Peaceful Warrior Affirmations
to Combat Post-Traumatic Stress

My strength is my ability to manage my weakness.


If I was once an asset to my team, and now I'm a liability, what team can I build or join to be a dignified asset within again?


No matter how severe my wounding in this life, I will not give up the fight to prevent such wounding to others.


To all of my fallen fellow warriors, your missions survive and continue with me until the day I die.


While lasting peace between and among peoples and nations may seem distant, inner peace can always become ever closer.


To those I've harmed, who's spirits haunt my dreams and waking life, let your better nature speak and act through me to lessen the violence and evil on this planet.


To my enemies, let us mend fences and plant fruit vines upon them, so we may share and enjoy abundance and reconcile our differences in the shade


Prisoners of all wars share a duty to transform the hatred of captors to the hope that the captors' own descendants will topple their regime from within.


To suffer the torment of flash-backs is to be forced to understand that righting the wrongs that created them is the eternal mission.


In times of recovery from debilitating injury, I mediate on all that is still working well in my body.


Alcohol is a shallow and jagged rocked pond to fall into in effort to drown sorrows, there are deeper, smoother, softer solutions to bathe sorrows in.


Is life itself really so bad as to feel unlivable, or is it just having to get up and go to work to earn from “the man” the essentials to live a simple life that nature freely provides?


We all owe it to our parents to live a long and healthy life, and to only ever die fighting the truly good fight.


Whatever pain I must endure, it could never be more than that of my loved-ones if I give up on finding a cure.


If ever seduced by the thought that there's an easy way out to a better hereafter, try to hear the sound from behind the veil of the demons whispering laughter.


When the dark night of the soul seems to never end, close your eyes and look towards the sun, renew and begin again.


In a world haunted by hungry ghosts, don't be low hanging fruit.


Addiction can be broken when the romance with selfishness is replaced with service to other beings in need.


Make every day a good day to die, and it will be a better day to live.


Isolation is a precious opportunity for reflection and contemplation, but desolation looms when fellowship is neglected.


To be prepared to die takes more than machismo, it requires the less valiant art of simple and elegant living.


If risk to life and limb is an occupational hazard, life at home must be lived and loved every day as though it could be the last.


What mess can I clean up today, so that it may never be another’s burden?


Stillness and silence of the mind in meditation can be much more reliably achieved after the movement and music of dancing.


In the depths of despair, make art.


Healing is best facilitated by feelings of sincere gratitude.


Sing when sad, even if only a sad song comes to mind.


Let those who try to cheer up me succeed, the roles will be reversed soon enough.


Positive mental attitude is aided by good posture, chin up, shoulders back, spine straight, breaths deep, eyes forward.


When hygiene and morale are degraded, find cover and concealment and make time for a field survival spa treatment.


Don't be, and don't become someone else's problem.


The future is more compelling after planting a tree.


When feeling useless and unimportant, find hazards and make them safer.


Who am I doing this for, if only me, how can others benefit?


Past battles lost make future battles won more triumphant.


Guerilla warefare is the mother of invention.


My insides may be horrid and my outsides, not much better, but at least I'm not in denial about it.


Homefullness is overrated.


If it's not a warm night, make it a warm night.


When the dreams are good, get up early, when the dreams are bad, sleep until they're good.


When the chariot turns into a pumpkin, make pumpkin pie.


Is it all about how I'm perceived, or about who I truly am?


Its ok to curl up into a ball on the floor...until the check arrives.


There are parts of me that are eternally innocent.


The mission begins when all comfort ends.


Get out of the maze.


It may only get get worse, what am I gonna do about it?


They'll eat as much as I feed them.


The stars come out one by one, someday I'll get to know them by name.


Madness and sadness prey upon the danceless.


I may wake up to hell, I may wake up from hell, either way I'm still alive.


When the nightmares threaten to attach their residues to new memories formed in the next waking day, do forgettable chores, the ones most unpleasant and procrastinated, and find hidden gifts in the process.


While asleep, once I've surrendered to the prayer for mercy on my unconsiousness, you can destroy my nights with cheap shots and sucker punches in the dreamtime, but you can't destroy my days, when my conscious will stands guard, not unless I let you.


Seek not sympathy from the untraumatized, and never displace the trauma upon them, protect and celebrate the grace that is their freedom from it, help them sustain it.


You wear the mask of my fears, but what are you really, and what do you really want from me if not just the crude attention sought by immature bullies?


Living in nature, in balance with wild life is hard enough, how dare those who make it any harder with their power games?


How did you survive the last triggering event?


The more you love peace, the better warrior you will be.


Start digging your grave, then half way down, decide to plant a boxed tree instead, get the helpers that are needed, start a tree nurrsery if you get depressed again.


Watching movies is meditation, meditate on the movie of the inner consciousness, pay attention, be quiet, don't interupt, but laugh when appropriate.


I don't know if I'll make it up and over the top, but I'll never stop climbing, because I know what's on the bottom.


Why does it seem like remorseless bad guys sleep better than remorseful good guys? Because they lack remorse, among other things.


When it feels like nothing helps, not even doing the right thing, do the right thing anyway, it helps.


They missed me, so you don't have to.


Defend against the malicious forces that come to take your peace, safety, freedom, liveliness, happiness, sanity, and life.


You may not have your whole life in ahead of you, but you always have the whole rest of it ahead of you.


If you want to play your own game by your own rules, prepare to be playing alone for awhile.


What if the problem is not the voices in your head, but the voices in your meds?


To keep your mind off your mind, try gardening.


Today is new, yesterday is old. Live in the new.


Who ever could be blamed for ruining my life, I'll be damned if I ruin anyone else’s.


What am I still doing here? Optimistically, I'm working on my Heaven Resume, pessimistically, I'm working on my Hell Presentence Report.


Would you prefer: here, it can't get much better, there it can get much worse, or: here it can't get much worse, there it can get much better?


We try to hide our hideousness, but our insidiousness hides from us.


Bleeding energy into the abyss of "this can't be happening to me" can be stopped with this psycho-energetic tourniquet, "I'll survive this, prevent it from happening ever again, and if classified or unspeakably vile, I won't speak freely of it."


Who ever wanted me to suffer got their wish, I hope I've also learned the lessons they wished upon me.


It's worse than you think it is, but that's no excuse to quit.


If you think you're going mental, try being more experimental.


Now that I'm in the second half of my life, I don't mind telling the truth, whatever happens, I don't have my whole life to lose.


To get where I'm at in life, I may have carelessly stepped on a few toes, though I was careful not to step on any necks.


You're a vip whether your parking spot says so or not.


I'm mostly okay, so with that which is okay I will continue the mission.


You may die on the vine, but at least you lived on the vine.


If you feel cursed, be a blessing.


Young dreamers can't imagine failure, old dreamers can't imagine success, reality meets them in the middle.


Dead dreams stink, bury them along with your regrets, then plant new ones that are more likely to grow.


You can't force yourself to relax, but you can relax yourself to force.


Live the sci-fi.


Expect to be ambushed and don't expect to win every battle in this war.


It dies with me, but not today.


Sing songs to protect your mind.


If your conscious isn't clean, start cleaning it up. You may never finish, but at least you'll become less likely to mess it up more in the future.


Don't wait 10 years to do what you should have done 10 years ago...which is plant fruit trees.


I spent the first half of my life trying to be somebody, I'll spend the second half trying to be nobody...so be it.


You can't be charming if you don't smile.


I can't complain, life has given me the opportunities that I trained for.


You'll never lose your mind if you keep track of where you put it when you take it off.


One man's mission is a walk in the park, another man's walk in the park is a mission.


Your singleton mission begins when your mistakes can no longer endanger a team.


I'm deathly allergic to modernity, therefore I hide in the wild.


What if today is the most important day of your life? Would it matter what side of the bed you woke up on?


I am never going back where I don't belong.


Today is a better day to die than yesterday, and tomorrow will be a better day to die than today.


Be hard to kill from the inside out.


Doing the right thing can keep you poor, doing the wrong thing can make you poor.


When you're falling into a bottomless dark abyss, remember how the OSS selected recruits at The Farm, be sure to reach out and grasp for hidden ladders once in a while.


Few regrets and much to look forward to is a recipe for happiness...adjust accordingly.


Your story is one of the few things you truly own.


Alleviate suffering


If you can do it right, if you can do it now, do it right now.


At your prime, mobilize with dramatic urgency, or be damned to an elderhood boring memories.