Holistic Health Secrets

Archive for May, 2010

Karmic healing relates to healing events and issues that are deeply affecting us now but whose origins have their basis in a past life.

The memories are usually repressed but affect us biologically, at the genetic level or psychologically.

These buried memories can create recurring physical symptoms,  phobias, obsessions and fixations in our current life.

Toxic, obsessive or destructive relationships are usually related to a karmic relationship from a previous incarnation. People who you just don’t gel with or who rub you up the wrong way for no discernible reason can also be one of your karmic relationships.

Toxic relationship attachments can follow you from lifetime to lifetime.  Karmic healing can help to cleanse and release these attachments.

Karmic healing can be a part of past life regression therapy or hypnotherapy.  It can involve chakra healing and aura cleansing.  It can help you to release old habits, attitudes and deep traumas.

I sometimes use a healing symbol to create karmic healing via Reiki.
It’s called the Emotional Butterfly Symbol. It is a karmic cleanser which helps to cleanse the Heart Chakra, the karmic field, the auric field and the physical body.

I have also been taught to use two versions of the Grace Symbol.

One version is said to help reduce karmic patterning – this is when an individual keeps going through the same relationship patterns or unfortunate situations.  My teacher believes that this happens when an individual doesn’t understand the lesson brought about by particular relationship or situation so their soul continues to encounter a type of situation or relationship until they understand the lesson.

The other version of the Grace Symbol is the Taoist Grace Symbol.  This symbol deals with the physical body, the lower chakras, the auric field and the soul.

I’ve put this information in the format of an online programme so that you can devote equal time to the many aspects of life that stop you from being able to sleep properly.

It’s also divided into manageable sections which gives you time to implement each step and gradually make it part of your life, giving you time to make the small – and sometimes big – adjustments that will help you to get natural sleep fast.

Here’s a breakdown of what’s included in the course.

In the beginning, you’ll receive a Sleep Log/Diary so you can record, for example:

* the time you went to bed
* time you fell asleep
* amount of coffee you drank that day
* what medication you took that day
* level of energy during the day
* any other observations, such as an ongoing row you’re having with someone at work,  the thoughts that are keeping you awake at night: money worries, relationship problems, job difficulties etc.

The Sleep Log is set out in a simple form so you can make brief notes each day for the first week or so of the course.

Why: Observing what’s currently going on for you (such as how much sleep on average you’re getting a night or which daily incidents result in sleep deprivation) is the first step to changing things for the better (in any area of life)

The Introductory Module works in conjunction with the sleep diary.  This module explains the different stages of sleep and you’ll learn which stage of sleep affects:

* your mood the next day
* your energy levels
* your memory
* your ability to concentrate

Why: you may want to work in reverse and heal or work on the physical or emotional symptom that’s disrupting a particular stage of your sleep cycle at the same time as working on the sleep problem itself.

Module 1 – Your Body’s Clock

You learn how to produce sleep hormones naturally without the aid of medication or supplements.  Sleep hormones create the chemicals in your brain that help to induce natural healthy sleep.

Module 2 – Nutrition and Stimulants

You’ll learn which types of food helps your body to relax and which types of food and drink act as natural sedatives.

You’ll also learn which types of food and substances are best avoided if you are prone to chronic insomnia.

Module 3 – Training the Mind

This section addresses mental and emotional stress and tackles ways in which you can relax a busy, overloaded and stressed-out mind before attempting to go to sleep.

Module 4 – Exercise and Resources

We end the course by exploring the best forms of exercise and the best time to exercise in order to create healthy sleep.  There are also recommendations about complementary therapies that can help with sleep problems as well as information about resources that have a proven record in helping people to sleep.

You also have the option of two 30 minute telephone sessions (at no extra charge) to discuss your individual situation. Alternatively you can ask questions by email in between your work with the modules.

You’ll receive action steps at the end of each module so that you can implement what you’ve learnt in order to get to sleep fast.

So if you’d like to beat insomnia, hit the button below to get instant access to the first module.

30 day online course: Beat Insomnia
35 pounds sterling (£35.00)

Flower essences, along with colour therapy and crystal healing, are another example of vibrational medicine.

Dr Edward Bach was the developer of flower essence therapy.  He was a pathologist, bacteriologist, homeopath and physician. He left his practice in the early 1930s to research the effects of personality on illness and to locate specific herbs to heal particular negative mindsets.  His system is known as the Bach Flower remedies.

The original system is made up of 38 healing herbs.  Each herb has a particular “energy signature” which helps to heal a specific negative state of mind.  These herbs include:

Agrimony, Aspen, Beech, Centaury, Cerato, Cherry Plum, Water Violet, White Chestnut, Wild Oat, Wild Rose and Willow.

There is also the Five Flower Rescue Remedy which combines:

•    Star of Bethlehem
•    Rock Rose
•    Impatiens
•    Cherry Plum
•    Clematis

Flower essences are usually taken orally – 3 or 4 drops on the tongue every day for about a month.  You can place them on your pulse points, acupoints or chakra points instead of taking them internally or you can use them as a spray.  You can also dilute two drops of a flower essence into a glass of water or fruit juice.

Flower essences work by gently altering a particular mindset or a negative framework of beliefs over a period of time, usually a month.

Crystals are used in healing because they can magnify and intensify natural healing energy.  This process is called piezoelectricity.  Crystals are not only used in complementary therapies and alternative healing.  Crystals, for example, in the form of piezoelectric crystal sensors, are also used in hospitals to diagnose and treat patients.

Crystals can be used to strengthen the effects of chakra clearing and healing by placing them particular chakras on the main energy centres.

Examples of crystals are ruby, moonstone, quartz, jade, opal and citrine.

Specific crystals create healing effects in particular ailments, symptoms, illnesses, imbalances and diseases. For example:

Ruby deals with circulation problems, infections and childbirth.

Moonstone helps with decreasing appetite, the ovaries, the fallopian tubes, premenstrual syndrome, menstruation, pregnancy, childbirth, menopause and shock.

Clear quartz helps with creating calm feelings, defining your life purpose, enhancing clairvoyant abilities as well as dealing with problems with swelling and the pineal gland.

Jade helps to create abundance and to heal colic and problems with the legs, spleen and the urinary tract.

Opal deals with the veins, nails and hair.

Citrine helps with anxiety, appendicitis, the urinary tract, circulation, digestion and money issues.

The word Chakra is a Sanskrit word that literally means wheel. The chakras are the energy centres of our body.  They are often described as spirals of energy.

We have a very large number of chakras but the seven main chakras are taught in all traditions.

Our energy centres are either balanced, spinning too quickly or spinning too slowly.

The seven spectrum colours (established by Isaac Newton in the 1600s) are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.

The colours of the spectrum (also known as the colours of the rainbow) are associated with the following chakras:

1st Chakra – Red
2nd Chakra – Orange
3rd Chakra – Yellow
4th Chakra – Green
5th Chakra – Blue
6th Chakra - Indigo
7th Chakra – Violet

These colours vibrate at their own individual frequency.  They are believed to resonate with the seven main energy centres or chakras of the body.

Each chakra is related to particular parts of the body, specific qualities and certain emotions.  When we heal, we bring our chakras into alignment.

Colours are forms of lights that vary in frequency or wavelength.  The cells of the body feed on light energy.

In colour therapy treatments, colour and light are applied to acupoints and other areas of the body to create healing and well-being.

Crystals, gems, eye lenses, bath treatments, candles and glass prisms are often used, as well as guided meditation or visualisations.  One of the aims of colour therapy is to stimulate the body’s meridians. Some practitioners base their diagnoses on Luscher’s colour test which was developed in the 1900s.

Colour science has been traced back to Ancient Egypt and Greece.  It is a part of Ayurvedic medicine which is an ancient Indian science of healing.

The colours of the spectrum are used to balance the body and harmonise the mind.  They are also used to relax or stimulate the nervous system and release physical and emotional blocks.

Colour is taken in by our eyes, our magnetic field, our skull and our skin.  It affects us on all levels (physical, emotional, spiritual, mental).  Therefore colour therapy is a holistic treatment.

Colours have universal archetypal meanings. But they also have individual meanings for all of us.  A colour can be linked to a happy memory or a traumatic event and thus mean different things to different people.

Colour is often used to balance the energy centres or chakras of the body.

As with the story behind aromatherapy, the origins of aura-soma in modern times is also a fascinating story.

Vicky Wall created aura-soma therapy in 1984.

The aura is the energy field that surrounds living things.  Vicky Wall was able to see auras around people, animals and plants as a child.  People say this was because she was the seventh child of the seventh child and as a consequence, she was gifted with clairvoyancy.

Her mother died soon after her birth. Her father was a master kabbalist who taught her about the healing properties of plants when she was a girl.

She left home at 15 because she didn’t get on with her new stepmother and studied with an apothecarist (precursor to the modern pharmacist).

She was one of the first female surgical chiropodists in England and later taught chiropody in teaching hospitals in London.

Vicky later became blind as a result of diabetes.  She had lost all her savings due to a fraudulent investment advisor and was making herbal creams and lotions as a living.

It was at this time in her life while meditating one night that she received a message about parting or dividing the waters.  This instruction  was repeated for three nights.

Eventually one night she went to her workshop and felt hands guiding hers.  She made the first equilibrium bottles which contained the energies of herbs, crystals, plants and essences.  Her ability to read auras was sharpened even though she was blind.

She later met an artist, Mike Booth, and together they created more Equilibrium bottles and he continued to develop the system after her death in 1991.

Aura-Soma is a healing system that combines elements of colour therapy, energy healing, aromatherapy and chakra balancing.

Aura-Soma was first conceived by Vicky Wall in 1984, a chiropodist and herbalist.  She was guided in a series of visual meditations to combine mixtures of different colours, oils and ingredients.

The word Aura comes from the Latin which means vapour, shimmer, air or breath.

Soma comes from the Ancient Greek word for body and the Sanskrit word for juice or intoxicant.  Soma also means living energies in Aramaic.

So people define aura-soma as light made manifest in living energies.

The Equilibrium bottles are the core of the Aura-Soma therapeutic system.  The bottles contain essential oils, plant extracts and crystal energies.  They are composed of two colours resting one on top of other in oil.  There are over 100 bottles in the current system.

The Equilibrium system is sometimes described as a message in a bottle. It is a process based on self-selection.

After choosing four bottles, the aura-soma practitioner will guide you based on the colours and the sequence in which you selected the bottles.  Each bottle has its own meaning and message which changes in significance according to which other bottles you have selected and the order in which you selected them.

The colours you choose can reveal the challenges you’ve had in the past and messages about your evolving soul journey.  It explores the underlying roots of disease.

There are also other products within the aura-soma system such as pomanders and quintessences.

Quintessences are connected to the Ascended Masters and the Cosmic Rays.

Pomanders give protection to the electromagnetic field surrounding the physical body.

The Equilibrium bottles, pomanders, quintessences and colour essences are known as the four pillars of Aura Soma.

Ancient texts such as the Egyptian book of the Dead, the Mayan codices, Dark Night of the Soul by St John the Cross and the Tibetan book of the Dead, colours are described as guides that  help the evolving soul along its journey.

Aromatherapy is the use of extracts from aromatic plants for healing.

Aromatherapy essences are used in the form of volatile or essential oils which are applied during massage or infused in bath water.

French chemist, Rene-Maurice Gattefosse, is known as the father of aromatherapy.   Rene-Maurice Gattefosse used the term “aromatherapie” to describe the science of using aromatic extracts from plants to create healing effects and published a book called Aromatherapie in 1937.

There is a legend which has evolved (much like with the tale that is used to describe the origins of Reiki) which describes a Eureka-like moment when Gattefosse burnt his hand in a lab, stuck it in a jar or vat of lavendar oil (depending on which version of the story you read) and discovered that his hands began to heal and thus aromatherapy was born.

The real story is more dramatic. According to Gattefosse, there was a laboratory explosion in July 1910 which covered his body with “burning substances” and set him alight. His hands were also covered with the potentially fatal “gas gangrene“.

He extinguished the substances by rolling on a lawn and rinsed his hands off in lavender essence which stopped the development of the gas gangrene (a condition that can lead to death). Healing began on the following day.  But the accident didn’t immediately launch a “discovery” or the development of aromatherapy as he had already been researching the use of essential oils.

Gattefosse treated the war wounds of French soldiers with essential oils during World War One.

The use of aromatic oils for healing has also been used for millennia in  Babylonian, Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine.

Essential oils are highly concentrated liquids that are extracted from plants and evaporated at room temperature.  The oils are believed to carry the essence or soul of the plant that they originate from.

Aromatherapy essences can be used in conjunction with chakra healing and colour therapy.

Examples of aromatherapy essences include lavender, peppermint, rosemary, tea tree and eucalyptus.