Over a decade ago, at Rapid Coherence Institute (prev. Harmony Integration) Satyen would run live seminars, inviting people from all walks of life to witness and participate in live coaching on stage. Sarah Arnold was a participant who attended and then later joined the live training program.

Below is a written testimonial from Sarah Arnold:

"Tens of thousands of Service Members have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).  In 2005, I became one of them.  The mental trauma started long before my combat deployments.  I was exposed to a lot of mental trauma from medical training, and from my tours as a Navy physician before the war started.  

When I would think back to all I was exposed to and was just expected to “compartmentalize” everything in my mind, my nightmares, mood swings, and hyper-vigilance began to make sense.  

Unfortunately, living with these symptoms makes life very difficult for me and anyone else who has to deal with me. Things that are just normal sights and sounds to everyone else trigger very bad memories for me and make it hard for me relax and act normal, or even just enjoy myself.  

Since 2005, I have had 4 different jobs, have transferred from the Navy to the U.S. Public Health Service, have moved 5 times, lived in 3 different states, so I’ve been in and out of therapy (mostly cognitive behavioral therapy) for the depression that eventually developed and the PTSD I had.  

While I found therapy helpful, I also felt that by the time I would be able to open up to the therapist and get to the heart of an issue, my hour would be up, and I would have to go home emotionally all worked up, feeling very alone. 

It’s like having some wound that was scabbed over for years, cognitive behavioral therapy would pick at this scab slowly over a long period of time, then the wound starts to bleed, then, that’s it, time’s up.  After a while, I would resist the process because I didn’t want to go home feeling bad, but then the session wouldn’t be as productive.  

As I practice the [Rapid Coherence Integration] techniques I learned this month on myself, particularly the trauma release technique and deep PEAT, I can’t believe how much better I feel in a shorter amount of time. 

It’s as if these bad memories just wanted my attention, they just wanted to be accepted as part of my life instead of resisted and rejected all these years.

I can’t change my memories or past experiences, but every day I have a choice as to how I perceive them and how I can integrate them into my life experience.  

Unfortunately, not everyone chooses life when haunted by traumatic memories, let alone an innovative technique that can help us deal with mental trauma. 

I believe the [Rapid Coherence Integration] techniques have helped me move on with my life, and hope others can benefit from them as well.  It is never too late to get help for PTSD, you just have find what works best for you.  I did, and it has made all the difference."