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My Journey as a Sound Therapist with the RestStation Lounge

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1/7/2018

My next sessions with the RestStation Lounge …

Mucus – Duration:  10:00

Okay it is cold and flu season.  I ply my body with Vitamin C to get me through this time of year.  But we can all use a little help.  To this end, I thought I would do this session as everyone around me is coughing and hacking.

 

When I started listening to the sound I found it to be irritating at times.  I did it anyway because there are too many sick people around me right now.  I can feel my body trying to fight something off so I thought I would lend some vibrational support.

 

At times it felt like my head was floating on water with waves lapping against it.  However, there was a high frequency whine that I found very annoying.

 

My sinuses were dry afterwards.  I didn’t sleep well after this session and the next one.

 

Follow up session to provide additional support for the physical form …

 

Immune Stimulant – Duration:  42:42

This was relaxing and I felt myself go far away in my mind.  There wasn’t anything that really stuck out with this session for me.  It was more about providing the support for my immune system to keep fighting off the germs that I’m being deluged with on a daily basis.

 

We can all do our part by washing our hands, and covering our mouths when we cough or sneeze … and then washing our hands.

 

I did this session with the mucus session tonight as my body is fighting off that cold/cough/flu thing that’s going around.  I was hoping to give my immune system a boost.  I wanted to provide it with a little more support.  So I guess I’ll be able to tell in the morning and tomorrow if I notice any difference from when I woke up today.

 

I can say I had a hard night.  I didn’t sleep well and this morning had a lot of mucus drainage and coughing.  Did it work?  I feel much better this afternoon and evening.  So YES!

 

I love that I can get on the RestStation Lounge for about an hour total and address something that is happening to me on a physical,mental and emotional level and then it’s taken care of!

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The RestStation Lounge and Pathways for Veterans Program/Littleton

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1/6/2018

I want to talk a minute about why I’m doing this.  A lot of people don’t think of sound as a healing therapy.  A bunch of people think when something hurts, or you are physically in pain or sick you go to a doctor and they’ll fix you.  The doctor usually prescribes a bunch of medications, opioids and other energy suppressants.   They anesthetize you into thinking your okay when you’re not.  The original problem is still there.  Except now it’s worse because you need to take the medication to feel “normal”.

 

Over the years of working with sound as a therapy, I’ve discovered that unless you treat the whole person – mind, body, spirit – you are just putting a band-aid on symptoms.  Then you end up in surgery or worse.  I realized 25 years ago, it doesn’t have to be that way.  You have the power to change your life; to change feeling or being in pain all the time; to change feeling like you will never just be your Self again.

 

Sound can do that for you.   We all vibrate to a specific and unique frequency and vibration, along with every other thing in the Universe.  If we are out of balance, or out of resonance with the rest of our body or environment, we experience dis-ease or physical and emotional problems.  However, I believe that when you bring your Self back into resonance or balance in your vibration/frequency you release the dis-ease or physical and emotional problems. And hey, if you get to lie down while you are doing it?  Makes sense to me to get a regular Tune Up as you do for your car/vehicle.

 

I’ve been thinking of Veterans for some time.  How they put their lives on the line for our country.  To be of service!  To preserve and protect!

 

I’ve spoken with Veterans and they all said, “It was better to keep it over there, than let it come here.”  Wherever there was!

 

I think it’s time we give something back to them.

 

Pathways for Veterans is dedicated to healing the spiritual war wounds of the men and women of our military. Our mission is to create a safe environment where all veterans can experience being heard and are given the tools to re-purpose themselves in mind, body and spirit.

 

Ordinary people can go and make a donation to Pathways for Veterans

http://pathwaysforveterans.com/littleton

to help Veterans get some much-needed alternative therapy to treat their whole person – body, mind and spirit.  This program will help them look at the changes in who they are now and learn to accept themselves in the process.

 

Combined with the sound and vibrational sessions on the RestStation Lounge (see blog articles) they can receive treatment for a multitude of things:

  1. PTSD
  2. Anxiety
  3. Depression
  4. Muscle Pain
  5. Radiation Burns
  6. Loss of Limb Pain
  7. Insomnia and nightmares and so much more.

Is there a Veteran in your life?  Please share my blog with them.  Invite them to see what a person’s experience is in straight out terms.

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You might be the catalyst of change for them taking the next step towards their discovery and recovery of who they have become in the process of serving their country.  Not only that, but how do they now fit back into their lives?  How do they reconnect with their wives and children and families?

 

Maybe YOU are the Veteran to hear today there is another way and another opportunity for you.  Reach out to us here:

http://pathwaysforveterans.com/littleton

Click on the contact us Form today and let the next phase of your life start … Recovery!  Support!  Happiness!

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My Journey as a Sound Therapist with the RestStation Lounge

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1/3/2018

My next session with the RestStation Lounge —

Muscle Pain and Injury;  Duration:  52:42m

 

I chose this session because I had been hurt.  I pulled a muscle from my armpit across my chest.  It hurt to breathe.  My muscles were incredibly sore just sitting at rest.  I had bruises.  The muscle from under my arm across my chest was in agony and I couldn’t take a deep breath.  I found myself moaning in pain without realizing it.

 

I thought I would see if I could feel any immediate relief or results from doing this session on the Lounge.

 

Well, I fell asleep.  I wouldn’t have thought I would.

I noticed myself getting goosebumps on my arms and legs again during the session, which I thought was interesting because I was thinking about it being from the sound and vibration as I wasn’t cold.

 

The next thing,  I woke up because the sound and vibration had stopped.

 

My muscle pain isn’t completely gone; but it is a lot less severe than it was when I laid down on the Lounge.    I went to bed.

 

The next morning, I noticed my bruises had spots of yellow in them which indicate healing is progressing.  Before my session, they were only black and blue.

 

My chest still hurt when I took a breath, but it was no longer a shallow breath.  I wasn’t moaning if I moved anymore.  I put a topical cream on the muscle that was the most painful (yet less than it was before my session) and went to work.

 

Later that day, I realized I was breathing better and the pain was continuing to lessen.  I know this is because of the session I did on the Lounge; as that was the only thing I had done differently for this sprain/strain.

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My Journey as a Sound Therapist with the RestStation Lounge

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1/2/2018

My next session with the RestStation Lounge —

Gong Bath – Duration:  22:13m

 

I chose the gong bath because I have a gong and do group sound therapy sessions with it and other sound instruments.  I have also attended gong sessions that others have done and find them to be very calming and relaxing in general.

 

I have never had one laying on a Lounge that is vibrating to the frequencies of the Gong and sending those frequencies through my body in waves!  It was amazing!

 

I had my feet crossed.  I could feel the vibration strongly in my legs, back, and chest.  I couldn’t tell if the waves were coming up or down my body just that they were infusing me.

 

At one point, all the hair on my body was standing on end.  This often happens at higher sound vibrations and frequencies when you get this ‘cold’ feeling.  You’re not really cold just having an energetic shift in your vibrational resonance pattern.

 

This session was very relaxing and yet clearing at the same time.  I felt like I had been washed clean before heading to bed.

 

A very different feeling than when I am doing a Gong Bath where I am playing the gong.  Or when I am receiving a Gong Bath from someone else.  Then you are surrounded and awash with the sound and frequencies.  But it doesn’t feel the same as when you are laying on something that is channeling those same frequencies and vibrations on and through your body.  It is infusing you on a cellular level and working it’s way out.

 

I believe that we all resonate to a specific frequency anyway; as do our organs and cells.  This will attune you to the higher vibrational frequencies of the gong.

 

So hard to describe to someone who hasn’t experienced it.

Are you ready to try it out yet?

 

 

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My Journey as a Sound Therapist with the RestStation Lounge 12/29/17

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My next session with the RestStation Lounge was Etheric Sweep – Duration:  48:09

 

I just had the most amazing experience and session with the RestStation Lounge.  Etheric Sweep.

 

First, there was no vibration to speak of in the Lounge.  I almost went to figure out why and realized etheric meant energy field.

 

I never gave crossing my feet another thought.  This was definitely a sound attunement, a caress of spirit and a reminder of all that you are in the midst of the chaos.

 

I soared on the sound.  I literally felt personally serenaded by the violins and enticed into a journey of discovery.  I was enfolded and encased in the power and the frequency of the sounds as the tones soothed my spirit and enlivened my heart.

 

Some brought specific people to mind and I looked at those relationships from a place of love and gratitude and Blessings.

 

I felt every pore of my skin and cell in my body as it began to resonate to a different frequency of love.

 

My entire energy field was loved and given peace.  What a wonderful feeling to let go of my day and come back to myself!

I will do this session again tomorrow and see if it has the same effect on me as it did this evening.

WOW!!!!!

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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.

 

For more information on the Lounge, please visit my research center location at:

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.

 

If you want to know more about the Lounge, please click the link below and complete the form on that page.  It won’t sign you up for anything other than letting someone know you want more information.

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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.

 

By this time, you might want to know more about the Lounge logistics and the program we offer.  Please go to the following link:

http://pathwaysforveterans.com/littleton/

 

Once there, complete the form at the bottom and you will receive additional information on the Lounge and how it works.  There is no commitment here, just information.  Please let me know if you have done so.

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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…