Healing With Your Hands - Instructions 2

• Part One: Treatment Of Medical Illnesses
• Part Two: Treating Musculoskeletal Pain & Tension
• Part Three: Treating Injuries and Post-Surgery

Part One: Treatment Of Medical Illnesses

The Body Heals Itself

Can Resonance Balancing work in medical illnesses? Remember: the body heals itself. The purpose of Resonance Balancing is to trigger the body's natural healing process. Because there can be so many causes of medical illnesses -- even for the same illness in different people -- it is impossible at this time to predict whether Resonance Balancing will elicit a positive response in any particular case. However, it is always worth trying to apply the healing energy, because healings may occur. And, even if the illness or condition is not dramatically improved, there is still almost always a benefit from the therapy, in that the healee feels more relaxed and balanced, and symptoms are often temporarily relieved.

It is important to remember that the results of successive treatments are usually cumulative, so even if results from the first treatment are minimal or short-lived, repeated treatments may have a significant lasting effect.

Heart Disease

Because the heart is hidden and protected within the chest cavity, it is obviously not possible to palpate directly for sore spots! However, by applying your touch over the chest area, the Resonance Balancing energy will reach to the heart.

Put your left and right hands on either side of the breast-bone (sternum), and apply the energy at the level of every second rib until you've reached the bottom of the chest. Then put one hand in the middle of the chest and one hand on the left side of the chest. Then put one hand in the middle and one on the right side. Spend at least thirty to sixty minutes on the chest area for someone with serious heart disease. In cases of serious disease, applications of energy can be made twice or thrice weekly, or even daily.

The following conditions can respond favorably to Resonance Balancing: angina, congestive heart failure, cardiomyopathy, and hypertension (high blood pressure). Don't be intimidated by the seriousness of the disease - this is a serious healing technology.

Abdominal Conditions

The abdomen is a sensitive and very important area. Pain, burning, discomfort, poor digestion, constipation, diarrhea, gas, and bloating are all signs that a problem exists.

The basic principal of applying the energy to the abdomen is the same as we've already discussed: Through palpation (gently pressing around), find the sore or tender spots, and apply the energy until the points are better.

When testing the abdomen for sore spots, be sure to approach the area gently. People hold their "gut reactions" here, and are often very sensitive in the area. First slowly make contact with the flat of your hands. Then gently press around the entire abdomen. When you have gone around once gently, if you have not found any sore spots, go around again, pressing deeper. You may find areas which are painful or uncomfortable to this deep touch. These areas should receive Resonance Balancing energy until they cease to be uncomfortable.

When the abdominal areas of tenderness are relieved, you can know that you've done your best to trigger the healing process. Then it is a matter of waiting to see how the process unfolds. It is common for the healee to experience symptom improvement over the next three to twenty-four hours, including a significant release, e.g. bowel movement(s).

Ulcers, colitis, irritable bowel, and nervous stomach can all respond favorably to Resonance Balancing.

"Montezuma's Revenge," diarrhea caused by bacteria from new locations (as may happen when Americans travel to Mexico or India), responds well to Resonance Balancing.

Acute Abdominal Emergencies

Severe acute abdominal pain may be caused by appendicitis or some other surgical emergency. In these cases, while on the way to the hospital or while waiting at the hospital for the doctor, for test results, or for surgery, Resonance Balancing can applied. It is possible that, in such cases, inflammation of the appendix can be relieved, even alleviating the need for surgery. But, as yet, we have not tried Resonance Balancing in any such cases. If you have the chance to try it, please let us know the results!

Arthritic Conditions

There are many types of arthritis, or joint pains, including rheumatoid, osteoarthritis, systemic lupus erythemetosis, stress arthritis, and bursitis, to name just a few. The approach to the treatment of these conditions is the same as we've discussed -- find the sore spots in the affected areas and apply the Resonance Balancing energy.

Of course, if you are able to begin treatment at an early stage of the condition, positive results will be more likely to occur and to be lasting. Don't expect immediate miracles after one treatment (though they can happen). Remember, results can be cumulative, so give a good series of treatments before you conclude that your treatment isn't working.

Lung Diseases

Lung diseases can include infections of bacterial, viral, or fungal origin. Although Resonance Balancing does not specifically kill these organisms, treatments can strengthen the tissues so that the body can fight off the disease more easily. In some cases, this can enable antibiotics to work more effectively, for antibiotics always work together with the body's natural healing ability.

One serious lung disease is emphysema, in which lung tissue is destroyed, usually by smoking. Resonance Balancing can assist the body in fighting this disease. Of course, it is extremely important for the sufferer to quit smoking!

Asthma is a common condition of the lungs. Resonance Balancing can be very effective in decreasing wheezing and tightness. Apply the energy to the front and/or back of the chest.

Fertility

Failure to conceive a child can be a heartbreaking situation for couples. Medical approaches to this problem can be expensive and difficult. Yet, it happens that Resonance Balancing, in some instances, can easily turn on the ability to conceive. Apply the energy to the lower back and around the pelvic area of both the potential mother and father. Then they should do what comes naturally!

If you believe you are not fertile, and you are using Resonance Balancing for some other problem, be careful. You may inadvertently stimulate fertility, and wind up pregnant.

Women's Health

Women's reproductive issues are in part the result of a complex series of hormonal interactions. Resonance Balancing can influence disturbances in this process, through applying the energy directly over the ovaries, as well as behind the ears (the location of the hypothalamus, which controls many hormonal functions) and over the forehead (the location of pituitary gland, also a master gland).

Application of Resonance Balancing once or twice weekly can relieve symptoms of pre-menstrual syndrome (PMS), too heavy or not enough periods, ovarian cysts, and uterine tumors.

In the case of ovarian cysts, palpation of the ovary will stimulate pain. With application of the energy, the pain will dissipate, and the cyst will often disappear.

Urethritis

Urethritis is often caused by a bacterial infection, although not always. It is associated with painful and frequent urination. The energy can be applied directly to the area of the urethra. Although this requires intimate contact, it can help when the usual antibiotic treatment fails.

Benign Prostatic Hypertrophy

This is a common condition in men as they get older. Enlargement of the prostate gland blocks the outflow of urine. Sufferers can awaken four to five times each night to urinate.

To treat this condition, apply the energy through the three fingers, putting them between the genitals and anus. The healee can be lying on his back or side. If on the side, the other hand can be placed at the lower back.

Treatments will be necessary at least two or three times a week, or can be given daily. Over a few months period, gradual improvement can usually be observed, with the healee awakening fewer and fewer times during the night, until he sleeps through the night.

Resonance Balancing, if successful, is much preferable to the usual surgical treatment, which leaves a significant percentage of patients with impotence and/or incontinence.

Skin Disorders

Skin problems can be both difficult to diagnose and treat. Rashes and patches can have various causes, including allergic, infectious, emotional, or idiopathic (a medical term meaning "we don't know what causes it"). Application of Resonance Balancing can relieve or improve skin disorders.

Burns can be more speedily healed through application of Resonance Balancing directly to the burned area. It is not necessary to actually touch the burned area. The energy can be applied from the distance of a half inch or so.

Nervous System Disorders

There have been occasions when application of Resonance Balancing has led to significant improvement of seizure disorders. Simply put your hands on the head, over the areas of the temples, and apply the energy. Spend a few minutes at that point, and then move your hands to other areas of the head. Spend 30-45 minutes total, covering as many of the areas of the head as possible. If you know that the seizures are localized or centered in one particular area, spend more time applying the energy there.

Migraine Headaches often respond well to Resonance Balancing. Apply the energy to the area of the headache, as well as the back of the head, the neck, and the shoulders.

Viral Syndromes

Viral illnesses, particularly colds and flu, come in various shapes and sizes, and may affect any or all areas of the body. Symptoms may include fever, chills, excess mucous production in the sinuses and/or lungs, painful joints and muscles, laryngitis, and malaise.

The Resonance Balancing energy is not specifically anti-viral, and so is not expected to "cure" viral illnesses. However, the healing vibrations of Resonance Balancing do usually relieve many of the symptoms listed above, often for many hours. The symptoms of laryngitis, caused by inflammation of the vocal cords, is usually very successfully relieved.

Occasionally, the Resonance Balancing energy will give the healee the boost needed to overthrow the illness, thus helping the body to cure itself.

Shingles is a type of herpes infection which attacks the upper body, and which can be very painful. Again, Resonance Balancing will not be expected to cure the herpes infection, but can be very effective in temporary relief of the severe pain.

Shingles and genital herpes, when chronically repeated, can be decreased in number by treatment of Resonance Balancing. These infections are often stress related, and a series of treatments can reduce stress enough to influence the body's susceptibility to the disease.

Cancer

Resonance Balancing is not a cure for cancer, but can be used for treatment of symptoms related to cancer, such as stress, pain, and inflammation. Simply apply the energy to the areas where symptoms exist.

Sometimes, it may happen that someone being treated by Resonance Balancing (or other spiritual/energy healing) for cancer symptoms may find that the cancer disappears. But we would not, at this time, attribute such a remission or cure to Resonance Balancing treatments. Just call it coincidence. And of course, cancer sufferers will most likely be engaging in other therapies, both medical and/or natural which certainly would play a role in any such success.

AIDS

Everything said above for cancer applies to AIDS.

AIDS is not a single disease, but is a syndrome in which lowered immune function allows various diseases to ravage the body. Thus, treatments would be targeting the infectious diseases, such as pneumocystis pneumonia. As discussed above in other viral syndromes, Resonance Balancing would be expected to relieve symptoms, not to cure diseases.

Someone being treated for AIDS by Resonance Balancing could benefit from being treated simultaneously by several people. Additional people applying the Resonance Balancing energy would amplify the effectiveness of the treatments, for it seems that the energy is greatly amplified by additional practitioners.

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is a relatively new diagnosis, and it is not always an easy diagnosis to make correctly. There is no known single cause -- a variety of viral illnesses have been attributed to CFS, but the condition can also exist without evidence of viral disease.

In addition to being chronically exhausted, barely able to get out of bed, sufferers of CFS also usually experience pain in their muscles and joints. Resonance Balancing treatments can be helpful in relieving the symptoms of pain, and can help slowly build up strength.

Post Surgery

Following any surgical procedure, Resonance Balancing can be applied to speed healing. After surgery, it is common for people to feel drained and exhausted. Resonance Balancing can help the post-surgery patient to feel more energetic, less “wiped-out.” I have also seen cases where someone was not recovering as quickly as he or she should have, and following a treatment, quickly returned to a normal course of healing.

Part Two: Treating Musculoskeletal Pain & Tension

Tension Headache

Tension headaches are caused by tension and spasms in the muscles of the scalp, face, and neck. People with headaches also often have tension and spasms in the muscles of their shoulders.

Migraine, a totally different type of headache, will be discussed later.

Headaches may be

• a. generalized
• b. localized.

In the case of generalized headache, you can start by walking your fingers over the head, and locating if there are any "hot spots" (areas extremely tender or painful to the touch). Hot spots will often be found at the base of the skull, sometimes more on one side than the other.

If you find hot spots, apply the energy through your fingers into the spots until the pain has dissipated. It is best to do this until the painfulness is completely gone.

If you don't find hot spots, put your hands over the temples, just in front of the ears. After five or ten minutes, move your hands higher up on the skull, over the ears. After another five or ten minutes, move your hands just above the eyes.

Continue to move your hands around the head, applying the Resonance Balancing energy, until the headache is gone, or you have worked for at least a half an hour. Then move to the neck (as described below).

In the case of localized headache, work directly over the area of the pain.

If it happens that the pain moves to another location, follow the pain by putting one hand where the pain was originally, and one hand to where the pain has moved.

If the headache is not gone by the end of forty-five minutes or an hour, there is an excellent chance that it will disappear within an hour or two following the treatment.

Low Back Pain

Low back pain is a common and sometimes debilitating condition. Although it can be the result of injury, it often will arise spontaneously, for no apparent reason.

Low back pain can be divided into two basic categories: acute and chronic.

Acute back pain is that which occurs when there is no prior history of it. It can come in innocuous situations. For example, while putting on one's socks or pants, suddenly one's back "goes out," and severe pain comes in. The severe pain is also associated with a major limitation of movement, and decrease in functional strength -- someone with severe low back pain may not be able to lift anything.

Chronic back pain may arise more slowly, over a long period of time. Chronic back pain is usually not as painful as acute pain, but there is always the danger that a chronic problem could become worse -- acute -- at any time.

Treatment: Begin with the patient laying on his/her stomach. Put a pillow under the feet so that the knees are slightly bent. This will take some pressure off the muscles of the low back. They may also want a pillow directly under the area of the low back.

Feel the bony protuberances at the sacro-iliac Often, the right and left sides will not be balanced (one side will be higher than another), and there will be tenderness to the touch at one or the other location. Apply the Resonance Balancing energy to both points. After a few minutes, check to see if the points are still tender. Continue until at least eighty percent of the tenderness is gone (based on the patient's report). You may notice that the right and left side have returned to balance.

Now, gently feel the area around each of the vertebrae, starting at the bottom. At one or two different locations, the patient is likely to report pain to gentle palpation. If you are experienced at feeling vertebrae, you will likely notice that it is out of position, either to the side or rotated. If you are not experienced, it will be difficult to tell this. However, as you become more experienced, you will get a feel for when a vertebra is "in" and when it is "out." Usually, in low back pain, the main vertebra out will be in the small of the back, around the fourth or fifth lumber vertebra.

Apply Resonance Balancing to the area just to either side of the vertebra, again, until at least eighty percent of the tenderness has disappeared. Stay with the point as long as you need to.

With both hands, move across the back away from the spine, testing points of tenderness. Whichever points hurt the most should receive application of Resonance Balancing, until at least eighty percent of the tenderness is gone.

Next, check out the "sciatic notch" on both sides of the buttocks. If the healee is experiencing sciatica, or shooting pain down the leg, this point will be very "hot," very painful (see below).

Next, to work on the psoas muscles (see diagram), ask the healee to slowly roll over on his/her back (put a pillow under the knees to relieve pressure on the back). In many cases of low back pain, the psoas muscles play a primary role in pulling the spine out of its normal alignment. They are in an area sensitive to emotional turmoil, and they often hold chronic tensions.

To test the psoas, pick either side to begin. There are two major parts of the psoas. To test the first part, allow your hands to gently wrap around the iliac crest. Because it is likely that this will be quite painful, go very gently. If, in fact, the psoas is playing a major role in the back pain, it will be very painful. Leaving your hands in the position, pass the Resonance Balancing energy into the psoas through your fingertips.

To test the second part of the psoas, gently press in a few inches above the first part (see diagram). If both parts are painful, you will need to apply the energy with one hand to each place.

Because the psoas is a large, broad muscle, expect it to take a while -- perhaps ten to fifteen minutes per side. As you treat the psoas, and then you test it for improvement, you will find yourself able to go deeper before you reach pain. Hold your fingers in as deeply as you can without it being painful. This means that as you go deep to find where it is painful, pull your fingers back just a little so that it doesn't hurt. When you can bury your fingers deep into the psoas without it hurting, you're finished. (Make sure the patient doesn't need to go to the bathroom before you start working on the psoas).

If you work on the back without working on a psoas which is in spasm, all of your work may be for naught. The patient may feel pain free on the table, but when he/she gets up, the psoas will pull the back out immediately, and he/she will be right back in pain.

If the psoas is not in spasm to begin with, then you don't need to worry about it. In this case, you will be able to go deep into the muscle at the beginning, without causing pain.

Sciatica

Sciatica is a special case of low back pain, where severe pain shoots down the leg. Usually, sciatica only affects one side, although occasionally both sides will be affected.

To treat sciatica, use the same method described above for low back pain. When you come to the sciatic notch, it will be extremely painful to the touch on the affected side. Apply Resonance Balancing to both sides (the other side is likely to have some tenderness).

When the tenderness is gone on the unaffected side, bring that hand back to the vertebra that is most affected (assuming that you have about twenty percent of the original pain left). So now, you have one hand at the vertebra, and one at the affected sciat

Probably, the vertebra will be free of tenderness to palpation before the sciatic notch is pain free. Move your free hand to the bottom of the buttocks, where you are likely to find an area of tenderness where the sciatic nerve passes (see diagram). As one of the points you are working on becomes free of pain, continue to move down the leg to the other sciatic points on the diagram.

Upper Back Pain

Upper back pain is generally easier to treat than lower back pain. The musculature is not so complex, and it is not necessary for the muscles to support as much weight.

The pain can be in the muscles near the spine, or farther out towards the scapula. In fact, almost everyone has some tenderness in the muscles of the upper back, although most people aren't aware of it until you start touching them. Then they are quite surprised at the tension they've been holding.

The first place to check is the spine, for one or more vertebrae may be out of place, causing a pinching of the nerves coming out. Beginning at the first thoracic vertebra, the big bump (see diagram), put your thumbs on either side of the vertebra, just under it. Test for tenderness and for the position. Test all the vertebrae until you have gone below the area of pain.

You may have found one or more vertebrae out of place or tender on one side or the other. If so, apply Resonance Balancing until the vertebra is back in place or until the pain has dissipated. When you have finished with the spine, or if you don't find anything, go directly to the area where the patient reports pain, and apply the energy there.

It is common for patients to report that the pain moves down the back, down the arm, or up the neck. If so, chase the pain with one hand while the other remains on the original area of pain.

After you have completed the upper back area, it is a good idea to check the lower back, because sometimes upper back pain will be a compensation for a problem in the lower back.

Stiff Neck & Neck Pain

People with a stiff neck, when they cannot move their head from side to side, are usually limited because of spasms in the trapezius muscles which run from their upper back to the top of the neck.

The treatment for stiff neck, then, is similar to that for upper back pain. The difference is that with a stiff neck, the upper back will usually be worse than when the chief complaint is upper back pain!

After working on the upper back, and releasing the tenderness, the healee will be immediately improved, with less pain and increased movement. When you have relieved at least eighty percent of the pain in the upper back, have the healee lay down on his/her back, to give attention to the neck and the base of the skull.

Using the index finger or middle finger of both hands, feel the seven vertebrae of the cervical spine. Just as you felt the vertebrae in the back, feel the vertebrae in the neck. The only difference is that the healee is laying on his/her back, and you are using your finger instead of your thumb.

Feel for the position of the vertebrae, as well as for tenderness. If you find areas where a vertebra is out of position, or is tender, apply the Resonance Balancing energy. Because of the position of the neck, it will be difficult to use the three fingers together. Usually, you can use the index and middle fingers, although if you come across a point that is really painful, you can find a way to position all three fingers of both hands.

After going

Finally, test the base of the skull, from the center out to both sides under the ears. This is a very important area on everyone, and especially in someone with a neck problem, you are likely to find several areas which are sore. Apply the energy to these areas.

Frozen Shoulder

"Frozen shoulder" is a layman's term for a variety of conditions in which the shoulder is painful, with limited movement. There can be various causes for this. One of the most common causes is bursitis, an inflammation of the lining of the joint. In athletes, tearing of the rotator cuff can look very similar. Arthritis will occasionally create a similar picture.

The bio-energy treatment for all these is basically the same. Palpate gently for tender points. There are several places where you are likely to find "hot spots" (see diagram). Apply Resonance Balancing to these points.

After all the points in the shoulder have been treated, check the upper back and neck, for problems in these areas can trigger problems in the shoulder.

It has happened that one treatment was enough to release severe bouts of "frozen shoulder." In these cases, within two to three days after the treatment, all symptoms were gone. It is reasonable to expect, however, that several treatments will be required.

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