Opening The Door

I use energy balancing along with medical massage and manual therapy in my clinic.  Most people have not experienced the feeling of Reiki or energy balancing on their body.  Reiki means universal life force and is function of nature, like the wind, electricity, and electro-magnetism.  You can feel what I'm doing with you even though my hands are not touching you.  It's like the wind blowing on your face.  The usual sensations are heat, warmth, tingling, prickles, waves, floating, cool, or deep relaxation.

I use the energy balancing to open up the flow of "qi" in the flesh so I can "get in there" and effect a change to the deeper layers of tissue during manual therapy.    I have to do this because your mind believes that you are predominantly a dense, flesh, physical body.  Ha!!!!  Essentially, when you have stress, anxiety, worry, pain in the flesh, it's like pounding on a door you perceive to be locked, in a room that you want to leave.  You don't believe there's a doorknob and a handle.  In addition, you think that all there is is the room you're in.

I know how to see the doorknob, lightly push on the handle, and open your door (your body) to your/our connection to Source, from whence you came.  It's not that hard folks.  But I have studied it and know what I'm doing.  You don't need to pound on your door or freak out over life.  When you're on my table, please relax and be open to receiving all the well-being that naturally flows through the Universe and through us.  Healing is a pleasure, life is a pleasure, the body is a pleasure if you just press lightly on the door handle, open the door, and walk through.

Insurance Billing

I am now billing Auto Owners Insurance for anyone that has had an auto accident and sustained injuries that cause chronic pain.  If your Dr. has let you know that s/he supports massage therapy for pain, bring in the Rx with the diagnostic codes and I'll bill it.  If you'd like your Dr. to support massage therapy, come and see me and we'll talk.  I do medical massage/manual therapy which is specifically tailored for pain relief.  You don't need to go through life with disabling pain that interrupts your life.  There is treatment for it.

Please bring:

* Your ins. card
* The Doctor's prescription
* The HICFAA diagnostic codes with frequency and number of treatments

You will not pay anything for these treatments.

For other conditions, if you have health ins., I will need you to bring in the same things.  The Dr. can precribe medical massage for:

*Sciatica
*Headaches
*Scar tissue
*Disc problem
*Muscle pain
*FMS
*Migraine
*CTS

and more....  Just call me to find out.  I will tell you if I don't think I can help you.  I will bill your ins. and we'll see if they cover it.  If not, I will only ask for 1/2 of the cash price from you.  In the meantime, you will definitely feel better.

Stimulating the Powerful Healing Mechanisms in the Body

Sometimes...what is so simple and powerful is no work at all. Feeling sort of slow and lazy these days? Well, while you're sitting on the couch or the floor vegg'ing out, be aware that what you're meditating on, thinking about, focusing on is either releasing healing hormones into your body to help you feel better, or painful ones to make you feel worse.

Our minds never stand still. Observe that that you are listening, talking, etc. all the time. Do you have a silent opinion or feeling that you would never say as you're listening to the baby near you wail, someone ranting or complaining, or playing loud music? Well, maybe you'd say it on Facebook-right? Or do you have a penchant to be empathic with people, passive, quiet, a listener, intuitive? Some people have chronic negative self talk where they are down on themselves all the time. This will make you seriously ill and leads to addiction. We have a natural way of being but we can also train ourselves to respond to life differently so that we'll feel better.

The above link will take you to a meditation site that educates you about hormones that are released in the body that can heal. There is NO DRUG, NO SURGERY, no Dr.'s treatment that is more powerful than your conscious choice, directing your continual mental focus on what...you...want. It is your life's work to SAY what you want and then give it continual attention. Nurture you heart felt vision, your dream. It may just make you well.

Medical Massage

The Attorney General of Michigan, Mike Cox recently ruled that in the State of Michigan, the only massage that will be available to consumers will be medical massage, for health care purposes. Medical massage will have specific standards of training and the training will include boundaries in the office, and in the professional conduct of the practitioner that will protect the modesty and intent of both patient and practitioner. There will no confusion about what product you are receiving. This is an effective, proven, healing healthcare product. That is all. A side benefit of this action will be to promote the dignity and higher education of women in poverty.

In addition, this will allow for the billing of insurance. Hopefully, this will all become effective by summer 2011

Healing the Emotional Body

The link between pent up feelings and heart disease, high blood pressure, heart attack and stroke is well known. So, let there be no doubt, with regard to our healthcare, we ignore our feelings at our own peril. In addition, drug use, the need for alcohol and pot, excessive food when we're not hungry, or sex addiction are all Qi (Chi) blockage. We inhibit the flow of natural human emotion in a balanced way because of the limited perception of our minds.

Feelings are not universal truth, but they are sign posts to "our truth" that guides us to a potential destiny that would help us learn our lessons. Our bodies are like energy towers, beaming out signals that sychronize us with the world around us. Feelings are simply "signals", "red flags", a homing mechanism. The use of a drug, a cynicism of mind, lack of faith, excessive desire to control others with "the law", all THWART our natural creative self. Creativity, true productivity is directly related to the expression of our honest feelings with someone we love and trust. My experience has always been that if I follow those signals and acknowledge them in my body, I am always taken care of despite what my rational mind may "fear". We are each unique. The universe supports us to express what we feel and produce. Do your work, then let it go and move on the the next adventure. "The highest good for all and harm to none" is what we wish for our healthcare.

A virus in the muscle

Oh my the pain...for the last 3 days or so I couldn't straighten my left forearm. The extensor ulnaris muscle (the outside of the forearm on the pinky finger side) was TOTALLY inflamed. Then my hand started to swell. So today, I can almost completely straighten it and notice the stress it put on the muscles of my left shoulder. Actually, it's times like this that I am so grateful I'm trained to be able to be rational about what happens in my body. It was very interesting to go through this little joy ride. The remedy: double doses of turmeric, regular dose of cayenne and ginger, water, multi-vits', B-complex, liniment on the area (Chinese and Castor Oil), hydrotherapy in Epsom Salt, rest, and alternate ice and warm. I knew it wasn't my heart because the pain and the symptoms were isolated. I had no chest pain and no shortness of breath. From middle age on, you should watch for chest pain, left arm/left elbow pain (dispersed) and shortness of breath. My left arm pain was specific. I came along with the onset of a mild sinus virus as well. These remedies work folks. And the virus's can settle in a specific muscle and incapacitate you for a short while. If you are concerned, as you should be, about heart health, Herb Pharm makes a fabulous heart tonic with Hawthorn. Being forewarned is forearmed.

Dreaming

It happened to me again; I had a very vivid dream. It was as though I was there. I wasn't just "viewing it" like a movie. The next day, the person I dreamt about came up in conversation; through my son. Similar connection happened through my son before as well with this same person. It was all fine and made sense given the history. I woke up the morning I had just dreamt it and said, "Wow, what was all of THAT activity?" It was all ordinary-but I felt like I had just been traveling, as though I'd been in a car, drove to Grand Haven (Lake Michigan), hung out with a large group of people and came back. It felt that real. My life has always been like this. There is really very little veil between this world and the next. I just live with it. No, it is not normal, but it is comforting for me. It works for me because I'm a musician as well as a healer. When I'm at the piano, or organ, or choir, I'm "in a prayerful place" or a healing place to channel peace and revelation through the music. I don't mean peace as in passive or zenlike, but peace that is transformative and always changing. Let the dreams roll!