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My Journey as a Sound Therapist With the RestStation Lounge (18)

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My next session with the RestStation Lounge …

It didn’t happen!  My laptop went on the fritz!  Something was wrong with my laptop, not the Lounge.  I spent two days with a blue screen and a message that said, “We are updating your online security.”  What??!!

 

I had never seen anything like this on my computer.  It stayed there for two days.  Just a blue screen with that sentence on it.  Honestly, it freaked me out because so much of what I do is stored on that laptop.

 

Fear can be all-consuming sometimes.  Does anyone know what I’m talking about here?

I was so afraid that my laptop was irreparably broken and then what would I do.  I certainly didn’t have the money to replace it right now.  Additionally, I couldn’t use it with the RestStation Lounge.

 

It took me 3 days to get everything working correctly on my computer again.  God bless troubleshooting.  Although the additional systems installed with Windows 10 can be extremely frustrating if you choose to not use them as they slow the other functions down.  I’m not going off into a computer lesson or tangent here, so back on track.

 

What I did notice, blew my mind.  By the fourth day of not being able to use the RestStation Lounge, I noticed my neck was getting stiffer and my range of motion was getting more limited.  You might remember, I had been diagnosed with pinched nerves in my neck resulting from an injury at work.

 

My immediate response was to get my tuning forks and get on the BioMat.  For those of you who are not familiar with the BioMat, it is a 1 1/2″ thick mat that goes on a massage table or floor.  It has amethyst crystals in it, moves infrared heat through it and negative ions to create an energetic field of about a foot around it.  That includes the person laying on the mat.  (I’m a distributor of the BioMat as well.)  The pillow that comes with the mat has different crystals in it and creates a cooling sensation in the head as the infrared works with the rest of the body.

 

Anyway, I digress.  I spent hours on the BioMat.  Seriously, 3-4 hours a day to try to continue the progress on my neck and head that I had achieved on the RestStation Lounge.  I used OM Unison and OM Octave tuning forks on my head and neck to try to release the increasing tension I could feel building up again.  The migraine was like an echo circling on the right side of my head.  Nothing like before when I had to get a nerve block after 3 weeks of having it; but it was a shadow back where the migraine had been.

 

It’s been a week without the RestStation Lounge! while I’m trying to figure out how to get another electronic device to hook up the sound and vibrational frequency programming to the Lounge.  The potential sessions are on the internet.

 

I also discovered during this time, you can use YouTube and put those sound sessions through the Lounge as well.  That means not only do I have access to all the sessions programmed through http://pathways2purpose.org for the Lounge, but access to thousands of sound and vibrational sessions on YouTube

 

Here’s the part that really threw me.  My range of motion in my neck has decreased significantly without the daily use of the RestStation Lounge.  Wow!!

By significantly, I mean back to 1-2″ range of motion in all directions with my neck.  The pain has escalated to where I’ve been giving the pharmaceuticals they prescribed for me longing glances.

 

I’ve managed the pain and avoided taking pharmaceuticals with tuning forks and the BioMat.  However, without the RestStation Lounge included in my treatment protocol, I seem to be stuck.

 

I knew the RestStation Lounge was doing amazing things with the pain, nerves and range of motion in my neck; but even I did not realize how amazing!

 

I’ve made arrangements to get a Chromebook to enable me to get back on the Lounge and do additional sessions.   I’m expecting that to arrive today.  I’m excited to see the difference in my physical pain, range of motion and general health and well-being once I am again able to use the Lounge.

 

Stay posted!

I don’t know if you are half as excited as I am at this experience!?  I intended to be my experimental guinea pig in this process; but even I did not realize how much that would be true.  The universe is definitely in control here.

 

Thanks for being a part of this journey with me so far.

 

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My Journey as a Sound Therapist With the RestStation Lounge (17)

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My next session with the RestStation Lounge …

Anger Management – Duration 20:45

I chose this session because I often get angry driving and have pretty bad road rage.  Lately I’m angry at a lot of things; like how the price of everything is going up – insurance, gas, groceries, rents, flights, food, clothing – most of what a person needs to survive much less thrive.  The problem is salaries are NOT going up and companies are demanding so much more from employees without giving them adequate raises that many people are suffering just trying to make ends meet.  Can you relate to what I’m talking about?

 

I struggle with patience and releasing this anger at times.  As a therapist, I have lots of tools to help me manage and release this and sometimes it just gets overwhelming.  Do you know what I mean?

 

When working with sound as a therapist, I work with the liver to release stagnant energy (anger) in the body.  It helps to keep me calmer.  I was curious if the Lounge would do the same thing.

 

It didn’t.  At least not in the same way as tuning forks would do so. Although I didn’t feel anything specifically in the liver, I found the vibrations and frequencies to be very relaxing.

 

I was actually quite startled when the sound and frequency treatment stopped.  It pulled me back very strongly from a place the sound and vibration took me.  I was very surprised because I didn’t feel like I had gone that deep;  but I obviously had.

 

I decided to balance the first session with a second session at the same time to treat another level of the physical body by lifting depression in the emotional body as well.

 

Lifting Depression – Duration = 20:01

I laid back down on the Lounge after recording my notes from the previous session, set the next one I wanted to do and laid back down.

 

The session started fine, but within 3 minutes my computer shut down again.  Without boring you with the details here, I tried several times with the same results and was unable to get everything working again.  My laptop kept shutting down and I got nervous about damaging it as I need it for my work.

 

At that point, I contacted Gary Ferguson to see if anyone else had any of these difficulties with the Lounge and if there was anyway it could damage or short out my computer.  Gary reassured me that the Lounge could not do such a thing; and the laptop was only providing the sound and vibration through a receiver to the Lounge through a USB cord.  Additionally, with thousands of Lounges in circulation, no one had experienced anything like what I was going through.

 

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My Journey as a Sound Therapist With the RestStation Lounge (16)

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My next session with the RestStation Lounge…

Healing Regeneration and Wound – Duration = 29:49

I started this session with my legs crossed, left over right and could feel vibrations strongly in my calves.  From there, it went to my back behind my heart very strong.

 

I could feel it resonating down my legs and across my mid-back the strongest.  I reached the same spot on the sound/frequency program and the system popped and shut down.  Twice.

 

The first time, I thought it was some kind of glitch and maybe I had set things up incorrectly.  I couldn’t figure out how, because it is very straightforward and simple to set up and connect to your electronic device.

 

I was using my laptop and it shut off my computer both times.  I went through all the motions to get it back up and running and in the same spot it did it again.

 

I give up today.  I don’t believe in coincidences, so I will try again tomorrow and see if the same thing happens again.

 

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My Journey as a Sound Therapist With the RestStation Lounge (15)

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My next session with the RestStation Lounge:

Hypothyroid – Duration = 21:17

Having been previously diagnosed with hypothyroidism, I thought this might be a good session for me to help heal that issue.  If you have this condition, you know it has many, many effects that are unpleasant from extremely dry skin to hair loss, to lack of sleep or constant exhaustion to just name a few.

 

At first, I just enjoyed the vibrations coming from the Lounge.  I had automatically crossed my ankles left over right this time.  Within the first two moments of laying down on the Lounge, I could feel the vibrations in my thyroid.

 

The vibration itself seemed more centered in my hips/legs in the physical Lounge; but I could REALLY feel it in my throat.

 

It was like it skipped over everything in between and went directly to where it was needed the most to bring my body back into resonance.  I fell asleep.

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What a lot of people don’t realize when it comes to thyroid issues is it can become pretty common in men when they reach their early fifties.  In some cases, men even younger.  Many men don’t think of this as a medical issue which can affect them, as it is considered more of a female disease or problem.

 

Whether you are male or female, having hypothyroidism can be very challenging on a physical level when trying to meet the demands of your life.

 

I will be doing this session more often to see the long-terms effects I notice on a physical level.

 

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My Journey With the RestStation Lounge (14)

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My next session with the RestStation Lounge:

Healing Regeneration and Wound – Duration:  29:49m

I thought this would be a good follow-up to the previous session.  As I mentioned before, when I remove something from my energy field with sound therapy, I replace it with a higher vibrational frequency (strength, joy, etc.)

 

Muscle Pain and Wound and then Healing Regeneration seemed to doubly reinforce the intention for me.

 

What the intention is for your session and experience is a very important part of any treatment in my opinion.

 

I did not use the neck pillow this time as I wanted to see if I felt it more in my head.  I didn’t really notice any difference with or without the neck pillow.

 

But here is what I did notice.  I noticed the vibration was stronger in my left leg, hip and lower back than the right side.  The right side was also where the migraine was previously.  When the vibration focused at my lower back, it was more balanced on both the right and left sides of my body.

 

I felt different pain releases in my legs and chest and neck at different times during the session.  As the music and frequency changed, my body responded in different ways.

 

I ran energy in my field to help even things out and it did.  I realized I breathe better at the ocean, because whenever I heard those sounds I instinctively started to take deeper breaths from my abdomen.

 

After this session, I realized I needed to lay down and take a brief nap to really let things settle out.  When I woke up about an hour later, I felt really good and went about my day.

 

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My Journey With the RestStation Lounge (13)

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My next session on the RestStation Lounge…

Muscle Pain and Injury – Duration = 52:42

I’ve been having severe migraines and neck pain since 10/16/17.  I never heard of anyone having a migraine for over 3 weeks.  Have you?  Additionally, I never have had a migraine in my life.  So this was really strange.

 

After a week of having a relentless migraine, I went to the hospital emergency room.  I was concerned because my family has a history of stroke and brain tumors and aneurysms.  I didn’t know what was going on.

 

I’ve been hospitalized, stuffed with pharmaceuticals, opioids, steroids, MRIs, Cat Scans – on and on.  After awhile you just feel like a guinea pig.  It’s like they don’t know; so they go down a punch list to say, “Well, it’s not that.”  and just start ruling things out.

 

I first tried this treatment (muscle pain and injury) on 11/3 with interesting results.

 

In this treatment, I could feel the vibration focus mostly on my spine, legs, neck, and head.  I did run energy for it (I explained previously) as I knew it would help the energetic vibration flow not only in my physical body but in my energetic body as well.  It did.

 

After this session on the Lounge, I felt pretty unsteady on my feet.  Of course, that had been happening with the migraine beforehand too.  But this time, it felt like I was ungrounded.  So I want to take a moment to remind people to ground before getting up.  Take your time.  Let things land after the session ends.  We are always in such a hurry to get moving again.

 

Putting roots from your feet into the earth is a good visual to use.  Drinking water and going to the bathroom is also very good for grounding.

 

Important to note – I stopped all pain medications 3 days ago.  After this session I can move my neck 4-5″ in each direction.  Before this session, I could only move it 1″ in each direction.

 

That is a HUGE improvement as far as I am concerned.  It was definitely due to the sessions on the Lounge.

 

Recent Update:  When I went to see the neurologist today, he told me I had several pinched nerves in my neck.  He told me I could expect to be getting migraines now and have continued neck pain.

I told him I did not expect that to happen with the sound therapy and vibrational medicine treatments I was doing on the RestStation Lounge and in my other work as a sound and vibrational therapist.

 

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http://pathwaysforveterans.com/littleton/

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My Journey With the RestStation Lounge (11)

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My next session with the RestStation Lounge…

Nerves – Neuralgia and Nerve Inflammation, Duration = 41:56

 

I’ve been suffering from intense pain in my neck and headaches severe enough to make it impossible to find relief.  I was in the hospital for tests on my neck and head.  They ruled out stroke or heart attack and prescribed all kinds of medications.  Some of them were dangerous to be taken together for more than 2 days.  Of course, those were the ones that stopped the headaches.  Then I realized my neck was so tight and painful that I could not move it more than an inch in any direction…side/side or up/down.

 

I chose this treatment because I thought I had a pinched nerve in my neck.  I did this session first thing in the morning when I woke up at 5am.  The session was relaxing and the vibrations worked from my feet to my neck with the sound coming through the headphones.  At times, the sound was loud but if I turned it down, I lost the strength of the vibration.

 

Immediate Results – When the session ended, I didn’t have a headache but had a different feeling (not pain, but unusual) in my head, kind of like an echo of a headache.  Sounds weird.

 

I did have improved range of motion in my neck – side/side and up/down with an additional 1” range of motion.  Headache is not as prominent as it has been for 3 weeks.  It has kind of taken a back seat to neck pain as something more manageable.

 

The Neurologist wants to do 4 injections of cortisone/steroids in all the cervical vertebrae in my neck.  I don’t want to do that and am looking at sound and vibration therapy as an alternative.  The RestStation Lounge is offering me hope in this area.  In the meantime, I continue to do work in the emotional and energetic body to see what is causing this to happen in my head and neck.

 

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My Journey With the RestStation Lounge Continues (10)

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My next session with the Reststation Lounge…

Back Pain and Spasms – Duration = 45:08

 

I really liked this one.  The vibration was very strong through my legs, back and bottom.  It then built in strength.  I went with the music which talked about releasing it all to dolphins and waves and whales.   I felt the instructions at the beginning of this one would be helpful for some folks.  It helped me realize I could do this shifting and releasing safely and let go of how that would have to happen.

 

I imagined the sound and vibration as bubbles against my skin and the different world of being underwater.  As a scuba diver, I love the weightlessness of floating in water or allowing a current to carry you somewhere effortlessly.  There is such beauty around; and literally millions of different beings.  When diving, I discovered I breathe differently underwater.  I realized I was now breathing that way.  Deep, effortless, balanced breaths were coming from my diaphragm.

 

A few times the intensity was strong. I almost got up to turn it down, but realized I must be shifting something as I had already checked the sound in the beginning.  Then it would shift … or I would and we would start over again.

 

This session felt extremely calming and relaxing and yet invigorating and energizing in a balanced way.

 

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My Journey With the Reststation Lounge (9)

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My next session with the Reststation Lounge…

Angel – Duration = 30:28 min

I didn’t feel any vibration.  I kept expecting it and missed it.  There was one crystal bowl – very loud, frequency was off for me.  I found it very annoying, and actually took the headphones off my ears.

 

There was another spot where I expected the sound and vibration to get lighter and more etheric and it did the exact opposite and got lower and thunderous.

 

It felt agitating to me.  I could guess it was for grounding to then take it to a higher level, but it felt yucky to me for some reason.  I wanted it to stop.  It felt/sounded like the “da da DA” in a movie or something.  I’ll do a balance because my energy field feels really off in my higher chakras now.

 

This was completely unexpected for me.  I expected to have a totally different experience.

 

Same Day

Immediate next session with the Lounge

Chakra Balancing – Duration = 30m

 

It definitely felt like my chakras were balanced with the sound and vibration of the bed.  However, I still felt a loss in the upper chakras.

 

I wanted more of the vibration I feel when working with other sound tools like tuning forks and/or bowls when they are placed on the body of a person.  I intend on trying it with a bowl at a later time, or the Chakra Tuning forks for the upper levels.

 

The Lounge vibration and energy feels like it is targeting the lower physical body and chakras than coming all the way up through the 6th, 7th and 8th chakras.

 

I’ve since had this conversation with the designer of the Lounge, Gary Ferguson.   We’ve discussed how to include things in the design of the Lounge to bring the sound and vibrational attunement up into the higher levels of the body.

 

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My Journey with the Reststation Lounge (8)

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My next session with the Reststation Lounge…

Lymphedema with Lymph Support – about 46 minutes

Today I’m doing two sessions and I chose this one first.

I’ve been feeling my Lymph system needs support for awhile now.  I thought this session might help clear some of the side effects from prescribed pharmaceuticals for migraines and nerve pain.

 

During this session, different phases took me to different levels.  The vibrations in the lounge were settled at my hips and butt and down my legs.  I could feel the lymph in my groin area and at the top of my thighs vibrate.  Other strong lymph areas – under arms, side of throat and lower/length of ribcage didn’t feel the vibrations at this time.  I kept waiting for the vibrations to rise up the bed with the sound levels to the upper lymph areas in the body.  However, this didn’t happen.

 

I think crystals could help raise the vibration to the other lymph areas. I’ll share these findings with Gary Ferguson (the designer and manufacturer of the Lounge) and see if any changes could be made to the Lounge or if they have already been made with the newer models.  I see potentials to helps with the grid of the energy field flow and attunement with the sound and frequencies of the treatment.

 

I looked to find a complementary pairing to this session for release on an energetic level.  I want to build on one another just as I would in an individual sound session to treat the mind, body, spirit on three energetic levels.

 

Second Session Today

Addiction – Duration = 23:40

During the beginning of this treatment, I felt extreme agitation.  Sound was disruptive and not soothing at all until the waves started coming in.

I felt like something was wrong with the connection and the sound treatment and determined to check it later.

 

So funny, I just posted this and realized I obviously wasn’t supposed to do the other session on top of the one I had just done.  However, that didn’t come clear in the session at all.

 

(Second Attempt at this Session – Addiction – Duration = 23:40

What a different session this was.  It was soothing and calming when I did it on it’s own.  I noticed just a humming sound and vibration for the first minute or so, then music/sound and vibration started.  I noted different thoughts and feelings coming up and just observed and consciously released.

 

My focus and objective was to notice, not understand at that moment.   I believe addictions are rooted in the emotional body and I am treating whole bodies today – nerves, addictions, and energy body.

What are your beliefs about this?  Please comment below…