One of the most important skills that a SCENAR practitioner can develop is the ability to seek out and treat “the smallest asymmetry.” We are trained that the smallest asymmetry is the essence of the issue, the place of imbalance that once found and treated can resolve large surrounding areas of tissue imbalances. It is the “heart” of the matter.
The skin communicates its status relative to treatment with the Scenar through the appearance of what the Russian doctors call asymmetries. In these areas of imbalance the skin can turn red, become “sticky” where the device seems to “drag” over the area, or have greater sensitivity to the sensation of the device’s output.
The device itself also shows asymmetries through changes in the sound of its vibration and in some models, most notably the RITM, a numeric display can indicate the smallest asymmetry.
And something not mentioned often enough is intuition. With experience the practitioner becomes adept at sensing the heart of the imbalance after a few strokes. In my experience, the search for the smallest asymmetry creates in me such a focus on what I am doing and observing that I feel a “joining up” take place, that enhances my ability to perceive what is going on with the area. Perhaps it is me slipping in to Parasympathetic Mind that I have written about previously, or perhaps, some would say it is the effect of the blending of energy fields between me, the device, and the client. Regardless of how you describe it, the result is a clarity of perception about the issue that is presenting itself, and an understanding of how that issue can best be treated.
I have pondered this experience. The smallest asymmetry is a wheel within the wheel of the area involved, that is a wheel within the systems of the body, that are wheels within the wheel of the total body, that is a wheel within its particular relationships, that is a wheel within the human species, that is a wheel within the mammalian expression of life, that is a wheel within the wheel of life in general, that is a wheel within the wheel of the planet, that is a wheel within the wheel of the Universe… and so it goes. Everything is connected to everything else. Just as in ecology, each species is important to the balance of the environment. When the species is lost, imbalance occurs.
The body has its own ecology, and imbalances affect the functioning of the overall whole. It alerts us (usually with pain) that we need to pay attention. SCENAR assists the body in bringing back into balance those areas with specificity and efficiency, shortening the duration of suffering. Treating the smallest asymmetry brings the smallest wheel into balance which positively affects all the wheels that contain it.
This spring has been on steroids. With all the graduations, weddings, putting out a vegetable garden, etc., I’ve been short on time to think about writing, much less had the opportunity to sit down to write. It has felt like being on the receiving end of a fire hose in the face! I have a notebook page full of possible posts that have revealed themselves to me in the melee, without the moments to develop them. Except for a new grandbaby to arrive the end of July, things are now looking like they will mellow just a bit, and I will be able to resume this effort that I have such passion about.
I had a personal experience with the SCENAR that impressed me. After discovering a sizable ants nest in the garden, I boiled a large pot of water to encourage them to take their endeavors elsewhere. In carrying it out to the nest, I accidentally sloshed a wave of the boiling hot water on to the underside of my right forearm and wrist. It was excruciatingly painful. I put the pot down, ran back into the house, and immediately poured cold tap water on it. Even after that, it was so painful that I could barely stand it. Knew I had to get the SCENAR on it, but the idea of anything touching it was appalling.
I decided to turn the sensation level down to low and see if I could stand it. I turned the frequency up as high as it would go (the recommendation for acute injury) and held my breath as I placed it on the worst area (around my wrist where my superheated glove rim had kept the hot water against my skin). Within a couple of seconds, the pain began to ease. Encouraged, I did the same thing over the whole area, picking the SCENAR up and gently putting it down in a grid over the wounded area. After about 20 minutes, the pain and tenderness had been relieved completely, and I went back out to continue with the job. I didn’t think much more about it for the rest of the afternoon. That night, there was still no pain or even tenderness, and some of the redness had gone away. I treated it again, more thoroughly this time. By the next day the deep redness had paled, and much of it was gone. I treated it the second night, and haven’t treated it since. Surprisingly, it never blistered. Now, two weeks later, the skin on my wrist has a pale brown “bracelet” where the wound was the worst . When I think what the experience of healing that kind of burn would have been without SCENAR I’m more convinced than ever that everyone should have one in their home first aid kit.
Penny
We have found over the six years of providing SCENAR therapy, that an individual’s nutrition can enhance the effectiveness of the therapy. The body is being asked to produce the resources to heal itself. If the nutrition is optimum, the body has all of the resources it needs to answer the request for a healing response. For this reason, talking with our clients about health promoting nutrition is important to facilitating our efforts in helping them recover.
One of the most interesting, nutritious, and delicious foods that nourishes the body in healthy ways is the avocado. This tasty green food is believed to originate in Peru, as archaeologists have found avocado seeds buried with mummies dating back to 750B.C. The avocado is technically classified as a fruit because it has seeds.
In Guatemala the fruit, dried leaves, bark, and seeds have been used medicinally by the indigenous natives. The soft green tissue of this fruit holds nearly 20 vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients and is a source of healthy fat. Many parents serve mashed avocado to their babies as it is a nutrient-dense food that helps with brain development. Avocados are also considered to be the second least pesticide contaminated food available (but, to be safe, always buy organic). Read more »
It has been nearly a year since I first posted musings about healers and healing. I continually muse about this, trying to get a fuller picture of the amazing process I engage on a daily basis, both within myself and also with others. I encountered a description given by Abraham that gave me a fuller insight into what healers are about, which made so much sense to me that I wanted to share it:
“Every person who lives any experience that takes them in the slightest degree away from well-being, begins to summon well-being. And to that, Source responds, so no one on the planet needs to be a healer in the sense that they need to get energy and focus it towards someone who needs to be healed.
The power of a healer is someone who understands that the basis is one of well-being, and then influences the vibration of the one who needs to be healed in a way that they stop the resistance and allow the natural healing process. That’s what true healers do. They know so powerfully that wellness is the order of the day, that they allow themselves not for a moment to see anything other than that.
So, the power of the healer is in the power to influence the one who needs to be healed into a vibration that allows the healing that they are summoning, that they could get without the healer, but that they can get faster with the healer’s influence.”
It is getting clearer…
Penny
In clearing out stuff, I came across something from my career in mental health: a laminated rack card called “101 Ways to Cope With Stress.” It now being many years later, I read through it with new eyes. I realized that most of the recommendations were ways to calm the Sympathetic Nervous System response. Some were unrealistic, some not helpful, and some (for me, anyway) would create more stress. So, I decided to take the idea and add what I have learned from working with SCENAR and the Parasympathetic Nervous System for the last 6 years. (This list is not in any order.) Morgana Morgaine, life coach and humorist, defined Parasympathetic Mind best: “Relax, Rest, Release, Restore.”
If you have other helpful ideas about creating Parasympathetic Mind, please feel free to comment. (For more information about releasing your own neuropeptides and balancing your autonomic system, go to the Healing Tips page.)
- Take 10 minutes before you get up in the morning and before you go to bed at night to quietly focus on your breathing. To keep your mind focused you might count your breaths up to 5 and then start over. Take any moments in daily life when you are waiting (red lights, grocery store lines, etc.) as an opportunity to remember your breath. Simply take a deep breath and notice your body relax.
- Have a SCENAR treatment or lay in the Multilayered Therapeutic Blanket. Learn what Parasympathetic Mind feels like.
- Prepare for the coming day by thinking of those things you will be doing that make you feel good.
- Reach for any thought that makes you feel better in any situation that feels stressful. Pay attention to how you feel. If you feel bad, find a thought, any thought, that makes you feel better.
- Forgive negative people and move on to interactions that feel better to you.
- Have fun on purpose. Seek to feel joy.
- See challenges as opportunities to see things differently. Look for the silver lining.
- Regularly write down what you appreciate in as much detail as you can.
- Go outside and enjoy the sunshine or curl up with a good book when it rains.
- Learn to care for and comfort yourself.
- Make it your intent to find and hang on to any and all things that inspire you, especially thoughts.
- Make a list of your personal attributes that you value and using 3 or 4 of them write a Mission Statement for your life.
- Notice negative self-talk and stop. Then remember your Mission statement.
- Use affirmations and/or mantras to remind yourself that you want to feel good.
- Practice grace when under pressure.
- Feeling good activates the Parasympathetic nervous system. The Parasympathetic nervous system activates good feelings.
- Pay attention to the moment. A moment missed is a moment lost and unconscious moments make for unwanted consequences.
- Remember that stress is an attitude. Remind yourself that you are NOT a victim.
- Quit judging or trying to “fix” other people. It only makes you feel bad.
- Look for options. In any conundrum, ask yourself, “What are my options here?” You will quickly discover that options give you a sense of freedom and control.
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- Each SCENAR session is unique because the body guides the session according to its own wisdom, its current conditions, and priorities.
- The focus is on health and not on disease.
- There will be no diagnosis (naming), but rather identification of areas of imbalance.
- Recovery is quicker and easier in a clean, active, nourished body.
- Healing often starts in the mind with recognition and positive intentions.
- Recovery is slower and may be less effective if there is no real desire to heal and change for the better.
- An improved mood is a sign that recovery is proceeding positively and that the body will follow.
- Natural body healing typically proceeds from recent conditions to older conditions, more vital organs to less vital organs, from inside to outside, and from top to bottom.
- Incomplete adaptive reactions develop in layers with each layer itself being organized differently. Typically, natural healing starts with the upper most layer which is expressing itself by a key symptom.
- Any shift or change is an important positive sign.
- Sometimes a sign of successful treatment occurs with a short aggravation of the key symptoms. A short aggravation is good and often means that the proper function has been stimulated and healing has begun.
- After one layer of healing has occurred, symptoms of an older, deeper layers of incomplete adaptive reactions may express (the body’s unfinished business). These old symptoms are also good and indicate that the body is ready to heal an even deeper problem.
- Pharmaceutical medications (especially narcotic pain killers) may make it difficult to follow symptoms and complete adaptive reactions. However, as the body begins to heal, medication amounts required may lessen (for example with blood pressure medication, etc.), and so should be monitored closely.
- SCENAR is complementary to all natural healing treatments and modalities.
- Treatment is always more effective during a period of symptom expression.
- Rare intense reactions are a profound sign of healing.
- Absence of symptoms may not be a sign of health but instead a body blocked by incomplete actions. The SCENAR can identify these situations.
- The goal is to achieve the most while doing the least.
- The more recent the problem, the faster the recovery.
- Acute conditions need frequent, close together sessions.
- Chronic conditions need 1-3 sessions per week.
- Function may be restored before all symptoms leave.
- In chronic situations, maximum benefit may not manifest for 1-3 months after a course of treatment has been completed.
All forms of holistic health care follow the innate principles of the built-in way the body heals itself. The goal of all who are involved in natural healing is to assist the body in this natural process.
Our bodies are always engaged in an ongoing effort to create and maintain homeostasis. This effort is centered in the processes of the Parasympathetic nervous system. The operating principle is “self-regulation” whereby the body organizes its functions to restore balance from imbalance. Just as a tightrope walker is always moving and correcting in order to maintain their balance on the wire, so the body is always in a dynamic process of restoring its own balance which we call health.
If the body encounters a challenge that it is unable to completely resolve, it will temporarily “adapt” by reorganizing itself in a new way that will allow it to continue functioning even though there is still an unresolved issue. This kind of reorganization is called an adaptive reaction or response. It is an interrupted cycle of self-regulation that is acceptable to the body in the short term because it maintains function until the problem gets resolved.
However, issues may remain unresolved because the body has “lost sight of them” through a reversal of cellular polarity, or because of prioritization of energy and resource utilization the body may be unable to address them. Over time, the adaptive reaction can interfere with healthy self-regulation and evolve into other new challenges to health and well-being. Those in the natural health field search out these unresolved adaptations and assist the body in completing the goal of moving the adaptation to reintegration and healing. Read more »
I have just had another “SCENAR recovery story” happen in my own life. I really appreciate how this little device has saved me from my own stupidity so many times…
I was helping my son and daughter in law ready their old home (they just built a new home on their property last year) for renting. In that process, I “wrenched my back” lifting something heavy (dumb and I knew better). By that evening, I was concerned that my ability to help had been waylaid. Both sacroiliac joints in my low back were screaming.
Whenever I have something happen like that I pull out my original SCENAR (a Denas Diadens T). It was the device that changed my life back in 2004. And even though Revenko and Karasev pooh-pooh it as “not a true SCENAR,” it has always worked beautifully for me. What I love about its design (and it is the only SCENAR device with this design) is that the buttons to change the settings are recessed so you can lay on it without changing the power and frequency. So, for hard to reach areas on the back, you can pin it between your back and a couch cushion, or you can lay on it. My Denas has been a sleeping partner for me on many occasions when I have been sick or injured.
So, I went to bed with my trusty healing friend. I would put it on one SI joint, go to sleep, wake up needing to change positions, realize the Denas was still working happily away on the joint, move it to the other side, and go back to sleep. I did this all night. By the next morning, to my delight, I was able to get out of bed with very little pain, and knew I could (with wisdom) continue to work. I worked all day and then did the same thing with the Denas that night. The next morning I woke up feeling normal.
What a blessing it is that I found SCENAR!
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.
bioenergetic medicine, Healing Innovations, Musings, SCENAR | Penny | 
March 29, 2012 6:44 am | 
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