by Astara
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Have you ever experienced a ringing in your ears? For some people, the symptoms can be so intense that the ringing causes discomfort and pain, and sometimes for years. I have experienced such a ringing. In the last six years as I deepened my relationship to singing and sound, at times the ringing grew stronger before I understood it more deeply. While I was diving down the sound healing rabbit hole, I was also deepening my understanding of energy and anatomy. Ultimately, by changing the way I processed energy in my body and electromagnetic field, I softened this intense symptom enough to form a new relationship with it. Now I know it is not ringing in the ears, it is actually ringing in the brain. I no longer call it by its typical medical name, tinnitus. In fact, I don’t name it or call it anything. Instead, I hearken the symptom’s messaging to unearth the blessing it was bringing me all along.
Often we go to Western modern medicine, or allopathic medicine, for a chemical or mechanical explanation of our symptoms or pain. Allopathic medicine has its gifts, yet it is misses a huge piece of the puzzle: energy.
Biofeedback
One summer many moons ago in 2016, I was privileged to attend a talk by Dr. Alain Abehsera, an osteopath from France, on Connective Therapy — the Art and Science of Healing with Thought at the Omaha Healing Arts Center. He distilled down the history of medicine to three siloed approaches: the chemical (modern Allopathic medicine), the mechanical (chiropractic medicine), and the vital (or energetic, such as acupuncture, reiki, etc.). He invited us to see that we could access the primary healing relationship toward our own body and mind. He taught first to understand the value of awareness of the body feelings (by tuning into your personal internal sensations). Second, translate or transmute the feelings and sensations in three dimensions of space, within their anatomical background. Third, follow the evolution of the feelings and sensations (symptom) over a given portion of time. This talk ignited in me a renewed passion for what I had been already learning my whole life about the intelligent biofeedback of the body. Strengthening my confidence in knowing that healing is not found in an authority outside of us, but rather within.
Medicine to Suppress
Allo comes form the Greek word for “opposite,” and is intended to treat the symptoms with its opposite, or remedy. In focusing on the “opposite,” allopathic medicine aims to chemically (and mechanically) suppress the symptoms of any disease, often by attacking or slowing the natural defense of the body. The word opposite points to an inherent difficulty with focusing only on allopathic strategies — we end up living in a dualistic limited perspective of opposites — right and wrong, good or bad, pain or no pain, healthy or unhealthy. This polarizing builds evidence for the fears of the protective personality or ego.
Medicine to Reveal
As I have evolved, I have been attracted to alternative medicine and bioenergetics, instead exploring the root of the symptoms and empowering patients. In quantum mechanics physicists have discovered that we are 99.99999% space. So it turns out you are only 0.0000001% solid matter. Now, I teach about the 99% vital energy underneath, within, and around everything — the energy we are made of. From the molecular to the macro: we are either in a state of ease or dis-ease. Another way to say it, energy is either flowing and vital, or it isn’t. What we are here to do as humans is rather to reveal and relate to energy in a new way, then our ideas about how healing looks shifts, and our symptoms shift too.
Our bodies are designed to connect with this invisible force that comprises everything. Unfortunately, because of the state of the world, we have been conditioned away from relating to the world as a flow of energy, let alone our natural ability to capacitate the comprehensive energy we are made of.
Electric Universe
We are electrical beings in an electrical universe. We are just energy compressed into physical form. And we build the circuitry to be more “power-full” through fully metabolizing life experience. E-motions can be playfully described as “energy in motion.” Life is a path of power both literally and figuratively. This is the energetic power we are made of — so it is not power over, but actually to be in power with.
Energy Intelligence
Imagine this electricity in a different way. Imagine billions of bits of high frequency information — love — is available to us in each moment, but we cannot receive this information. Why? Look at an outlet in your wall. The vast majority of outlets in homes use 15-amp receptacles while 20-amp circuits are for high-power appliances, such as your refrigerator or dishwasher. If we try to run high-power appliances on too low amperage, we blow the circuit breaker. In our body it is the same. Many of us don’t have adequate circuitry in place. We unconsciously spend our lives trying to build up our inner circuitry to handle more power flowing through, we do this through struggle and strain, creating the necessary resistance electrically. We don’t realize there are more successful ways to build the circuits we need to capacitate life — so we know more times than not what it feels like to blow a circuit.
After a lifetime of aiming for healing this planet through sustainable design and architecture, I have emerged into a wider world view of what wellness and planetary health can look like. Through bioenergy practices that weave somatics, mysticism, science, and emotional awareness, I have found a successful approach to healing. In tandem with energy awareness, nature’s intelligence can be a mentor to understand how to connect to our electric universe with the magnificent technology of our body and field.
Plant Intelligence
In this century, we are seeing a resurgence in plant medicine that assists people in seeing and developing a relationship with the 99% we are, also called entheogens. Plants and plant energy (or in shamanistic terms, plant spirits) have a lot to teach us about this world of the unseen, about our energetic reality. In reverence to a multitude of indigenous traditions and their shared wisdom around the world, we are reacquainting ourselves with the intelligence of plants. From entheogens to nootropics to herbalism, we are re-membering the power of plants to heal. Historically, entheogens are a powerful way humans have connected with the energy of the universe, within and without. An entheogen is a chemical substance, typically of plant origin, that is ingested to produce a non-ordinary state of consciousness. The use of psychoactive plant medicines in shamanic and religious practices been around for over a millennia.
Herbs and entheogens support us in building that energetic circuitry to live in flow and awareness with the power of life. For many, plant medicine experience opens a door that they couldn’t open on their own. An entheogen experience suddenly gives them access to the high frequency love information: the reciprocity, unity, and holism that the universe is made of. This is because many psychoactive plants temporarily displace our protective personality or ego so we can again see our union with all things. Within the gifts or the golden keys of entheogens, they unlock the higher brain center and “see” or “hear” or even “feel” this super high frequency cosmic information and have a felt sense of the energetic truth of oneness for a moment – the universal law of holism.
Another wise elder we can turn to for energy awareness are trees. Trees have vertical intelligence; they know how to communicate with and transmute this super high frequency energy (love) from their roots to their leaves — through their electromagnetic toroidal field. I teach people how to mimic this vertical intelligence with breath and awareness. The Earth also helps take the cosmic rays and transmutes it to help us receive the energy in our body (it has an electromagnetic toroidal field too). We have the technology (our body and electromagnetic toroidal field) to transmute this energy too. We are transmuting machines. But we have been conditioned to see ourselves as solely physical and mechanical, as matter only.
Ringing & Singing in the Brain
When you experience any symptoms at all in your body, it is your body trying to communicate, “hey, we aren’t fully able to capacitate the universe over here” and we can listen to our conscious body and begin to build circuitry there using breath and mechanically “squeezing” the area which engages our system to be more active there. All of you and your soul isn’t completely online in that part of the body.
If you have been diagnosed with the medical term tinnitus, In the case of tinnitus, you are experiencing more of this high frequency information trying to get through. When you learn how to embody, you will be able to ground and anchor those energies and the ringing is less irksome and ultimately goes away.
Above your eyes, there’s a different level of consciousness than below your eyes. In Vedic tradition the creative visionary brain center (higher mind) above the eyes is called the Cave of Brahma (pineal gland, pituitary gland, thalamus, hypothalamus). Below your eyes is the primitive protective brain.
That ringing in the ears is more like a ringing across the brain. It starts to happen when we’re starting to activate those aspects of the high brain center tissues. If it’s just starting, it’s your body helping build the solution (soul-ution). If it’s been around for a long time, you’ve been tapping into such energies, but there was no consciousness around what was starting to activate in your body, so you didn’t have any ability to facilitate it moving on through there and moving further.
Maybe the ringing across the brain has been around for a decade or longer, all because your system is trying to awaken in these ways (it’s designed to), but we’re not gathered together with all of our bioenergetic equipment to let the rising happen to move it right through there and to move it on from this tinnitus diagnosis. For the doctor, it’s ringing in the ears. They give you drops and other mechanical suggestions. They try to shut it down. It’s not a problem, it’s a soul-ution. But if we don’t know how to interpret the solution, it looks like a problem.
The rabbit pose in yoga is good to awaken that area of the brain to better integrate what is happening by getting your crown on the ground and roll around and squeeze the muscles in your neck while you’re doing it and breathe. You are activating the Cave of Brahma. There is a technique I teach called Brain Yoga that helps activate this area, using eye movements going “around the clock” synchronized with breath. The simplest thing you can do throughout the day is to do slow belly breaths and roll your eyes to the ceiling or to the floor once in a while to get that pineal gland activated.
Reframe Symptoms
The symptoms of tinnitus indicate are you waking up in some way to this truth, and with some conscious effort and willingness, you can evolve and integrate these areas and shift the symptoms.
My own uncomfortable “ringing” symptoms have disappeared using this bioenergetic awareness. It used to be very strong and intense. When I get a little of the ringing, it is like a gentle bell in my brain saying, “Hey, a cosmic download is a ‘comin” and I feel joyful anticipation with big permission to the cosmic download that is ready to come through and help me live the life my soul intended.
This awareness is not only about this particular sensation we associate with tinnitus, this conscious relationship with energy can be applied to any areas of dis-ease (lack of ease) in your body. My general invitation is that before you accept any diagnosis or prognosis as the one truth or authority, please consult your body, your energy, and your inner doctor. Always get a second or third (or fourth) opinion out in the world too!
In time, I began to trust my inner authority, and it has made all the difference in my life. I wish the same for you.
