Since MBSR promotes mindful awareness and encourages PTSD patients to face and reappraise their negative thoughts and sensations, instead of avoiding them, patients may become better able to regulate the trauma-related symptoms.

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Practicing MBSR is effective in alleviating the PTSD symptoms of trauma-exposed, low-income women, including avoidance, hyperarousal, and re-experiencing trauma. Participants’ PTSD symptoms decreased significantly at the completion of the MBSR program as well as four weeks after completing the program.

Impact of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction on PTSD Symptoms

Gallegos, A. M., Lytle, M. C., Moynihan, J. A., & Talbot, N. L. (2015). Mindfulness-based stress reduction to enhance psychological functioning and improve inflammatory biomarkers in trauma-exposed women: A pilot study. Psychological trauma: theory, research, practice and policy, 7(6), 525–532. https://doi.org/10.1037/tra0000053

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