Mike Psychic Connections-Connective Tissue: LONG

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For those of you who believe this is WooWoo... delete now, No hard feelings.

HeHeHe....Well Mike, as you can see, is analytical minded. He has the, ..prove

it to me personality. I used to be like that. My metaphysical teachers would

laugh at me and say that I have this mule in front of me. I would have to

examine every inch of it, see how it moved, how it reacted, then I would stick

my hand up its butt, pull it inside out, and examine it all over again. I see

that in Mike. Sorry Mike, that's just the way they explained it to me. Really

though... your explanation was very helpful and clear. I never really looked

into the scientific side of it, I took it on faith, just because it was there

and I could not deny it. I just asked so many questions, I drove them crazy!

I knew I could do this stuff around age 12. It scared me. I was raised

Presbyterian. I tried to ignore it. But it would not ignore me. So I read the

Bible. And I found the answer. It's in Corinthians. I was no longer afraid. (I

was about 30 here.)

I knew just knew things, I saw them like a movie in my head. One day, one of my

6 year old twins was missing. I called the police. The neighbors where looking.

My girl friend reminded me, see him in your head... and there he was, at the

park, on a swing, three blocks away. I got in the car and found him on the

swing. Scooped him into my arms and cried with relief. A few weeks later,

another neighbor hood child was missing from the school. On the door to door

search, I went to that place in my head, saw him, and told the mom where to find

him. And there he was. So I started taking classes. I wanted to work with the

police to find missing persons. Everyday something would come to me, but, I

couldn't turn it on and off. I had no control. Dreams, visions, knowing. To much

to go into here. (Probably too much already for you non-believers) Backing up

what Mike said, I could feel the energy in the body with out touching it. To me,

it feels like a cushion along the body until I find a hole. That is where energy

is blocked or an injury. The aura, well do you know how it feels when someone

behind you is staring at you? That is your aura picking it up. When someone

steps to close to you, into your space? That is your aura. Do you want to test

it? Stare at someone standing behind them and look at the back of their neck.

Best if it's a stranger, but family will do. They will " Feel " it and turn

around. Mike talked about the bodies rhythms. They all can be felt by a

sensitive hand. I can feel a few. In the past I was very sensitive to this other

sense. I had to walk away from it for a while. Forced to bury it. I have been

able to let it in my life again lately. It's came back different. I haven't

quite figured it out yet. I know I am not a physical healer. It seems I have a

way of bring out emotional healing. I'm a massage therapist. Many people cry

emotionally on my table. My hands have their own intuition, they have a mind of

their own. They go where needed. I don't do much massage anymore, but when my

hands know, I don't charge. Healing, physical or emotional is not ours. It comes

from the power above us. When I feel it, I pull white light from above and send

it through my hands. The energy is not mine. Mike and I have worked together on

Dylan as many of you know. The work on my son's knee was nothing short of

a_______You insert the word that suits you best. His pain went from a constant 8

to a 0. I could go on and on. Is it possible to know things beyond our eyes,

ears... yes. To know when someone you know is hurting, crying, When you child is

in trouble, when someone has died, or is going to. To feel some one evil in your

presence, know when your in danger, that gut feeling. Any one like to talk off

board? feel free to contact me. I think I just might be saying too much here,

but I won't know till I say it. Cindylouwho.

Psychic Connections-Connective Tissue: LONG

Since I seem to have kind of kicked the door open a bit yesterday it

seems only fair that I elaborate on what I know, what I suspect and

what I believe about all of this.

Let's start with a basic definition or two.

My American Heritage Dictionary defines " psychic " as " 1. Of or

pertaining to the human mind or psyche. 2. Of or pertaining to

extraordinary, especially extrasensory and nonphysical, mental

processes, such as extrasensory perception... "

My Thorndike Barnhart Dictionary says " 1. Of the soul or mind;

mental. 2. Outside the known laws of physics, supernatural. "

So, if " psychic " refers to extra senses - what are the regular

senses? There are five: Touch, Smell, Sight, Hearing and Taste.

That's fine. We feel, see, hear, etc ... but HOW does the body

register these senses to allow our " mind " to process the information?

It does it through a series of various electromagnetic and chemical

reactions. This is not Woo-Woo - this is hard science.

Combining the above, we see that " psychic " then simply means the

ability to receive or process " information " through something other

than one of the standard five " senses. "

The next thing that needs to be clearly understood is that the

physical " body " is more than just flesh, blood and bone. The body

also has a bioelectromagnetic component. Again, this is not Woo-

Woo - it is hard science. If anyone wants to dispute this, just

stop and think for a minute about some of the basic medical tests,

such as electrocardiograms, electroencephlagrams and magnetic

resonance imaging. EKGs and EEGs measure the electrical fields of

the heart and brain. According to my Mayo Clinic Family Health

Book, MRI's are " based on magnetic properties in the interior

(nucleus) of all atoms, including those in living tissue. When

radio waves are directed to a specific part of your body, they cause

the nuclei of atoms there to give off energy. This energy is

detected, and a computer translates the EMERGING PATTERN OF MAGNETIC

ENERGY into an image that your radiologist can interpret. "

(emphasis added) Just as a point of general info for the non-

science minded on the list, you can not have either electricity or

magnetism by itself - you always have both since one creates the

other. Once again, this is hard science.

The body also has " rhythms. " Everyone is familiar with the rhythms

given off by the blood pulse and respiration. There are others, but

before I get into them, a bit of additional information about the

blood pulse. When you go to a Western trained doctor and get your

blood pressure checked, they look at one " pulse " to measure your

blood pressure, heart rate and any signs of irregular rhythms. In

traditional Eastern medicine, there isn't just one pulse - there are

twelve - six on each wrist, three superficial and three deep. They

not only measure the rates but also the qualities of the various

pulses. I won't go into a deeper discussion of Eastern Pulse

Diagnostics here other than to say that Chinese and Ayurvedic

practitioners can tell a whole lot more from pulse diagnostics than

is even dreamed possible by Western Allopathic doctors.

OK - other rhythms. One is the lymphatic system. Lymph moves

through the body in a series of waves. One of the reasons I push

Lymphatic Drainage Therapy as developed and taught by Bruno Chikly

through the Upledger Institute (as opposed to other manual lymphatic

drainage methods) is that Chikly not only teaches that the system

produces waves, he teaches how to feel it. The others don't.

Another rhythm is the Cranialsacral Rhythm produced by the movement

of the cerebral spinal fluid through the spinal column between the

cranium and the sacrum. This, too, can be felt.

Now I am going to go totally Eastern and talk about Prana, Ki and

Chi. The first is Ayurvedic (Indian). The second is Japanese and

the third is Chinese. Three different " traditions " and names but

all referring to the same thing. All of them refer to it as

the " life force " but they simply mean the " energetic " component of

the body. It is the basis for acupuncture, acupressure, shiatsu,

polarity, etc etc. It is the energy that flows through the

meridians (Japan/China) and chakras (India).

This whole concept is probably the single biggest stumbling block

preventing integration of Western and Eastern medicine.

Historically, western medical belief was that anything to do with

acupuncture, etc, was nothing more than either superstition or the

placebo effect. As the old Folk song goes, " the times, they are

achanging. " Part of the problem in the past was the lack of

scientific instruments sensitive enough to actually measure some of

this. That is no longer true. Equipment does exist today and it is

being used, including such things as the Squid Magnetometer

(Superconducting Quantum Interference Device). Per " Energy

Medicine - The Scientific Basis " by Oschman, " SQUIDS and

arrays of SQUIDS are now being used in medical research laboratories

around the world to map the biomagnetic fields produced by

physiological processes inside the human body. A global network of

SQUIDS is also being used to monitor moment-to-moment fluctuations

in the geomagnetic field of the earth. "

The point here is that the equipment is out there, it is being used,

and " interesting things " are being measured. For those of us

who " do the work, " no scientific validation is necessary. Our

validation comes through what we feel with our hands and the results

we see when we work on someone. For those with totally closed

minds (and unfortunately they are legion), no amount of scientific

validation seems to be possible.

Be that as it may, there has been some very fascinating research

done over the last few years. Again quoting Oschman " One of the

academic questions created by the discovery of the heart's magnetic

field is the location of the boundary between the organism and the

environment. In the past, we could define an individual as that

which lies within the skin; but it is a fact of physics that energy

fields are unbounded. The biomagnetic field of the heart extends

indefinitely into space. While its strength diminishes with

distance, there is no point at which we can say that the field

ends. " In this respect, additional research has been done where

two individuals in a room have had their heart fields monitored.

Within a matter of minutes, their heart rates will " synchronize. "

For you musicians out there, it is similar to two or more metronomes

in a room synchronizing. Biologically, it is called " entrainment, "

about which, more later.

SQUIDS have also been used to measure the electromagnetic fields

emanating from the hands of energetic body-workers. Again from

Oschman " The therapeutic touch signal pulsed at a variable

frequency, ranging from 0.3 to 30.0 Hz, with most of the activity in

the range of 7-8 Hz. In other words, the signal emitted by the

practitioner is not steady or constant, it `sweeps' or `scans'

through a range of frequencies. . The pulsations are interesting in

relation to the experiences of energy practitioners, who often

report a sensation of vibration or tingling during the period when

the technique seems to be particularly effective. "

Just last week (on the 4th) someone posted an article from USA Today

about some research at the Harvard Medical School that clearly

demonstrated changes in the brain's limbic system from acupuncture.

At any rate, call it what you will, the energy that flows through

the meridians and charkas can also be sensed or felt by

practitioners. More importantly, this is something that everyone

can be taught to feel. There are a number of you on the board who

have experimented around with some of my acupressure and polarity

suggestions and can readily attest to this.

So far, I have basically been talking about hard, Western based

science as general background. Some of it might be

considered " cutting edge " but it is still with a scientific bent.

So where does the " psychic " aspect come in and how might it relate

to connective tissue?

Speaking as a practitioner, I discussed or referred to five body

rhythms: pulse, lymph, respiration, cranial and chi. There are

others but these are the ones I personally deal/work with. My

ability to physically feel or sense these rhythms is largely just a

matter of training and practice - up to a point. As long as I have

my hands " on-body " I consider it to be just a heightened extension

of my physical sense of touch, developed by training and practice.

There are, however, times when my hands just go someplace, seemingly

on their own. This is a product of intuition. From the very

beginning of my training, we were taught to trust our intuition, to

trust our hands, to " listen " to the body we are working on. This

starts to bring in an awareness beyond the standard five senses.

In addition, there are times when I will work " off-body " - where I

am not even touching the person. The five rhythms? I can not only

sense every one of them off-body, I can influence them off-body.

And I am by no means unique in this regard. Anyone trained beyond

the beginning levels of cranialsacral, myofascial release, lymphatic

drainage, or pure energy modalities can do the same.

How does all of this relate to connective tissue? Like I said

yesterday when I kicked over the can of worms, fascia IS the

connective tissue of the body. It can be almost watery and

transparent like the covering over the eyes to thick, hard and

gristly like the fascial tendons of the lower back, and every degree

in between. But whatever the consistency, it is one continuous

sheet throughout the entire body. It literally wraps every muscle,

organ, bone, vessel and cell. It is not your skeleton that allows

you to stand upright - it is your fascial structure. If the

meridians and charkas in fact (a) do exist and ( are embedded in

the fascia, then the fascia (the connective tissue) becomes the

carrier for the body's energetic information system. Also as I

mentioned yesterday, there is a growing scientific based belief that

the " mind " (whatever the mind actually is) is not in fact located in

the brain after all. There has been some recent hard science

research that seems to bear this out. The belief/position/whatever

held by many energetic body-workers is that the mind is in fact a

function of the connective tissue. Everything I have read and been

taught says that both (a) and ( are true - and everything I have

experienced with my hands and mind the last few months not only

supports that belief to my personal satisfaction, it makes me also

personally lean very heavily toward a mind-fascia connection.

I mentioned " entrainment " earlier. For those of you experienced in

receiving massage or bodywork, you may have noticed a common

starting practice. The practitioner will begin by gently placing

their hands under the base of the skull or back of the neck if the

client is face up or one hand at the sacrum and the other at the

base of the skull if the client is face down, or something similar.

When we are first learning, we are taught to do something like this

to get our client " used to our touch. " The reality is far deeper.

The reality is that the practitioner is " entraining " or

synchronizing their bioenergetic field with the client's in the same

way that metronomes synchronize. This entraining of fields is

absolutely essential to get " healing " results.

On the issue of psychic subjects in general, I have lost count over

the last two years of the number of instructors who have commented

about the enormous increase they are seeing in their practices the

last couple of years in particular of " expanding consciousness "

or " awareness " in their clients. I also mentioned earlier about an

array of SQUIDS that are being used to monitor the earth's

geomagnetic field. For those of you who might have missed it in the

news, the earth's magnetic field has been dropping dramatically for

at least the last 100 years. Geologically, the earth's magnetic

polarity field reverses periodically. According to the geologic

record, we are past due. Once again, this is hard science. During

this same period of time, we have been bombarded with a plethora of

man-made fields - microwave, radio, television, computers, etc.

There is growing suspicion that these two things (decreasing earth

field and increasing man-made wave pollution) are influencing the

human fields in as yet unknown ways. I have been involved in more

than one classroom discussion about the implications.

So - what do I think about EDS and a psychic connection? I suspect

it has something to do with Quantum Physics involving the cellular

matrix of the connective tissue. I mentioned earlier about energy

fields being unbounded, as in extending infinitely in to space. I

also talked about entraining fields, practitioner and client.

Quantum Physics takes it a step further. One more time, this is hard

science and not Woo-Woo: experiments have been done in quantum

physics where quantum particles have literally been in two places at

the same time in the lab. We already know that EDS is caused by

defective collagen. My suspicion is that something about the genetic

structure of EDS collagen may be allowing some kind of " connection "

to occur.

I have been absolutely amazed by the general acceptance of

the " reality " of all this by a very high percentage of the body-

workers that I have run into in various classes. Again, I have

personally seen and experienced far too much the last two years to

keep on denying the reality. I started as a total skeptic and have

been dragged, kicking and screaming all the way, down the path to

the point of acceptance that I am at today. And when I say

screaming, I mean that in a very literal sense.

I have walked a very fine line with the Board/List since I became

actively involved on it. As any of you who have followed my posts

can tell, I very passionately believe in the value and validity of

some of the alternative, energetic modalities. They are real and

they work. The line I have walked was how to present this

information without losing everybody along the way from people

throwing up their Woo-Woo Blinders. That was the reason I wrote

my " Testamonical " post a couple of months ago. I still stand behind

that post, but will here and now acknowledge that I left a few

things out. What I left out was that there definitely is a psychic,

as in extrasensory, element involved with a lot of this.

That does not, however, mean that it is supernatural in some weird-

ass sense. It just means that not all of the mechanisms by which it

works are fully understood yet by western-based science. Research

is being done and answers are coming. I believe that enormous gains

are going to occur in this area over the next 5-10 years.

Since I firmly believe that this is all related in some way, I

finally decided (as Cindylouwho - or should I say Cindylouwoowoo?)

put it last night - to come out of the closet myself about it.

Given all of the above, do I have any idea why the EDS population

has a higher than statistical average of mental wierdos and freaks?

Other than that our psyches are as messed up as our bodies? Other

than my suspicions above? Haven't got a clue. But I definitely

agree with Cindy (and what I have seen so far on the new poll) that

the numbers are way out of line to just be a coincidence.

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