Thanks very much.
In comparison with the decentring, we want to contrast that with avoidance. We'll be rejecting the present. With dissociation, we leave the present.
Finally, that last principle is acceptance and change. It really is a sort of balance that typically the trauma survivor is trying to avoid. We talk about this as if it's like a blanket. We try to sweep it under the rug, for example, but it's really a see-through blanket, so we can't do so. Really, the only way to move forward following a trauma is this right balance between acceptance and change.
How are we doing these? Essentially, the website involves a journaling activity as well as various guided meditations.
What I'd also like to suggest, beyond just the website, are various technologies that are being researched, including here at the University of Western Ontario. Persons may have heard of the terms “neurofeedback” and other forms of biofeedback, such as heart-rate variability. The practice of meditation is going to have an effect on the brain and the body, and that's essentially indirect; the practice of biofeedback and neurofeedback is to learn what's actually happening in the body through physiological signals such as heart-rate variability and through the EEG. We can teach a person to directly modulate brain rhythms, cardiac rhythms, respiration, etc., as they're going to be doing naturally in meditation, but the biofeedback can be an additional aid to the person.