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By: Charles W. Boatright
Our Core Strength & Mental Awareness of PTSC– Our Core Strength is a Major Component of Our Mental Health/Awareness in Everyday Functions
The health benefits of physical fitness are a significant component of what the medical field refers to as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). This has been especially proven to be beneficial to Veterans returning from deployment from Iraq and Afghanistan. There is mounting evidence that even Yoga and Pilates help our Veterans with their physical, mental, and emotional balance and to address PTSC (Post Traumatic Stress Condition). I don’t like using the term disorder, because it is a condition that can be dealt with.
That was one reason that I developed the program Operation DOG*TAG, not just for Veterans alone, but for civilians. Because after I return to civilian life I work in line work that has its own issues with hazards. I developed Operation DOG*TAG to help our Veterans and civilian population to use strength and conditioning training to address our Core Mental Awareness, CMA, which is our subconscious mind.
NOTE: The Subconscious mind- consists of 88 percent of our brain capacity. The subconscious mind also houses all our natural instincts, habits, and feelings. So addressing the subconscious mind is a huge issue in maintaining our Core Mental Awareness especially dealing with PTSC.
The Causes PTSC
When we feel or sense a threat or danger, our brain triggers our Adrenaline Gland, at the top of our kidneys, to release the hormone cortisol that causes our natural survival mode to kick in. This causes an emergency response, like an alarm system going off. Too much or unregulated release of cortisol causes stress, depression, high blood pressure, brain fog, and anxiety, leading to negative and dramatic mood swings and a feeling of vulnerability. The feeling of vulnerability is what causes us to feel that we are in damage control and/or under attack.
Pay close attentions to adrenaline that is being released that can cause survival mode to occur. This is important to why athletics and exercise are important in the treatment of PTSC. This will be explained later in the following section.
When there’s a dramatic experience that occurs in our lives, it naturally kicks in our natural survival mode in the subconscious mind where our instincts and habits are located. It causes our subconscious mind to take over our react, as a self-preservation response. If we don’t fully process these dramatic events that occur to people, like Veterans and civilians alike, these remain raw and are allowed to fester over time.
A great example of PTSC– Think of a knee injury to an ACL (Anterior Cruciate Ligament), which is one that I’m all too familiar with and would like to mention or share my experiences, with undergoing four (4) knee surgeries. If the ACL injury isn’t addressed properly and treated with therapy, it just continues to cause problems later in life and only gets worse with age. This is the same mental experiences that occur with those dealing with PTSC, and if one doesn’t address and process these issues when they happen, they only fester in life. Please don’t ignore, but reach out for help and start a fitness program.
So what happens if PTSC is not Treated– The stress hormone cortisol is released, which can cause stress, depression, brain fog, and anxiety, leading to negative and dramatic mood swings and a feeling of vulnerability and high blood pressure. This is one reason why we all need to check our blood pressure regularly. Fitness and diet that treat your high blood pressure can also be used to treat PTSC.
Sports and Strength & Conditioning for our Core Mental Awareness
Sports and physical exercise are used to reduce hypertension and the level of the stress hormone cortisol that causes the stress, depression, brain fog, and anxiety, leading to negative and dramatic mood swings and a feeling of vulnerability that people with PTSC have to deal with on a regular basis. The feeling of vulnerability is what causes us to feel that we are in damage control or under attack, when there is no actual threat present, but is what is perceived.
Our subconscious mind, where our instincts, habits, and natural responses are housed, doesn’t respond very well to the thinking process. Instead, our subconscious mind responds to mental and physical feelings, images, sounds, smells, and taste (our five senses). This is proven, even with golfers who spend countless hours on the driving range developing swing thoughts that only seems to vanish once the golfer step foot onto the golf course like brain fog.
I can guarantee golfers this one thing– We might practice and train with our conscious mind developing swing thoughts during our practice sessions. But I can assure the golfer this one thing, that when they step foot onto the golf course, their subconscious mind, The 88 Percent Factor, will take over with our instincts and that we did address during our practice sessions where we only worked on our swing thoughts.
If you examine the methods of how we communicate with our subconscious minds, we communicate using our five (5) senses. This is why feelings, images, sounds, smells, and taste can trigger an episode with a person dealing with PTSC. Most Veterans tie a PTSC episode to one or more of their five senses.
So why do physical exercises, like sports, strength and conditioning, work
So why do physical exercises, like sports, strength, and conditioning, work so well in treating PTSC– Physical exercise, like sports, especially organized sports, along with strength and conditioning training, releases the endorphins hormone that boosts mood and the feeling of calm and being collective that reduces the feeling of vulnerability. The more our subconscious mind works from the premise of relying on endorphins trigger by physical exercises, like sports and strength, and conditioning, can ward off mental health issues, even before they are an issue.
When you exercise, especially with strength and conditioning, you are relying on well-established motor skills, muscle memories, that are a totally subconscious response. This is how we can best communicate with and train our subconscious mind and deal with unprocessed issues. What is also significant about sports, exercise, and conditioning is that we might be dealing with our PTSC without even being aware of it at the time. This is the every reason our subconscious mind can’t detect between an actual situation when we are exercising or playing sports under a virtual situation. This is because our subconscious minds can’t distinguish between the two situations. So we are able to deal with PTSC issues without knowing that we are.
Exercising is like active meditation that allows us to address those unprocessed, dramatic events and situations when we are producing endorphins for mindfulness. These endorphins have a calming effect on our nervous system to allow us to confront these PTSC issues more effectively. Physical exercises, like sports, strength, and conditioning, allow us to handle these dramatic events and situations when we are calm with endorphins, instead of driven by our emotions based on cortisol.
Producing endorphins during your exercise sessions is one reason why you always feel like you have a boost in your mood and an improved frame of mind. I was listening to Adele Concert, with the backdrop of Griffith Observatory & Planetarium in Los Angeles, California. Adele was having a sit down interview with Oprah Winfrey, where Adele explained how her physical work outs actually has improved her outlook on her life with all of what took placed in her life. Not to mention that Adele stated in the interview that she lost 100 LBS., could dead lift 170 LBS., and enjoys working out with the boxing bag.
The Best Approach to Dealing with PTSC is Fitness and Sports
Two techniques that I have developed in my golf game that have allowed me to reach a single-digit handicap can help those dealing with PTSC. I’m using exercises that mimic my golf swing and practice techniques that allow me to recreate actual conditions in my mind that I will be playing golf under on the course.
The only way you can train and condition your subconscious mind is with challenges and exercises that allows me to create actual conditions on the course. This allows me to develop motor skills and muscle memories to confidently perform by using endorphins instead of cortisol on the golf course. My subconscious mind can’t distinguish between my practice on the range and my performance on the golf course, I’m calm and confident equally in both situations.
Below I have attached three (3) videos that a camera crew filmed for a television station sports show that aired on a weekend in June of 2021. This is one of three techniques that I use to create course-like conditions called The Orange Bucket Challenge:
THE Orange Bucket Challenge Link INTRO:
The Orange Bucket Challenge Walk-Through:
The Orange Bucket Challenge Demo:
These three (3) videos above were used to produce a promo below on a Jackson, Mississippi Station WJTV-12 Television Sports Show where I demonstrate Preset the wrist action in the golf swing, this is like using the 88 Percent Factor:
The GOLFER’S BRACHS-PALMER Technique PROMO:
In closing, Veterans can use a simple workout program that I developed for their own home or garage to help them address their PTSC. Also, in addition to fitness exercises, sports, like golf, provide excellent therapies to address and deal with PTSC. Below I’m shown at age 64, in our hangar after I did a photo shoot promoting our A-2 and G-1 Leather Flight Jacket. the same camera crew challenge me to a AB Challenge:
I developed Operation DOG*TAG to help Veterans and civilians alike to deal with stress and depression from PTSC. If you are a Veteran, you can CONTACT me and I will provide you with a PROMO CODE to purchase my Health, Diet, and Fitness System, which is a $70.00 value for $15.00:
If there’s 50 or more orders from a Veterans organization from one location, I will be glad to come and demonstrate both my DELPHI DIET & FITNESS System and my GOLFER’S BRACHS-PALMER Technique to the group FREE of charge if my travel and hotel expense are covered by the organization for a 2-day presentation.
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