Touching the Intangible

By Lisa Patterson

Laura filed for divorce three years before she called me for an intuitive session. She’s anxious, she wants to see into the future, she wants to know why her separated husband is becoming increasingly more difficult to communicate with rationally. Laura especially wants to know two things: When will her house sell and when will her divorce be final?

Laura has three girls all at various stages of puberty. Their father is sometimes physically brutal with them and verbally mean to their mother. Laura is encumbered with his emotional and energetic ownership of her and fearful of him.

She wants it all to go away and can’t understand why it’s happening. She believes she’s a good person and thus questions why her life has unfolded this way.

It’s important to understand that we are on a journey through life and we now find ourselves on the cusp of many transformations as individuals and as a planetary society. The final mistake of every fallen society in history has been to ignore our artists, musicians, and visionary thinkers. Our worldview and beliefs become crystallized, making it all but impossible to think outside the box. Human potential will never fit inside a box, no matter how large, so join me in a conversation that’s “outside the box.”

Rahasya Poe, Lotus Guide

Lotus Guide: So Adam, what was it that first started you down this particular path of healing?

Adam Miller: When I was 18 years old, I was an amateur figure skater, ended up catching double pneumonia, and I was in the hospital with a 109-degree temperature. And I left my body at that time. When I left my body, there was a man waiting there. He didn’t tell me a thing and he led me to a building. When I walked up to the building, I put my foot on the first stair.

The Science of Sound Health

By Judy Chambers

Human BioAcoustics, developed by Sharry Edwards, M.Ed., of Sound Health, has been described as a cross between music therapy and biofeedback.

Bob Bethel came to Sound Health with severe leg injuries from a motorcycle accident. Doctors had advised amputation. Several years later, after ongoing work with Sharry, he was teaching tennis. Willie Crum was a 12-year-old boy who was rendered quadriplegic after being severely beaten. When he was 22, after many visits to Sound Health, he could stand unaided and was attending college. DF was a client of mine in Florida. She came to me to see if she could avoid knee surgery. She followed prescribed procedures for six to eight months. The cartilage in her knee regenerated. Several years later she returned for help with the other knee.

What is BioAcoustics? It is a natural and holistic way of using voice analysis to enable the body to balance itself. We gather information from the body in the form of “voice prints,” which are analyzed in terms of frequency. The frequencies that are found to be “in stress” are used to develop individual formulas that are then programmed into a listening device to help the body to heal itself.

Sharry Edwards, the developer of this technology, was born with the ability to hear sounds well beyond the range of normal hearing. She also is able to produce a perfect sine wave with her voice. These abilities enable her to “hear” the imbalances in people’s voices and to produce sounds that can help the individual’s voice become balanced. Sharry learned early on that these imbalances correlated with health issues. This understanding led to the development of an extensive database of frequencies correlating with a full range of vitamins, enzymes, hormones, muscles, vertebrae, nerves, neural transmitters, genomes, and so on. Through the years, computer programs and equipment have been developed that enable practitioners such as myself, who lack Sharry’s natural abilities, to provide these same services.

Readers may recognize the similarity of this approach to other modalities, such as chimes, chanting, tuning forks, crystal resonators, and vibrating beds. However, BioAcoustics takes these an important step further, because it honors the individual. Any health issue that an individual can experience may be caused by many different things. There is no one cause for a particular problem, nor is there any approach that is always appropriate. Sharry discusses this at length in an interview with Larry Trivieri for a chapter about BioAcoustics in his book, Health on the Edge. She recounts a study that was done with three individuals who had gait problems. One of the subjects turned out to have difficulty processing vitamin B12. A second subject had gait problems because of the gene for Frederick’s ataxia. The third individual presented had trauma to his L2 vertebra caused by a skiing accident. All of these root causes were discovered through analyses of their vocal prints.

What happens in a BioAcoustics session? During the first visit, or a section of a longer visit, we take a vocal print. The client speaks into a microphone, which records a vocal sample into a computer. The frequencies are then analyzed by a computer program, which determines which frequencies are too high or too low. If a frequency is too high, it can mean either that the client has too much of the corresponding substance in his or her system, or that the body is not able to process that substance effectively. Next, the practitioner analyzes the prints (we usually take at least two prints), running them through several data programs, to help determine the frequencies that are most likely to relate to the client’s issue. Finally, the client is asked to listen to various forms of the more important frequencies. Objective and subjective measurements determine which of these frequencies seem to be most effective. Finally, we program a small listening device, called a tone box, with the appropriate frequencies. The client takes the box home and listens to his or her sounds for a specified period of time each day. We usually also recommend a follow-up visit to adjust frequencies and to counsel the client.

For more information contact Judy Chambers at 530-244-5952. Free informational DVD: The perspectives of three doctors on the Miracles of Non-Medicine.

Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT)

By Sharon Cardenas, RN

Einstein said, “If at first an idea does not sound absurd there is no possibility of it happening.” Emotional freedom technique (EFT) does sound absurd in its claims but the work has a high percentage of healing wonders. This quantum healing tool often works when all else fails.

Otherwise known as “energy psychology” or “emotional acupressure,” EFT began as an experiment by psychologist Roger Callahan, PhD. His clients started showing enhanced improvement when he tapped on their faces using acupressure points he had read about. Then Gary Craig, a Stanford engineer, developed this discovery into a complete technique that has been passed on to those interested in relief from distress for the past 20 years (www.emofree.com). More and more studies are proving most diseases begin with the way we think—negative thinking, compulsive thinking, or any kind of thinking that does not serve our best interests and thus the best interests of those around us.

EFT works by neutralizing the static buildup in our central nervous systems. It is done with simple tapping on specific acupuncture points. An individualized dialogue with the tapping addresses a specific physical problem that has an emotional component or relates to an unresolved emotional issue.

EFT techniques can be mechanically simple or can be more of an art form. For instance, other techniques, such as neurolinguistic programming (NLP), nonviolent communication (NVC), kinesiology (muscle testing), and aromatherapy, can be combined with EFT. Adding these extras can quickly and effectively help surface deep core issues with minimal or no pain.

An example of how EFT can help would be working with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD); the technique would cruise the memory as if in a movie, tapping before the crescendo. The result, which ensues with a lot of intuitive work, is that the clients/patients have the memory but not the emotional charge. They are more able to deal with their lives and drop the heavy weight they have been carrying around. The physiological result is that serotonin is released for a natural state of well-being. In addition, many people have improved their immune systems with this technique.

One five-minute session stands out for me. My client’s right arm was contracted at the elbow at 90 degrees for two days from punching on the punching bag for too long. After I tapped on anger issues, slowly the arm began to give way and relaxed to its normal range of motion!

In my EFT workshops, I offer education on the body-mind connection and emphasize being nonjudgmental with ourselves and others. For example, we might start out by tapping the fleshy part of the hand, on the side of the pinkie finger, and say, “Even though I allowed myself to get irritated again with her high voice, I still love and accept myself profoundly.” Then we continue working through the kaleidoscope of emotions and self-talk, or “writings we have on our internal walls.” As Gary Craig says, “It is all an inside job.”

An additional plus with EFT is that follow-up phone sessions can often do just as well as a personal session. EFT can be fun, informative, and even transformative.

For more information on EFT and how both one-on-one and group sessions work, contact Sharon Cardenas at www.EnergyRemedies.us or 530-556-6753. Sharon has volunteered her EFT work at the Esplanade House, Shalom Free Clinic, and for various patients in nursing homes, and 20 percent of her workshop proceeds go toward starting up a Women’s Health Clinic in Cayambe, Ecuador.

You can also contact Suzie Greene at 530-966-1999.

If you are interested in joining an EFT healing circle, contact The Goddess Temple at www.chicogoddesstemple.com.