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Try meditation and yoga

Mike Hanes, a 35 year old former combat Marine, sometimes closes his eyes and murmurs to himself when life gets tense.

He’s repeating one word over and over, and it works as a "pause button" for his mind when he’s stressed out. It’s a form of meditation, one learned at the Department of Veterans Affairs hospital in La Jolla.

Nationally, the VA is embracing alternative therapies to help veterans deal with combat stress and the physical pain that’s sometimes a memento of military service.

Veterans can be referred to yoga classes, acupuncture, Tai Chi and meditation and, in other parts of the nation, music therapy, energy healing and even sweat lodge sessions. At least 89 percent of VA medical centers offered alternative forms of therapy in 2011, with meditation as the most common form.

Some patients report that these therapies have allowed them to rely less on pain medication and sleeping pills. However, a May VA research conference concluded that evidence of the benefit of these therapies on post traumatic stress disorder possibly the
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Now VA researchers in San Diego, which has the largest population of post 9/11 military veterans in the nation, have received funding to conduct additional studies.

"We’ve done a lot of work in many areas of PTSD research that has produced effective treatments, but we are not done," said VA Deputy Secretary W.

"That is why we need to keep our curious minds open and receptive to new ideas. In addition
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Dr. Stephen Ezeji Okoye, a Palo Alto physician who chairs
cheap ray bans the VA’s alternative medicine committee, said the effort began after a 2002 White House Commission report that encouraged the VA to look at the topic. To naysayers, he responds that the VA is venturing slowly and carefully toward these kinds of practices.

"We’re looking at it not as, is it alternative medicine or Western medicine.
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Hanes, who was in elite Marine force reconnaissance during the Iraq War and came to the VA to deal with combat stress, is a believer in meditation. He also is taking the La Jolla VA’s yoga series for back pain.

"I noticed before, it was easier to fly off the handle," said Hanes, who chose the word "shalom" as his meditation mantram, or mantra, as it’s more commonly known.

"But now, you take that 10 seconds of saying your mantram, and it puts you back in focus, instead of doing something that you can really regret," he said.

"I was very surprised to see the VA is offering this, and I think they should do a lot more of this type of stuff."

With some young male veterans, meditation, Tai Chi and other "new age" therapies are a harder sell.Articles Connexes：

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