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Perimenopause and Menopause
Sound Healing for women.
Date: 11/21/2006 1:51:23 PM ( 18 y ) ... viewed 1779 times 11:48 AM
November 21, 06
Donna Carey with client at the Pacific Symposium
http://www.acutonics.com/howitworks/casestudies.htm#1
One of the brightest energies I felt
at this year's Pacific Symposium came
through a directive from Katie Mink
to go meet the folks at the Acutonics
booth.
The Treatment strategy described
at the end of this article, would
have to be done by a practitioner,
however, the information here
makes me want to do the "Man" thing
at Tell Twin Soul/Best Friend
How excited I feel about this info!
Donna Carey's practitioners, I see,
are also doing the opening for the
Omoto on the Seas Conference to be held
next February.
http://www.oceanofgratitudecruise.com/
Another Connection:
When I was at the Thornton Hospital,
I was envisioning an Enchanted Garden
Room, ala Steven Spielberg. The patient,
rather than looking up at dump squares,
would be viewing some healing art that
supported the Recovery. There would be
Sound Healing as well, rather than
the sounds of the hospital.
Donna was in San Diego to further
Sound Healing going into Scripps Hospital,
down the road from the Thornton Hospital
in La Jolla.
Her BOOK:
"There's No Place Like Ohm"
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0971609101/ref=cap_pdp_dp_0/102-0906813-9494500
Women in Transition: Menopause and Perimenopause
Presented by Donna Carey, MS. L.Ac.
Donna Carey is a licensed Acupuncturist, co founder of the Kairos Institute of Sound Healing, Llc., and co-creator of the Acutonics® Healing System. She combines her broad knowledge base as healer, educator, poet, theologist, and innovator in treating individuals and communities. To read more about Donna click here.
Menopause and perimenopause are one of the most significant and powerful transitions in a women's life. For more than fifteen years I have been working with women experiencing this deep and challenging transition. This time, which is marked by physiological, psychological, spiritual, and astrological shifts, often requires a blending of treatment strategies and paradigms. It is a time when women access a new and often times confusing sense of power. Acutonics® is an invaluable system for dealing with the issues and subtle textures that mainstream medicines and treatment often cannot address.
Women in transition will present with a constellation of symptoms that are ignored or labeled as hormonal and /or psychological imbalances. Western medicine and some alternative therapies will deliver multiple diagnoses including Sjoegren's syndrome, hypothymia, non-specific autoimmune disorders, fibromyalgia, depression, hyperthyroidism, and hypothyroidism, chronic fatigue, etc. etc. etc. These diagnoses alone are often not the answer and in many cases they are inaccurate. As healers and clinicians we must also consider that during this time of transition women are being initiated into their power, self-autonomy, and destiny, which can be one of the most profound, life altering, confusing, and shattering experiences in life. Unfortunately many of us live in a world, in cultures, and within family structures that do not support these transitions because they fear the outcome-mainly change. These are often irreversible and unresistable changes that comes when we are given a gift of insight into our life that helps break down generational patterns and to wake up or re-awaken to a new purpose. Women begin to access their divine spark, and often experience a heightened awareness, as they are called to move beyond their existing structure, and to redesign or craft a brand new architecture for their lives.
So all these symptoms and syndromes that seem so overwhelming and unbearable are not all that complex, strange, or pathological. Remember that in other cultures this is a very celebrated and sacred time. Our culture minimizes transitions, and disempowers these powerful times, especially the powerful times of women.
It is my personal belief that mainstream medicine has almost nothing to offer high functioning women in transition. The power is within us waiting to be ignited, not suppressed by countless hormonal supplements and anti-psychotic drugs for mood swings, anxiety, and insomnia. The answer is insight into the larger picture of your life-your story-and a living out of the exciting, empowering, universe that is not determined by husbands, children, institutions, governments, nor held captive by gender, cultures, and biology.
Transitions are about enlarging into our greatest capacities, the apex of our waveform, launching into our highest frequency with renewed energy and wisdom. And the menopausal years are part of this critical transition.
Rather than providing many individual case studies to this grand portal I offer some general treatment strategies that have been extremely effective in my clinical practice.
Symptoms:
Almost always there will be a constellation of patterns and symptoms orbiting around the factor of heat. From an Oriental Medicine perspective the diagnosis is Kidney yin deficiency. Yin is the female aspect, the material base, the nurturing substances and processes. Yang is the masculine principle, the energy, and the action. Yin and yang are complementary forces that exist within our body, within nature, and throughout the universe, that interplay, complement and check one another. When in balance, there is harmony. When yin is deficient, yang will take over and we will see how when the yin (water) is deficient and cannot provide the root, that yang (fire) will exhibit itself with a flare.
These include hot flashes, heat rising up in the form of headaches, restlessness, fidgetiness, sleeplessness, and irritability. The heat can give way to dryness, both vaginal and general dryness of mouth, eyes, skin, and a feeling of itchy crawly skin. Joint aches can occur due to the loss of moisture and lubrication as well. There may be feelings of un-grounded-ness and un-rooted-ness due to the fact that energy is constantly rising up. The heat can cause unsettling and feelings of anger, aggression, nervousness, it may also cause either excessive menstrual bleeding (heat will burn collaterals), or incessant spotting (yin source dried up so blood cannot be produced). Emotionally there is a wide gamut from elation with constant activity and restlessness, to depression and very little activity, although insomnia may be present with hypo or hyper emotions.
Psychospiritual symptoms may include a blown out low back or sacrum, which is common in transformational crisis-the stability of our old life and ways of thinking and being are challenged. Our creative urge for spritual and soul growth is awakening at the base of the spine and kundalini energy is being stirred up at its core. Other symptoms may include feelings that their world and the people around them are becoming too small and there are often feelings of loss and impending change. The nervous system often times becomes extremely sensitive and fragile, everything becomes a crisis and there can be a loss of control. Things we once took in stride become overwhelming; when you couple this with inability to sleep and surging power we can easily fry our systems circuitry.
Treatment Strategy:
It's critical to ground, root, and settle the nervous system, which helps to bring the body back into its new rhythms and cycles. The Acutonics system is based on cycles, the best place to begin a treatment is with the fundamental and foundational cycle of Ohm. In the treatment described below I generally repeat each sequence three times.
Begin your treatment by having the client listen to the Acutonics® Low Ohm Fork and the basic Ohm Fork together (Ohm Octave), then place the two forks together on the soles of the feet at Gushing Spring (Kid-1).
Next use both Ohm Forks together (Ohm Unison), go down the entire spine first along and right next to the spine (the Huatojiaji points) then out from the spine on the first muscle band. This helps to settle the nervous system down and aids the client in integrating the new energies, frequencies and insights that are coming into the body. After going down the spine be sure to work in the sacrum, then use the minor chakras at the back of the knees and end at the bottom of the foot at Kid-1 again.
Next I use the Ohm Forks above the body, sweeping energy from the top to the bottom of the body guiding it downwards towards the root. I also use the combination of the Ohm and Full Moon Fork on the inside of the lower leg at a point known as the 3 Leg Yin (Spleen-6). This is a powerful Psychospiritual point and using this combination can water the yin of the body and help harmonize the emotions.
Once the client has turned over, root again using the Low Ohm and Ohm together at the point known as Origins Pass (Conception Vessel-4). This point is located approximately a hands length below the navel on the midline and is a great point for rooting the core energy. Continue to balance all the chakras using the Low Ohm and Ohm combination or two Ohms both on and off the body.
If you have completed Acutonics® Level I training you should be familiar with the pre-meridian energy channels known as the 8 Extraordinary Vessels. One of the most effective treatments for leveling, grounding, nourishing, and helping realign energies in the physical and subtle energy bodies is using the Ohm and Full Moon (full moon 6th) on the confluent points for the Ren Mai (Lung-7) and YinQiao Mai (Kid-6) contra laterally, and on the confluent points for the Chong Mai (Spleen-4) and Yin Wei Mai (P-6) contra laterally.
End your treatment by tracing the figure 8 above the body using the Ohm Forks and then hold these near your clients' ears.
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