Pamela McCue
Securely Anchored
440-376-7041
15522 Madison Ave.
Lakewood Oh, 44145
What is Reiki
Reiki (pronounced Ray-Key) is a system of enlightenment and a hands-on Healing art
developed in the early 1900's by Mikao Usui in Japan. The word Reiki comes from two
Japanese words - Rei and Ki, meaning Universal Life Force Energy. The term "Reiki" is used to describe both the energy and the Usui system of using it.
Reiki is hands-on energy healing where the practitioner serves as an open channel for transmitting the "ki" to others. The energy is channeled through the hands to the client, which activates the body's own natural ability to heal itself.
Reiki goes to wherever it is needed most releasing blocked energies, cleansing the body of toxins, working to create a state of balance and harmony and promoting relaxation and healing.
What Healing Can Reiki Facilitate?
Reiki is a particularly gentle technique because it is non-invasive and non-manipulative. Sessions can be used to facilitate physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well-being.
Experiencing a Reiki Hands-on Session
A standard session includes placing the hands on various areas of the head, shoulders, stomach, knees and feet. The Practitioner may also use other positions for specific concerns the client may have. Each position is held 5 to 10 minutes and the entire treatment lasts 45 to 60 minutes.
People's experiences vary during a Reiki session; however, most people feel the energy as heat. They may feel tingling, vibrating or waves of energy from the hands of the practitioner. Nearly all feel a deep state of relaxation in addition to some feeling a glowing radiance that surrounds them.
As the Reiki energy begins to release blocks caused by tension, anxiety, fear, or other negative thoughts and feelings, some people drift off to sleep or report floating outside of their bodies. Some see colors, report spiritual experiences and mystical visions.
At the end of the treatment, one feels relaxed and refreshed with a positive, more balanced outlook.
Written By Mary Jo Ruggieri PhD, RPP, HHP
About my Skills: Polarity therapy is the foundation of my healing arts practice. The releases are subtle, yet profound. Each session is tailored to an individual's needs.
A session may include:
- Polarity Therapy - a holistic energy-based system that includes body work, diet, and exercise to maintain a proper energy flow throughout the body. It addresses a wide range of issues, from structural to emotional. The bulk of my work is done on a massage table. Pressure point work, rhythmic rocking, gentle holds and stretches are used to balance the body’s energy.
- Cranial Sacral Work - a light touch, which adjusts the fine flow of cerebrospinal fluid though out the spinal column.
- Reflexology - applies pressure to special points that relate to zones and body reflexes on the feet and hands. This can cause further relaxation of muscle spasm and other benefits.
- Communication Facilitation - consists of focused conversation based on polarity energetics to encourage a positive attitude, be able to look at challenges in a new way, and better understand and overcome the source of their challenges.
- Sound Healing - the use of pure note tuning forks to balance out the Vestibular nervous system. Letting the vibration go where it is needed.
- Reiki – Reiki is a particularly gentle technique because it is non-invasive and non-manipulative. Sessions can be used to facilitate physical, emotional, mental and spiritual well-being.
Benefits: Stress Reduction, Prevention, Increased Energy, Deep Relaxation, Sense of Inner Peace and Wellness. Feeling Centered and Balanced
I am blessed to be working with clients doing body work and holistic education for the past 6 years. I currently work out of a beautiful center in Lakewood Ohio. Previously, I was the owner, director and practitioner of a full-service holistic wellness center specializing in classes for the mind, body and spirit. I recruited teachers, planned and designed curriculum, scheduled all courses and instructors, client registration processing, performed all marketing functions.
I truly believe in the healing benefits as well as the preventative benefits my clients experience.
BODYWORK FOR THE MIND Benefits of Polarity
The mind and body respond to each other in remarkable ways. Emotional states can alter responses in the immune system, organs, glands and cells that will physically affect the body's function.
In alternative and holistic healthcare the body is seen as a whole unit. Body, mind, emotion and spirit are totally integrated. Stress or injury to one part weakens the entire body.
How we recognize and handle stress in our lives is the key to unlocking the door to quality health and vitality. Realistically making ourselves aware of the symptoms of stress is a must. Often we run the red lights of life, discarding signals from our body and mind that we are approaching danger.
Do you experience lack of concentration, jaw aches, persistent irritability, inability to catch your breath, difficulty in sitting still and digestive problems? When you are experiencing stress, your breath rate may double, you may get flushed and feel gas pains. How often we complain that we have no energy is a main clue to the state of your health. Illness often starts as a problem with one's energy level!
Being aware of our own "self-talk" is another barometer of stress. Make a check list to see if the following apply: being critical of yourself, feeling powerless, not having choices, nothing feels right, and expecting the worst from people.
Identifying stress patterns is also useful. Do you recognize any of the following patterns: rushing in the mornings to get where you need to go, being late for everything, drinking or eating in the car, no quiet alone time, addicted to the telephone or carrying your cellular telephone in your pocket, working on vacation, not taking time to exercise or being preoccupied with over-exercising, and eventually feeling you never have time for family and friends?
Environmental stress also plays a critical role in our healthcare. Research is now linking many illnesses to environmental toxins and pollution. The National Institute for Health reports that there is a strong link between environmental pollutants and cancer. There is evidence to link pesticides in our foods, excessive hormones in our dairy products, high quantities of chemicals in our drinking water and unclean air to cancer.
When we add up the stresses in our lives and couple it with environmental conditions, we have a serious health threat. We are all faced with the challenge of being aware of our patterns that contribute to the disease of stress, and learning how we can change the situation. Taking care--taking charge!
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
One solution is to identify early where we are holding stress in our body. Individuals have a difficult time recognizing stress in the body, until it becomes a problem, in forms such as severe backache, chronic indigestion, headaches, lack of energy and often depression. When it reaches the stage of physical and mental imbalances, it has become a problem.
Bodywork is a factor in helping us identify where stress is located. It will not only identify stress holding patterns, it will educate the body in returning to balance.
Research has shown that bodywork helps movement of fluids through the system including lymph, blood in the arteries and veins, and removal of toxic waste; increases muscle response, diminishes muscles fatigue and increases muscle energy; restores vital organ function including respiration and circulation; increases neural activity benefiting balance in reflex patterns; and restores energy to balance stress.
It works!
Bodywork restores our coping mechanisms and allows for physical and emotional balance to occur before it becomes a major problem. There are manual therapies, holistic bodywork and energy alternatives available to us. The 1995 Holistic Health Directory listed more than 135 healing practices. A few of these therapies are:
Accupressure: An ancient Chinese technique using finger pressure on specific points along the body. Useful for body tension, muscular stress pain, or arthritis.
Craniosacral therapy: A procedure balancing the structure and function of the craniosacral mechanism. Very non-invasive, cranial work, used to treat chronic pain, stress headaches and general well being.
Reiki: Aids in healing by helping people become energetically balanced physically, mentally and spiritually.
Polarity therapy: An energy-based system of restoring the body's vital energy and reducing stress. Through various bi-polar contact points, reflex points and rocking movements, an over-active system will calm and stress will be reduced.
As we continue on with our journey of understanding holistic healthcare we will explore various types of bodywork. Learning to take care and take charge can be a total process with positive results.
A thought from Shakti Gawain: "In harmony with the whole, we find individual freedom."
Written By Mary Jo Ruggieri PhD, RPP, HHP
Pamela McCue 15522 Madison Ave, Lakewood OH 440-376-7041
National Accreditation: American Association of Drugless Practitioners (AADP)
Licensed State of Ohio Board of Career Colleges and Schools (Reg #00-01-1528T
WHAT IS POLARITY THERAPY ?
Polarity Therapy is a powerful holistic approach to health and well-being. The Polarity Principle works on the assumption that there is such a thing as life energy and that disease results when our life energy is blocked or is out of balance. The free flow of life energy is necessary for health. The aim of Polarity Therapy is to correct imbalances in the energy flow and enable the body's self-healing systems to operate effectively.
A Polarity Therapist works to release and balance the life energy in the body through the use of specialized bodywork which can release tension and holding patterns in the physical body and the psyche, enlivening the life force that exists within us all, thus enabling you to reconnect with the deep core of your being. This ensures the continuation of the expression of your essential self and aids the return to wholeness and well-being.
The system was developed by Dr. Randolph Stone, a naturalized American, who spent the majority of his long life (1890-1981) studying the healing practices of India and China as well as the Western disciplines of Chiropractic and Osteopathy to continually refine and add to the body of work that is Polarity Therapy.
It is a gentle, holistic method of drugless healing. It is a complementary therapy in the sense that it can happily co-exist with other forms of orthodox treatment.
Life energy takes on five different qualities based on the Five Elements (Ether, Air, Fire, Water and Earth). These interact to set up complex interference patterns to which the physical body reacts.
The practitioner evaluates these patterns, unblocks and re-balances then using a variety of gentle techniques helping to restore health and well-being.
WHAT HAPPENS DURING A POLARITY THERAPY TREATMENT?
Dr. Stone developed many specific techniques for unblocking and balancing energy flow dependent on the nature and location of the problems. Polarity Therapy uses four different approaches to balancing life energy.
Bodywork
Diet and Nutrition
Exercise
Communication Facilitation
A typical session would consist of a bodywork treatment combined with one or more of the other three approaches where applicable.
BODYWORK
Polarity Bodywork consists of gentle, hands-on contact often with rocking movements of the body. The whole body approach may involve many parts of the body or may concentrate on only a few. Most of the work can be done whilst fully clothed but it is useful to wear loose, light clothing preferably made from natural fibers.
The experience of a bodywork treatment can be deeply relaxing and therapeutic leading to emotional releases and the alleviation of tension and pain and an increased sense of well-being.
DIET AND NUTRITION
Polarity Therapists recommend dietary changes where necessary to help balance the Five Elements. Our bodies accumulate a level of toxicity through over indulgence in particular foods affecting our minds and emotions as well as our physical body. Health building diets help each person find the way of eating appropriately.
POLARITY EXERCISES
Exercises, sometimes called Polarity Yoga may be recommended for practice between treatment sessions. These involve powerful but gentle stretching and rocking movements and are designed to release the tension in the body to facilitate the free flow of energy. They can support the bodywork part of the treatment.
COMMUNICATION FACILITATION
Good health encompasses positive thoughts and feelings about ourselves 'as we think, so we are'. Polarity Therapy not only seeks to heal the physical body but in its highest aspirations aims to unify and balance the whole person via increased self awareness. It can form an important ally in the journey towards self knowledge and growth.
HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE?
A treatment session lasts for one hour. It is usual for clients to have a minimum of three sessions, but the number will depend upon individual circumstances.
WHEN SHOULD POLARITY THERAPY BE USED?
There are times in our lives when we do not feel well or seem unable to cope. Our bodies seem to let us down with illness and stress, or minds are strained and our emotions confused. When life becomes difficult it is sensible to look for help.
