Today we take fire for granted when it comes to cooking and staying warm in cold weather and keeping nocturnal predators at bay, although the latter is a little bit less applicable, except if you spend time outdoors camping.  However, among the things noteworthy in the paragraph above is the timeline.  1.9 million years ago, there is evidence of cooked food.  1 million years ago, fire was probably used in a controlled fashion; and finally just 50 to 100,000 years ago its regular use is provable.  

IN SPITE OF ITS OBVIOUS VALUE TO ALL OF US, IT TOOK US HUMANS A WHILE TO GET USED TO THE IDEA THAT "FIRE" WAS SOMETHING FAIRLY IMPORTANT.

The TRUSTCard® is, with respect to FUNDAMENTAL human brain function very much like fire.  It has an enormous number of uses but with the added benefit of having no adverse effects.  Simple counting, which the card calls for can't really do you any harm.  Nevertheless, beyond that positive and favored comparison the reference to fire here is to make a simple point: once humankind got a hold of fire, began to use it, except obviously for purposes of arson and warfare it became second nature to him.  

Similarly, The TRUSTCard® is like that whenever people get a hold of it.  Just as fire’s main benefit of making shelter more comfortable and feeding us better and more lastingly are today taken for granted, The TRUSTCard™ once in use, makes dealing with Complex PTSD a rather simple issue.  And so people treat it, once they have it, as though it has been with them from birth.

Request some free TRUSTCards® on the contact page of this website and find out how true that statement is; and if you follow the instructions on the “When To Use” side, we’re rather sure you will agree that on the subject of stress dissipation and intelligence intensifying it’s every bit as indispensable and good as fire was and is for turning raw meat and any number of other edibles (some of which in the raw state would be truly poisonous), into a sustainable and healthy meal.

Prior to the last 20 years or so if you were very thirsty and wanted a drink of water you were stuck with finding a water fountain somewhere away from home to do it or take it from the tap at home.  However, over these last 20 years the easy availability of bottled water has become the order of the day.  If you look in Wikipedia.org, the entry for “drinking water” reads as follows …

“Water has always been an important and life-sustaining drink to humans and is essential to the survival of all known organisms. Excluding fat, water composes approximately 70% of the human body by mass. It is a crucial component of metabolic processes.”

Now, there is no real analogy between “drinking water” and The TRUSTCard® with this exception: before the development of The TRUSTCard® it was not possible in the middle of your day with all hell breaking loose possibly, time after time after time depending on which day it was… to relieve stress in the same way you could relieve thirst with a bottle of water.  

But with The TRUSTCard™ it has been reported that you most assuredly can approximate the same time-after-time-without-negative-effect with respect to relieving the effects of stress or more properly “Complex PTSD” (see Article elsewhere on this website for definition and discussion) – not unlike having handy available bottled water if you’re thirsty.  

Complex PTSD is of course, the repeating playback of an actual moment of stress in the past, intensified by the fact of repetition, in which specific parts of the brain set in motion a series of biological changes including a feeling of wanting to run and/or fight and/or hide from a real or imagined source(s) of stress.

As stated above there is no real analogy between drinking water and The TRUSTCard® . The dynamics of “thirst” really bear no resemblance to the dynamics of stress or PTSD.  It is just that with the perfecting of bottled water and making it highly available and highly affordable, people did not have to go thirsty as they once did or settle for tap water, which was often fairly unsatisfying.  

The TRUSTCard®, in one respect, like bottled water is designed to be highly portable and usable whenever necessary, without negative effects. Certain times have been reported as among the best to use it.  They are as follows:

1.  WHEN YOU FIRST WAKE UP IN THE MORNING - people who have tried it then say that there were left over emotions, worries or anxieties stemming from nightmares; those emotions, worries or anxieties seemed to go away quickly and permanently when The TRUSTCard® was used first thing

2.  JUST BEFORE YOU PUT YOUR HEAD ON THE PILLOW - wanting to go to sleep - people who have tried that say that it greatly speeds up their ability to fall asleep comfortably and throughout the night

3.  THROUGHOUT ANY DAY AT ANY TIME YOU DO NOT PARTICULARLY FEEL UNDER STRESS - reports are that doing it as often as three times per day when not stressed out has a positive effect – made them feel even better

4.  Whenever possible JUST BEFORE DECIDING OR DOING SOMETHING YOU CONSIDER IMPORTANT - people who tried this said it improved the quality of their decisions and the effectiveness of their actions

5.  When you experience a RECURRING FEAR or ANXIETY or WORRY or UPSET or DREAD!  When The TRUSTCard™ was used at these times, two things were reported … A) The immediate FEAR or ANXIETY or WORRY or UPSET or DREAD dissipated usually within minutes; B) The RECURRING FEAR or ANXIETY or WORRY or UPSET or DREAD soon stopped reoccurring with any intensity and eventually went away altogether – according to the reports.

6.  In school, at all levels from late grade school on up – whenever studying and just before a written or oral test.

7.  Just before “parenting” a child when the child has experienced FEAR or ANXIETY or WORRY or UPSET or DREAD or ANGER or DIFFICULT BEHAVIOR.  Parents who did this literally raved over the benefits.

These moments are the primary ones about which people using The TRUSTCard™ provided feedback.