Do This 1 Hour a Day and Heal PTSD Permanently

Here's how to process PTSD in under a year. Step 1, learn how to process trauma at the root independently on your own. Step 2, put in an hour of processing every single day without fail. Step 3, wait 12 months. If you're able to do these 3 steps, you will fully heal. This is how I healed. This is how I've helped over 2,000 other people fully heal from PTSD, and it will work for you too. I'm going to walk you through these 3 steps in this video, how to actually process trauma at the root independently, how to stay consistent so you're putting in an hour day in and day out until you fully recover, And you are persistent, so you stick with it until you fully heal. Because if you fail in any of these 3 areas, you will not heal. So step 1, learn how to process trauma at the root. How do you do this? There are 2 fundamentals that you need to do to process any trauma. The first one is a release of emotion from your body, because trauma isn't just a psychological thing, it's also a physiological and physical thing as well. You have to release, physically release the emotion from your body. Now this can look like vocalizations or your body shaking or crying. The way that it looks doesn't really matter. What really matters is that you are allowing your body and you're allowing yourself to express the emotion in the way it needs to be expressed authentically, honestly, without you judging it, without you getting in the way of it, without you pushing it away. You're just allowing your body to release the emotion in the way that it needs to be released. And that's very important. A lot of people online and whatever, they talk about these specific exercises where you I don't know, you move certain areas of your body and that might help some people, but at the end of the day, the first principle of releasing emotion is just allowing your body to release the emotion in the way that it needs to release it. Now, this is also a skill that has to be built, releasing emotions. It's not something that just magically happens. And there's also a lot of negative beliefs that you probably have about feeling emotions or crying or what have you. And a lot of people get this wrong as well, as they think that in order to heal, they have to be vulnerable in a group of people. They have to break down in front of people they care about. Or strangers. But in reality, it— none of those things matter. The only thing that matters is that you release the emotion. Who you release it in front of doesn't matter. For me, 99.9% of my healing and emotional release happened on my own. Nobody saw it. Why? Because that's the way I wanted it. I didn't want anybody to see me breaking down or crying or shaking or yelling or screaming or making all of these strange guttural noises that my body made when I was processing. I didn't want anybody else to have to deal with that. That was just my choice. Now, if you want to do it around other people, or you have supportive people that love you and care about you and will support you through that, go for it. By all means. I acknowledge everybody has their own path, but for me, this is just the way that I did it and what worked best for me. And I know that a lot of people, they have this false belief where they, they think, or they're told by a therapist that they have to break down crying in front of other people. And in reality, you do not have to do that. You can do it on your own. So that's the first piece is releasing the emotion. The second piece is the logical side. So we have the emotional side and we have the logical side. It's basically the yin and yang of trauma recovery. The logical side is a logical change of belief. So when you go through a trauma, it doesn't just affect you physically and emotionally. It also affects you logically. It completely changes the way you perceive and see the world and yourself. And there are 2 different types of beliefs that this affects within you. The first one are internal beliefs. So beliefs that you have about yourself, about your identity, about your worth, about your capabilities. Those are all internal beliefs, but there's also external beliefs as well. And those would be beliefs about other people, about the world, about what other people might do to you. Another way you could put it are identity beliefs. So beliefs around your identity or self-concept and worldview beliefs, beliefs about the world at large. So one great practice that you can do is just list out all of the internal beliefs, all the beliefs you have about yourself. And all of the negative beliefs that you have about the world at large and about other people. And when you compile those 2 lists of negative beliefs, you now have so much data that you can go and process. And then what I would do then is rate right next to each one. I would write down the distress level. So I write DL, and then I would write down a number between 1 and 10 on how much distress this negative belief caused me. So then I would have a list of all my negative beliefs. I would have them all ranked by distress. And then I put them in order from highest to lowest. And then I would have a dashboard of everything that I needed to work on. And then from there, I would pick the most distressing belief that I felt like I was capable of changing. So I would make the list, I would rank order them, and I'd pick the biggest one that is also manageable for me at this time. And then that would be the one that I focus on. And I would work on challenging that belief and changing it to a positive version until the distress level of that negative belief went down to zero. And then once you change and challenge that one belief, you can move on to the next biggest one that is also, again, manageable for you. So again, you have the logical side of processing and you have the emotional side of processing. Now, it's easy to talk about these in isolation, but when in practice, when you're actually doing these things, both of these are really combined together. So you can be releasing emotions, but as you're releasing emotions, you also want to be conscious of what you're thinking about and the negative beliefs that might be arising from that emotional release. And as you're becoming aware of those negative beliefs in your mind, you can challenge them as you're releasing emotions and change it to something more positive. And again, this isn't something that just happens overnight. It takes hours and hours and hours of painful work to actually be able to do this. Honestly, you could go through 5, 6, 7, 8 sessions and really not feel that much of a difference, especially in the beginning when you're first developing this skill. And that's why being persistent and consistent is super important. So that's the first piece there, learning how to process trauma at the root independently, because if you can't independently process trauma, then you will not be able to do the second step, which is putting in an hour in consistently every single day like clockwork. If you're not being consistent, then you will have these massive ups and downs. And you will actually experience more trauma from the inconsistency that will actually take away from the progress that you've been making. Now, an hour again is just a guideline. You don't have to do an hour, you could do 2, you could do 3. I was doing about 3 hours per day, hour and a half in the morning, hour and a half at night, just because I wanted to move faster. But I have clients who have done more than that. And I've had clients who have done less than that. So I've had clients do as little as 15 minutes per day, because that's All that was manageable for them at the time. And I had clients that were literally doing 8 hours of processing every single day. So the hour per day is just a guideline. It's really what's manageable for you. And a good way to figure out what's manageable for you is to imagine your worst day and imagine an amount of time that you could put in even on your worst day. And what I like to call this is your minimum standard. So the minimum amount of time that you can hit day in and day out, even on your worst day, is the baseline that you want to be aiming for. Because the important thing at this point in time is not getting in a lot of hours, even though if you can, I definitely want you to. The most important thing is staying consistent. And the way that you stay consistent isn't by setting these massive goals or by doing 10 hours in one day, but imagining what you can do on your worst day and then setting that as your minimum standard. So let's say on your worst day, you can imagine yourself doing 15 minutes per day, like one of my clients, then that's what you do. And that's your goal every single day, hit 15 minutes, hit 15 minutes. But let's say you're going along and then one day you feel like doing more, you feel like doing an hour. Now, just because your minimum standard is 15 minutes does not mean if you're feeling inspired or motivated, you can't do an hour. Absolutely do the hour. But on the next day, if you're having like the worst day, go back to your 15 minutes. And this is how you're able to stay consistent yet stay flexible enough on those days where you feel motivated, where you can actually do more. Because again, it's the consistency that matters over a long period of time, not these big fly and die movements. So consistency. Now the last piece here is persistence. You have to stay persistent over the long term. You can't have this short-term view. PTSD did not happen overnight. Recovery is not going to happen overnight either. If you're not persistent, you will give up and you will never come back to this. And that's happened with God only knows how many people. I know people who are in their 60s, 70s, and 80s and still have PTSD. It is a long-term goal. It is something that you're going to have to work and work and work and work and work before you see any results at all. So you have to stay consistent, but you also have to stay persistent. Now, how do you actually do this? How do you actually stay persistent in your pursuit of full recovery? It really comes down to the metaphor of the carrot and the stick. The carrot being what you desire and the stick being the pain that you're running away from. Or another way to put it is that the carrot is the life that you want and the stick is the life that you don't want. So the carrot in this case, I call this your recovery hero. So this is a vision of your future self that you design out all the beliefs, all the characteristics, the relationships, the life, the house, everything internally and externally that you want this recovery hero to have. Basically, it's a representation of who you will be after you fully recover. And you want to really craft that out until it's very vivid. And that's something you want to refresh on a daily basis. And that'll be your carrot that'll pull you forward. But as humans, we're not just motivated by positive desires. We're also very much motivated by pain. So the stick, on the other hand, is the vision of your life if you don't heal, if you don't go through and you don't process your past, if you don't put in that 1 hour per day consistently. What will your life look like? And this is something that a lot of people don't want to look at because it's honestly, it's really painful. If you imagine your life as it is right now, projected out another 5, 10, 20, 30 years, as your trauma just compounds over time, that life is horrible. And I know for me, that life was literally me not even existing, but it's something that we have to confront because so often we are in denial of the negative impact that trauma has on our life. So we have to confront that. In order to motivate ourselves, to push ourselves so that we can be persistent in our pursuit to full recovery. Because if you stop short, if you stop halfway, you will not heal. You need that vision that you refresh every single day. You look at your goals, you look at your vision, you look at the person you want to become, and you alter yourself gradually over time. You change little pieces of yourself to become more and more in alignment of that ideal future self that you're aiming for. But you also remind yourself of the life that could happen, like losing yourself, losing your relationship, becoming addicted. Losing your house, whatever it might be, all of the painful things that can happen down the road. You want to remind yourself of those negative things because those are the reasons why you are doing what you're doing. Because honestly, trauma processing, it is painful and you will not want to do it. So you need to be motivated. You need to have that inner drive within you that will not give up no matter what, that will just run through wall after wall after wall after wall and have therapists and experts tell you that you cannot do this, that this is This is how your life's going to be forever, and say, no, I'm committed. I'm going to see this through until the end, and I'm going to fully recover. And if you have those 3 things, you know how to process your trauma, you are consistent every single day, and you are persistent, and you do not give up until you reach full recovery. If you're able to do these 3 steps, you will fully heal.