Abstract

          The purpose of this study was to evaluate the concepts of Theravada Buddhism and its contemporary processes effective on trauma, mental and physical body, and to apply the knowledge of Theravada Buddhism to heal the Traumatic Mental and Physical Disorder of a person.

          `A state of anxiety or mental excitement after Traumatic Mental Disorder (all kinds of traumatic stress disorders included in TMD) is a general behavioral difficult situation which threatens the preservation of mentally imbalanced and affected persons and caregivers, interrupts the rehabilitation system, and becomes an excessive oppression on caregivers and guardian. Preferred skillfulness or moral acts, chanting and listening suttas, concentration of the mind, and abandoning unwholesome and wrong thoughts, nurturing concentration and its stability, charity and generosity as an environmental intervention be able to decrease the mental excitement and Trauma mental disorder by prevailing on positive and wholesome thoughts of memories and emotional feelings, and recovering mental health and wellness, and also achieving peacefulness in a mentally disorder person.

          This is a documentary research. It was accomplished by collecting the related data from the various resources, like Canonical texts and modern texts, examined and categorizing the collected key teaching of the discourses, such as Sabbā’sava Sutta, the Karaniya Metta Sutta, the Gilāna Suttas, the Maha Satipaṭṭhāna Sutta, and the Kevaṭṭa or Kevaddha Sutta. By appointing the key discourses are identified and investigated applying the (Canonical texts) seven Factors of Enlightenment, Loving-kindness radiating, Samatha (tranquility) and Vipassana (insight) Meditations, and developing and cultivating the base of psychic powers or therapies, and observing (Four Right Exertions) rightly the beneficial and harmful thoughts and feelings, abandoning those destructive thoughts and events, producing and nurturing those beneficial mental thinking and physical acts, maintaining and preserving the beneficial, wholesome behavioral thought and feeling events, as a result of these multiple procedures, an individual can reduce and overcome from the traumatic mental and physical stress and disorder.  

          According to the finding Buddhist and modern psychological sources, engaging with skillfulness or moral acts, associating with charity and generosity, chanting and listening suttas, concentration of the mind, and abandoning annihilated and violent thoughts, developing concentration and its stability have to provide therapeutic approaches for care of agitated person after TMD. Additionally, positive effects of concentration developing and cultivating on agitation can achieve mental health care providers and patients’ family members’ inspiration to explore more familiar environments for managing agitation, and Insightly letting go of stress, anxiety, trauma, chronic pain, and Theravada Buddhist Canonical instructions and suggestions may be rightly comprehending, practical application and developed with sustaining for the mental and physical health and happiness. 

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