Vol 1, 2023 Essential Wellness magazine

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The Science behind Energy Medicine & Sound and Light Therapies

By Gail Lynn

WWhat is the science behind energy medicine and the emerging sound and light therapies? It’s a question I have found myself having to answer on many occasions these days. The term is not well defined and linked with pseudo-scientific ideas about healing, not helped by the increasing number of unqualified “quacks” calling themselves energy healers. Despite this, “energy medicine” has recently gone mainstream; its roots are ancient, and there is plenty of evidence backed by scientific research for its value and efficacy.

Let’s start with a credible definition. The U.S. government’s lead agency for research on nonconventional medicine, the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH), describes energy medicine as the “act of channeling and manipulating the energy that courses through your body to heal it.” And the truth is that many well-

renowned institutions across the United States now have departments practicing and researching “energy” in the body, including UCLA, The Cleveland Clinic, and John Hopkins.

Growing numbers of people are experiencing the potential healing benefits of sound, light, and color as medicine adjunct to other “energetic” healing methods. We can all agree that Western medicine has made tremendous scientific breakthroughs, but it is not a panacea. Some of us, sick and tired of not living to our full potential, are open to other healing modalities that complement the western medical paradigm.

SOUND, LIGHT & COLOR AS MEDICINE HEALS

My team of scientists and engineers have leaned into the ancient and current cutting-edge science of sound, light, and frequencies to develop a pod that promotes healing by harnessing their effects on our emotional, mental, and physical states. The thousands of people who have tried it attest to its benefits.

For centuries, mystics argued that sound creates matter and that all things, from the biggest planet to the smallest seed, are coagulations of sound waves; in effect, the world reflects infinite combinations of sound patterns. Scientists who examined these ancient teachings agree that the galaxies are not randomly arranged but are gravitationally bound patterns of clusters. And now, new research suggests that primordial sounds from the moment immediately following the big bang created this cluster pattern. Just as the human body is a cluster pattern of matter, certain instruments affect the body in specific ways. For example, the sound wave of the flute is the most primordial sound wave used by the ancients for healing. The Bible tells us that young David’s harp music was the only thing that soothed the tormented soul of King Saul.

In our research, we see the different waveforms of instruments affecting the matter of the body,

bringing harmony and balance to the organs and systems of those who try our sound and light therapy pod. We create an environment for the body to self-heal.

SOUND HEALING IS ANCIENT

According to the Greek philosopher Pythagoras, who lived around 2,500 years ago, music contributes significantly to health. The earliest known culture to use sound healing for health was the Aboriginal people of Australia. Playing the didgeridoo was believed to help heal broken bones, muscle tears, and other illnesses. Sound healing has gained traction in the modern world thanks to the pioneering research of sound healers like Jonathan Goldman, Dr. John Beaulieu, and Kay Gardner.

Dr. Beaulieu was involved in a study titled, “Sound Therapy Induced Relaxation: Down Regulating

Stress Processes and Pathologies.” The study showed that music-induced positive emotions and subsequent relaxation in patients centered on music’s ability to reduce feelings of anxiety, stress, and numerous other pathologies. The study also proposes nitric oxide (NO) is chiefly responsible for these physiological and psychological relaxing effects.

In 2015, Dr. Dominique Surel, the Dean of Faculty and a professor at Energy Medicine University (EMU, California), gave a lecture on the Power of Sound and Music at a Helsinki conference in which she shared evidence from a slew of scientific studies. She described how music listening impacted the psychobiological stress system, releasing endorphins and increasing the body’s pain tolerance. When music is listened to before a stress-filled situation, the autonomic nervous system, the unconscious part of us that controls our physiological reactions to stress, is impacted to a lesser degree.

In 2013, the Journal of Pediatrics published a study demonstrating that mothers who sing lullabies to premature babies reduce stress levels in the child. The babies’ heartbeats slowed, the babies became calmer, and blood oxygen saturation increased. Another study commissioned by Baltimore Hospital, Coronary

Care Unit revealed that 30 minutes of classical music produces the same effect on the body as 10 mg of the pain killer Valium. In contrast, a Johns Hopkins University study showed rock music causes people to eat more food and eat it faster.

In her Helsinki lecture, Dr. Surel spoke about the work of French musician, composer, acupuncturist, and researcher, Fabien Maman, who was the first to link music with acupuncture. He created a system that uses tuning forks instead of needles on acupuncture command points. Maman described Sound Therapy as a “treatment based on the finding that human blood cells respond to sound frequencies by changing color and shape.” Maman hypothesized that sick or rogue cells could be healed or harmonized by sound.

LIGHT SUPPORTS OUR SELF-HEALING ABILITY

Light nourishes the body and stimulates and supports our important endocrine system, organs, and immune system. We are, in essence, beings of light and vibration from source. We require color and light to support our ability to self-heal. Dr. Jacob Liberman, an optometrist and vision scientist, is a pioneer in studying light, vision, and consciousness. Dr. Liberman writes about treating cancer, AIDS, and other illnesses using color and light, which he calls “an essential nutrient.”

In The Ancient Art of Color Therapy, Linda Clark suggests colors link to replenishing vitamins for the

body. Reds and oranges can replenish B vitamins, and yellow can replenish vitamin A.

While I have outlined only a handful of significant energy medicine and sound and light therapies, research continues—many scientists are exploring the efficacy of sound, light, and frequencies as healing tools. The ancients’ understanding of sound and light on human physical and emotional states is finally receiving attention and study. Our knowledge of energy medicine as a complement to healing techniques is at its beginning. Explore energy medicine for yourself, be discerning, and ask questions about how your body will best benefit from the many available options.

Gail Lynn is a veteran of the high-intensity automotive, telecom, and film industries, bringing decades of practical business experience to her field. These same careers, coupled with trying personal relationships, took their toll on Gail’s physical, emotional, and spiritual health. In the search for answers which conventional medicine could not provide, she discovered light and sound therapy and invented The Harmonic Egg.

Sacro Wedgy® device alleviates back, knee, hip pain

By Cindy Littlefield

FFirst let me give you some background. I’m 74 and yes, still working and loving my “work”. They say if you enjoy what you do it’s not considered work and I do enjoy every day. Have I ever been to a professional for back problems? No, and I have had an occasional bout with back issues. Have I ever been to a professional for sciatica? No, and I’ve had a couple of bouts with sciatica – one was really a doozie – it took me to my knees with pain! Have I ever been to a professional with neck pain, knee pain, hip pain or any other muscle related pain? No, and I’ve had issues with all the above and this is where my background plays a part in my well-being.

What I practice is using the device invented by my father. He was a retired football coach and back in the late 1950s was shown a technique by an osteopath friend of his. He started having some hip or sciatic pain after refereeing a football game. The D.O. friend simply put him on a table and held his sacrum for a while and the relief he got was fascinating. My dad was also a science teacher and athletic trainer, so he had a good background

of anatomy and started using that sacral hold on most all of his football players and consistently got amazing results of relief. He did this for many years and even had some graduates track him down to do that technique again. One of the graduates asked if he would please try to help his wife using what helped him so many times and that’s when he decided there needs to be a product to mimic his hand to isolate the sacrum.

After about 10 years of reviewing hundreds of x-rays, cutting foam to try to create a product to mimic his hand he finally had a version of the female and male sacrum shape. Well, back then it was not easy to find a company to create this unusual mold and he finally got an OK from another family business in Texas and they agreed to build a two-cavity mold and to this day they are the company that still produces what we call the Sacro Wedgy®.

This is where I need to explain how I personally use this unique device and how easy it is to incorporate the techniques developed over many years of use and how knowledge from a wide variety of professionals have

been a part of creating “self-care and prevention.”

My first “take me to my knees” experience was somewhat planned. Yes, I let myself get full blown sciatica just to see how it felt. At the time I was working for a mail service, which is where I learned a lot about printing and advertising. At the time I was working on a big print job moving stacks of paper and because of my movement from printer to table I could feel a sharp stabbing hip pain. I could have gotten on the Sacro Wedgy® and stopped the progress easily but noooo – I was too curious. Well, now I have a great appreciation for the pain and until you can’t walk, can’t stand up straight, can’t put a heel down among other painful moves, the pain is truly unimaginable! I started relaxing on the Sacro Wedgy® with a neck support that Friday afternoon and was over it Monday and except for a little soreness was pain free. Remember, I was already used to using this system so I knew placement and how to relax through some discomfort as muscle may resist and fight just a little. And that leads to what everyone should be doing! It’s so much easier to prevent than to treat. The

best time to learn how to use this is when you are pain free so you can keep it that way!

A perfect example came to me just today from a therapist asking my permission to mention the Sacro Wedgy® for her YouTube presentation for her business. The following is from Andria Seymour of Main Body Works in Osawatomie, Kansas. “I own a family run wellness clinic and we use and sell the Sacro Wedgy® to our clients all the time. I have been using mine for almost 15 years. I feel it is one of the tools that guaranteed my healing and ability to walk again, along with the Myofascial Release therapy we provide, after a very severe injury from a head on car accident.” Isn’t that awesome?

We never get tired of the endless stories of success from all walks of life. The original intent of the Sacro Wedgy® was self care but now many professionals have incorporated this into their practice and recommend

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that their clients/patients use this at home between visits and of course for self-care. I even teach classes now along with Mathew and Nicole Howe of Touch Education in Cincinnati, OH. Matt is a skilled teacher specializing in PTSD trauma and the class we teach together is quite unique with his “cranio” session in the morning and me teaching the afternoon “sacral” session.

For more information please visit www.sacrowedgy.com or call my Mobile, AL based office at 1-800-737-9295. I truly believe everyone can be helped.

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Healing the Wounds of the Heart –an excerpt

By Lynne Renoir

Obstacle 3: Forgiveness Would Mainly Be a Gift to the Other

CCould believing that be an obstacle? For many people, yes.  Why?

Because if I believe that granting forgiveness to someone who hurt me, and for whom I still hold a grudge, is a gift to that person, an inner voice will immediately arise to say, “NO, no way! I’m not making him or her that gift! I was hurt, I suffered a lot, so don’t count on me to grant forgiveness.” In thinking that way, I’m convinced I’m punishing the other by refusing forgiveness. I believe it’s that person who will suffer now. Is this a fair way to see things? Actually, not really. In fact, not at all.

If I am physically attacked and wounded, not taking care of myself will make me suffer first. If the other person has a change of mind, that person might also be affected. But they may also not care less, or may never know about it. In the same way, if my heart was hurt, if I suffered things that deeply affected me in my

emotional integrity (not the physical one), refusing to heal—which means refusing to grant forgiveness since forgiveness is described here as healing the wounds of the heart—is mainly going to make me suffer. I’m the one who will go on poisoning myself with hatred, resentment, and the desire for revenge. I’m the one who will spend months, years, maybe decades, with open and painful wounds in my emotional body. I’m the one who will have a wounded heart, emotional cysts, and an emotional handicap.

Will the person who hurt me suffer from my refusal to grant forgiveness? Not sure. It varies a lot from one person to another. While some would like to be forgiven their wrongs one day, others really don’t care. However, it’s true that from a spiritual point of view, my hatred—which is a negative energy though an invisible one—will do no good to the person to whom I send it. It’s a kind of psychological attack that may sometimes have tangible effects. Except that by going through me first before reaching its goal, I would be the one to have to pay the most for it.

Secondly, it will inevitably have an effect on all of my other relationships, including those I am closest to, who would also, indirectly, pay the highest price. Because yes, the human heart is one, and if it exudes hatred on one side, it cannot box itself off and express pure and unstained love on the other side.

Thirdly, all the negative energy I express—just like everything I sow with my thoughts, my intentions and my feelings—is going to attract similar energies to me, therefore negative ones too, and I risk locking myself into an infernal vicious circle.

means I have a hold on you through a link of resentment and hatred. I don’t want to let you go because of what you’ve done to me. If I ever for-gave you, I’d relinquish this link, I’d free you . . . No way! So I continue to hold it against you, and the link of resentment I cultivate chains me to you, therefore limits me. To get rid of this link, to be able heal oneself, it’s necessary to make the distinction between two levels, two dimensions within us that we tend to confuse and mix up: our heart and our mind.

Do I really want that? No, obviously not. And most of us fall into that trap out of sheer ignorance of its mechanics and consequences.

FORGIVENESS IS SOMETHING WE DO FOR OURSELVES

The best way to avoid this obstacle is precisely to be aware of the fact that forgiveness is first and foremost something we do for ourselves! We forgive to free ourselves from the poison of hatred, to heal our own wounds, to cure our own heart. We forgive in order not to remain crippled in our heart and unable to love again fully, even those who are closest.

What’s difficult here lies in the fact that resentment is a link. In French, there is in fact the expression, Je t’en veux—unknown in other languages—that I find very expressive. It literally means I use my will on you. It

As we’ll go deeper into this matter later, implementing forgiveness (healing our heart) does not mean becoming an idiot intellectually and making stupid decisions. I can forgive... and bring a legal charge against someone. “I forgive everything . . . but I leave nothing out!” said one of my spiritual mentors. “I forgive everything” means “I refuse to poison myself with the venom of hatred, so I do what’s necessary to heal my heart.” And “leaving nothing out” means “I also don’t lack judgement and common sense. I know that what you’ve done is unacceptable. So, without hatred, I do what is needed so that you’re confronted with the consequences of your actions.”

I’ll go deeper into this main subject later. What’s important for you to understand, while tackling this specific obstacle, is that you can forgive, you can make this gift to yourself, grant yourself the healing of your emotional wounds, without necessarily freeing the others—those who hurt you—from the legal consequences of their actions. Yes, you free them from your hatred, since you’re the first one to get something out of it. But you don’t necessarily give the others a blank check that would shield them from

all responsibility. So, you must make the difference between two important things to protect yourself from this obstacle:

1) a first difference between how we act towards ourselves, and towards the others: what do I plan to do for myself, to heal myself, to recover my integrity? And what will I do towards the person who did me wrong? These are two very different things, that you must deal with separately, making the distinction between them. The choice is not between “I suffer to make the other suffer” or “I heal, but in the process I free the other.” There is a third way to deal with this: “I heal, I take care of myself . . . but I keep a free hand on acting towards the other as required by the wrong committed.”

2) a second difference between what happens in my heart, and in my mind: instead of the two working together (either negatively “I don’t forget and I condemn”, or positively “I forgive and accept”), I develop their respective autonomy: my heart forgives, heals, and recovers its integrity and flow, while my mind keeps all its ability to judge and makes the fair decisions that are required to protect my heart, and puts the people concerned in front of their responsibility. We shall see that this is the condition for the inner couple “heart/mind” to take their full space instead of alternatively submitting one to the other while our decisions err one way or the other.

Once this third obstacle is put aside, the word forgiveness should automatically mean something that does you good! The centre of gravity of this word would stop being on the same level as the other person, what that person says or does, what that person deserves or

not, to reposition it on ourself: how do I want to live? What state do I want to be in? How can I heal? Once I’ve healed myself, the decisions I make concerning the others are not dictated by my hatred or resentment anymore: they can therefore be more objective and fairer, because they come from a space within me that has calmed down.  Bear this in mind: when you forgive, you are first and foremost freeing yourself. The opposite, holding a grudge, is a dangerous form of emotional constipation. Would forgiveness be an emotional laxative? Here is an unexpected metaphor, though very significant, to add to the others!

Olivier Clerc is a writer, translator, editorial consultant, and workshop leader. He is the founder of the international program Circles of Forgiveness, based on his life-changing experiences in Mexico with don Miguel Ruiz. With his wife, he created a yearly conference on forgiveness and founded the Association Pardon International (API). The author of “The Gift of Forgiveness,” lives in Cluny, France. https://www.innertraditions.com/books/healingthe-wounds-of-the-heart

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