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Empowerment Tools

Joanne Ivens is a member of the Board of Directors for AVET Project Inc. She is certified in the American Indian Education Program. Her therapeutic methods involve explaining how breathing, laughter, smells, colors, music and the imagination of visualization calm the body and mind. "The body does what the mind tells it" is a touchstone of her approach.

Below are a few tools:

Do this exercise:

Close your eyes and breathe deep. Continue to breathe deeply until you feel yourself relaxing... breathe. Focus your attention on your heart... feel it beating... see it beating, all your attention is on your heart beating. Now think of the most beautiful thing you can imagine.

This only takes a few minutes but it changes the energy of your body instantly, to a relaxed state of mind.

Remember:
Your mind is a powerful tool.
Your strength comes from within.
You have the power to free yourself from stress.

Don't Say I HURT

SAY: I am healthy and strong.
My body is Healing.
My body is healthy and strong.
The body does what the mind tells it.

Imagine Green Light.
Take deep breaths.
Imagine breathing in this green light.
Close your eyes and imagine green light coming in at the top of your head.
Imagine it flowing down through your body, down your head, neck, shoulders, arms, fingers, down through your chest, healing your muscles, your intestines, down your stomach your back, down your legs, down through your feet, into the ground, down into Mother Earth.

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IMPORTANT READ

KEEPING A DAILY JOURNAL

Stay alert and remember to take time to decompress and totally relax when you get the opportunity.

Start a new habit of keeping a daily journal of activities. Jot down the names of fellow military members who are around at the time. Not only can this help you in the future, but others also. This is in case the government loses paper work, etc., and this happens all too often. This daily journal may provide “lay evidence” to support claims before the Department of Veterans Affairs demonstrating you were exposed to certain environmental hazards and the like.

Keep copies of all your orders, pay stubs, medical visits, etc. Again, you are your own best advocate when it comes to proving disability claims. Keeping complete records of treatment will help you later on in life if you ever pursue service connection for a disability that occurred in or was worsened by military service. Any medical condition that produces a lasting effect, such as a broken bone or recurring rash, hearing loss or ringing in the ears (acoustic trauma), bouts of depression or PTSD, heart palpitations, foreign bodies in your eyes… the list goes on and on, may be connectable to your military service and potentially put money in your pocket. At a minimum, you may receive free medical treatment for service connected disabilities.

Ask yourself these questions:
- “Did I suffer an injury or get diagnosed with an illness while on active duty?”
- “Was this injury/illness acute and transitory (did it come and pass, like a cold or flu) or will it likely impact my life for years to come?”

If you answered “yes” to whether the injury/illness may impact your life for years to come, then make notes in your journal and keep copies of any treatment you receive.

This information would have helped countless veterans get the well deserved help from the government if only they had documentation to prove they were stationed on the ground in Vietnam. Daily journals may have provided evidence that a fight broke out where someone was injured; days or weeks a soldier went without food and water; inoculations received; potentially harmful food and water consumed; exposure to chemicals; proof that traumatic events or circumstances occurred; mind bending nights without sleep

Give journaling a try because it won’t hurt, and may help to prove your future disability case.