The Latest Quantum Health Magazine Issue

For those of you who are interested in Bioenergetic/Informational Medicine, here is the latest issue from the online magazine Quantum Health.

Healing Innovations Is Opening a New Opportunity

Beginning next month, we will be offering SCENAR pain relief treatments through Mountain Air Wellness Center in Cashiers, NC. Expanding into this market will give access to this revolutionary technology in the far western region of WNC. We look forward to being a part of this dynamic, creative, and visionary natural health practice.

Musings on Healers and Healing

After the last five years of working with the SCENAR and watching people make amazing recoveries, I have to ponder the nature of healing and what the term “healer” really means. Certainly I don’t really consider myself a “healer.” That term seems to better fit shamans and those people I’ve met in my life who have a deep power about them, where one feels healed somehow just to be in their presence. And I have a bit of an issue with the term itself. The word “healer” seems to imply that people should depend on others to do their healing for them. My work with SCENAR makes it very clear that it is the client’s body that does the healing. My function is simply to remind it, in case it may have lost the thread.

A paradigm of “healer” that better fits what I feel comfortable with has several components. It would include  the following aspects:

1. A healer must act from a position of unconditional positive regard for the client.  A personal humility and profound respect for the client is imperative. The relationship between the healer and the client must be egalitarian, as two sojourners together finding their way home to healing; for in truth everyone is a healer, and every relationship carries within it the opportunity for healing to each one involved. To be a part of this kind of relationship, the healer must work on themselves so they can effectively work with others. With enough inner work, the healer can pay attention to the “feeling level” with a client and can discern non-verbal communication at an intuitive level. This creates the “gentle knowing” that can guide their approach to the client’s dis-ease.

2. Healers must be educators and facilitators such that people can begin to recognize their own needs and begin to have a sense of power to take charge of their own well being. In doing so, they can deepen their intuitive relationship with their own inner wisdom. They can listen to its messages not with fear but with confidence and trust that whatever the message is, it is leading them toward healing and they can participate cooperatively with it. In this way, healers can help clients transform their thinking from negative, defensive ideas of social conditioning to positive, empowered, and hopeful attitudes that grow from self-knowledge and trust in one’s own inner knowing.

3. Development through training with the particular modality expands the healer’s understanding of how to be the most effective in its use. The modality should be a passion for the healer, but never to the point where they believe that it is the “only modality that works” or is the “best modality available.” Only the client knows what is the best modality for their healing, and all healing is ultimately individual. A healer should only be interested in assisting the client to find the modality that works for them. If a healer’s modality is not a fit, they would best assist the client by suggesting other possibilities that might be.

The power to heal rests in the one looking for healing. Healing is a mysterious process. Although science knows much about physical healing, well being is created through the synergistic alignment on many levels of inner and outer experience. To me, a “healer” is one who is willing to walk with their client, with deep caring and a sincere interest in being of assistance, as they both journey toward wholeness.

Healing Innovations Introduces a Monthly Series of Talks

Beginning on April 29, Healing Innovations will hold a series of monthly talks and demonstrations on the SCENAR and Parasympathetic Mind. You will have an opportunity to experience pain treatment using the revolutionary technology developed in the Russian Space program, as well as learn ways to improve your autonomic system balance, reduce stress, and improve your quality of life.

The first talk will be held at the Natural Health and Homeopathy office, 54 Merrimon Avenue from 6:30 to 8pm. Featured will be the natural healing process of the body, called the Parasympathetic System, and ways you can access this healing system in your everyday life.

Space is limited, so please call 337-6854 to register. These talks are free to anyone who is interested in self-healing and ways to promote health naturally. It is a lot easier than you may think!

New Study Shows Efficacy of Slow Breathing in Reducing Pain

A new study reported in the April issue of the Journal of Pain reports on the effects of slow breathing on reducing pain. It is the first study to directly examine the benefits of breathing rate on physical and emotional reaction to pain.

It is a small study using 27 women with Fibromyalgia and 25 healthy women. The results show that slow breathing reduced rating of pain intensity as well as negative emotion in the healthy women. Those with Fibromyalgia who had the capacity to feel positive, felt less pain with slow breathing.

The study’s lead author, Alex Zautra, Foundation Professor of Psychology at Arizona State University, says: “Slow breathing provides a natural means for damping activity in the stress system of the brain, leading to a reduction in pain. The first change that occurs with slower breathing is greater parasympathetic response which provides a counterbalance to sympathetic activation that is often aroused by pain, and that engenders feelings of anxiety and nervous tension. A greater state of calm induced with slower breathing also opens the mind to a greater capacity to feel emotions other than pain, providing perspective, flexibility, and choice in the regulation of inner states. In doing so, slow breathing reduces the dominance of the fight/flight response within us, extending the calm influence of parasympathetic activation to allow for better emotional regulation and cognitive shifts from helplessness to action.”

Zautra is now conducting clinical trials to test the benefit of their body/mind intervention in a five year project funded in part by the National Institute of Health.

It is wonderful to see the scientific community validating the effects of Parasympathetic Mind.

Cultivating Parasympathetic Mind for Stress Reduction and Healing

I will be presenting a one hour interactive workshop for the Self Care Circle of the Blue Ridge Holistic Nurse’s Network on Wednesday, April 21 from 6pm-7:30pm. In the presentation, the science of the parasympathetic nervous system will be translated into the language of self-care.  Interactive, it will be filled with ways to more easily enter your parasympathetic mind, the home of healing and repair. Come and learn simple ways to enhance your ability to enter this state quickly and effectively. It is free.

Location: Odyssey Community School, 90 Zillicoa Street in Montford

Why Do We Believe in SCENAR?

So, what does SCENAR do that is different from what traditional medicine offers for pain relief? The biggest benefit is that it alleviates pain rapidly without drugs or  invasive procedures. Using the body’s own adaptive capacity, the SCENAR wakes up the brain and central nervous system to the areas of pain that need attention, and often accelerates the body’s process of doing what it is designed to do: HEAL ITSELF. Although drugs can provide pain relief, they often interfere with the body’s self-healing ability and create negative “side effects”. What we are trying to do is relieve our pain, but we may end up constipated or woozy or addicted.

SCENAR causes the release of regulatory chemicals called neuropeptides, including endorphins, which naturally alleviate pain. By using frequencies native to the body, SCENAR supports the body in doing the healing work that is its natural capacity. So, not only does the SCENAR alleviate pain, but it supports the body in healing the issue that is creating the pain. Because it speaks to the body in the body’s own language, it can speed up the healing ability so that positive results occur more rapidly than could be accomplished without it.

Under what circumstances and conditions is getting a SCENAR treatment helpful? Although pain is always a good indicator that a treatment would be helpful, the SCENAR, in its support of the body healing itself, can affect other dynamics besides  pain. For instance, the SCENAR has an anti-inflammatory effect, anti-venom effect,  it lowers fever, reduces swelling and edema in general, promotes tissue regeneration, and helps the body in its effort to restore homeostasis. So, it can have a wide ranging effect from fast recovery from  insect stings to muscle strains and sprains, and  from chronic pain syndromes to post operative recovery. In Russia, the SCENAR accompanies the ambulance responders and is also used in hospitals to promote a quicker recovery from surgical procedures without having to use as many pain medications.

So, in essence, the SCENAR can be helpful anytime there is a need to recover the body’s natural balance, whether an imbalance occurs from injury, pain, surgery, infection or anything else. We carry our SCENAR everywhere with us, just in case. On many occassions, we have been glad we did.