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. Over time I learned it is not ringing in the ears, it’s actually ringing in the brain. I no longer refer to it by its medical name, tinnitus. In fact, I don’t name it or call it anything. Instead, I hearken the symptom’s messaging. I listen. I pay attention. In time, this unearths the blessing it was b-ringing me all along.
Often we go to Western modern medicine — allopathic medicine — for a chemical or mechanical explanation of our symptoms or pain. That is fine too!
Allopathic medicine has its gifts, yet it is misses a huge piece of the puzzle: energy.
Biofeedback
Many summers ago in 2016, I attended a talk by Dr. Alain Abehsera, at the Omaha Healing Arts Center. Dr. Abehsera is an osteopath from France, and he gave his talk on Connective Therapy: the Art and Science of Healing with Thought. He distilled down the history of medicine to three siloed approaches:
- Chemical (modern Allopathic medicine)
- Mechanical (chiropractic medicine)
- Vital (or energetic, such as acupuncture, reiki, etc.).
Dr. Abehsera invited us to see that we could access the primary healing relationship toward our own body and mind. He taught us
- First: 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. If we focus only on “opposite” allopathic strategies — we end up living in a dualistic limited perspective of opposition — right and wrong, good or bad, pain or no pain, healthy or unhealthy. This polarizing substantiates the fears of the head brain — the protective personality or ego — that because of the two hemispheres, it only knows two options. This can be very dis-empowering.
Medicine to Reveal
Along my own evolution, I passionately followed alternative medicine and bioenergetics. Instead of investing any more in the duality of opposites, I’ve followed my attraction to excavate the root of the symptoms. Such an approach empowers patients.
In quantum mechanics, physicists have discovered we are 99.99999% space. It turns out you are only 0.0000001% solid matter! Today, I write and teach about the 99% vital energy underneath, within, and around everything — the energy we are truly made of.
From the molecular to the macro: we can are on a spectrum ranging from a state of ease to a state of dis-ease. Another way to say it, energy is in some percentage range from flowing and vital to shut down. As humans, we’re here to evolve our relationship to medicine. We have an opportunity to reveal and relate to the energy we ARE in a new way. Then our ideas about how healing can look 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’ve been conditioned away from relating to the world and ourselves as a flow of energy. Many of us have been cut off from our natural ability to capacitate the comprehensive energy we’re made of.
Electric Universe
We are electrical beings in an electrical universe. We’re energy compressed into physical form. We can build the circuitry to be more “power-full” by fully metabolizing life experience. Emotions — or e-motions — I playfully describe 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 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 aren’t taught that there are better ways to build the circuits we need to capacitate life. 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’ve emerged into a wider view wellness and planetary health. Bioenergetic practices that weave somatics, mysticism, science, and emotional awareness, have revealed a new paradigm of healing. Energy awareness and awareness of nature’s intelligence can weave together to be our best mentor. Nature teaches us how to connect to our electric universe through the magnificent technology of our body and field.
We ARE nature.
Nature’s Intelligence
In this century, we are seeing a resurgence in listening to nature in a deeper way. Plant medicine assists people in seeing and developing a relationship with the 99% of energy we are.
These plant teachers are called entheogens. 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.
Plants and plant energy — or in shamanic terms, plant spirits — have a lot to teach us about this world of the unseen and our energetic reality. A multitude of indigenous traditions have shared their wisdom around the world in the past 50 years. Now, the Western World is reacquainting itself with the intelligence of plants. From entheogens to nootropics to herbalism, we are re-membering the power of plants to heal and reveal.
Herbs and entheogens support us in building that energetic circuitry to live in flow and awareness with the power of life. For many, the plant medicine experience opens a door that they couldn’t open on their own. An entheogen experience gives them sped up access to the high frequency cosmic data of the matrix — revealing the reciprocity, unity, and holism that comprises the universe. Many entheogens or psychoactive plants temporarily displace our protective personality or ego so we can again see our union with all things. It is like a reunion! The golden keys of entheogens unlock the higher brain center so we can “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.
Trees are another wise elder we can turn to for energy awareness.
Trees have vertical intelligence. They easily communicate with and transmute this super high frequency energy (love) from their roots to their leaves — through their electromagnetic toroidal field. They root and grow at the same time in a non-linear dance of infinite energy flow.
Inside Inner Space Academy 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 greatly reduces in time.
There’s a different level of consciousness above your eyes 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 actually a ringing across the brain. It starts as we begin to activate those aspects of the high brain center tissues. However long you’ve experienced it, it’s your body helping build the solution or soul-ution. If it’s been around for a long time, you’ve been tapping into such energies, but there was no awareness of what’s wanting to activate in your body. You didn’t have any ability to help it move further and blossom the upgrades waiting.
Whether the ringing across the brain has been around for a short time or long time, your system is trying to awaken (it’s designed to). Many of us are not gathered together with all of our bioenergetic equipment to let the rising happen and graduate 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. My hope is to help you see it is not a problem, it’s a soul-ution. But if we don’t know how to address the solution, it looks and feels 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 from Energy Codes 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.
Re-frame Symptoms
The symptoms of tinnitus indicate are you ready to remember who you are in truth. With conscious effort, you can integrate these areas and shift the symptoms.
My own uncomfortable “ringing” symptoms have lessened using this bioenergetic awareness. It used to be very strong and intense. When I get a little ringing, I now know it is a gentle bell in my brain saying, “Hey! A cosmic download is a ‘comin.” I feel joyful anticipation. I offer permission to my biointelligence as if internally saying, “Yes. Let’s receive the cosmic download that’s ready to come through.” I often don’t have words for it immediately. It takes time to cognitively understand each download. I have learned it helps me live a YES to the life my soul intended.
This awareness is not only about tinnitus. Developing a conscious relationship with energy can be applied to any symptoms or areas of dis-ease (lack of ease) in your body.
My invitation is this: before you accept any diagnosis or prognosis as the authority, please consult your body and your energy — your inner doctor. Always get a second or third (or fourth) opinion out in the world!
With practice, I now trust my inner authority (soul or essence) and it’s incredible collaboration with Earth, the stars, and my body. This has made all the difference in my life.
I wish the same for you.
If you would like to learn more, explore Inner Space Academy with Astara!
