Get Access to our Latest Ideas & Research on Heart Intelligence

First Name

Last Name

E-mail Address

We like to share, but never your email.

Learn practical solutions for expanding heart connections, accelerating personal growth and transforming stress into greater energy, better health and a more fulfilling life.

Tag Archives: PTSD

Returning Combat Veterans Use HeartMath Technology

January 10, 2009 Our Veterans & Military Service People8,088 Views = 6

Licensed clinical social worker Travis Slonecker works at the Fort Knox Army installation in Kentucky, where he is a civilian contractor working with returned combat veterans diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and traumatic brain injury (TBI). He related an experience in which HeartMath technology, provided through the HMI’s Military Service Appreciation Initiative, was able to help one particular soldier in a unique way.

PTSD May Be Greatest Injury of War Today

July 24, 2008 Our Veterans & Military Service People13,005 Views = 4

PTSD May Be Greatest Injury of War Today

From time immemorial, war has exacted a huge emotional toll on its participants. Although our understanding of the psychological impact of warfare has increased greatly over the past century and methods for treating combat-related psychological illnesses have become increasingly sophisticated, American troops on the front lines of the war in Iraq and Afghanistan are in many ways like the Greek hero Theseus trying to slay the Minotaur as they look for a way out of the labyrinth of psychological challenges they face.