Awaken to your highest health and healing potential, and to your utmost athletic performance ability with cutting edge technology! Consider quantum biofeedback if you have tried traditional health approaches but are still experiencing symptoms from an injury or illness or suffering from chronic pain, stress, headaches, spinal cord and nerve injury, bone or immune system issues, attention deficit disorder, skin problems, hormonal imbalances, high blood pressure, addictions, allergies and more!

Quantum biofeedback retrains your body energetically and is bio-energetic therapy at its finest. It is based on science, the quantum theory, on E=mc2, on math. Quantum physics is providing new ways of measuring and verifying the energetic affects of health, disease, injury and emotions on the body. The result is the emergence of the exciting and “mind blowing” field of subtle-energy medicine.

The Electric Body. The quantum theory replaced the old Newtonian theory, which opened the exciting world of bio-energetics. The quantum theory revealed that everything is made up of atoms, which are pure, invisible energy. Our bodies are indeed electric and every cell, organ, virus, bacteria and emotion emits its own energy frequency. The physical body and the mind energy frequencies are entangled and have a complex intercommunication system that affects and makes up the whole. You have your own unique energy signature, different than anyone else’s, due to the collective energy frequencies of your body and your mind! Injured cells and tissues, as well as negative emotions, emit different energy frequencies than healthy cells or emotions.

Stress & Imbalances. A change in normal body energy frequencies is considered a stress, which in turn can cause an imbalance in the system. Stress occurs for many reasons and can come from many sources such as trauma, toxicity, pathogens, mental factors, allergies, habits, spinal alignment problems, and imbalances in mineral, vitamin and hormonal levels, dirty electricity and more. Stress results in erratic energy frequencies causing imbalance in the body, which can eventually affect your overall health. Reducing the stress associated with these above conditions promotes healing and health.

Traditional vs. Quantum Biofeedback. Traditional biofeedback is a heavily researched technique that trains subjects to alter brain activity, blood pressure, muscle tension, heart rate and other bodily function that are not normally controlled voluntarily. Feedback regarding the subject’s response is given via sensory or auditory stimuli. It takes work and effort, on the part of the subject, to get results using traditional biofeedback.

Quantum biofeedback is a non-invasive, sophisticated technology that energetically scans your body for stress and imbalances, on many levels. This process is not felt and takes only a few minutes, occurring through a head harness and wrist/leg straps. Normal energy frequencies can then be delivered back into the body to reduce stress and to retrain and balance the body and mind. A complex computer program gives instant feedback on the body’s response to training. Training occurs with no conscious involvement on the client’s part, and it can occur at much deeper levels than traditional biofeedback. Reducing stress and retraining the body-mind complex helps to maximize one’s healing potential and to promote health and well-being, physically as well as mentally!

Athlete Performance Enhancement. There are numerous quantum biofeedback sports programs that can benefit the athlete, not only in recovering from an injury but in preparing them both physically and mentally for competition. If you are recovering from an injury or have inflammation or pain that needs to be addressed, quantum biofeedback can reduce stress, retrain the body and help expedite your recovery so you will be physically balanced and ready to perform your best. There are also programs that assist with mental-emotional preparation and mental focus, reduce emotional stress and increase your overall chi energy, to name just a few.

Quantum biofeedback is magical and it works! It was made possible by the advancement in computer technology, combined with scientific research in bio-energetics. There are thousands of quantum feedback systems being used world-wide in hospitals, clinics, and in homes with amazing results. China bought 2,000 units after the remarkable results achieved on their Olympians in 2008. It can help reduce stress and retrain the body on many levels, for a variety of conditions to accelerate healing. All you have to do is lie there, relax and feel the magic!

References:

1. Lipton, Bruce. The Biology of Belief. Hay House. 2008.

2. Braden, Gregg. The Devine Matrix. Hay House. January, 2008.

3. Sutton, Jeffrey. An Introduction to SCIO Quantum Biofeedback and Its Use for Sport Performance Enhancement. www.ebookbrowse.com.

For more info, contact Sierra Sports and Spine Healing Center at (530) 587-9355 or visit online at www.sierrahealing.com.

Many young women are accustomed to making the awkward trip to the OB/GYN year after year for their annual exam, often confused with just the Pap smear. The annual exam includes a manual breast screening for cancer, a pelvic exam to check for abnormalities or inflammation and it includes the Pap smear (when the speculum is used). However, new guidelines for determining when women should get Pap smears have changed. Recently, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) suggests women wait until age 21 to begin cervical cancer screenings, regardless of when a woman becomes sexually active, dispelling the idea of needing to be tested every year. The new rule suggests that women in their 20’s, who have normal Pap smear results for three consecutive years, be tested every two years. Women in their 30’s can now wait every three years. Some OB/GYNs suggest that women should wait until they are 25 before the initial screening, although Planned Parenthood is only waiting until women are 21.

There are many other reasons why the changes are beneficial, including the new recommendations being more cost-effective, with fewer exams. Testing every couple years and starting cervical cancer screenings later may reduce unnecessary anxiety in young women. While the Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) affects many women yearly, studies show that 90 percent of cervical abnormalities in adolescents clear up on their own within a few years. Young women’s immune systems are strong enough to fight off HPV before it turns into cancer. Also, according to ACOG, 50 percent of those diagnosed with cervical cancer each year have never been screened before. This proves that it isn’t young women who are most at-risk for cervical cancer, but women who have never been tested.

Additionally, postponing initial screenings and screening less often also protects young women from potential future pregnancy implications. There is evidence that screening before age 25 leads to many false positives, thus resulting in unnecessary treatments. Loop electrosurgical excision procedure (LEEP) is a procedure patients go through to remove pre-cancerous tissue caused by HPV. LEEP can essentially weaken the cervix. It is estimated that one in 18 women who have undergone this procedure will give birth prematurely.

Because Pap smears test strictly for cervical cancer, it is still important for women who are sexually active to continue scheduling regular visits to their gynecologist. Pap smears are only a small fraction of what is performed in an OB/GYN health center. Making annual appointments for gynecological visits will give women of all ages a chance to discuss their reproductive health and discuss contraceptive options or Hormone Replacement Therapy, test for STDs and review safe sex procedures, among other concerns. Cost-friendly health centers, such as Planned Parenthood, offer these services at an affordable rate so that women of any age can receive the health care and information they need.

References:

1. http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/OnCall/guidelines-ditch-annual-pap-smears/story?id=9131632

For more info, contact Planned Parenthood Mar Monte at (775) 688-5555, or (775) 829-1122 or visit online at www.ppmarmonte.org.

Using Crystals to Support Your Intentions

Written by Tania Marie, RMT, IARP, NAPW |

The Earth is supporting humanity’s awakening to the re-discovery of ancient and forgotten healing arts, such as the utilization of crystals. Reverence and use of crystals goes back to the dawning of civilization.  They have been connected with specific parts of the body and its organs for thousands of years.  As members of the mineralogical kingdom, crystals are universal energies that allow one to contact and synthesize these individual energies for healing and integration. Each crystal contains their own “personality” and can be utilized in unique ways to facilitate healing. Crystals are nature’s gift to man and are found in all shapes, sizes, colors and composition. They each have a unique vibrational resonance due to their varying mineral contents, their inherent geometry and the color frequency they emit, making them powerful healing tools.

Crystal healing is a method of healing – crystals or gemstones are placed on or around the body, on the chakras (spiritual energy centers), used as reflexology tools to stimulate points on the feet, worn like jewelry, or can be placed in and around one’s home to enhance energy. They heal holistically on physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels, helping to direct the flow of energy to a particular part of the body, restore balance, and ultimately cleanse by releasing and clearing blocked energy. Chakras (pronounced “shock-ras”) are Sanskrit for wheels of rotating energy flows in the ethereal body. They are in related locations within the physical body along the spinal column starting from the base of the spine, up to the crown, or top of the head. There are seven major chakras within the body where the energy flows intersect. The health of an area of the physical body and the condition of its associated chakra are interdependent, so when the chakras are blocked or cleared, the body’s state will mirror that.

Each chakra corresponds with different states of consciousness, developmental stages of life, archetypal elements, body functions, colors and sounds. Crystals are capable of interacting with these energy centers within the human body because they are electromagnetic conductors that work through resonance and vibrational sound. Each crystal and gemstone embodies certain energies, colors, and elements that mirror the qualities needed to facilitate clearing and raising chakra vibrations. They have been used to realign subtle energies and dissolve dis-ease by helping to get to the root of the issue. Wearing crystals and gems used to be a royal or priestly experience, but is now something we can all receive benefit from, even by just having one in close proximity or learning to meditate with them.

There are so many varieties to choose from that help facilitate different functions and healing intents.

• Boost your energy with Orange Carnelian

• Attract wealth and reenergize with Citrine

• Cleanse your space with Amber

• Enhance intuition with Apophyllite

• Boost confidence with Hematite

• Smoky Quartz and Black Tourmaline have the ability to absorb negative energy

• Fluorite clusters can alleviate debilitating effects of computer use

• Selenite accesses angelic energy, calms, and is great for bone and back issues

• Peridot is a visionary stone that helps diffuse anger, reduce stress, and release negative patterns

• Rose Quartz is a perfect choice if you are seeking love in your life. Try Kunzite to access higher vibrational, unconditional love that aligns the heart chakra with the throat (self-expression and communication center) and third eye (intuitive center) chakras

• For migraines, the cool and calming Lapis Lazuli is great to quickly draw it off

• The spiritual stone and disease-source locator, Larimar, radiates tranquility and guides the soul onto its true path while removing self-imposed blocks.

• Serpentine helps diabetes, cleanses and detoxifies

• Emerald is a wisdom stone that aids liver detox and aids mental clarity

• Quartz is a master healer for any condition that balances and stimulates the immune system.

As you can see, the choices are endless. It is up to the individual to ultimately heal themselves, yet there are many catalytic tools, such as crystals, that can help facilitate the healing process and help one reconnect to wholeness. Choosing a crystal to work with can be as simple as following your intuition as to which captures the essence of the energy you are drawn to, or you can reference crystal healing indexes to help you link symptoms with relevant crystals.

References:

1. Love is in the Earth: A Kaleidoscope of Crystals Updated by Melody, Earth-Love Publishing House, 1995

2. Hall, Judy. The Crystal Bible: A Definitive Guide to Crystals. Godsfield Press, 2003

For more info, crystal classes & crystal healing pendants contact Tania Marie, Reiki Master Teacher, Visionary Artist & Owner of Emerald Bridge at (775) 343-9244 or www.taniamarie.com.

By Patricia Pollman, RN, HN-BC, HTPA |

Holistic Nursing has at its core the art and science of Healing. It focuses on care for the whole person in body, mind, and spirit. Holistic Nursing promotes the optimal health and well being that is innate in all persons, across the span of their lives. Holistic Nurses draw from a wide array of complementary therapies and practices in their work and self-care, resulting in a variety of treatment options for treating the whole person. These treatments include:

1. Healing Touch

2. Clinical Aromatherapy

3. Holistic Stress Management

4. Integrative Imagery

5. Integrative Reflexology

Founded in 1980, the American Holistic Nurses Association is helping to transform health care by bringing concepts of holism to every area of Nursing Practice. Holistic Nurses work in all practice settings, helping people assume personal responsibility for wellness, healing and health. Holism is the view that an integrated whole has a reality independent of and greater than the sum of its parts. Holistic: is concerned with the interrelationship of body, mind, and spirit in an ever-changing environment.

“Nursing is an art; and if it is to be made an art, it requires as exclusive a devotion, as hard a preparation, as any painter’s or sculptor’s work; for what is having to do with dead canvas or cold marble, compared with having to do with the Living Spirit – the temple of God’s spirit? It is one of the Fine Arts; I had almost said, the finest of Fine Arts.”

- Florence Nightingale 1854

A Holistic Nurse will create and enter into a therapeutic relationship with their clients, co-creating a holistic plan for wholeness and enhancing one’s perception of health challenges, utilizing a natural systems approach of viewing dis-ease.

When selecting a Holistic Nurse as a member of your personal healing team, you empower yourself to take charge of your most valuable asset, your health and wellbeing. You will be supported in evaluating all aspects of your life, learning to optimize inner and outer harmony, and developing a plan to achieve good health.

Holistic Nursing is a certification achieved after completion of RN licensure. The profession of Holistic Nursing has attained nursing specialty status, with a defined scope and standards of practice, and is officially recognized by the American Nurses Association (ANA).

Examples of how a Holistic Nurse Consultation may serve you include:

• dis-ease prevention and health promotion

• enhancing healthy life style choices

• chronic pain & illness

• if you are undergoing cancer treatment

• planning & recovering from medical procedures &/or surgery

• holistic stress management

• peaceful deathing

• living holistically, in harmony as  an individual, within a family, community and global world.

References:

1. www.AHNA.org.

2. Holistic Nursing. A Handbook for Practice, 4th ed., 2005.

For more info, call Patricia Pollman at 775-830-3413.

Life is Problems:  Stress Relief in a Stressed-Out Society

NOTE:  The Feldenkrais Method‚, a movement-based learning format, was developed by Dr. Moshé Feldenkrais (1904-84), an Israeli physicist who worked at the Curie Institute in Paris. A series of crippling knee injuries left him unable to walk, facing surgery and a poor prognosis; instead he treated himself. After a long struggle, Feldenkrais taught himself to walk again without pain, and refined his methods, (Awareness Through Movement‚ (ATM) and Functional Integration‚) to teach and help others.

Life is, in essence, a series of problems. Our earliest problems are “Where’s food? I’m hungry” or “I’m tired and need to sleep.” We graduate to bigger problems: “How can I reach that cookie jar, way up there on the counter?” Pretty soon, we are solving problems like: “Do I ask him out on a date?”

Then we have problems like buying and maintaining a house, relating to another person in a long-term, committed relationship (or not!) and all of the wonderful problems of parenting. The more we mature, the bigger and better our problems seem to get.

When problem-solving is not fun or challenging in a positive way, it causes stress. We all know when stress gets to be too much — and the damage it can cause. But our problems aren’t going to go away. So how can we learn to handle them?

When I first took a weekly Awareness Through Movement® class, it was an island of sanity and relaxation in my insanely stressed-out life. I spent at least 20 minutes of every class fast asleep!

Learning to identify and respect my physical, mental and emotional limits has been gradual, but the quality of my life is now so improved, I can’t imagine how I lived like that. I now use my body as a barometer and listen to it when it tells me where my limits are. I still accomplish a lot, but only if I take the nonlinear approach I learned in those Feldenkrais® classes.

Thus Awareness Through Movement® classes are a down-to-earth approach to dealing with the problems of life. In an ATM class, participants explore solutions to various movement challenges. This transforms “problem-solving” into fun, as it was when we were children. ATM helps us learn to handle stress in two ways simultaneously: physically and mentally:

On the physical side, ATM lessons release us from our habits of hunching the shoulders, holding or restricting the breath, locking the chest and rib cage, tensing the belly, and otherwise preparing to fight or flee. ATM teaches us ways to notice those signs of stress and de-stress our selves throughout the day.

On the mental side, ATM helps us identify and respect our limits, and to focus on the process, instead of chasing one goal after another with nothing but stress in between. Moshe Feldenkrais insisted everyone should have at least three distinct options for doing every action. The more options available, the more chances of drawing upon one of the previously “superfluous” options in handling an unexpected problem. Respecting our limits is often a new experience, as there is little cultural support for it. If you begin to identify and respect your limits, be prepared for resistance—respecting your limits is a revolutionary thing to do. But it is an idea whose time has come, and you will be a role model for others when they see you at peace, with plenty of time to spare.

Improved Awareness Leads to Greater Workplace Comfort

So many of our repetitive postures began in childhood that we are barely aware of them any longer. Even as adults, repetition deadens our physical awareness — our brains basically stop noticing when we are not comfortable. Many computer users, for example, extend their mousing arm far from their body while working, and unnecessarily hold up the weight of their whole arm.

If we unconsciously hold our heads forward while working on the computer, we place a similarly unnecessary strain on our shoulders and neck.  But we usually don’t notice these unnecessary tensions until we are in pain!  By then, of course, damage or injury to tissues may have already occurred.

Increased sensory awareness helps us to notice sooner when our unconscious postures are moving toward strain and injury. The Feldenkrais Method® teaches us how to improve our awareness of our physical status, and provides options for sitting, moving and rebalancing our weight.  With new choices for movement, the nervous system can adapt more quickly and thus modify our postures before real strain or damage sets in – even while we are deep in thought and hard at work.

Mini- Awareness Through Movement®

EASY FLEXIBILITY LESSON

To do this lesson, sit at the edge of your chair.

1. Turn your head to look to the right.  Notice if there is any strain or pain in the movement and if you hold your breath.  Do it again and notice where do you initiate the movement from.

2. Repeat this simple movement, but reduce the effort.  Don’t go to the limit.  Make the movement light as though floating through air or oil.

3. Now leave the head in the middle and turn both shoulders to the right.  The left shoulder comes forward as the right shoulder goes backward.  Again reduce the effort and repeat several times, don’t hold your breath, and make the movement lighter each time.

4. Turn your head a few times to the right and notice if more of you participates in the movement now.  Is it a little easier?  Pause a few seconds in the middle.

5. This time leave the head in the middle, but move your left knee a little bit forward so that the pelvis rotates, with the left side of the pelvis coming forward and the right side going backward.   Repeat several times without strain or holding the breath.

6. Now again turn your head to the right and let all the parts of yourself participate.

Is the movement easier now?  Do you turn further?  Do you initiate the movement from a different place than you did in the beginning?  Can you feel how using more of yourself has freed the head and neck?

7. Repeat the same sequence, turning to the other side.

For more information about the Feldenkrais Method® or for a catalogue of tapes, workshops and trainings contact Feldenkrais Resources at www.feldenkraisresources.com or call 800-765-1907.

Improving women’s health, and increasing awareness and understanding of women’s health issues, is the task of the Office on Women’s Health (OWH), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. OWH is celebrating the seventh annual National Women’s Health Week this year from May 14–20th as a way to accomplish its mission. The 2006 celebration starts on Mother’s Day and ends on the following Saturday. However, women’s healthcare has a therapeutic ally that cannot be confined to a one-week national celebration. It’s a proven women’s health enhancer and stress reliever—laughter.

Laughter: A Heart Healthy Activity

It’s been said that laughter is the best medicine. A growing body of research supports the theory that laughter has therapeutic value and may be an antidote to heart disease.

In 2000 and again in 2005, a team of researchers at University of Maryland Center for Preventive Cardiology, led by the Center’s director Dr. Michael Miller, released study results which point to a strong connection between laughter and cardiovascular health.

In 2000, Dr. Miller led a research team which conducted a study on the humor response comparison of 300 people. Fifty percent had suffered a heart attack or undergone coronary artery bypass surgery. Fifty percent were healthy, age-matched participants without heart disease. Miller said that the most significant finding was that “people with heart disease responded less humorously to everyday life situations. They generally laughed less, even in positive situations, and they displayed more anger and hostility.” He went on to say that perhaps laughter should be added to the list of recommended behaviors known to reduce the risk of heart disease, like exercising, not smoking and eating foods low in saturated fat.

In 2005, Miller and his team of researchers released the results of another study. Using laughter-provoking movies to gauge the effect of emotions on cardiovascular health, the study showed that laughter appears to cause the tissue that forms the inner lining of blood vessels, the endothelium, to dilate or expand in order to increase blood flow.

The results of their study point to a strong connection between laughter and cardiovascular health. “The magnitude of change we saw in the endothelium is similar to the benefit we might see with aerobic activity, but without the aches, pains and muscle tension associated with exercise,” says Dr. Miller. “We don’t recommend that you laugh and not exercise, but we do recommend that you try to laugh on a regular basis. Thirty minutes of exercise three times a week and 15 minutes of laughter on a daily basis is probably good for the vascular system.”

Laughter: A Guaranteed Stress Reliever

Stress at work is a growing problem for women in the workplace. In one survey, 60 percent of employed women cited stress as their number one problem at work. Furthermore, levels of stress-related illness are nearly twice as high for women as for men. Once again, researchers are telling us that laughter has many physiological and emotional benefits that help to combat stress related illness. “When you are laughing, you discharge tension associated with four primary negative emotions—depression, anxiety, fear and anger,” says Dr. William Fry, a behavioral scientist, psychiatrist and Emeritus Associate Clinical Professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine of Stanford University.

And, Dr. Lee Berk, a pioneer researcher studying positive emotions/behaviors and their biochemical/physiological effects on stress hormones and immune system components in the field of Psychoneuroimmunology at Loma Linda University School of Medicine, says “Laughter can relax the muscles, increase alertness and memory, reduce pain, lessen emotional stress and lower blood pressure.”

With all the physiological and psychological health benefits evidenced by solid scientific research, leading-edge organizations in the Triad are embracing therapeutic laughter activities to reduce stress and enhance quality of work life for staff.

Employee Wellness at High Point Regional Health System (HPRHS), asked Certified Laughter Leader Marilyn Sprague-Smith to help employees put laughter back in their lives. “Marilyn is showing us how to use laughter to lighten up our mental workload and bring a sense of joy, happiness and harmony into our daily activities,” says Sue Cumpston, Employee Wellness Coordinator for the health system. The program was brought to HPRHS as a community outreach service of Unity’s laughter club program.

You, too, can choose to let laughter be your therapeutic ally for increased health and wellness. Get involved in National Women’s Health Week by creating a personal health and wellness plan. Remember Dr. Miller’s heart-healthy prescription, “thirty minutes of exercise three times a week and 15 minutes of laughter daily.” Your heart, and every system in your body, will thank you.

Marilyn Sprague-Smith, M.Ed. is an award-winning consultant, trainer, professional speaker, author & certified laughter leader. She is 1 of only 6 people in the world authorized by The World Laughter Tour to deliver laughter leader certification training. For more information visit www.miraclesmagicinc.com or www.worldlaughtertour.com.

No single approach to healing can adequately do justice to the complexity of we human beings.  Yet, in a controlled study in 2004 by Kaiser Permanente Hospital, San Francisco, a modality for healing called Integrated Awareness® (IA®) showed promising results.

Kaiser is among the leading hospital chains that looks continuously for noninvasive ways to accelerate patient healing while reducing the time and cost of their hospital stays.  In the process of doing this, Kaiser undertook controlled studies of a number of alternative healing modalities, including energy work.  Energy work is a general term for modalities that are based on the idea that the human body consists of energy fields that can be stimulated through various techniques in order to promote wellness.

In 2004, Kaiser tested various kinds of energy work see if it could speed up healing, relieve fear, pain, and immobility, and if so, which method(s) would consistently provide the best results.  At the end of 12 months, 3 energy modalities stood out in this regard, providing patients with reduced pain, speedy recovery, increased mobility, vitality, and a sense of well being. These included acupuncture, Reiki, and Integrated Awareness®.

Patients treated with Integrated Awareness® before surgery experienced a reduction of fear, increased calm and readiness for surgery.  Following surgery, these patients required fewer pain medications and recovered quickly from their surgeries.  Integrated Awareness® was deemed to have saved patients the cost of medications and reduced doctor and hospital expenditures, due to shorter recovery times.  Emotionally, reduced levels of fear and pain also appeared to be associated with Integrated Awareness® treatments.

So what is Integrated Awareness®?

The principle behind Integrated Awareness® is to be totally aware of self, simultaneously in the present moment, and in the past.  When you are fully integrated in this way (meaning your mind is NOT off doing something else) all your energy is directed to the task at hand, be it healing, problem solving, an athletic event or simply being in focus for life’s inevitable ups and downs.

In other words, when you are fully present, all of your vital life force is available.  The experience is of peace, power and fulfillment.  Integrated Awareness® was designed by using The Body’s Map of Consciousness, the fundamentals of which are that every site in your physical structure vibrates (is energized) at a different rate. Bone vibrates at a different rate than fluid. Nerves vibrate differently than connective tissue and these vibrations are all connected to our consciousness.

The concept of IA®  is that different tissues, emotions, thoughts and energetics have different octaves of vibration – some clash with, blend into, or complement others.  Similar to music, vibrations of thoughts and emotions will sometimes resonate and be in harmony with your physical structure, or be in disharmony.  The greater the disharmony, the greater the opportunity for illness.  The objective, then, is to balance or harmonize the various physical, mental and emotional vibrations, to achieve a higher degree of health.

In Integrated Awareness®, it is believed that our thoughts operate within a different vibrational spectrum than do our emotions — e.g., thoughts use a narrow band of energy, not very charged, but rigid.  Emotions operate across a band of highly reactive charged energy; they are fluid with a polarity pull. The emotional body has an orientation to the past, licking it’s wounds, while the mental body has an orientation towards the future, where it creates predictable models of what is going to happen next.  These complexities too must be balanced.

Cheryl Blossom is a certified Reiki & Integrated Awareness® Practitioner/Instructor.    She has designed the Quantum Awareness and Health Program and is Director of Reno’s Institute for Inspired Living. For an IA® session or more information about any of these topics, call: (775) 338-8617

Do you have pain? Do you have trouble focusing your attention? Have you stopped doing activities you used to enjoy?  If you want to reconnect with your natural abilities to move, think and feel, then read on…

The Feldenkrais Method® is a unique and sophisticated approach to human understanding, learning and functional change. Developed by Dr. Moshe Feldenkrais (1904-1984) during 40 years of research as a scientist, physicist, engineer and judo master, Dr. Feldenkrais’ own physical problems led him to his lifelong exploration to improve our movement and functioning in general. The method involves the use of movement and attention to change and grow beyond our presumed limitations.

Our patterns of movement and thought are deeply embedded within our nervous systems; over time, these may become outmoded or dysfunctional; we loose the effortless coordination that we had as children.  Old injuries throw our systems out of balance, and reappear as secondary skeletal and muscular problems.

The Feldenkrais Method® works with the connections between our nervous system and all aspects of our functioning — i.e., how we organize our intentions into actions. These intentions must be realized through the sensory-motor area of the brain and this is the part of our brain that is re-educated in the Feldenkrais work.  Functionally-based variation, innovation and differentiation in sensory motor activity free us from our habitual patterns and allow new patterns of thinking, moving and feeling to emerge. Using movement to explore the biological and cultural aspects of attention, intention and cognition, the work delves deeply into how human development, learning and movement interrelate.

People who suffer from chronic pain, restricted movement, or neurological and/or psychological problems, may find great benefit from the Feldenkrais Method®, as well as people who want to find renewed ease in their every day movements, including rest and sleep. Learning to move with less effort makes daily life easier. The Feldenkrais Method® deals with the relationship between movement and thought, hence increased mental awareness and creativity accompany physical improvements.

The Feldenkrais Method® is an unusual melding of motor development, biomechanics, psychology and martial arts, recognized for its demonstrated ability to improve posture, flexibility, coordination, self-image and to alleviate pain and muscular tension.  It consists of 2 compelling and versatile applications – Awareness Through Movement (ATM) and Functional Integration – modalities that harness the nervous system’s innate ability to self-organize toward more effective and intelligent action/movement.

Since Dr. Feldenkrais’ first class of students in the 1970s, more than 3000 Feldenkrais practitioners have been trained worldwide in the US, Canada, Israel, Australia, and Europe.

Quote From Dr. Andrew Weil:

“I have long been intrigued by this subtle form of retraining the nervous system, which I recommend to patients whose movement has been restricted by injury, cerebral palsy, stroke, fibromyalgia, or chronic pain. I find it [The Feldenkrais Method] to be much more useful than standard physical therapy. I also believe that the Feldenkrais Method can help older people achieve greater range of motion and flexibility, and help all of us feel more comfortable in our bodies.”

Arlyn has worked with the Feldenkrais Method for ~ 30 years. Her students range from age 9 months to 85 yrs. For further information on classes, workshops and trainings call Feldenkrais Resources (510-540-7600) or (800-765-1907) or http://www.feldenkrais-resources.com

These functions are impaired when the lymphatic system becomes congested or constricted (see below), affecting the body’s ability to rid itself of its own waste material. When the system is blocked, we also become defenseless against attacks by virus, fungi and bacteria.  Infection-fighting cells are prevented from destroying germs, and cell-nourishing elements are prevented from reaching our blood.  Over time other body systems that rely on the lymphatic system for waste removal become compromised, setting the stage for pain, inflammation and disease.

Contributors to lymph constriction include emotional stress, air and water pollution, work environment, industrialization, food/product additives, surgical and drug intervention and genetically modified foods.

Functional disturbances of the lymphatic system are found in chronic immune disorders, chronic metabolic disorders (obesity, diabetes), chronic pain syndromes and accelerated molecular and tissue aging.  Edema (water trapped in the tissues causing swelling) is the result of blocked lymph and often caused by surgery or an injury.

Bumps or pain/tenderness in an area may indicate a breakdown in the mechanical functioning of the system.  The lymphatic system operates the same in both sexes, but when men have prostate issues there is generally a blockage of the lymphatic fluid in the inguinal nodes (located at the bend of the leg).  Women with breast issues usually have blockage at the axillary nodes located in the armpits, extending towards the breasts.

Illnesses as wide ranging as allergies, fibrocystic disease, and cancer can be related to lymph congestion.

The Light Beam Generator (LBG) represents one of the most exciting new therapeutic avenues for improving the health of immune functions.  It is a safe, natural, non-invasive method, which achieves its results on an energetic level.  The most specific and best use of the LBG is reducing or eliminating edema.  Treatment with the LBG puts the correct charge back into the cells and breaks up the pooled wastes.  The use of SCALAR RESONANCE to destabilize viruses, fungi and bacteria that feed on the pooled waste, makes it particularly effective for reducing symptoms associated with sinus congestion, intestinal candida or even respiratory illnesses.

Cells have an electromagnetic charge that either binds them together or keeps them apart, and when the cells in the system clump together and bond electrically with water, it can create disease conditions of swelling, inflammation, or abnormal growths.

The LBG is able to separate these cells from each other and their accumulated fluids.  The result is that swelling, and other blockages are dispersed rapidly and completely.

With proper treatment the unnatural additives in our food, including the steroids that mimic hormones and attach to proteins, can be flushed out.

Day to day factors like eating habits, body structure, nutrition, medication and mental health should also be addressed to provide a successful formula for restoring health.

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Frank felt as if he had been gotten abuse at work all day.  Maybe even all month.  He was wound up and couldn’t manage to get the hassles at work off his mind.  He had already yelled at the kids once this evening.  This would have been the beginning of a very long night with an even worse day coming in the morning.  However, he remembered his personal IRF recording and devoted some time to it.  Refreshed, he went back to help his kids with their homework knowing he’d have a good night‘s sleep tonight and be ready to deal with work tomorrow.

This is not a fantasy of the distant future.  This is a description of a technology being used today.  IRF stands for Induced Resonant Frequency.  When correctly combined with two other techniques called Binaural Beats and EEG (brain wave) Coherence Analysis, IRF is a potent and benign tool for enhancing peak performance and normal daily functioning.

The human brain produces minute electrical currents that are intimately associated with the very active electro-chemical processes that are an essential part of life.  These tiny signals vary in predictable patterns at specific frequencies.  Generally, we measure the EEG (electroencephalographic) frequencies in the range of 2 – 40 Hz.  “Hz” stands for “Hertz” which means “cycles per second”.  The brain has dozens of definable regions, and each one generates its own electrical patterns relevant to what tasks it’s performing and what impact those tasks are having on other regions.

We’ve learned that certain low frequency brain waves often found at the interface between the Alpha band (8-12Hz) and the Theta band (4-8Hz) are associated with many peak functions as well as restorative and creative activities.  During periods of quality rest the brain generates strong Alpha-Theta patterns.  Unfortunately, many of us often don’t get quality rest and may not be receiving the full benefit of strong Alpha-Theta rhythms we should be getting.

EEG Coherence Analysis identifies the unique patterns of coordination (and discoordination) in the brain.  If there is a deficit in Alpha-Theta production, this can be measured, and a template of a stronger Coherence profile can be developed.  Using this template, the pattern of Alpha-Theta frequency activity in need of support can be recorded.  When these frequencies are placed on split harmonic carrier waves known as Binaural Beats, they become audible as a low rumbling sound.  Listening to this sound can instruct your brain to strengthen your specific Alpha-Theta rhythm by inducing similar rhythms.  This is referred to as Induced Resonant Frequency.  Sometimes music is placed over these IRF sounds, but the low rumbling sounds themselves are the music of your brain.

Time spent listening to these IRF sounds appears to be similar to optimizing a computer by improving your efficiency at the electro-physiological level.  The more efficiently your brain can function, the more efficiently you will perform.

In an office setting active IRF therapy can be used for such problems as pain control, anxiety management, peak performance, and learning disabilities.  Active IRF therapy uses your brainwaves in real time as they are produced to create the sounds coming back to you.  When an IRF recording is made from the coherence of your brainwaves, listening to this recording can have some of the same effect without the need to be hooked up to an EEG.  When combined with a therapeutic format such as biofeedback, the overall beneficial impact can be astounding.

The extreme portability in digital sound reproduction has made the use of IRF recordings so simple that athletes use them during breaks in games or matches, students can tune-up for a few minutes before a test, or anyone in virtually any setting can use this elegantly simple and safe aid to clear their mind so they can be their best.

George H. Green, Ph.D., Director, The Biofeedback Center, Reno. Call 775-825-0334.