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DICTIONARY OF TERMS AND MODALITIES
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Craniosacral Therapy
What is it?
The therapy focuses on reducing tension and stress in the meningeal
membrane and its facial connections to enhance the functioning of
the CranioSacral system, a fluid circulatory system that surrounds
and protects the brain and spinal cord. It is most commonly used to
treat headaches, TMJ-related jaw pain, ear infections, strokes and
other ailments.
How is it
practiced?
Craniosacral therapists subtly manipulate the bones of the face,
head, vertebral column, and the membranes beneath the skull,
allowing free movement by the cerebrospinal fluid and balancing
energy fields.
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Ear Coning
What is it?
Ear Coning also known as Ear Candling is a therapy that has been
used since ancient times. Because more and more people are seeking
less intrusive ways of healing, ear coning is making a resurgence as
an alternative to helping with the removal of wax, flaky skin,
bacteria and parasites from the ear canal.
Ear candling
works on the physical body by detoxifying the sinus and lymphatic
systems. It provides increased clarity of hearing, taste and smell.
In addition to working on the physical body, coning works on the
energetic systems of the body (chakras), clearing and strengthening
them. As an added benefit, ear candling is extremely relaxing.
How is it
practiced?
The Cone shaped candle is placed in the ear canal and the top end of
the cone is ignited. The cone is typically made up of cotton dipped
in wax and is hollow on the inside. When the cone is ignited, it
creates an upward vacuum that will suction up wax, skin and other
substances up from the ear canal and into the lower portion of the
Candle.
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Energy medicine (energy
balancing)
What is it?
Energy medicine
recognizes energy as a vital, living, moving force that determines
much about health and happiness. In energy medicine, energy is the
medicine, and energy is also the patient. You heal the
body by activating its natural healing energies; you also heal the
body by restoring energies that have become weak, disturbed, or out
of balance. Energy medicine is both a complement to other approaches
to medical care and a complete system for self-care and self-help.
It can address physical illness and emotional or mental disorders,
and can also promote high-level wellness and peak performance. The
essential principles of energy medicine include:
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Energies—both electromagnetic
energies and more subtle energies—form the dynamic
infrastructure of the physical body.
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The health of those energies–in
terms of flow, balance, and harmony–is reflected in the health
of the body.
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Conversely, when the body is
not healthy, corresponding disturbances in its energies can be
identified and treated.
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To overcome illness and
maintain vibrant health, the body needs its energies to:
a. Move
and have space to continue to move—energies may become blocked
due to toxins, muscular or other constriction, prolonged stress,
or interference from other energies.
b. Move in specific
patterns—generally
in harmony with the physical structures and functions that the
energies animate and support. "Flow follows function."
c. Cross over—at
all levels, from the microlevel of the double helix of DNA,
extending to the macrolevel where the left side of the brain
controls the right side of the body and the right side to the
left.
d. Maintain a balance with other
energies—the energies may lose their natural balance due to
prolonged stress or other conditions that keep specific energy
systems in a survival mode.
5. Flow,
balance, and harmony can be non-invasively restored and maintained
within an
energy system by:
a. tapping, massaging,
pinching, twisting,
or connecting specific energy points on the skin
b. tracing
or swirling the hand over the skin along specific energy
pathways
c. exercises
or postures designed for specific energetic effects
d. focused use of the mind to move specific energies
e. surrounding an
area with healing
energies (one person’s energies impacts another’s)
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