Meditation-based Interventions Might be Helpful for Coping with the Corona Virus Disease 2019(COVID-19)

The Coronavirus Disease 2019(COVID-19)has been characterized as the first pandemic caused by a novel coronavirus and drawn intense attention in China and globally.With the incidence and mortality rates of COVID-19 rapidly growing worldwide,people have been experiencing tremendous psychological distress during the pandemic.Elevated psychological stress could compromise the human capacity to fight against COVID-19.However,effective interventions and timely mental health care to increase resilience and improve psychological wel being is still lacking,which would be the focus of this article.In this article,we briefly summarize why meditation practice may have the potential to help minimize stress-related psychological symptoms associated with the coronavirus outbreak and how we can respond efficiently and effectively to this outbreak via taking advantage of meditation.We also provide a brief introduction of a meditation program that we developed and advocate to popularize meditation practice as a viable approach to improve wellbeing while combatting COVID-19 worldwide.

The Evolutionary Development of Jungian Advanced Motor Processing© (JAMP©)

Inspired by the need for fast, effective mental health treatment that is not readily available to the average person, in the midst of the pandemic crisis, Jungian Advanced Motor Processing© (JAMP©) was created by Dr. Lahab Al-Samarrai [1]. JAMP© treatment goes into what Carl Jung called “complexes” and manoeuvers within them to retrieve shards of traumatic emotional content without activating the core of the complex, converting emotions that have not been processed and understood into processed and integrated thoughts. Jungian Advanced Motor Processing© [1] treatment carefully infuses these factors to successfully integrate its transformational methods into an individual. Complexes are created as a response to a traumatic experience, and typically trap an individual into dysfunctional emotional responses whenever the complex is activated by a new experience that triggers the complex into action. Activated complexes drain energy from an individual, leaving one feeling emptiness and anger and/or reacting to new experiences that activate them in dysfunctional ways. The bilateral stimulation that is used in the JAMP© treatment helps calm down the nervous system, letting the JAMP© practitioner work with material that is not readily accessible to the conscious mind. JAMP© is able to reach into the unconscious without activating the complex’s primary defences, thus helping reorient an individual’s emotional reaction to past trauma. Affirmations used in the treatment help integrate the sense of calmness and security within the individual, soothing the overly active sympathetic nervous system response and therefore reducing the stress levels within the traumatised individual as they remember the traumatic event. The treatment’s progress has been monitored and quantitatively tracked using three different scales: Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE), The Posttraumatic Cognitions Inventory (PTCI), and Somatic Symptom Scale (SSS). Looking at the ratings on each scale both before and after treatment helps highlight the vast benefits of this evolved treatment to address emotional trauma.