The Ancient Art of Energy Healing

By Linda Cremin
LicAc, MBAcC, DipTuiNa

Why not try The Ancient Art of Energy Healing?

Acupuncture to enlighten your spirits and balance the soul, body, and mind…

An Inner Peace sound massage on a cellular level to enhance yourself…

Or Deep Healing to leave you feeling lighter, calmer and nourished to the core!

What it’s all about, and why it has become so fashionable after thousands of years:

Many of my healing approaches are drawn from ancient philosophy, including applying vibrational medicine to areas of the body. Most of my clients display symptoms of chronic stress and anxiety, and have been especially surprised at how this energetic medicine has helped with their symptoms, spanning from better digestion to sleep.

In my Traditional Eastern medicine approach, I look at the individual in more holistic terms, and treatments are directed toward the whole self-system rather than a Western medicine physiology. Focus is mounted on the concepts of vibrational medicine and energy medicine.

Interestingly these ‘old ways’ of Traditional Eastern medicine are returning, becoming fashionable once again. This return to traditional ages and old medicine brings new promise for the body’s natural healing process to occur.

Utilising this traditional healing art, I incorporate different types of medicine techniques from the Ancient East into my method, including Tibetan sound healing, Shamanic drums, acupuncture,Tui-na Chinese massage and Reiki Crystal healing. These treatments have recently been recognized around the globe by the World Health Organization for their potential relaxing and healing properties, and fascinatingly, an EEG study examining singing bowls, discovered a distinct change in delta brain waves - the brainwave state associated with deepest relaxation - when such bowls are used.

I believe that everything in our Universe is energy vibration at specific frequencies, and so I integrate this work within my treatments to help bring us back to nature, and balance.

Back to School! - By Tara

It’s the end of September and here at the clinic we are all well into “back to school” vibes.

We’re also into the Earth season in Chinese Medicine as, well as Mabon in the Pagan Wheel, both of which are all about gathering in the harvest as we move towards the sleep of winter.

It’s time to take stock, drink in the celebration and abundance of summer, and let that nourish our body and mind.

During this time of year, we focus on the digestive system, nourishment, and stability.

The Spleen and Stomach

The Spleen is in charge of making our body's qi and blood, which are the vital substances needed to stay healthy. Additionally, the spleen “holds” the blood in the vessels, and ascends energy to prevent prolapse of various organs like the uterus and bladder. Most importantly, the Spleen transforms the food we eat into energy and transports that nutritive energy (“ying qi”) to other parts of our body. When the spleen is weak or out of balance, various health issues from digestive to gynecological to emotional arise.

The Earth element relates to issues of dampness (humidity, heaviness, phlegm) - the climate of late summer. Dampness shows up in the body in many ways: physical fatigue, mental fatigue, worry, digestive problems, and muscle weakness to name a few. Because the spleen and stomach meridian systems are particularly impacted by dampness, food therapy becomes so important to keep everything on track.

Seasonal Wellness

Now is the time to reinforce the vitality of the earth element and spleen Qi- acupuncture, food therapy, and mindfulness are important to counteract illness, as winter is coming and we want to to tonify our immune systems. I always give my children probiotics at this time of year as they go back to school.

As summer draws to a close, it’s time to phase out your consumption of cold raw foods, including smoothies, ice water, and salads. Dairy, refined sugars, and fatty and greasy foods also contribute to dampness. Do include warm, cooked meals. Aromatic spices like ginger, fennel, coriander, caraway, and cardamom help to warm things up, resolves dampness, and strengthen the spleen Qi.

The color of the Earth is yellow. The Su Wen Chapter 10 states that, “yellow corresponds to the Spleen”. Eating foods that are yellow and orange are especially supportive for Spleen health. Examples include squash, sweet potato, yams, corn, papaya, and carrots.

What exactly is Perimenopause?

The peri-menopause can be one of the trickiest times for women to get their head around. One minute you’re 30, full of energy to do all the things you want in your life. Yes, there may be challenges but none of them seem unmanageable. Life – especially when you look back – seemed pretty great. All of a sudden it seems life and age have snuck up on you. You’re just not quite the same person you used to be. You notice you get tired more easily, some days you’re literally dragging yourself through the day, you’ve lost your get up and go for no reason, the weight you used to be able to lose in the run-up to an important event stays stubbornly in place no matter what you try, and you can’t seem to shift that foggy feeling in your brain. But it can’t be the menopause, right? You’re too young…

The menopause actually refers to a time when you haven’t had a single period for at least a year. The run-up to it can last for years and it’s called the peri-menopause. Think of it as the menopause transition. It can take eight to ten years! Women typically start to experience it in their 40s – and often the most obvious signs are that your periods go a little crazy - though for some it can even start in their 30s.

In the peri-menopause, levels of one of the main female sex hormones, oestrogen, rises and falls unevenly. The length of time between periods may be longer or shorter, your flow may be light to really heavy and with worse PMS than ever before, and you may even skip some periods – before they come back with a vengeance.

You might also experience some of the symptoms traditionally associated with the menopause, like night sweats, hot flushes, sleep problems, mood swings, more UTIs like cystitis and vaginal dryness. Around this time, you might begin to notice that weight loss becomes trickier and your digestion gets a little shaky.

The way some talk about the perimenopause, you’d think it was a disease. There’s no need to go to your doctor to get an official diagnosis – although it’s definitely worth booking an appointment, if you notice any of these specific symptoms, as they can point to other problems and it’s always better to be safe than sorry. Fibroids are something very common at this time. Watch out for these symptoms:

• spotting after your period

• blood clots during your period

• bleeding after sex

• periods that are much longer or much shorter than normal

If you are really struggling with your energy levels, it’s also worth getting our thyroid checked, if it hasn’t already been because perimenopausal and menopausal women are at greater risk of thyroid dysfunction. Added to this, thyroid symptoms can mimic menopausal symptoms. The ovaries, uterus, adrenal glands and the brain require adequate thyroid hormones to function.

Whatever your specific symptoms are, a tailored nutrition plan can really help. I know you could Google ‘diet for perimenopause’, but the truth is – and I know this from working with many clients dealing with symptoms – the answer lies not in fixing yourself symptom by symptom. In the human body everything is connected in ways you might not imagine. Looking at the whole of you rather than individual complaints is the way forward.

I work with women who are done with dealing with feeling a shadow of the person they used to know and love. My answer to them is, I can’t reverse the clock, but we will work together so you don’t lose track of who you are!

This month I’m offering a free 20 minute hormone health consultation, plus a 10% discount on my three months Reset Programme. Places are limited, first come first served, so book your appointment today and save over a £50!

But I want to give you something to help you get started. Maintaining a stable blood sugar level can help. To do this:

• Eat three meals a day at regular intervals.

• Eat a palm-sized portion of protein at each meal (meat and poultry, fish and seafood, tofu, eggs, beans, lentils, chickpeas, nuts and seeds – ideally nothing in batter or breadcrumbs).

• Don’t worry about healthy fats, like olive oil and avocados (the calories in vs calories out myth has been debunked now for a while).

• Eat a minimum of five portions (three heaped tablespoons) of non-starchy vegetables / salad per day. Always have vegetables / salad with lunch and dinner, breakfast, too, if you wish. There is no upper limit on how many vegetables you can eat. The ideal options are anything that grows above ground.

• Eat two portions of low glycaemic fruit per day, with meals - bananas are high in sugar, however handy they are to transport so try to stick to berries of any kind, apples, pears, plums, tangerines or similar, lemon and lime, peaches and nectarines.

• Ideally you should feel satisfied from your main meals and not require snacks though the day, however, should you feel hungry or if you are working out, you can have one snack per day – something like oatcakes with cream cheese, hummus, cottage cheese, ham and tomato, a small pot of natural yoghurt with berries, a Bounce ball, a handful of nuts and/or seeds, a matchbox-sized chunk of cheese with an apple, cut up apple and unsweetened nut butter.

You would be amazed the difference a really good sleep can have on symptoms as it helps managing stress levels.

On both counts, Epsom salt baths deliver amazing results. You’ll also want to put in place a proper sleep plan that limits screen time at least one hour before bed, has some wind-down time, involves a dark room (or eye mask) … I know you understand that on an intellectual level. But are you actually doing anything about it?

This is already a lot for you to think about for a so I will leave you with this. Choose to work on ONE thing only this week. It doesn’t really matter what it is. Don’t take on too much at once. Get really good at getting an early night, winding down with a book and enjoying the benefit of good sleep. Or focus on getting in more veg into your diet. Or eating a good breakfast using the guidelines above. Which will you choose?

Fabiana Matos 
DipCNM mBANT rCNHC
Nutritional Therapist and Health Coach
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