Life Creates Art Creates Life – 2

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Life Creates Art

I’ve written about life events that inspired the Metatron’s Army series.

A series I worked on for decades.

Art Creates Life

I mentioned how an opportunity to do EMF Sensitivity research in a different part of the Ring of Fire led to observing the first of a number of startling similarities to scenes from various books in the series.

The first was the most startling and primed me for what came after.  Specifically?  Finding an uncanny similarity between my location and the city near the Dynamic Academy that plays a central role in the story.

From Bishop Pair

Having just arrived at the Academy that morning she had yet to get a lay of the land.  As she understood it, the campus was surrounded by Touring, a large city that was a cross between Manhattan and Star Wars’ Cloud City.

What’s in a Name?

I named the city for Alan Turing, a brilliant man who accomplished incredible breakthroughs.

There are additional similarities I’ll be covering in future posts.

EMF Sensitivity – The Migraine

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Excited to continue EMF Sensitivity research in Asia.  This segment introduced an unexpected experience that isn’t the result of exposure to an Atmospheric EM Frequency so much as an atmospheric pressure change.

To provide context Atmospheric is one of the GATE frequencies I’m sensitive to:

  • Geologic
  • Atmospheric
  • Technologic
  • Esoteric

Specific to Atmospheric EM sensitivity

Starting when I was 13 I experienced horrific migraines beginning 48 hours prior to a thunderstorm.  The pain lasted until the thunderstorm passed, was excruciating and generally necessitated a trip to the ER where I was treated with a narcotic that did nothing to stop the pain but allowed me to sleep.  In general the thunderstorm was out of the area when I woke.  Needless to say this made spring and autumn in Michigan challenging.

Especially when I woke in the middle of the night with pain so severe I wound up in the ER which – because of the treatment – meant I had to wake someone else – usually my mom and/or stepdad to come and get me since I couldn’t drive on that medication.

Over forty years later I discovered a cure and until the night before last have not experienced a migraine since.  

The only time I got a headache was sinus and even that was rare.

And then…

I’m in a part of the world where humidity is intense with pressure changes in hours instead of days. 

Two nights ago I woke at 3am with a migraine the likes of which I hadn’t experienced in years.  The pain was as if someone was repeatedly stabbing a knife into my skull/brain.  I managed to find relief using the Silva headache relief script and while it was gone when I woke a few hours later I was out of sorts from lack of sleep.  

When my head started to pound the next afternoon I knew I needed sinus medication.

It was the intense humidity – like I’d dealt with – unsuccessfully – for years in the Midwest.

The woman at the front desk advised we go to the 7-11 where “regular” medicine was available.

Define Regular

There was nothing “regular” about the medicines including and especially the local answer to Sudafed. 

Tea?  No.  Herbs.

When we got to the room Aaron pulled the contents.  I was expecting capsules not herbs in a little white cheesecloth.

To be honest I was crestfallen.  I was in serious pain and was about to attend a social function.  I envisioned another pain-filled sleepless night ahead of me.

Aaron suggested I could get warm water at the restaurant where the event was being held to steep herbs with scents I immediately recognized.

I’ve used herbs for healing for decades.

When I held up the container and asked the waitress for warm water she explained.  “You do not steep, you sniff.”

She went on to say many people carried this remedy, that you could smell it when they walked by.

The herbs are pungent.

I was ambivalent but given her familiarity with the remedy and how common it was decided the least I could do was give it a go.

Familiar Scents.

The herbs were ones I’d used decades earlier when trying to address the humidity-caused migraines.

  • Fenugreek – good for headache
  • Eucalyptus – good for clearing the sinuses

I took fenugreek in capsules and did steam with eucalyptus oil added. It didn’t work too well.

I set the herbs next to the bed and, closing my eyes, breathed deep.  Within 20 minutes the pain was gone.

It took about four deep inhales spaced a few minutes apart.

What does it smell like?  Vicks inhaler.

All I know is it worked and I got desperately needed sleep.

I look forward to sharing more as I continue to my research.

Be well.

Manifesting 101: Two For One

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As I write in my Bio I’ve had the good fortune to work, live, and travel throughout the world, during which I was exposed to a variety of cultures and met wonderful people from all walks of life and while this had been a desire from early childhood, there came a point where I needed a break.  

My EMF Sensitivity research had us moving every two years.

In addition to numerous moves my research had us criss-crossing the country.

Multiple times.

The upside to all this travel was the ability to fulfill and another childhood wish – visit places I’d read about in schoolbooks.

Especially At Home Around the World, a geography textbook published by National Geographic.

Fascinated by how different environments translated to different housing, social norms and lifestyles I hoped to someday visit some of these locations, including those where the societies who lived there were lost to history.

I was particularly interested in visiting the Pueblos, including Chaco Canyon.

 Work and Tour

From autumn of 93 to summer of 94 I traveled extensively.

Flying out Sunday or Monday returning Friday or Saturday – for months.

I tried to schedule time to do a bit of exploring.

My favorites were New England and Washington DC as there are numerous tourist attractions close to the cities where I was working.

Tour and Work

By the time I figured out what was causing the mysterious and debilitating symptoms that started after I relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area, I was no longer in tech.

Ready for change I went back to school and earned a doctorate in holistic healthcare and later a bachelors in holistic childcare.

My initial EMF Sensitivity research had us driving all over the San Francisco Bay Area which is how I learned I could detect the ultra-low and very low EM Frequencies emitted by geologic fault lines in the hours and days before a quake.

As I write in Riding the Waves: Diagnosing, Treating, and Living with EMF Sensitivity, I was able to predict earthquakes up to 15 miles away knowing the day and time within minutes and knowing the strength within .10 on the richter scale.

I sensed faults USGS was not aware of until and unless there was a quake.

Before long we were driving coast to coast with a focus on the West/Southwest United States in search of EMF Sensitivity answers.

Because I didn’t discover the root cause let alone a cure until 2014 being so ill had us moving every two years.

A Childhood Dream Come True

We spent time in every location visiting historical sites and immersing ourselves in local culture.

Travel Burnout

By the time we relocated to the Pacific Northwest where I was eager for the opportunity to continue the journey of research and healing we were ready for a travel break.

Expanding the Travel Horizon

Eventually I was ready to travel again. I ’d seen much of the United States, Canada, and a bit of Latin America so decided to focus on working and traveling internationally.  

My lifestyle had changed dramatically and I wasn’t looking to relocate with a corporate job so I turned it over to the Universe.

Manifesting 101.

I’ve had excellent luck manifesting by writing my goals so I got out my trusty notebook and pen and went to work.

Books that teach manifesting techniques are listed in the Resource Section of my website.

Faith

Though I was eager to travel and work internationally, even imagined various scenarios, I couldn’t see how it’d be possible without going back to corporate.  

When it comes to international moves, corporate relocation packages are a whole other level of complexity.

I’d tried to relocate to Europe several times throughout my years in tech only to be told that while I qualified, the companies were required to consider candidates in the following order of priority

  • In country
  • On continent
  • Abroad

The desire to travel and work internationally never went away.

Even after I married and had a family we looked for the opportunity.

Let Go

A key part of manifesting is letting go of the outcome as it brings the goal to fruition that much quicker.

Easier said than done.

This has been one of the most challenging aspects for me.

If I take the energy to put pen to paper?  The desire is serious.

Write or Type?

I’ve had as much success typing goals into a Word document as writing them in a spiral bound notebook.

Life Intervenes.

A number of factors including Covid Lockdown rerouted my focus to more important matters and as months turned to years I forgot about the desire to travel and work internationally.

It helps I was able to take advantage of a holiday in Vancouver, British Columbia to test the status of my EMF Sensitivity.

I sensed an underwater volcano geologists were not aware of – according to their press release – until several weeks after I told Aaron during our time there that there was one where it was later confirmed.

I was still going through the process of healing.

I felt symptoms though they weren’t as severe as what I’d been living with in the SF Bay Area.

Wouldn’t It Be Cool?

I’ve written how there have been points in time where I said  Wouldn’t it Be Cool? only to find years later I’m living it.

Shortly after confirming I’m no longer sickened by EMFs even as I remain aware of them I considered it would be cool if I could see how I responded to EM Frequencies, including and especially geologic EM Frequencies in another part of the world.

It was a random fleeting Wouldn’t It Be Cool? thought.

Life Intervenes

As fate would have it I got the opportunity to travel to Asia and while this opportunity fell under the holiday umbrella I couldn’t help marveling at the fact another Wouldn’t It Be Cool? had manifested.

Two actually.

Not only would I be able to research the effects, if any, of EM Frequencies on my person, I fulfilled the goal to travel and work internationally.

I hope readers are inspired by my stories and pursue their dreams and goals.

Be well.

Finding a holistic health care provider

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While I always have multiple andirons in the fire wanted to let readers know I’m hard at work on my next Podcast.

Navigating the Holistic Path, a series about integrating holistic health practices into everyday living.

This episode will focus on how to find a holistic health care practitioner.

For you and your Family.

I’m including information on holistic dentistry.

The following topics are covered

  • Differences between PhD MD OD and Naturopath
  • Different holistic approaches (Chinese V Ayurvedic V Naturopathic V Integrative)
  • Integrative Dentistry
  • Pros and Cons of each approach to health and wellness
  • Debating Philosophies – who’s in charge?
  • Billing – the Hellscape of the Super Bill
  • Do You Want Fries With that? Upselling supplements
  • Dealing with Unasked for Advice (Friends and Family)

Be well.

DO NOT TRY AT HOME – EMF DANGER

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Though I no longer suffer life-altering symptoms from EMF Sensitivity I continue to research with a passion for research through the lens of physics.

I’ve had a passion for physics – one nurtured by my physics and calc teachers – since high school.

When I came across an article in BBC Science Focus Magazine today I felt it important to offer an opinion if not a warning – put through the lens of EMF Sensitivity consequences.

The article is titled “I Let Scientists Hack My Brain to Prove Reality Is a Hallucination. It Worked.“

Normally I would provide a direct link to the article but it is not available on their website as of this writing.

I get it through my Apple News Service.

It’s a well-written article about the author’s experience in a sound booth with music and strobe lighting and how it affected him.

Do NOT Try This At Home!

My personal advice.

My relationship with strobe lighting goes back to the weeks and months after brain surgery necessary to repair a subdural hematoma.

I was 10.  

I would sit in a chair in the basement of a hospital – in the dark – with EEG electrodes glued to my scalp.

At least they’d moved beyond needles.

Several times a month month after month.**

Not a good time.

At various points during the test the tech would flash a strobe light in my eyes, sometimes having me add the stress of breathing rapidly, as if I was running a race.

They were trying to make me have a seizure.

Fortunately this didn’t happen and in the years since if I was at a concert or out dancing – where I was exposed to strobe lighting – have never had an issue.  

I’ve written blog posts about this including photos from the concert with the lights.

Here’s the thing.

Inducing seizures in children.

As I write in Riding the Waves: Diagnosing, Treating, and Living with EMF Sensitivity, Japanese families experienced a health emergency when a cartoon with a character whose eyes flashed caused a number of children watching the episode on TV to have seizures.

It’s one thing to undergo something in a lab but exposing yourself to various pulsing light frequencies is nothing to mess with.  It truly has serious health implications.

Be well.

** Every time I was referred to another specialist who wanted to have a peek inside my brain I had to have the test redone because they only trusted “their” techs. Make no mistake – it was hell.

Project Update – Podcasts

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I’m pleased to announce I am back to podcasting.  Episode 4: Tools for Toxic Environments will be available soon.  Unlike previous podcasts this Episode as well as follow-on episodes will be audio only and shorter.

A release date will be announced in the near future.

Be well.

Letting Go of Anger

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This morning I was thinking about a couple I know who have overcome adversity without being bitter for what they had to go through.  In point of fact they shower the world and everyone in their sphere with love and joy.  This had me recalling a conversation with a relative.  

Some years back at a family gathering.

“You were never angry like that.”

It was in the context of how individuals may act out their frustrations, might take their anger out on those around them.  

It wasn’t the time or place to get into it but truth was, I had been angry at one point in time.  I just held it inside.  

Source

Long before the Me-Too movement women in business were facing challenges.

In spite of a few bad apples I thrived in a male dominated industry.

I enjoyed a strong working relationship and work friendships with many guys – customers and coworkers – throughout my decades in tech.

I’m still friends with some of them decades later.

Solution

There came a point where I could see the anger I was holding inside was harming me and I did look for solutions. 

  • I read about forgiveness – the anger harms the person more than the one who did the harm.
  • I meditated
  • I read books on the subject
  • I talked to someone from my church

Weirdly, those actions only made me more angry.

What finally worked?

I will never forget the day.

I was pacing my bedroom raging at the injustice and suddenly – for whatever reason – I stopped mid-stomp and said to myself I had a right to be angry.

I was harmed. Anger is a natural response.

It was an epiphany.  

I had a right to be angry?

I stood staring at my dresser for the longest time with the words I have a right to be angry going through my mind on a loop.  And in that moment the anger dissolved.

It was giving myself the right to be angry that enabled me to let everything go and move on with my life.

Maybe sharing this will help someone going through their own challenge with emotions tied to being treated poorly.

Be well.

To Be Human Adversity is Necessary

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This morning I was reading an article about how Ozempic and its counterparts – available in pill form – will revolutionize weight loss.  As I was reading of the potential global impact of “a pill” a couple thoughts came to mind.

  • In Total Recall we see what life is like when you don’t have to actually live an experience to believe you’ve had it.**
  • Taking a pill without having to do any work is a slippery slope

I think this solution has incredible potential and can transform lives.  I also have concerns that taking a pill without understanding the underlying variables that got a person to the point of Type 2 diabetes means there’s a chance once the person stops taking the medication the variables – likely still a part of their lives – mean they are vulnerable to getting back to square one.

My conclusion?

Overcoming adversity is what makes us grow stronger.  It’s how we – as humans – have evolved throughout the centuries as we faced down existential threats in the form of ice ages, plagues, and more.  

In facing down those threats, finding cooperative ways as a society to overcome, we ensured we lived on stronger and theoretically better.

Overcoming adversity is what makes us human.  Take that away?  What will we be?

Pills and tech solutions can’t fix life if you don’t do the work.

Do the hard stuff.  You’ll thank yourself later.

Be well.

** I recognize athletes and others who use visualization (myself included) successfully tap into the brain’s natural ability to do this.

Humiliation Gives Way to Strength

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Working on a novel when a memory from my days in tech surfaced.  A peon I was in a coveted internal training class.

I desperately wanted to be taken seriously, wanted to have the tech company I was working for while taking college classes at night invest in me.

By Your Command

Battlestar Galactica reference.

For days our instructor wrote command codes on a white board after which we typed them in and watched the WizyWig results.

What You See Is What You Get.

My Friend Friday

As it happens on the last day of class – before lunch break – our instructor wrote out a rather lengthy command code.  Exhausted and on autopilot I typed it in, hit Enter.

Oh My

Everything went down.  My initial reaction was confusion.  Then – as if the hounds of hell were in the room laughing – the instructor said, “But don’t hit this command unless you need to do an emergency hard shutdown because it will take the whole system down.”

Cheeks aflame – I’m not exaggerating – I stared out the window thinking I just ended my career.

My boss would hear about it and I’d never be sent to training again and without training I couldn’t advance let alone get any credibility leading to a promotion.

Humiliation Personified

I will never forget 

  • The look of confusion on the instructor’s face when the system didn’t respond
  • The sound of my tablemate’s voice when he leaned close and said “I know what you did.”
  • The instructor from another classroom who came running in to ask “Did you lose -?”

Sink or Swim

I had a decision to make.  Own up to what I did or slink away with the rest of the group as we were told the class was abruptly and irreparably ended.

I could feel the eyes of the my tablemate boring a hole in the left side of my head.

Did I mention I was the only woman in the class and younger than everyone by about 15 years?  Oh, and my boss had to get a special waiver to get me into the class.

My heart thumping hard enough to leap out of my petrified chest I tentatively raised my hand after which I said, “I thought it was another one of your commands so I typed it then hit enter.”

I will never forget the look on her face – like Seriously?

As humiliating as that career moment was it added a bit of rebar in the building of being comfortable – when it comes to career and life mistakes – in my own skin.

I can be proud of the person I see in the mirror in the morning because I know that person tries their best.

And – regardless of mistakes – always has.

Be well

Note: When I told my tech mentor? He roared with laughter then shared moments of career humiliation so I wouldn’t feel quite so awful.

Nature V Nurture: The Holistic Approach

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Does nature or nurture have more sway over the path we choose?

And how we turn out?

A good friend and I debated this throughout the years.

Often switching sides.

We listened respectfully while walking on lunch hours or after work and made arguments for our beliefs.

Was it that we were taught good manners or that we have a passion for understanding that drove this cooperation for a potentially contentious subject?

At the end of the day I think we were saying the same thing in different ways but in debating we gained knowledge and perspective.

We learned of a world neither knew existed.  

A world forged by experience and while that suggests nurture whatever was in our nature enabled us to navigate that experience in a way that shaped who we became.

What’s New?

I came across an article today that had me considering

  • I was ahead of my time 
  • I had such an innate feeling it was the right way I walked the holistic path in the face of incredible criticism and among a large circle of influence that went in the opposite direction

Was I born to follow the holistic [read natural/traditional] way or was I shaped by my experiences?

Nurture

As I discuss in my podcasts I witnessed what happens when individuals follow a certain philosophy of healing and yes, this entrenched my natural proclivity to go Mother Nature’s route.

The route that got us this far.

It was heartbreaking to watch loved ones who put their faith in the allopathic way suffer.

Nature

For as long as I can remember – going back to 4 years of age I instinctively knew when someone was sad, tired, hurting.  I frequently approached these individuals to see how I could help.

Though I have a memory of this behavior going back before kindergarten there’s a story related to me by my mom that illustrates it started much earlier.

I discuss in a podcast

My parents lost many classmates to the Vietnam War and many of the men who returned weren’t in a good space.  One afternoon my mom took me to a local park.  I was just walking and talking.  We ran into a gentleman in a wheelchair.  Apparently I approached and asked, “Where are your legs?”  

Worrying I’d rubbed salt in a wound my mom was quick to apologize.  His response is the nature part of this equation.

“This is the first time I’ve laughed and smiled since coming home.”

Nature and Nurture Meet

When I read the article, one bit stood out.

“Meditation was all this ‘woo-woo stuff’ but now, seeing all these advances in neuroscience and showing changes in brain waves from functional magnetic resonance imaging, which we couldn’t do before – actually being able to trace the pathways that lead to changes in health measurements – I think this is really, really exciting,” she says.”

Nurture

This information was known and studied in the late 70s if not before.  My dad and I would watch various pieces from 60 Minutes to documentaries on the subject.

Nature

It’s in my nature to want to understand the science and research behind Mother Nature’s gifts.  This need to understand inspired me to go back to school to study what I’d been living:  Holistic healing.  As a result I learned in class that in the 90s Tibetan monks – some of the world’s superior meditators – had been hooked up to EEGs and undergone brain scans and all sorts of what I’m guessing were invasive medical tests – all in the name of research into the health benefits of meditation.  

I read the research papers as part of my class work.

A Real-Life Twist

Readers know that when I was 10 I fell off a diving board and had a brain bleed that left me blind paralyzed on my left side and in a coma.  Over the course of my recovery – and likely due to my nature – I forged a beautiful friendship with the neurosurgeon who saved my life.  

Whenever I visit Michigan I make a point to stop by and say hi.

On a recent trip I brought my family with me.  After a bit of small talk he mentioned something I’d written in one of the letters I’ve been sending since I was 12 and my family moved out of state.

Meditation.

He told me of the science behind why meditation is so good for the brain after which he encouraged me to keep on the holistic path.  

A man of science I also know him as a man of faith and a man who understands the role of traditional healing.

As my story illustrates Nature and Nurture are not an either or but part of a circular dance that has been going on for centuries with plenty of enlightened individuals on both sides of the equation.

Be well.

Note: I’ve been using homeopathy successfully for decades, trained by a British ENT surgeon.