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CUPPING or GUA-SHA

Cupping is a 'Traditional Chinese Medicine' practice that uses warmed jars or suction cups that create a light vacuum pressure when applied to the body. It's purpose is to reduce local congestion of Qi and blood to relieve pain. It is especially useful as a therapy for treating areas of chronic tension or persistent "knots".

Guasha is a traditional Chinese healing technique involving rhythmic scraping motions of the skin and muscles with a flat instrument traditionally made of stone or bone. Guasha removes blood stagnation, promotes normal circulation and metabolic processes and is valuable in treating pain disorders and preventing illness.

​Chiropractors learn Gaston technique, which is very similar to Gua sha

Learn more about Cupping or Gua-sha

An Introduction to Sound Healing
 
All of life has a vibrational frequency, an underlying hum

Sound is brainwave entrainment


Entrainment is the word for how our frequencies vibrate in relation to others, why we pick up another’s frequenciesSound is the underlying fabric of vibration which creates the light patterns we see around us

Sound is the primordial substance from which our whole universe is made and from which our universe originates, it is it’s organizing force

Sound is a compressed form of life energy or Qi, acupoints have a sound or resonation

Sound vibrates/creates our physical form. The body is held together by sound
 

As far back as 1787, Ernest Chladini showed ways to make sound waves generate visible structures on his metal plates sprinkled with sandEvery atom, molecule, cell, gland, and organ, of the body absorbs and transmits sound

Sound boosts the immune function, by creating nitric oxide, as light, a nutrient for the nervous system

Cymatics is the study of vibration to generate and influence pattern, shape, and moving processes generated, a term pioneered by Dr. Hans Jenny

There are many books and articles written about the value of sound. Now we have You Tube also. While I started with crystal bowls, I added to my collection Tibetan bowls, a Gong, Peruvian whistling vessels, a sistra, and tuning forks. We can listen to binaural beats. We can hum, sing, clap our hands together

Crystal bowls, or otherwise known as singing bowls, are made of 99.9% hydroxy appetite, (silicon dioxide), which is a crystalline compound that transmits visible and UV light; the most common form is quartz, our cells contain this silica. These bowls resonate with crystalline and water structures of the body, such as cells and DNA, and are associated with the body's seven chakras, or energy centers. They are said to break up energy blockages in the body, reaffirm physical-spiritual connections and induce deep relaxation 

Tibetan bowls contain seven metals corresponding to the sun, moon and planets visible in the ancient night skies and can be played against the body to restore inner balance. It is said that they originated in Tibet, and were used by the Shaman/ Bon religious healers

Since I practice TCM, I think of the Yin/Yang (Taiichi), universal symbol, as crystal bowls being more Yin, metal bowls more Yang

The human ear can hear at 20 to 20,000, cycles per second; we feel sound in our cells long after the “hearing’ is no longer apparent, we keep on feeling it because of the wave motion in the cells’ watery medium. People who are “deaf” can hear

Sound is a compressed form of life energy or Qi, acupoints have a sound or resonation

Music is organized sound

Sound is measured in frequencies, which is the number of cycles of vibration per second, as the given measurement of time, named after a German physicist, and is called Hz, therefore one Hz is one cycle per second

Everything in nature is a whirling mass of vibrating molecules, matter is organized in waveform and frequency, including your cells

Sound could be described as a wave motion traveling in both transverse and longitudinal directions, producing an auditory sensation by the change of pressure in the ear

Sound is an acoustical wave, operating on the principles of compression and expansion of molecules (in opposition to electromagnetic), And requires a medium of gas or liquid for transmission. Actually, it’s a bubble in a spherical shape.

Most of the value in a sound healing bath, as the cells will have changed their frequency, and detoxified, is sitting a bit in the silence afterwards.
Be sure to hydrate!




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