black dog. When you wake with that incredible feeling of dread or anxiety, when PTSD is at its height and what is normally only irritating makes you extremely angry. Breathe in fully and completely using lower abdomen, then expanding the ribcage and lengthening the neck and drain all energy, softening all tissue down with the outbreath to the lower abdomen. If that doesn’t work sit up and do the same. If that doesn’t work use distraction, think of a random word and with each letter of that word think of every other word that starts with that … Continue reading Dealing with 3am Black Dog

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Meditation, Sleep and Dying

Steve Rowe

When you can’t sleep, or you’re sick and terrified of dying it’s because you can’t let go. Going to sleep is like dying, you stop thinking and drift in a state of just being and if you can do this through meditation practice, you sleep deeply and restoratively. Similarly when you are sick and death is inevitable, you drift in to that state of just being and returning to the source of all things dying peacefully. See how the two are connected? When you meditate you loose the shackles and burdens of life, resting in that beautiful place of refuge … Continue reading Meditation, Sleep and Dying