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How Frequency Therapies Can Support Healing

• Melissa Schreibfeder • Episode 16

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This episode is brought to you by Functional Nurse Academy 

In this episode Melissa is joined by Anna Aycock CNC, CLEC founder of DesiNou LLC.  Together, they explore how stress, emotional trauma, and chronic health challenges can create disruptions in the biofield—and how sound frequencies can help bring the body back into alignment.

Anna’s Website https://www.balance2you.com/

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This show is also syndicated every Tuesday at 10am EST on The Nurses Report on America Out Loud Talk Radio 

SPEAKER_01

Hello, and welcome to the Functional Nurse Academy podcast. This is your host, Melissa Schreibvetter, owner and founder of the Functional Nurse Academy. Welcome everyone. I hope you guys are all having a wonderful day. I have another really great show for you guys today that I thought would be like a really inspiring story. So I have my uh friend here with me, Anna Acock, who has a um, she is a certified nutrition coach. She is a certified light energy coach. She has her own business and she has this deeply personal connection to holistic wellness. And she struggled for years and years with chronic fatigue and joint and muscle pain, fibromyalgia, all kinds of mystery illnesses. And she was able to find healing and restoration through natural approaches. And then this transformation she experienced then sparked a passion to learn anything and everything about holistic and natural living. So she is now dedicating her life to sharing these resources with others, empowering her clients and community with the tools that brought her back to help. And yeah, I'm just, I am so inspired about your journey, Anna. Welcome and thank you for coming back on the show.

SPEAKER_00

Thanks. I'm so glad to get to do this again. I really enjoyed the last conversation we had.

SPEAKER_01

Yes, yes. So for our listeners, um, Anna, so we live in the same area and I I love holistic health, guys. I love functional medicine, but I really only feel comfortable recommending a handful of people because I'll, as I have said before, you know, I don't feel like everyone is practicing with integrity, but Anna is one of those people that is practicing with integrity and she puts Jesus first. And we've become friends. And I have my um toddler and Anna's um granddaughter, who's also a toddler. We go out and do play dates together. And I was thinking, I was like, wow, Anna looks like really good for her age. And with all of this stuff that she went through when she was so sick in her 30s, here she is as like a grandma. I know people don't like that term anymore, but here she is as a grandmother running her own business and taking care and keeping up with grandbabies. And I was thinking, I was like, this would be so inspiring to just chat about, you know, what happened with your health, how you got well. And then I also want to um talk a little bit more about what you're doing in your business because you have all of these amazing tools to help people. So can you start out by, you know, telling our listeners about, you know, what happened to you in your health when you got sick?

SPEAKER_00

Sure. Yeah. So it was in my 30s when I became aware that I was sick. I mean, I look back now and what I know, I think I probably had some lifelong issues. But in my 30s, things really started shutting down. And I was going to the walk-in clinic every month with a new infection. Um, it was strep throat, it was sinus infection, kidney infection, double pneumonia. It just kept on going. And every time I would go in, they would put me on another round of antibiotics, and it just seemed to be chasing things around. And then, you know, finally they said, Well, you know, you've got some things that are kind of pointing to autoimmune, so we're going to send you to a rheumatologist. And I had one visit with him, and it took two months to get in with him. And in the time I got to him, I found holistic resources. So that by the time I got to him, he I had this list of all these nutrients that I was doing, and I had was already turning things around. And so he said, Well, I'm not going to put any formal diagnosis on your record because you're already kind of making changes. And I don't think that you're going to want to do what I want to do anyway. He said, I would put you on antidepressants, muscle relaxant, and sleep aid. And he said, that's what my patients do. And you can, you, you are entitled to come here. Your blood work shows that you you are entitled to be a patient. But if you don't want to come back, you don't have to. So I took that as a, okay, I won't. So I that was the last time I really was in the medical realm. And I kind of catapulted out of that into people using working more with herbs and nutrients and paying attention to toxic load in the body as a source, underlying source of inflammation and working on ways to clear that. Um, and I ended up going to a few different practitioners and I learned more from each one. Um, and then I felt led about 15 years ago, you know, I was an artist at the time doing faux painting and interior design and thought that was my career path. But I was getting allergic to my work. I was allergic to paint. I was I couldn't handle the chemicals in the furniture store or the fabric store. So my career was kind of caving in on me because physically I couldn't do it. Um, and and I just kind of started to feel led and inspired to pursue um helping others in the same way that I had been helped. And it's almost like you become an evangelist, you know, like once your life has been changed, you just want to share it with others, and it's just a passion. So I felt led, but I was still very reserved about it, cautious about it, because at the time we had three kids in college, and I was like, oh, I just don't think that I can afford to do, you know, pay for me to do all that. So one of the leading functional medicine um practitioners who does training, and I he kind of did an extra special gift for me. So I'm not gonna give his name out because he might not enjoy me telling what he did for me. So um he basically offered for me to go through his courses, and in order to get them paid for, I had to sit in on all of the courses and document on a spreadsheet everything that was said at every moment of the session. So that I was sort of creating a directory. And as a result, I learned even more than the regular coursework, you know, because I had to do that. So that was kind of how I got, you know, kind of got started with getting some of the credentials. Um, but over the years, I started out thinking I was going to have my practice be exactly like the person who helped me. But it's really interesting how God just shapes what things look like. And it looks very different from what I originally had a vision of what it was going to be like. Um, you know, my path has definitely gone into more and more about how vibrations impact the cells and the body. Um I I do a lot with sound, with um with light, and I've studied in depth about, you know, how does red light impact us different than blue light or green light or um infrared light and understanding the different components of how the light impacts the body and what it does on a cellular level from the mitochondria. And the mitochondria, of course, is our energy, our power cell. So most of us that have chronic issues, kind of like the engines are just going really slow and everything, the wheels are just turning very slowly. And when they're turning really slowly, we end up with a buildup of debris that then creates inflammation. So there's lots of ways that we can address that. And one of the ways is to give more energy to the cells to kind of crank up the motor, and then the body can then, you know, clear things. Our pipes are more open, we can absorb the nutrients better and we can release them better. So, you know, studying about sound and light and homeopathy, all these things, flowers, all these things are interrelated. And when you really look at it in depth, there is a musical note that correlates with a color, that correlates with an organ system, that correlates with a tooth. It's like we're all interconnected. And so understanding that level is just so powerful.

SPEAKER_01

God is so good, you know, and the more that I learn about this, my mind is just blown. And I've been so interested in frequency therapy and light therapy, and then also um being a follower of Jesus. And I know we've talked about this before, about, you know, just being mindful of like of certain like new age infiltration that may not, may not be Christian. But when because I know that we've had conversations before, and I just did a show on this, gosh, like maybe two weeks ago, about uh where I interviewed an ex-psychic and she talked about Reiki and she talked about tarot. And there's a lot of practitioners that are saying, like, oh, I do, you know, light energy, but then they may be doing things like, here are my light energy cards, which are basically tarot cards. But then I think with what you do, you are technically a certified um light energy coach. Can you tell us the difference between the two? Because I think so many Christians get kind of um, it can be a little confusing for us because we're like, okay, like what type of light energy are are we able to do?

SPEAKER_00

So my certification as a light energy coach is through the Board of Alternative Natural Health Sciences. And I studied um with Solis University to learn about um really learning more about what what what do the vibrations do with, like I said, with different colors, with um you know, with homeopathics. And one thing that's really fascinating, and this is something that I have I'm also have studied and continue to study and follow Vita Institute. Um uh it's uh there there it's uh sonic alignment and it's Gregory Hyde and Elena, let me get her name to say Is that is that the tuning fork? Yeah, well, so that's one of the tuning forks. So there's so Gregory Hyde and Elena Morani. So what what they have inspired in me to focus on, um, which is just brilliant, is how the shape of things uh uh is sort of has a vibration that matches the the the body system. And the most basic illustration of that is the kidney bean. Kidney beans look like the kidneys. And the kidneys there are there are nutrients in the kidneys that actually help support the functioning of you know, the kidney beans, it fun hel help support the function of the kidneys.

SPEAKER_01

You know, it really is. Like I just and I talked to my eight-year-old uh about this, and it it is so interesting to me the complexity of the human body. You know, when God created us, we are in a way electric beings. We know that there is electrical activity in the heart. That's why we do EKGs. There's electrical activity in the brain, that's why we do EEGs. And then he says in the Bible that he you've heard, for an example, one of the one of the Bible verses is he gives herbs for the service of man. And I've been learning more about herbal medicine and about how many of these medicinal herbs are packed with phytonutrients and antioxidants and are anti-inflammatory and have all of these things to support the healing mechanisms of the body. And I've also looked into this with food, Anna, because and you know, I saw this really funny meme the other day on social media, and it was like someone praying, like, dear God, please bless the food. And then, but the food was like Chick-fil-A. And it's like, okay, God did not make that, you know. So when we just get back to that, the just wisdom of the Bible. I mean, you cut inside of a carrot, guys, and it looks like an eye. What are carrots? I mean perfect example. They are rich in beta-carotene and vitamin A. If you're low in vitamin A, you can literally go blind. We also see this with the brain. Um, we know that the omega-fatty acids in walnuts are really, really important for the brain. Well, the walnuts also look like the brain. We see this so many times. And and it's just like he's he's telling us, you know.

SPEAKER_00

But it what what always comes to my mind is, you know, the verse, we are fearfully and wonderfully made. You know, just talking about the complexity of our design and the whole world, you know, the world that God designed and the complexities around it. And it just makes sense that there would be, you know, God spoke and the world came into being. So that's that's that's vibrations, that's sound. So I think it's it's very concrete, you know, to be to be using that and thinking about how that works for the body. You know, it really does.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

So I guess one thing that might be different is you know, there's some some people who are co are uh interpreting the vibrations as entities that they're calling on that are coming to help them. Now when I'm using tuning forks, lots of times I'm using guided in this imagery and often in a prayerful way, um, I might help people visualize things. And you know, I mean I do believe in angels. You know, people can have angels coming, but I think you just have to be think about, you know, are are we thinking about what kind of entities are we are we communicating with? I guess that would be the difference between some of the you know, taking the energy work in w in one direction versus um through faith, you know, through Christian faith.

SPEAKER_01

That might be one thing that kind of and another thing, you know, there's there's so many uh practitioners that have gone, you know, in into the new age, and then they're kind of like, okay, let's work with your spirit guides. And then we have to think like, okay, what exactly is that? You know, or if anybody is channeling deceased relatives, we know that the Bible's very clear that we are not able to communicate with the dead. That's what Jennifer Niza, who I had on a couple of weeks ago, she was saying that, you know, a lot of these mediums, when they're channeling something, they may think that it is that person's deceased relative, but it actually could be a demonic spirit. And if you truly believe in Jesus and if you believe in the biblical accuracy of the Bible, then you know that Jesus was like literally casting out demons from people and that we have angelic presence in this world. We also have demonic presence in this world. So it really is so interesting and always something to be mindful of. But I would like to ask you, kind of want to like um go back a little bit about your healing journey, because so many people that get a diagnosis that are chronically ill are under the impression that, like, okay, you know, this is the standard of care for you. And again, like medications can be a tool in the toolbox of medicine. They can be helpful when we need them, but we know they're overused in the US. And I think it's so interesting that you were like, yeah, that's not for me. I'm not gonna do that. And and and you did your own thing. And can you like describe when you do we talk about how sick you were in your 30s, what the difference is now in say like your energy levels?

SPEAKER_00

Oh, yeah. I mean, so I think it's amazing because I remember when I was first interested in even doing this work, the thought of first of all, working full-time was just like, there's no way I could work full-time. There's no way that I could manage an inventory. Like there's just no way I could carry products or carry supplements and keep up with all that. And, you know, I just felt limited by my energy. And but so what I did was I was like, okay, well, I'm not ready to be on this level, but where can I start? What can I do? So I started where I felt comfortable and just did what felt comfortable. And it just grew, you know, gracefully and gradually from there. You know, that was kind of how it how it grew. Um, and then I just continued to study and learn more, and it just shaped into something very different than what I originally thought it was gonna be. You know, because I thought it was gonna be more about functional medicine, supplements, things like that. And it's really changed. I don't do, I mean, there are some supplements. A lot of people just bring their supplements to me because a lot of them are working with functional medicine practitioners already or nurses, and they bring everything to me, and we can use my bioscan uh test plate to kind of take a look at, okay, which ones are are in sync with what they're wanting to do and what their goals and with um helping to balance the the things that are stressing their body and which ones might actually be adding more stress. So maybe we pause some of those for a while and work on you know what's relevant.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I really like that. Yeah, no, no, that's that's great. But um, I really do like that idea because and I have mentioned before that I went through and and I, guys, I really did find a good functional provider. But the reason why I do what I do now is because I got burned in conventional medicine and then I got burned again in functional medicine. But you know, in functional medicine, I spent I don't even want to think about how much money I wasted on supplements, guys. And that's why I'm always like, you must just it is so important that you are seeing a a practitioner or provider who is practicing with integrity because some of them really are just pushing supplements. And I I am, you know, I have used supplements in my own wellness journey to help my body to heal. Cause again, I was wrecked. I was absolutely wrecked with chronic Lyme. And, you know, practitioner after practitioner was like, oh, here's a leaky gut protocol. Here's this protocol, here are these really expensive tests. And I just went through the ringer. And this was, you know, my I got and I was, I had some issues before, but I really went downhill after I had my first baby. But I wanted to get well because I was a young mom with my first child. And I felt like I wasn't able to be present with him because I was so sick. So I was just just, I was so desperate for help. And I felt like people, you know, took advantage of me. But I like what you mentioned earlier about, you know, sometimes when people are really sick, the mitochondria, the powerhouse that that's like the energy powerhouse of the cells is unwell and the body needs energy to heal. And what can just rob us of our energy? You know, stress, crap food, toxins. And when you mentioned before that you had chemical sensitivity, guys, if you're experiencing chemical sensitivity, you want to think about your toxic burden. That is a sign that your toxic burden is overflowing and your body, who loves you and wants you to get well, is speaking to you in symptoms. And I wonder as well, you know, when we see, because we both work with individuals that may have chronic, they may, they may come to us with like a whole list of symptoms. And I know we both we see it all the time, where we start using just, you know, common sense interventions, lifestyle nutrition, and then using other things like herbs or supplements as tools. But, you know, what are you seeing when you start to experience that someone like, oh my goodness, their symptoms are starting to go away. What do you think is happening at that like physiological level? Do you think it's like it's wonderful?

SPEAKER_00

So, well, so what I tell people is that I give the analogy of we are a bunch, we're actually made of a bunch of tubes. And the goal is for those tubes to be open and free of debris so that nutrients can get absorbed and that toxins can get cleared out. And what are things that put kinks in the hose? What are things that kink it? Sometimes it is stress. Sometimes it's trauma that needs to be worked through. Other times it is some sort of infection that needs to be addressed. Or it can be an allergy or it can be a combination of things. So I find what I do is I scan people and I look for what parts of the body are showing priority for this session. Is it the liver? Is it the brain? Is it uh large intestine? What's showing up as priority? And then I scan and see, okay, what are some of the underlying burdens that people are carrying around that could be causing constriction in our detox pathways and also maybe blocking the flow. And I'll do a scan and I'll find various things. And sometimes it's about emotions. Um, other times it is about, you know, mold or, you know, whatever, whatever it is that they that they're dealing with. We then work on what do we need to do balance it. Sometimes there are vibrational frequencies that help to harmonize it. Sometimes music, um, you know, like finding what notes are out of sync. And, you know, because our whole body vibrates like a musical instrument. You know, it vibrates like a musical instrument. So we want to find what are some of the tones, you know, because certain vibrations actually correlate with musical tones, um, which correlate with color. Um, so we just look at all of the resources available from homeopathy to color to tones using the the um you know the the um tuning forks, um, just all of those things to help relax the body, help the our pipes open up, and then help the debris to wash away. And then we're in an ability, it's almost like removing the obstacles, right? Because we're trying to find the obstacles to healing and help the body release those obstacles, and then the body can heal as as we were designed.

SPEAKER_01

Well, I I love that. And I have not, I'm gonna use that tube analogy now. I love that analogy, but I do explain to the clients I work with and also to my students that you know we're we are helped, the the body has the innate ability to heal. When clients come to see me, I'm not like I'm gonna heal you. I am helping to remove those obstacles, helping me to figure out what is going on, what's triggering this, what is preventing your body from healing. And I love that you mentioned emotions because and I will say this is a problem. I actually have a Bible verse. It is on my mantle from Colossians, reminding me to forgive, because I know that that is something that I struggle with. But just like in the Bible, he it tells us over and over and over to forgive, to love our neighbor. And we actually are seeing this in studies now, showing that dwelling on unforgiveness can activate the stress response, which can cause increases in cortisol levels, which those are your like master stress hormones. It can increase your heart rate and blood pressure. When you increase your cortisol levels, that leads to intestinal permeability, aka leaky gut. Like it is all so connected. So I would love to dive more into this tuning fork situation. Like I am mesmerized by this. I do want to pause for a moment to remind our listeners. This show is also syndicated on America Out Loud Talk Radio on the Nurses Report Radio Show and Podcast. So you can also find me there on any major app. Hello and welcome back. This is Melissa Schreibfetter, and I am joined today by my friend and fellow coach, Anna Acock, who is a certified nutrition and certified light energy coach. And we are talking anything and everything about health, from where she had her own health journey, which really influenced all of this great work that she is doing with her own practice. And she uses multiple different modalities, um, everything from bioscan to light therapy to again, the wonderful nutrition and lifestyle coaching that we all need. And something else that I am so interested in. And it is the tuning fork. And it just sounds so when you're talking about like, oh yeah, I'm using tuning forks, a lot of people are like, well, what is that? And I have nurses that I have trained that also they're kind of on the same page as us, where, you know, most of us have experienced health issues, then we experienced uh healing using holistic things, and then you can't, you can't forget about it, you can't shut up about it. All you want to do is like share the word, share this message with other people that there are things we can use to heal our bodies. So, what exactly is a tuning fork?

SPEAKER_00

Well, I should have, I should have pulled it out. I thought about pulling it out to show you, but the the tuning forks, these are the tuning forks that have been around for a long time that were used to tune instruments. So, you know, you you would you would hit the hit the tone and then it it makes a sound, and then the the tuning fork next to it vibrates with it, that it can be used to tune the piano in the old days. It would could be used to tune the guitar, you know. So it it started it started out as a musical tool, an instrument. But people have also been using that as a way to tune the body. Um, and so one basic way to think about it is different notes actually vibrate and balance and harmonize specific organs. So there would be a specific tone or note that could be used if your liver is stressed and it sort of relaxes it. And again, you can go back to what do people do when they when they listen to music? How how how when they make movies, how are the movie producers using music to control the mood of the viewer? Right? So that's a good way to understand that sound can have a profound effect on us physically and emotionally. Um and you can use tuning forks to uh listen as well. So you can actually strike the fork and you know, we have a an energy field that projects outside of us. The other philosophy is, you know, we're actually our bodies are inside our soul. So our energy is actually outside of our body, and we can listen to that. We can hear, we can strike the tuning fork and listen, and the tone can change based on how that sound bounces off the body. And not only, you know, it the body in general, but bounces off the liver or bounces off the lung. You can listen specifically, and different vibrations sound differently. Um, viruses sound different than parasites. Like you can hear you, you you know, someone who's highly trained in using tuning forks can hear all of those things, and then can hear the change when you support the body with a certain supplement or a certain color or a note, how it harmonizes things. Um so it's really fascinating. You look like you have a question. Oh, no, I'm just so excited over this, guys.

SPEAKER_01

So when Anna is talking about the uh basically the the energy fields, what I think is so cool coming from the medical side of that is that we know for, and I talked about the heart earlier. We know that these energy fields, they are measurable, guys. Like the heart's electromagnetic field is like one of the most powerful. Um, and it can extend um up to, I don't know, up to like three to four feet out of the body in all directions. And then we also know that there are certain things that can really minimize or alter our energy field. So again, there are things that like are not visible to the human eye that are absolutely tied to our health. And I I think it was so interesting. You said that the soul is outside of the physical body. Is that right, Anna? Um, do you think that the electromagnetic field of the body, like that that that is the soul, or the soul is like entwined in that? I'm curious.

SPEAKER_00

That's probably the soul or or you know, our spirit or our soul and our bodies, you know, biblically, our bodies are temporary. So this, you know, our spirit, our soul is what's going to go on after the body passes away. And that's bigger than us. It's bigger than us physically. And, you know, it's you can you can feel, you know, some people have you have you ever been in a situation where everything's fine? You're with a group of people, everything's fine until that person enters the room. And just that person entering the room, their energy, you can feel all of a sudden everything gets thick, and you may not even have an issue with that person, but there's something about what they project that you can feel, you can pick up.

SPEAKER_01

Uh-huh. Yeah. And so, so you know, it's it's so interesting. And guys, it reminds me, I remember when I was single and I had a friend set me up with a guy, and you know, he walked into the room, and I immediately was just like, ugh, like I, you know, you know, it was so I I pecked, I picked up on something. And this was before I really knew about all of these things. But, you know, I think that when you are aware of it, you can be more in tune with it. And but but yeah, now some things that would alter someone's energy field, it's probably what? Like illness, physiological stress, like what is what's your path trauma. Okay.

SPEAKER_00

Path trauma. Um, it could also be music, you know, like heavy metal music, you know, that sort of thing that really, you know, there's a difference between listening to music that's relaxing and uplifting versus something that's really dissonant chords, dissonant notes. Now, every everybody needs to balance, you know, so so for the person who is way too far in the flowery, everything's beautiful, happy, happy, happy, maybe they need some of the dissonant chords to come and bring them, you know, more balanced. So I, you know, I'm not saying that necessarily, you know, certain vibrations are bad or good. It's more kind of about the individual person and needing balance. And let's go to the example of that person who you can feel their energy in the room and they're just dark, right? There's just a darkness. Yes. We might be able to help them if they came in for a tuning, you know, doing the tuning fork, we could we could actually present um the vibrations and the notes and help them clear whatever it is that that that is created a negative energy in them. You know, were they wronged terribly in childhood? Are they grieving the loss of a loved one? You know, what is it that's that's making them project Eeyore, you know, from Winnie the Pooh? What is it that's making that? And so, you know, we can support them and help help clear and tune their energy by um, you know, I also studied with Eileen McCusick. So the so the tuning that I do, I've combined different different schools of tuning for training and kind of created my own. But Eileen McCusick, um, you know, her her or she's very well known for biofield tuning. And so she talks about, you know, that we have a biofield and you might have had a trauma that left dissonant energy off your left hip. So you then can take that tuning fork and listen for it and gently strike the tuning fork so the person hears the tone and the energy bounces back off them and it starts to resolve that dissonant cord. It starts to calm that down and bring it into harmony. You know, we want the whole body to be in harmony. So that's done. You know, that's another way of doing it. The other thing that I will do is um, again, going back to the analogy of pipes and tubes and cords and everything, we want the energy in our body to flow freely. So I might even like I have a client I was doing a session with, and if if something pops in my head, we'll discuss it. And I'll I'll say, you know, I want you to imagine that there are a bunch of boulders that are blocking the river flow. It's just like, so all that's coming out of your river is this little trickle. So I say, I want you to think as you're listening to this tone, let's bring our attention to that boulder and let's see can can we give it enough energy and can you embrace the the music and the tone and use that energy to let let the water flow push through those boulders and send them on downstream so that what's blocking that flow is now open and it's flowing freely. Um and sometimes we talk about, you know, what what do those boulders represent? Were were there sadness? Was there abuse? Was there a great loss? What was it? And in prayer, what during the session we talk about, you know, can you give that to Jesus? Can you get, you know, this is these are burdens. Can you take that, you know, what do you want to do with that? And I'll ask them, you know, what does it look like? Can you describe it? What does it feel like? What does it smell like? Just really get into feeling that. And then can you hand that to Jesus and let Jesus help you remove that boulder, remove that obstacle? You know, so that's an example of kind of the guided imagery that I use.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, I love that. And that's actually on the assessment forum that I use. I ask them, do you have a religious preference? If so, do you want to incorporate that? Because it is no coincidence, guys. It is no coincidence that once we incorporate that and then we start asking Jesus for help and we start praying for good health, that we see better outcomes. And again, I've talked about this a lot. Talk about it all the time. I need to have these people on here to interview them. But go to global medical researchinstitute.com. That's where you can read about these peer-reviewed, published case studies of the basically medical miracles, you know? And um, I I remember that there's so much of like talking about meditation and mindfulness and the universe. But then, you know, there's sad I used to use these meditation apps. And I remember one of the ones for forgiveness, it was all like, oh, you know, just imagine all of those things that you're working to forgive people from, put all those emotions and balloons and just let them float up to the sky. And and I was like, no, like I as a Christian, I should be like, here, Jesus. Cause we can ask him, we can pray to him, cry out to him, help ask him to help to release you of these things. And and I I will say, you know, I really was struggling with with unforgiveness, guys. Um, because I I am that person that's like overly nice. People will wrong me and I'll be like, oh, it's okay, and I won't say anything. And then when they leave, I am beating myself up over it because I didn't stand up for myself and then I'm dwelling on it. And those thoughts, guys, those like I I just I remember feeling it. It almost felt like my stomach was just being like twisted. Like I could physically feel it. And once you release it, oh my goodness, like it takes so much energy from us to be dwelling on these negative emotions. Like it's awful. And I like that you can use this type of modality to kind of pinpoint, you know, because that the body is so miraculous and it's so resilient, but helping people to kind of pinpoint what may be some problem areas that we can focus on. So if I'm hearing you correctly, so you're saying that attuning forks, how they're working is, you know, the body, the body has an energetic field. And so, and you're saying that there can be blockages within that field, which can be physical things like infections. It can also be things like uh like like emotions and things like that, where things have, you know, really gone off balance. And then with the tuning forks, you're helping to basically put that how to help get the energy fields back in order and clear those blockages. That way the body can basically have the energy to properly heal.

SPEAKER_00

Is that right? Exactly. And actually, the way Eileen McCusick talks about it is you've had some sort of trauma or some sort of event. And some of this can even be genetic, like it could be an ancestral thing that, you know, when we we talk about, you know, our DNA can be changed by trauma that happened to our ancestors. So some of this is going way, way back. But whenever something like that happens, your energy gets spilled outside of your core and it's out there. And so then you think about mitochondria. Your inner battery is drained. You don't have as much energy to use. So what she teaches is that you take the fork and the practitioner feels that energy out in the field and hooks onto it like a magnet and gently brings it closer to the body, closer and closer, while you're doing guided imagery. And then you bring it all the way into the center of the body, whatever organ system you're working on, and you pour it in there like honey pouring off a spoon. So you're actually restoring the lost energy back to the person and increasing the resiliency and increasing the mitochondrial energy.

SPEAKER_01

That is so fascinating. And I I like how you're talking, uh it kind of reminds me. So when I had Lyme disease, guys, it and I remember I went to go see you when I had Lyme disease because I could not even tolerate the herbals. Like I would take a couple of herbs and I would totally crash from it. My body couldn't handle it. And then my Lyme literate physician was like, yeah, if you can't handle the herbs, you definitely can't handle the antibiotics. But one of the things that you pulled up for me, and I haven't done the tuning fork sessions with you. I am going to get on your schedule for that, though. I love to do that sometime. But anyway, one of the things that you pulled up for me was liver and these chronic stealth infections can really stagnate the liver. And then people who may have sluggish liver pathways, they cannot properly detoxify that. And as the body is talking to you in symptoms, say that you're taking herbs or antibiotics to kill off some god-awful infection, but your detox mechanisms are not prepared for it. The body is going to make you feel awful and feel really tired. And um, one of the actually the modality that I use to get healed from Lyme, like, thank the Lord, they, and I don't know how to explain it, but it was called craniobiotic technique. It was a clinic called Lime Stop. I went up to Wisconsin. My, you know, holistic nurse practitioner referred me there because she was like, yeah, like they're like literally just like healing people, you know, from Lyme. But anyway, one of the methods that they used, they had magnets. And I, you know, it sounds so silly, but but then it's really not silly if we know that we have these electromagnetic fields of the body, but they used the magnets and then something to do with the energy fields to direct the immune system to where the infections were. And then I, you know, did have some die off. I did not feel good for A few months, but yeah, I actually, you know, I remember um after I had this last baby, I was like, I feel like a normal person. I felt so good that I went and like, you know, uh had another baby. Well, I mean, he's he's he's still in the oven, but you know, I I went and I basically I felt so good. I guess I had back-to-back babies. But um, but it's so interesting because and I also really uh appreciate these techniques because as we all know, we have a lot of sick kids in this country. And and you know, my first job in the nursing profession was as a pediatric nurse. And I was like, I can't do this job because I can't stick kids and put tubes in them. But it is so traumatic to take a little kid and go and get a blood draw from them and do invasive procedures. And I like how there are modalities that you can help to investigate what could potentially be going on.

SPEAKER_00

Without having to do that, yeah. And then I mean, the other side of this is, you know, if we're thinking about unresolved trauma, you were talking about liver, right? So the liver was harboring pathogens, but we also have to ask what emotions or feelings could have been happening that attracted that block in the liver. And the liver usually resonates with anger. So, you know, when people have liver things, I'll say, is anything, are you really angry about something? And nine out of 10 times they'll go, yes, I actually am. You know, so so that anger kind of creates a magnet, the energy of that creates a magnet for those flukes or whatever it is to have a happy environment there and stay there. So, in addition to whatever you're doing to detox, working on the underlying emotional um component, which with the liver is anger, also helps to open up the pipes and keep everything flowing. So there's so many levels of support for the body. And the main goal is opening everything up so that the flow in and out is as strong as it was designed to be.

SPEAKER_01

And I'm also interested when you are working with your clients and you're using a tuning fork, if there is significant imbalance on an area of their energy field, can you physically feel it?

SPEAKER_00

Yes. Yes, you can. So it will feel like sometimes when I'm combing the field, and again, that's an Eileen McCusick term, but when I'm combing the field, I will feel sometimes I'll feel like a current. Like imagine in a hot tub with the jets blowing against your hand. Sometimes I'll feel that. It's like a current that's pushing the fork backwards. And that's where there's something really strong that we need to work through. And so, you know, we talk about it, we we continue to tune. Sometimes we have to use a different note, you know, like like, you know, switch tones to a different fork because you have a set of forks. You don't have just one fork. So you you you know, that's a block, like you can feel it. Other times it will feel like ripples, it'll feel like bubbles. And I usually take my hand and I'll just put here, I usually I'm doing this sort of shape as I'm combing. And so sometimes when I'm combing, I'll feel it, it feels like this, and other times it feels like this. And so, you know, that's important and it encourages me to know where do I need to focus? What do we need to be working on? What do we need to be talking with the person to encourage them to focus on that area so that they can release and release what's interfering with it and then receive that energy that they need.

SPEAKER_01

And so I also wanted to ask you, do you have any success stories that you would like to share? You know, have you ever worked with a client where after you did a session with them that they noticed measurable change?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, so I have a client who loves the tuning fork sessions, and she experienced it, she was having a lot of neck pain and um thyroid issues, you know, which makes sense. So there's constriction in the neck, pain around the neck, and then you know, thyroid, the energy around the thyroid is not as it's designed to be. So then you have thyroid issues. So I did um a session with her, and you know, you I look for what part of the body's priority. Sometimes the person says, My neck hurts, and I actually need to be listening to the foot or I need to be listening to the hip. But with this person, she said, my neck really hurts and my shoulders hurt, and the energy showed me that it was around the neck that we really needed to work on. So we worked, I combed through the field, we talked about things, and there was a lot of things that went back to her childhood. And as a child, as a young child, she was she felt very alone and she was not really able to express herself. Like she could not, she, you know, she could not say what she wanted to say. And even today, things that she believes and wants to share with people a lot of people don't want to hear and don't want to receive it. So she feels closed off. So, you know, we worked on that. We worked on the energy around her neck, around her throat. Um, we talked about, okay, so there are things that you want to share with people and it's they don't want to hear it. So let's find another way for you to express it. And I do believe that expressing something it with your voice is a totally different thing than writing it down. Writing, you know, journaling is amazing, but when we're talking about the energy and the music and the tones, she needs to actually speak it. So I just encouraged her and invited her, when she's by herself, verbally say what she wants to say to these different people, even if they're not there, or especially if they're not there, express it, unlock it. You know, she needs to say it, whether they can hear it or not, she needs to say it. So we did that. We worked on, you know, just kind of clearing the tightness in her neck, the energy around it, bringing the energy uh from way out in her childhood, dragging that energy all the way, you know, about six feet, dragging it six feet all the way to her neck and then pouring it back into her, the area over her neck, like honey, dripping in. And it changed it changed things dramatically for her. And she really felt like her throat was not sore anymore. Some of her um coughing, you know, like a lot of the things that were creating a lot of tension and constriction cleared for her. Um, so she felt really, you know, very much supported in that session. Yeah, very much.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, that's so amazing. And and again, you know, there are so many ways that we can remove these obstacles, guys. And and again, like I, you know, I I that that's one thing I love about holistic, you know, medicine and functional medicine and all these things, is we're looking at everything. You know, we're looking at like diet, nutrition, stress, what's your environment, what's going on with your um psychological stress? Like, are you holding on to stored emotions and things like that that could be negatively impacting you? Whereas with the conventional medicine model, everything is fragmented. I mean, you go to your PCP and you're like, my stomach hurts. And they're like, go to the gastroenterologist. You have a migraine, go to the neurologist if you're having hormone issues, go to uh, you know, the the OB or the endocrinologist, and then no one is communicating and no one is even like, it's not even on the radar about why this person has this dysfunction. It's kind of like, here's your symptom, here's your diagnosis, here is your drug. And I think it is so great that people know that there are other options out there, you know. And again, um, some people may not want to go the holistic route. They may want to go the drug route, and that option is available for you. But I think it's so important when we talk about, you know, chronic illness, um, some type of chronic symptom, that individuals know that there are other options out there. That way they can make the best health care choices for themselves. And I think a lot, I think I'm gonna get a lot of feedback from the show because, you know, again, like I, there's a lot of people, I have a lot of listeners that I think are going to be super interested in this for their own health. And then I have a ton of nurses and other, you know, healthcare professionals and coaches that listen in that are also probably interested in adding this on as a modality. So can you tell us for our listeners, um, where is the best place that people can find you and learn about your work?

SPEAKER_00

So my website is balance number two you.com. So, you know, capital B balance number two capitalyou.com. So that's that's probably the best way to um, you know, kind of maybe see a little more about what I'm doing. Um, and then I usually schedule appointments through Calendly. Um, and I do I do in-person appointments as well as remote appointments using uh tones of the voice. You know, I listen to the tones of the voice and I can work work with people that way and get a lot of information that way.

SPEAKER_01

That's that's wonderful. Because again, there are some people who in their area they may not have a whole you know holistic professional that they could work with. So I love that you can also see people virtually. And that is all the time that we have today. Thank you so much for tuning in. And again, if you want to learn more about the Functional Nurse Academy, please feel free to register for our next live webinar. And you will see that link in the show notes. You can also check out Functional Nurse Academy on our social media platforms or on our website at functional nurseacademy.com. Until next time, be safe, be well, and God bless.