Feng Shui: The Chicken or the Egg?

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As I was sitting at a local haunt for a working lunch – feeling pretty worn out all things considered – I took a moment to wonder why I felt not only tired but off-kilter.

And see if there was anything I could do – besides rest – to help myself feel better.

As part of the self-assessment I considered the “bomb cyclone” that reconfigured the landscape around me.

It also enabled me to unplug since not only did we have no power but no internet and flaky cell coverage.

Since I can work offline unplugged did not equal not working.

Morning routine gone with the wind

Literally

I set out on my morning walk only to discover I had to crawl beneath a rather massive tree laying across the road and sidewalk to achieve it.

Where I got to witness Mother Nature’s redecorating first-hand.

A fellow walker cleverly noted it was all Christmasy with plenty of garland.

Pine branches and boughs lying all over the place.

Tis the season.

I’m still going to purchase a decorative wreath from a local farm.

Since I slept through the entirety of the storm I couldn’t lay blame there.

I considered that from a professional perspective I’d been busy recently.

Since I love what I do I couldn’t put the blame here either.

I turned my attention to a recent home project that involved mental and physical exertion.

Feng Shui!

What’s ironic is that I was employing feng shui cures to address various life challenges.

As well as stabilizing the energy of certain areas in the home.

I’ve been doing “feng shui” since I found Terah Kathryn Collins’ book The Western Guide to Feng Shui Room by Room in 1996.

Sensitive as I am to my surroundings I’ve been utilizing the concepts instinctively for over a decade.

While there is planning and execution involved I understood the toughest part is what comes after.

Every Action = Equal and Opposite Reaction

Newton’s Third Law of Motion

Some 18 months ago we did a major purge/donate.  Shortly after life seemed to punch me in the gut.

I immediately recognized the cause and effect and vowed to do it better next time.

The reasons behind the feng shui tweaks – which include decluttering and donating – weren’t only about fixing energetic deficits.  

Life changes often necessitate action.

I decided that in the future any feng shui changes would be done methodically as always but slowly.

The idea being to sit with the change or changes for a period of time and see how things were playing out before moving on to the next.

This last round went better as I’d stuck to the plan.

Which Comes First?

The chicken or the energy egg?

I pondered the impact of feng shui activity on energy and in a moment of clarity realized that regardless of whether I did it in a big fell swoop or poking along like a tortoise when we do feng shui we are signaling to the universe we’re ready for change.

I think it’s unconcious.

I honestly believe some part of us just gets sick of looking at the same something day after day and decides to move it across the room.

Or throw it away or pass it on.

I think the work was done up front meaning we knew on some level we were ready for change.

Ready to let go.

The after chaos is reflective of the whole but the entirety of the arc of change hits us energetically.

No wonder I’m tired!

Go with the Flow Peeps!

And be well!

Vibrations: A Fun and Interesting Side of EMFs

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While earning my doctorate in holistic healing I took a class in vibrational healing.

Textbook was written by an MD on staff at Wayne State University Medical School.

I’ll admit I was a bit skeptical of some of the conclusions.

As well as some of the remedies suggested.**

I withheld judgment and passed the class with an A.  

How ironic that not long after I found myself turning to the remedies which include Bach Flower Remedies to treat mysterious symptoms that were putting a serious kink in my life.

At this point I didn’t know what EMF Sensitivity was.

Fast forward a couple of decades and I find myself observing a fun side of the science of vibrations.

Quick break to tell folks about one of my favorite videos relating to vibrational frequencies.

Enter the Dragon

Our beardie is a pre-Covid buy but one who came just in the nick of time.  

His name is Gyro

As I was the resident expert on reptiles I found myself happily front and center plucking him up and keeping an eye on him when it was time to clean the tank.

We had a Caymen alligator and a lizard when I was a  kid – later had chameleons regular guests – much to the chagrin of my cat – in our home in Florida.

While my memories of these family pets from childhood are generally positive I wasn’t too thrilled when a different reptile paid a visit to my room in Florida one night.

I woke up because my cat was at the end of my bed playing with what turned out to be a snake.  Fortunately it was a Garter and a small one at that.

Bearded Dragons have incredible personality.  

  • Gyro is drawn to deep voices 

He will turn his head and get close to the glass nearest the direction the voice is coming from.

  • Gyro loves to dance to 80s tunes preferring synth bands such as The Cars.

He’s also a huge fan of Queen.

  • Gyro is startled by the color black

When I walk by the tank wearing a black sweater or t-shirt etc he will jump and eye the nearest exit.

  • Gyro apparently knows who’s boss

If another family member tries to pick him up he struggles.  Me?  He freezes and doesn’t move.

I believe it stems from the vibrational frequency of my voice.  

Though I generally talk to him very gently/assuringly and in low volume when I’m about to pluck him up there was a time the tone was not so sweet.

I came down one morning to find the front glass not secured and Gyro eyeing the exit.  Panicked at the thought of having to chase a lizard when there is a cat in the house I yelled “Gyro NO!”  He seemed to understand the tone and froze, remaining that way as I nudged him back into the tank he was half out of and shut  and secured the glass.

Note:  I later considered that while I was repeatedly shouting “NO!” all the peeps in my house slept through the chaos.

One said “Oh I heard you yelling…”

Gee thanks for the concern…

From that day forward Gyro reacts based on the volume/tone of my voice.

I’ve not had to shout at him since.

I generally get down to eye level and talk to him in a low tone I believe sends the message all is well.

I love how he cocks his head as if he’s trying to figure out what I’m saying.

I figure he uses the vibrations -voice tone/volume – as a way to gauge whether or not he needs to hide in the corner.

Just now I cleared my throat and he moved to the corner after which I assured him from across the room “It’s okay Gyro.”

As for kitty and Gyro?  They’ve come to accept each other as evidenced by the fact many times I will come to see Nigel staring up at Gyro and he paying complete attention to the kitty – without fear.

They’ll sit like that for 30 minutes or more as if having some silent battle of Mother Nature wits.

Life as an adventure is the best.

** I was never skeptical of Bach Flower Essences as a healing modality. It was one of the first modalities the British ENT Surgeon I apprenticed with taught me.

What’s a Female to Do? Menopause and EMF Sensitivity

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Not long ago I had a conversation with a doctor who – after learning of my expertise in EMF Sensitivity – asked whether I thought the onset of menopause resulted in EMF Sensitivity.  

She’d observed an overlap of certain symptoms.  

I told her I didn’t think so but agreed to do a bit of digging so I could give a more comprehensive answer.

I found the symptom overlap interesting.

Which is why in Riding the Waves: Diagnosing Treating and Living with EMF Sensitivity I stress the importance of keeping a journal.

Adding complexity is the fact women are more likely to identify as EMF Sensitive than men.

Though I’ve worked with a number of males who’ve had/have the condition.  

My Conclusion?

Menopause itself does not cause EMF Sensitivity but there is a correlation.

As opposed to causation.

To illustrate I will discuss a different health correlation.

One I discussed on my recent Life After EMF Sensitivity interview with Lloyd Burrell.

I explained I discovered a cure for pressure drop migraines.

Something I’d been suffering from for over 35 years.

They are the result of the nature of Atmospheric EMFs.

Part of GATE – the 4 horsemen of EMF Sensitivity – which I also discussed with Lloyd.**

I explained that patients who suffer migraines are often deficient in Vitamin D though people deficient in Vitamin D don’t necessarily suffer migraines.

Correlation not Causation.

As I write in the books that document finding the root cause and ultimately curing my EMF Sensitivity, adrenals compromised by factors such as heavy metal toxicity is ultimately at fault but here’s the key difference. The adrenals are part of the endocrine system – a system responsible for producing hundreds upon hundreds of hormones not to mention enzymes – including digestive enzymes needed to digest absorb and metabolize nutrients necessary for making the hormones.

Thus the nature of the cure I discovered.

The process of menopause involves fluctuating and the shifting of hormones.  The inability of the adrenals to make crucial hormones contributes directly to EMF Sensitivity but… we’re not talking sex hormones like those involved in the process of menopause.

It’s simply that an overburdened hormone factory – the adrenals – not to mention the endocrine system as a whole – can lead to this condition.

Correlation not causation.

What’s a [female] body to do?

Ideally? Rebuild nutritional support so the adrenals and other glands can produce the enzymes and hormones that enable health and well-being.

All detailed in my books on curing EMF Sensitivity.

Be well!

** Interview will be forthcoming in not-too-distant future.

EMF Medical Research Changing Lives

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During my interview with Lloyd Burrell of Electricsense we discussed – among other things – the 4 types of EMFs.

GATE.

Lloyd brilliantly summed up the takeaway which is that the EMF load as a combined whole can wreak havoc with our health.  Needless to say when we are able to offload one or more sources of GATE the outcome can be and often is improved health and well-being.

Lloyd articulated my journey with EMF Sensitivity as it relates to GATE.

Peeling an Onion.

I explained that as I tackled the most impactful of the EM frequencies wreaking havoc in my life I was made aware of the impact of others.  

The noise of the combined whole made it so I wasn’t able to see there were more than Geologic and Technologic EM frequencies causing trouble.

Lloyd described it as peeling an onion which is apt as one by one I chipped away until I had them all under control.

Only took a few decades a lot of work and a lot of hours during which I thought I was going crazy. But who’s counting?

During the interview I offer insight into remedies and provide context to each of the GATEs as well as the combined whole.

Research to Tackle a Layer

Along my EMF journey I was fortunate enough to cross paths with a medical researcher whose EM work is definitely benefitting health.

In humans and animals.

He and his team have come up with a product put through trials that speeds healing and improves health by blocking EM frequencies.

For more information on the work of Dr. Don Nixdorf and his team visit Farabloc.

For more on my journey of Diagnosing Treating and Living with EMF Sensitivity see The World of EMF.

Be well.

Life After EMF Sensitivity

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I am excited to share I had a powerful successful interview with Lloyd Burell of ElectricSense this morning.  

The subject of the interview is Life After EMF Sensitivity.

As anxious as I am for the information to get out there it will be a bit – though not too long.

I will provide updates as relevant.

During the zoom interview I share a lot of information including remedies discovered while looking for a solutions to a debilitating condition caused by sensitivity to EMFs.

As documented in Riding the Waves: Diagnosing Treating and Living with EMF Sensitivity.

 I discuss how and a bit of why the remedies work but to really understand the context – which will help you decide whether or not they are a valid consideration for you – you will want to read the books found at my site under the World of EMF.

Be well

LLoyd Burrell and Life After EMF Sensitivity2

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Hey all!  Really looking forward to my upcoming interview about Life After EMF Sensitivity in which I will discuss 

  • The Journey Documented in The World of EMF.
  • GATE – The Four Types of EMF. 
  • EMF Sensitivity v EMF Awareness. 
  • The Psychological and Emotional fallout of EMF Sensitivity and how it drives research. 
  • Some frequencies block other more problematic frequencies. 
  • 5G 
  • Electric Tower Heater and the Cell Phone – an EMF story 
  • The LA Quake Trail – An EMF story

I worked with Lloyd on a previous interview about this debilitating condition – EMF Sensitivity – that had completely upended my life.  

As it has for many across the globe.

Because I want to focus on points of interest that will help others I’m taking this time to explain why I feel Lloyd Burrell is the ideal person for this interview.

Instead of during the interview.

When he first pitched the idea I was excited as I felt it important to get the word out so others could be helped.  At the same time I was pretty nervous. There was a lot of misunderstanding about this condition and many didn’t acknowledge it as a real condition – though I was consulting for doctors around the world to help them help their patients.

Outside a select few the US was the least likely to accept a condition NIH and most other countries understand is a real issue.

Lloyd immediately put me at ease reiterating not only what the objective was – which we’d agreed to via email ahead of time – but how his business works, what his hopes were, and what he would ask of me.

He was kind courteous and respectful.

Though comfortable after that brief introduction it was while listening to him during the interview that I truly relaxed.

He’d Been There

It was evident he wasn’t just trying to exploit my experience and knowledge for his own gain.  He’d been there.  He’d suffered.  

He was coming from a place of empathy.

It was also evident he truly wanted to understand.

As with me and my approach to holistic healing much of the emapthy came from knowing how terrible it is to suffer like that.

He wanted to help others.

So they didn’t have to suffer as we had – the motivation for my sharing my story.

When we crafted points to discuss in this interview it was from that same place of wanting to help others.

  • Help them understand

Is this really what’s going on?  Will they finally have answers they’ve been seeking?

  • Help them know they aren’t alone

That they didn’t “do anything wrong”

  • Help them know they have options for dealing with this condition

They are empowered

Lloyd is providing a great service to people and I’m honored to be working with him again.

The interview will not be live.  When it is available I will post the information.

Until then…

Be well!

Life After EMF Sensitivity

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Note: This is an area that used to cause symptoms – switching station in a train museum in California.

Wanted to share that in the near future I will be doing a follow-up interview with Lloyd Burrell about life after EMF Sensitivity.

Date to be determined.

To add interest I recently spent time in the SF Bay Area going over all the locations that previously caused me to be sick due to EMF Sensitivity.

I’m excited to share this next phase in my relationship with sensitivity to electromagnetic frequencies.

Geologic, Atmospheric, Technologic, Esoteric.

Stay tuned and be well!

PhD: The Path Unplanned

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A recent conversation had me reflecting on my path to becoming a holistic doctor.

PhD with a Bachelor’s in Holistic Childcare.

The gentleman I was speaking with is a retired psychiatrist which had me reflecting on a class on how nutrition affects and is treatment for many psychiatric disorders.

The class was taught by a psychiatrist who specialized in ADD/ADHD and the positive effect of elimination diets for some cases.

The part of that class I found most fascinating was borderline personality disorders.

Further ruminating led me to the day circumstances set me on this path.

My Bio and About pages show I’ve had many interesting stops along this path.

Life Intervenes

A domestic situation between my parents meant my mom brother and I were about to be homeless and if not for an offer from a woman from the UK we would have been in dire straits.

She was the wife of a brilliant ENT surgeon who was the first in the US to do cochlear transplants so deaf children could hear.  He passed away while at a conference teaching other doctors to do this life-changing procedure.

I met him a month after deciding I wanted to be a doctor.

Six, I needed my tonsils and adenoids out.

One morning as I was getting ready for school 

He was just coming in from surgery and rounds at UM.

After teasing me about not being a morning person and asking how school was coming he asked if I’d ever considered pursuing alternative medicine.

Which was and is embraced throughout the UK.

I explained that being the granddaughter of people who’d lived on farms and understood animal husbandry and our relationship to nature it was innate as a lifestyle but as a profession in the US it was a hard way to go.

As was being a female in a male-dominated industry though I had the support of my dad.

Familiar with the bureaucracy involved in the industry, not to mention my somewhat rebellious temperament

Ahem

He felt I would thrive under a discipline just getting a foothold in the US.

Training Begins

Some  eight months later we were in a rental.  As I was a determined hiker along the college path he took it upon himself to train me in the rudiments of holistic therapy.

Starting with herbs and tinctures and moving on to homeopathy.

Years later I formalized my education eventually earning my doctorate and then the secondary bachelor’s.

The intervening years doing extensive research and study.

The path forward took turns I didn’t expect

EMF Sensitivity anyone?

And as I sit typing this one-handed

Broke my left humorous though it’s healing well and fast

I think on the joy that crazy unplanned path has brought

Including meeting this wonderful retired psychiatrist who makes my life better

Be Well!

To Find Your Voice Ignore the Rules

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I’ve known I wanted to be a writer since I was 3.  What I didn’t know was the convoluted path it would take.  Even as I was praised as a storyteller, winning fiction writing awards beginning at 6 of years age, I was getting pushback, the harshest coming from a woman of influence – my paternal grandmother.

I now understand she was putting the burden of her need to live in reflected glory/accomplishment on my young shoulders.

My education drove very strict grammatical rules into my head.

Most of which didn’t and still doesn’t apply to published works.

I excelled.

Was reading college level at age 7 – tested 99th percentile in the country – qualified for the new Mensa for children program.

All of which did little to help with my dream of becoming a published storyteller.

Arbitrare This!

Oh – is arbitrare a word?

Fast Forward through a successful multi-decade career in tech to 2003.

Enter Fate!

A merger from hell led me to know that if it was ever going to be –

The Time to Write is Now!

I’d wanted this for as long as I could remember and yes – I remember being 3 and giving my mom a poem I’d written [to her] in gold crayon on a red construction paper heart I cut myself and declaring I was going to be a writer.

Yeah but

Back to 2003

Even as I was working to publish Kerry’s Game – I was working on a doctoral thesis in holstic medicine.

Another passion.

This necessitated I not only spend hours in the scary basement of the science library at Stanford

Hey – it’s dark and creepy in that corner!

It required I purchase a book on the accepted writing style and grammer for a doctoral thesis.

My Masters’ thesis didn’t require this.

Detour Ahead!

My literary plans were derailed by Fate when an adjunct professor who read my thesis encouraged me to turn it into a book.

Which I did.

And detoured further via EMF Sensitivity which led me to publish nonfiction first.

I had multiple individuals begging me to give them unfinished work which I refused to do – on ethical grounds among other reasons; as in it wasn’t finished.

Skipping around a bit – including the impact of Smashwords on the industry …

Once I  published and subsequently dealt with the fallout of that lifetime achievement award I returned to my original dream.

Published storyteller.

I invested in my dream.

Time and money.  LOTS of money

Classes and conferences and more time.  

I ran into rather interesting challenges.

No one told me not to quit my dayjob. Quite the opposite.

I received a hand-written letter from an editor at Tor-Forge explaining their slots for a particular paranormal fiction angle were currently filled and inviting me to submit more of my work for consideration.  

Aspiring published writer gold.

Fate intervened

Beyond the scope of this article.  

Then intervened again.

Cue Mark Coker founder of Smashwords.

The man who upended the industry I was just breaking into had watched his wife suffer the hoops of fire aspiring novelists are put through and decided to do something about it.

For details visit his site.

By the time I was listening to him speak at a conference in Anaheim I was self-pubished and on my way to a flourishing writing career.

My dream.

I didn’t feel an imposter.  That didn’t mean I wasn’t ill at ease. 

I was writing by someone else’s rules and the vernacular that went with those rules. I hadn’t found my voice.

Full Circle

It was while reading one of my favorite books [I’d written] that it came to me. I’d written my stories as if I was working for the Big 5 when I wasn’t!

Their rules. Their voice.

Smiling from the Aha! moment I began editing with the warm feeling of someone who has found their voice!

I can finally write as me as opposed to a representative of a corporate standards list.

Stay tuned!

Validating EMF Sensitivity Findings: Better Late Than Never

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Four years after surgery for a brain bleed I began experiencing horrible migraines.  

Why now?  

Seemingly unrelated to the arterial rupture clamped with a titanium clip it was a puzzling, if miserable, period of my life.

The pain was not only intense it was unresponsive to any but narcotic strength medication.  Since I despised the way those medications made me feel it became a constant study in frustration as to how to relieve pain that drove me to my knees in tears.

While I searched for a non-narcotic solution I demanded the smallest dose of the other.

Cause and Effect: An Unwitting Introduction to EMF Sensitivity

  It was while discussing the periodic and debilitatingly painful episodes at a family gathering I got my first look – thanks to a savvy aunt – into what it meant to be EMF Sensitive.  

Atmospheric EMFs

My maternal grandmother was carefully questioning  me about the headaches in an effort to see if their was any pattern that would help us understand why they’d started out of the blue.  Sitting at the table was my Aunt Anne who said, “Your headaches are related to thunderstorms.”  

She figured out that approximately 48 hours after I got a migraine, a thunderstorm occurred. She also pointed out the pain resolved once the system moved out of the area.

We spent the next half hour trying to figure out what it was about the storms specifically that instigated the painful headaches and though no real conclusions were drawn my aunt was certain it was the lightning.

Electrical right?

Think Again

If that was the case then why did I feel so good while living in Florida in an area considered the lightning capital of the world?

I feel wonderful whenever I visit the state and it’s not just sunshine because I lived in sunny So Cal and I’ve lived in Phoenix yet did not have this same sense of physical well-being.

I did not get headaches while living in Florida.  

They started the spring after my family moved back to Michigan.

It wasn’t until 2011 – after years researching a phenomenon called EHS – what I called EMF Sensitivity – that I learned that atmospheric EMFs associated with storm systems are of the same ultra-low and very low EM frequencies that wreaked havoc with my health.

Which was why I was researching EMFs in the first place.

Understanding is Not a Cure

Knowing why I got horrible migraines 48 hours before a thunderstorm was all good and well but it didn’t offer any solution.

None of the remedies I had for my sensitivity to geologic and technologic EMFs worked for the atmospheric EMFs.  

Never Stop Learning

In subsequent years I gained incredible insight into EMF Sensitivity, including coming to understand the root cause and thus a cure.  I also discovered numerous remedies at all price points with no need for a doctor’s prescription.

I wanted remedies that were easily affordable and accessible to anyone.

I was thrilled to share my findings with the world through my release of Riding the Waves: Diagnosing, Treating, and Living with EMF Sensitivity.

As well as follow-up books on the subject.

While I’d made incredible progress and was living a relatively normal life, I was still struggling with migraines before thunderstorms.

Which were unfortunately all too common where I was living when I released Riding the Waves.

A Decade Later

It was while living in an area known for rain that I finally had a breakthrough.  

Rain Yes But…

Though we had our share of rain thunderstorms were a rarity where I was living.  This suggests it was something about atmospheric conditions tied to rain.  However…

I remembered living in Sunnyvale, California during a time when local rainfall broke records and not experiencing any migraines. Adding to the argument disputing the migraines being tied to rain was the fact I was getting the migraines during the summer too.

Pressure Drop

Research and a barometer purchase showed the migraines happened approximately 48 hours before a serious pressure drop. That they happened in the summer was due to the fact the pressure dropped as the temperature rose.  

I was able to determine the temperature had to rise sharply in a very short time for the pressure drop to induce a migraine.

Yeah, Okay, But…

I still had no way of treating the migraines and I refused to take narcotic medicine.

I’d had some luck with potassium supplements but it was not consistent.

As I document in Ignoring the Rules: An Intriguing Approach to Resolving Calcium Toxicity, I was able, through constant research, to determine the migraines were the result of the scar tissue – made up mostly of calcium – reacting to the atmospheric changes associated with pressure drops.

Like temperature, changes in pressure are a product of EMFs.

Through a lot of trial and error that drew on years of research I was able to discover a cure for the migraines.

Included in the book.

Two days ago as Idalia was making headlines I came upon an article that validated my experience; that it’s possible to sense EM frequencies associated with thunderstorms.

And, as I write in Riding the Waves, EMs associated with tropical storms and hurricanes.

It’s hard to put into words how it felt to see my observations backed up by other researchers; researchers who are going to conduct further study into how these EM frequencies affect behavior in a living organism.

Talk about validation!

It hasn’t been easy writing about a subject that continues to be controversial, to rile emotions, so when I come across this type of information it’s another brick falling off shoulders too often burdened by weighty matters.

Of course I also had to consider it meant I’m a shark.

Kidding, naturally.

To my delight, a day later another EMF article crossed my desk and while this one relates to a different part of my experience it’s every bit as validating.  Needless to say I’ll be sharing that information in the near future.

Stay tuned.