Music as Medicine: In my practice I sometimes use a drum to find the blockages of energy in the body. As you hold the open side of the drum toward the body and beat on the top surface you will hear rebound—except where the energy is blocked. When energy is blocked, there will be a dull thump instead of a rebound. When I find an area like this, I beat the drum into that area until it opens up.
The Mucous Method for Fertility Detection: Infertile mucous is described as sparse, thick, flaky, crumbly, dense, opaque, pasty and tacky. It is unchanging in amount. It does not string when you separate your finger and thumb. The mucous increases and decreases as estrogen levels rise and fall. After ovulation, the luteal phase, where the ovary produces more progesterone, lasts 12-16 days. During this time the mucous reverts to the sparse, thick, tacky consistency. Sperm cannot survive in this mucous.
Metaphors: Jim’s favorite phrase on Saturday mornings was, “Come on. Let’s go eat our triple bypass breakfast.” After his triple bypass, he doesn’t say that anymore. Self-fulfilling prophesies? You bet.
Melt a Cloud Technique: Have you ever melted a cloud? I read about this technique from a Ruth Montgomery book (I think it was Strangers Among Us) and practiced it from a hotel room window and was SO awed to find that it had worked. I then shared it with my friends and family (it really freaked them out because it worked for them too.)
There was an experiment about Meditating with Spikenard Essential Oil on the James Twyman site, www.emissaryoflight.com that I thought sounded interesting, so I ordered a couple bottles to use during my meditations. The directions said to put a drop on your third eye (the spot between your eyes directly between your eyebrows) just before meditating, so I did.
The Liver Gallbladder Flush technique is really fairly safe, it’s just that if a stone is too large to pass and it gets trapped in the common bile duct so that bile cannot get out of the gall bladder, you can be in serious trouble and need some medical care in the form of pain killers and possibly ultrasonic equipment to break the stone up (called lithotripsy.) If the bile ducts remain blocked for a significant period of time, severe—possibly fatal—damage or infections affecting the gallbladder, liver, or pancreas can occur. Warning signs of a serious problem are chills, fever, clay-colored stools, jaundice (this is when you turn yellow—it will show up in the whites of your eyes,) and persistent pain.