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A time to heal
Letter to the Editor
Around this time of year, six years ago, I was walking from Quesnel to Riondel, in an attempt to bring public awareness to the fact that we need to address the emotional trauma plaguing our society.
PTSD is the term that has been coined to encapsulate these deeply emotional and mental wounds to an individual’s inner matrix. Words, however, hardly reflect the inner devastation that, our veterans and first responders have experienced and continue to live with on a daily basis.
I left Quesnel on March 31, 2010 at 9:30 a.m. from the Maple Park Mall. I walked every step of the way and arrived in Riondel on the evening of April 26, 2010. While I was waiting to board the Kootenay Lake ferry, to take me over to the road leading into Riondel, a woman approached me. She had seen me walking through Kelowna some days before and asked if I had walked all the way. I assured her I had. Her response was, “If you have that kind of determination, you can do anything you set your mind to.” This of course brought a smile of appreciation, as I made notes in my journal.
It is with this same determination that I continue to seek to provide an alternative approach to dealing with emotional trauma in a meaningful, effective and comprehensive way. I am confident I have the right combination at the right time to remedy this egregious affliction to our veterans and our first responders.
I am proud of the fact that the Canadian Military has maintained the honourable role of acting as a force for keeping the peace. This traditional role has brought this country, much deserved respect, for our commitment to maintaining that position. They are also committed to getting our men and women of the armed services the best care they can and have maintained a high standard in that regard.
But PTSD – or deep emotional trauma – has presented itself as a bit of an unfamiliar challenge, because they are dealing with a situation that, is beyond their traditional theatre of operation. Everything the military deals with usually happens on a physical level where their actions and results can be analyzed and adjusted until the desired results are achieved.
Dealing with more subtle realities, is exasperating for them because, they can no longer apply formulas that work well in challenging physical environments.
I have watched this developing crisis over the last few years, seeing the effects of various cases filtering into the light of the mainstream media, often adding further tragedy to already existing, fragile circumstance. It has now reached a point of crisis, which may indicate the possibility, of the military and first responders, being ready to entertain non-traditional methods for addressing this critical issue.
I have developed a system that integrates a combination of alternative approaches that, can address this affliction at the root of the problem. Dealing with this problem from the physical level alone will not give the desired results. Applying pharmaceuticals will only cause volcanic eruptions of emotional release and the results of such occurrences are available for scrutiny, as various news stories will attest to.
This is my attempt to crash the traditional approaches that have nothing in this area to offer, in the way of real remedy. I want to bring innovation to this challenging problem that has the potential to revolutionize how emotional trauma is analyzed, then released from the emotional matrix. These unconscious forces operating below one’s conscious radar have a way of becoming evident, in the most inappropriate of situations as many know first hand. This progressive approach, will allow the individual’s affected, to consciously release the charged emotion from the areas of the unconscious, where they are locked up and undermining the quality of life.
This stage of releasing the toxic emotions is followed up with a second stage, which will supplant these negatively charged emotions with positive ones. In effect, giving those critically affected the opportunity to work through a process that will give them a level of functionality and motivation they haven’t experienced in a very long time.
It is my hope that this vision I have of bringing forward this important work, generates interest among the right people in this and other communities across the country, as well as in the Canadian Military and among the first responders engaged in their own private struggles.
Quesnel is an ideal community to begin this work on a small scale as a means to allow those with the interest, to get some attention given to their affliction and allow others the opportunity to do their own assessment of the results.
I am throwing down the gauntlet and challenging anyone who has an interest in this subject, to sit and dialogue on a deep and intelligent level, to examine the merit of what I am bringing to the table. The work is experiential not intellectual and will only become comprehensible through involvement in the work.
Like the Canadian Military, I too want to see those who are wiling to sacrifice themselves to uphold our values and defend our freedoms, receive the best quality care, we as a society can give them.
If you wish to contact me for some exploratory discussion you may do so through my email – [email protected].
Vibhuti Srimatadas,
Quesnel/Riondel
