The Free Online Dictionary defines Mental Health as:
- A state of emotional and psychological well-being in which an individual is able to use his or her cognitive and emotional capabilities, function in society, and meet the ordinary demands of everyday life.
- A branch of medicine that deals with the achievement and maintenance of psychological well-being.
- A person’s overall emotional and psychological condition.
I don’t know about you, but, for me, there are times when “meeting the ordinary demands of everyday life” becomes a bit OVERWHELMING – to put it mildly.
The demands of ORDINARY life these days are EXTRAORDINARY!
Are you finding that too?
‘Ordinary’ life these days is an amazing journey in resiliency.
Resiliency is the ability to ‘bounce back.’
Bounce back to WHAT? What is ‘normal’ these days?
For me, personally, I define ‘normal’ as restoring my own specific natural patterns – physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
What is a natural pattern?
I wrote about natural patterns a couple of years ago and love to return to this reminder when I have one of my OVERWHELMING days…
“Examples of natural patterns at the physical level are your natural pattern of walking. If you have an injured ankle, you are not following your natural pattern of walking. You are limping.
If you are under stress, three natural patterns can be out of balance – your heartbeat, your hormonal system, your breathing rhythm.
Sleep follows a natural pattern. If you have difficulty sleeping your natural pattern is out of balance and this has consequences in immune system function, body repair in deep sleep, alertness, and so on.
Natural patterns can also be rhythms like how often your heart beats when at rest. Your brain has rhythms that change when you daydream, close your eyes or go to sleep. Your intestines contract in a specific rhythm.
So does your stomach. Your kidneys process your blood in a 24-hour cycle.
At the microscopic level, your cells have many natural patterns as they go about their day.
And all of this is just at the physical level.
At the mental level, our brainwave patterns affect our alertness or ability to relax.
Your mental and emotional systems are deeply connected. Many of our thoughts have emotional charges.
You know the ones.
Like the ones you think about the person who cuts you off in traffic.
Like the ones you think when you are engulfed in sadness.
Like the ones you think when you are playing with your children.
All of these thoughts with emotional charges are intimately connected to your hormonal system. Every one of these thoughts affects every cell in your body.
At the spiritual level natural patterns are your moments of silence and connection to your inner presence.
Are you truly present when you are listening to someone else speak or are you thinking about what you will say to them next? Do you look into their eyes when they are talking or when you are sharing your thoughts with them?
How often are you truly silent? How often do you deeply listen to your innermost voice? Can you even hear it? Or are your mind and emotions captured with busyness?
The human energy field or aura is also filled with natural patterns – from the rhythmic pulsations of the meridian systems and rotation of the chakras to the comfortable, peaceful frequency of your soul that lives there – and in your body.
Natural patterns are those present when we are in harmony and whole.
In these turbulent times, our natural physical, mental, emotional and spiritual patterns are deeply affected from moment to moment.
The PURPOSE of sound healing or sound therapy is to restore your natural patterns. What does that mean?
Sound is one of our greatest allies in restoring and maintaining natural patterns.
It has the ability to change body chemistry, cellular function, hormonal balance, create mental clarity, manage pain, calm or energize the emotional state, create spiritual connection. And more.
I recently received an email from Traci Brown, who had been given some news causing great sadness and difficulty for her and her husband. Her story, which she has allowed us to share, warms my heart with how much help she received from these simple tools.
I have always been a high strung, type A, non-stop doer and to get this news knocked the wind out of me. I went into great despair and my mind could not stop thinking about every worse possible outcome that could happen (always have been a worrier in my thoughts)
Fia-lynn who attended our 3 day Sound Wellness Solution last November, used the tuning forks on me the next day to help, and each day after. Within two days, I felt a difference. I did not have the negative obsessive thoughts as much. Within a week, I was able to refocus them if they did pop into my head. For Christmas, she gave me my own set. I use them every day. It has helped me regain strength of mind and clarity. It has helped me continue to advocate for our little boy through emails and phone calls based on facts and not overwhelming emotion. I just needed you to know what a difference it has made.
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