Lyme Disease

As many of you know Lyme disease has become very prevalent in our area. It is a very insidious spirochete that buries itself deep into the tissue and frequently mutates, so you never know if you ever have gotten rid of it. It has become more widespread , with the onset of the much hotter temperatures.

I myself recently came down with a case of it. My symptoms were headaches and a persistent tight band that started underneath the base of my skull and went down the left side of my neck into my left shoulder. Almost felt like a band within the connective tissue that wouldn't let go. Others may experience flu like symptoms, brain fog and joint pain. Left untreated it can enter into the Central Nervous System and wreak havoc.

Weeks of this (atypical for me) neck pain propelled me into the doctor's office where a blood test revealed a much higher titre level for Lyme disease. I did a course of antibiotics, but still felt pain and tightness in my neck and couldn't turn my head to the left. A friend told me about his success with high frequency radio waves that penetrate the body and break apart the cell wall of the pathogen. Remember the opera singer shattering a wine glass with her voice? I have been experimenting with the frequencies and have seen great healing results. It felt like my body was being cleansed at a very deep level. Think of this as deep detoxification, cleansing the body of the Lyme disease spirochete and other coinfections.

Nutrition Response Testing has been invaluable in knowing what my body needs. I truly feel having been feeding my body high quality organic food for the past 2 years, as well as taking whole food supplements and powerful herbs, has strengthened my Immune System. All have been important in healing Lymes.

Tips

Avoid deep wooded areas.
Do not lie down in the grass.
Be protected-cover yourself completely if you decide to go into a wooded area.
Get checked by a friend after being outside.

Keeping Ourselves Company

Embodiment in the Present-Compassion for Ourselves

As far as pacing we need to put some red flags in our awareness so when a certain behavior starts happening we can know oh, I'm going too fast. I need to slow down and catch back up with myself. The red flag could be oh I'm starting to get irritable or I'm beginning to feel afraid or lost. Or I'm losing touch with what is happening around me. If any of those things start flaring up we can say oh I'm moving too fast and take steps to slow ourselves back down.

Mindfulness, slowing our breath, grounding physically, checking in with our young self from adult awareness all bring us back to present time which is where it is most comfortable to hang out! Also using adult eyes to look around us and actually see where we are is a very powerful tool.

Beth W. write "Over the last six months doing Feldenkrais and receiving CranioSacral Therapy, I've seen how it's impacted different parts of my life. I'm in a weight lifting program, and I feel that I'm able to do it safely and with more ease because of the way my body is moving. I'm sitting up straighter in chairs and standing taller without realizing it; it's just happening! It feels great. What has surprised me the most is to see that I also feel better emotionally. I feel more "with" myself without effort. I am deeply grateful to have met Ed, because I'm accustomed to traveling to New York to find a practitioner with his range of skills. I can't say enough about his work and the power it has to change lifelong patterns of poor habits and emotional and physical stuckness."

Awareness thru Movement

Awareness thru Movement translates into Awareness Inside Movement-
feeling where you effort, feeling the absence of effort.
You have choice, you understand the difference.

Allowing your skeleton to support you so that you come into alignment.
Your muscles become less contracted; movement becomes easier.
You become taller, stand more erect, feel lighter.

Healing the Heart

Opening the constricted heart.
Feeling what's underneath the tight, constricted chest.
Feeling the sensations moment to moment.
Making space/taking space for me and the other.
Re-educating the little one.

(Notes from my last Biodynamic CranioSacral Therapy session)

When life's stressors seem to take over, the body’s feeling tones are the key to wholeness

You're so frozen with fear or grief or some bodily hurt. You can't function well. You're not even aware that you're in fear or grief. You know something is wrong, you're overwhelmed and your body hurts. Your work life feels as though it is slipping away. Relationships are faltering and yet you feel powerless to effect change. You're not truly home, truly present in your circumstances and in your body. You're not in reality, you're in your head.

Over the course of many years I have observed this tendency of fear to take us away from the feeling tones and sensations in our bodies. Patients who have come in with all kinds of functional health problems-headaches, neck and back pain, digestive problems, insomnia-all have a basis in not being able to access frozen parts of themselves. Parts that had been traumatized physically or emotionally and were walled off from consciousness.

Resolution came for these clients when they were able to experience themselves directly through their body, during the course of a Biodynamic CranioSacral therapy session. Once they could "feel" themselves and perceive the attendant sensations and emotional tones and feelings lodged in the body, they were on their way to healing.

I believe that the critical piece for healing of life’s stressors and traumas is providing a proper holding field in order for this to happen --a relational holding field where you feel contained, acknowledged and most of all safe. Where it feels safe for you to drop down and rest in your body, without anything or anyone impinging on your system.

Life is movement. The discovery of CranioSacral is the discovery of tidal movements within the body. The CranioSacral therapist isn’t manipulating, but only holding a wide field of awareness, attuning to this motion or any restrictions to this motion within your body, so you can eventually come back into your body. You can begin to differentiate the present adult healthy consciousness that is distinctly separate from the overwhelmed part and hold that with warm-hearted attention.

The CranioSacral therapist holds the larger Field, a neutral place, that is safe and loving, so you the client can begin to feel yourself, come back into your body and feel the sensations and feeling tones that are underneath the trauma. So that you can access true Health and release and reintegrate the traumatized part of you. This Universal field is a loving holding field that can hold you in all its expanse, like the ocean. You can rest in that field, settle, breathe, feel and come back into yourself.

When you come back to yourself and your body’s felt sensations and feeling tones, you feel alive again, reconnected to the stream of Life. I have helped clients take this journey of healing, and it is inspiring to me to see this reawakened connection. And I have taken this journey myself.

When you connect to the felt sense in your body, then you know what to do, because your Intuition is functioning again. You’re connected! To yourself, to your fellow human being again, to Source! And you’re connected to your natural knowing. It takes being held—and held in a safe holding field, a connected holding field with another present human being to reconnect to yourself. To know yourself from the body, from within, as Buddha said. A deep knowing.