How Stress Can Leave You Shouting Out In Pain

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How Stress Can Leave You Shouting Out In PainStress is a highly individualistic, multi-faceted response to a set of circumstances that place a demand on physical or mental energy.

If you’re stressed out it can lead to an increase in pain in your body.  Here’s a real world example.  I have a retired client who came to see me to help with her chronic hip pain.  Within months she was functioning pain-free. She went back to her regular long nature walks and wasn’t troubled by pain while falling asleep.  All is going along swimmingly and she is just doing maintenance treatments to keep her functioning at her peak. Now she can do renovations around the house she can twist, bend and turn her body without any protests.

She takes a job just for “fun” and it ends up pouring on the stress. Not just that but family stressors add to the mix and she now has pain in her hip again at a level of 7 out of 10 as she describes it.

So what happened?

Stress my friends is what happened.

I see this all the time and I wish I could wave my magic wand and take it away. So that’s just what I did. I’ve been playing with a new healing technique that I’ve been playing with for years.  It helped unfreeze a 40-year-old frozen shoulder so I thought why not?

I did an assessment on my lovely retiree and found all the usual limitations in her joints. After 25 minutes of clearing blockages out of her energy field I checked back and found all the motion in her body was balanced again. I was amazed. I still did all the usual muscle testing to make sure every muscle was strong and it wasn’t just more motion without stability and there were three muscles that were weak where normally there are about fifteen. Long story short I checked back with her about a week later and she said her pain was now 3 out of 10 instead of the previous 7.

As a logical cynic it’s really hard for me to trust this healing process but here it is showing up for me again and again. The proof is staring me straight in the face so after twelve years in this field I’m finally trusting that the right combination of energetic and physical treatment can work wonders for pain even the most stubborn, surgery begging pain that you can’t seem to get rid of.

I still find it really interesting that we could clear and affect her joint settings and pain so drastically by not even touching her body. By clearing out “hot spots” in her body and bringing in “light” we could really change pain as well as the amount of motion and strength she had. Now the real test will be how she does during her two month walking trip abroad.

Stress that we don’t deal with, ignore or push down ends up getting stored somewhere in our bodies and sometimes that stress manifests as pain you would swear is completely physical but there is more to it than that. That I am sure of now.

If you suspect you have pain in your body as a result of chronic job stress, life stress, marital problems, loss of a loved one Apana Bodywork is in the business of digging deeper, finding the root cause and pulling it out of your body.

An easy solution for stress is focusing on finding relief and making ourselves a bit happier in the moment. So what happened with my retiree?  In the end she quit her not-so-fun job and returned to doing things that she enjoys and I’m sure her pain will continue on its downward trend back to zero.

If you would like to book a complimentary consultation with Madeleine Call 647.801.2424 or connect on www.apanabodywork.com .

~ Madeleine

Event: Have You Tried Everything to Relieve Your Pain?

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have you tried everything - eventJoin us at Nature’s Emporium in Newmarket for a short talk on the emotional and physical causes of pain and what you can do to massively clear it out of your body!

DRAW TO WIN A FREE SESSION OF YOURCHOICE!

(Muscle Activation Techniques or Trame Vibrational Therapy)

Event Details:

April 12th at 7pm-8pm

Nature’s Emporium

16655 Yonge St. Newmarket ON L3X 1V6

Register in store or Call 905.898.1844

more about this event at NaturesEmporium.com/events

Life Balance / Stress-Reduction Workshop

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Join Madeleine Dasilva at Gatherings Floral Studio for our next workshop…

Friday, April 7th @ 7pm

Cost $85 + HST

Join us for this transformative workshop where our friend, Madeleine Dasilva – Trame Vibrational Therapist, Reiki Master Healer/Teacher and Certified Muscle Activation Specialist will guide us through critical steps to help achieve harmony and balance within our mind and body.  This journey will include a bulb planting lesson which will be directly tied to the key steps in ways to decrease stress.  As we plant, we will learn about the power of focus, posture, movement, breath, grounding and connecting.  Specifically, Madeleine will guide us on how to incorporate these techniques into our daily routines to decrease stress while promoting our body’s emotional and physical healing process.

Sign up on our website @ www.gatheringsfloralstudio.ca/workshops or call the studio to reserve your spot

905-836-0808

Most Common Detox Effects of Trame Vibrational Therapy

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My clients always ask what are the normal detox effects of Trame so here is a list of the most common side effects of Trame. As I always say: Better out than in!

Most frequently observed Secondary Effects of Trame Vibrational Therapy:

► Sense of floating anywhere from 24 hours to 7 days

► Digestive upset, skin eruptions, swelling, purging

► Impression of disequilibrium

► Temporary aggravation of the symptoms or symptoms from a past ailment

► Generally, energy/emotions will exit from the area of the symptom is or via the path of least resistance

► The original symptom for which the client was treated disappears

► Urine and bowel movements may have a characteristic of Sulphur

► Menstrual cycle modified

►Sleep modification and dreaming

Associated Effects of Trame Vibrational Therapy:

►Your apparent radiance can change, human relationships within your environment may change

►Your outlook on life may change, situations which once seemed dramatic may now become completely acceptable and no longer a source of worry

► Rethinking situations, taking a different direction in life

► No longer being submerged by emotions and being emotionally more stable, can more easily manage crisis situations

Accompanying Effects of Trame Vibrational Therapy:

►There are few results I genetic illness or physical handicap

► However, it is possible to stabilize the evolution of an illness and see improvements in the quality of life (less pain and more energy) as well.

► In the case of terminal illness, there will be a relief in the symptoms

►For those who cannot change their life style or living conditions: trame treatments will ease the tension, release excess or pent up emotions helping them to better face daily life.

Book your FREE 30 Minute Consultaion now by calling 647.801.2424

~ Madeleine

A Drug-Free Alternative to Treating Anxiety and Depression

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Mention this article and receive 20% off your first session

If my daughter came to me and told me she was sad or anxious and had been for a long time my reflexive reaction would be to bring her to the doctor. I think whenever there is something wrong with us that’s our first instinct.

What if the anxiety/depression got worse and now you really feel that pressure to find a solution for your child? Maybe it’s you that is experiencing the discomfort of your own emotions.  Often we sweep it under the rug thinking that a solution will be very difficult or it won’t work. That’s the ironic part about depression we feel hopeless so we’re less likely to take action. The excuse with anxiety is often “I already have so much on my plate, how could I possibly take on more?”

Whatever the case I’m here to present you with an alternative.  It’s drug-free, it’s holistic, it’s not harmful to your body and there are no side effects except some detox symptoms and there have been some pretty awesome results specific to anxiety and depression that I will share with you a little later.

Let me share a little about my personal experience with these two conditions.  Until now, I have experienced my share of both depression and a few years ago anxiety. They were both intense at times but neither stopped me from living my life and I wasn’t using any medications to alleviate my symptoms. When I was depressed as a teen I still skated 15 hours a week and wrote my exams at school and was on the honor roll.  I got up every morning and did all the things I had to do. I wanted to ask for help but I didn’t know where to go or who to trust.  Many years later as an adult when the trauma I experienced caused me to carry an extreme fear of the future with me every day. I still got up and went to work and cared for my baby.  Because that’s what you do. I didn’t know why I still felt the anxiety the trauma was over and all was well but I just did. I couldn’t shake it off in the words of Miss Taylor Swift (and my daughter’s favorite song).

My point here is that many of us think that we have to get to a point of no return before we seek help. That is just not the case.

So what do you do when you’re feeling uncomfortable in your own body? You think you’re managing well but in those quiet moments before you go to sleep you really want some relief.  I know I did. I was considering anti-anxiety meds because I was operating under the assumption that it would all go away.  If the herbal solutions I was on didn’t feel good I was sure a drug in my system would feel even worse so I stayed away. But I still wanted to stop feeling like the floor was going to disappear underneath me and as if every little thing was stressing me out. This wasn’t how I used to be! What was happening to me?

But that didn’t stop me from thinking a prescription was the only solution. Me. A holistic healer thinking drugs were the answer! What will stop others to think the same way? We see it in pages of a magazine, in commercials on television that drugs are the answer.  I think part of their appeal is the quick fix mentality. I subscribed to that too but it isn’t true.

Drugs aren’t going to go to the root of your discomfort and heal it from the inside out. Drugs will most likely cover up the symptoms and give you a host of unwanted side effects.

Having said that I feel I need to clarify that I am not anti-drug. If drugs work for you and your body I say go for it but it’s for those people that drugs feel even worse than the depression or anxiety itself. It’s for those people that wish they didn’t’ have to experience the side effects on top of feeling worse just in a different way, they just want relief!

If you’re one of those people wishing there was an alternative to a chemical approach consider the following: According to a University of California Study If you’ve been diagnosed with anxiety or depression within the last 5 years you will have significant improvement in your condition within 3-5 Trame Vibrational Therapy Sessions.

When you choose Trame Vibrational Therapy there are many benefits.

The treatment continues to work on you for up to 40 days

One treatment every 3 weeks (to allow for integration)

No side-effects only detox symptoms

There is no homework.

There is no feedback.

Just long term improvement in your condition.

I’ve experienced the effects of Trame and once you get reconnected your internal guidance system kicks in and shows you the way. That internal guidance system are your emotions and the massages they are sending you are very accurate.  It’s like all of a sudden you progressively get more and more in tune with yourself. You start to accept things you formerly fought against. You make the necessary changes and adjustments in your life that ultimately make you a happier person.

You become empowered to speak up or take action. You reignite your passion for something or someone. You find your creativity again. You get out of your own way.

It’s the person you are already, Trame just reminds you that you are infinite intelligence, infinite wisdom and unconditional love.

All these things happen to my clients on a regular basis. It’s not a cure all. Not all conditions disappear but with anxiety and depression the results have been very consistent.

So, next time you’re feeling off, have trouble sleeping, feel more wound up than you’d like call to schedule a Trame Vibrational Therapy session. In the majority of cases it will give you the relief you’re looking for at minimal cost to your body and wallet.

With gratitude for all you are,

Madeleine Dasilva

Good Grief

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Every sad, tragic thing that’s ever happened to you has had the opportunity to shape you more into who you are… or conversely has led you to forget who you are more and more until you don’t recognize yourself anymore.

As beautiful as life is, it can be utterly impossible at times. You’re humming along and bam!  Life throws you something you never expected and it changes the way you look at things completely. Sometimes for the better and sometimes not.

You try to hang on to your beliefs but with all the shock and awe it’s getting harder and harder to do this.

For me, it was the doctors. The big time, big hospital doctors that told me over and over again to give up on my daughter because there was no hope. I knew better so I fought them. I disagreed. The more I fought, the harder they argued and in the end, I succumbed. I literally fell to the floor. My legs just gave out. It was a huge loss. It was a loss of my trust in the universe. My hope that all things work themselves out for the best and that I was always protected and cared for.

If that was the case, how could this be happening? What am I supposed to learn from this?

The more tragic the situation, more important the lesson.

What if the situation is long over, you’ve tried to learn from it yet you’re still carrying the emotional weight of it around with you?

When I was going through the trauma of Zoe possibly passing any day I thought I was okay. I had found some relief with my daily Qi Gong practice.  After my first Trame Vibration session I got in my car and I felt so calm. Like everything inside my head and body was quiet for the first time in a long time. I started driving away and the stillness remained. I put on the radio and thought, “this is my jam!” I cranked it up and proceeded to rock out. Alone. No, this isn’t embarassing, this is monumental! I hadn’t realized I wasn’t enjoying music anymore until that moment!

This was the first change I noticed followed by many others. It made me think of all the people out there that were suffering in their state of anticipatory grief. Had Zoe passed I would have gone to therapy or talked to someone but because she survived everyone assumed I was okay.

How many of us are caring for a sick or dying parent, caring for a child with an unknown disability or grieving a loss that hasn’t come?

I am still baffled that I needed help and I didn’t know it. My Trame treatment helped me start to see things differently. As Dr.Wayne Dyer wrote: “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change” but how do you do that when your emotions are overwhelming?

There are many ways up the mountain and what works for me or you may not be suitable for someone else but it’s worth opening our eyes to see that we can feel good again. Despite all that’s happened you can find your joy, find the little things that make you smile and eventually with enough momentum going in the direction of appreciation  that inner smile turns into an outer one on your face.

All of a sudden more choices are all spread out in front of you and you are in awe of the progress you’ve made. Synchronicities show up.  Some days will suck. Some days will not but you keep getting up every morning and asking yourself what makes me happy? What will tickle you in this moment? Follow that innate wisdom inside of you and let what feels good be your guide.

Let’s make each moment sweet again for you and see how your world fills up with joy.

Lots of love,

Madeleine

You Are Your Business

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Are you running your own holistic, coaching or healing business?

I’m sure this isn’t news to you but YOU are your business.

Entrepreneurs know what I mean by this.  Our state is the number one predictor of success. If we feel confidant and ready to go that shows up for us as a full schedule of clients. When we doubt, are insecure or don’t feel worthy we repel potential clients.

But what about if you have it all figured out and something comes along as a surprise and throws you off your game? After all no one can predict the loss of a loved one, the onset of a health issue or the ending of a relationship.

This article is about my observation that when you’re going through a tough time in your personal life it is directly reflected in your business in terms of how smoothly it goes as well as how successful you are.

All businesses ebb and flow but when a big trauma hits, it can flatten your efforts at building your dream biz.

Maybe you don’t have as many bookings and you don’t feel particularly motivated or able to give.  Perhaps you are not fully present for your one-on-one sessions or maybe this stress is interrupting your sleep or ability to focus. However it is affecting you, it seems extra stressful to think that because you’re going through something serious that your business will be affected.

Funny thing, when we’re depleted ourselves, it’s like the bat signal gets projected out and the universe responds by giving you the space and time to heal.

Over the short term that’s okay but over the long term that can create panic.

So what do you do when you’d like to transform your state permanently, become empowered and kick some business ass? In the short term choose what you’re going to FOCUS on. In the moment make that choice. It’s incredibly powerful. If you need something deeper as in at a cellular level, I’m the gal for you.

Yes action is important in business. Absolutely. But if you’re in a non-deserving state, an unworthy state, stressed out or burnt out, you won’t attract the kind of success you’re craving.

Clear out the stress at a cellular level like you’ve never experienced before. Re align your body and become empowered in a big way to make you feel like the rock star that you are. As you change, your business will follow suit, I’ve seen it in mine again and again.

After a few Trame sessions you may reach out to a coach to get the training you need or you may take that course you’ve been stewing over for years or it may be that doing the superman pose for two minutes in the bathroom allows you to walk into the room with the confidence you’ve been longing for.

It’s never knowable how Trame will affect you but it does create pretty massive change, myself included. I’ve seen women walk in with zero self worth and walk out 3 sessions later on cloud 9 in love with themselves.

I was struggling with my business big time. I was in a perpetually low state. I felt unworthy and like I didn’t know what I was doing. I struggled with self-confidence and felt uncomfortable receiving money for my services. All this came on after a big trauma that I “thought” I had dealt with.

My couple Trame sessions got me ready to reach out to a coach and build up my mindset so that I could receive and feel good about it. I worked on my worthiness issues by becoming aware of my thoughts and re-working them into a thought I made me feel unstoppable.

It was an intense process but it got me to catch myself in my negative thought patterns.

The brain is just a tool. An amazing computer that can be re-programmed with a little work.

Just like the brain, the body has glitches that need to be cleared out in order to function optimally and restore harmony.

Trame does that. It clears the bugs out so you can make changes in your life with ease.

I would have never reached out to my coach had I not gotten my Trame sessions because I was in a hole. I felt so low that I couldn’t even afford coaching. After Trame I saw it as a necessity and that the money would come and it did.

If you’re ready for change in yourself and your business, Trame is for you. If you’re stuck, this will get you unstuck.

Sometimes all we need is to get out of the hole so we can see the light of day and make a new choice.

You just need to show up. Your infinitely wise body will do the rest.

~ Madeleine

I get knocked down but I get up again

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People always say it’s what you do with life’s challenges that determines the course of your life. Do you let them knock you down or do you get up and persevere? Depending on your reaction to a setback you create a different sort of life. A life where the possibilities are endless.

Now I’m not talking about always being ‘up’ or not getting knocked down because we all do. The difference is we get up. We don’t stay down and linger in it.

This topic of getting knocked down is on my mind because a few weeks ago a teacher of mine killed himself. It was unexpected and a shock to all.

How can that be? How can this smiling and seemingly perfect being on the outside possibly be driven to do something like this? It took the wind out of the whole community.

It was never mentioned that suicide was the cause of death. I understand. In order to protect the family it needed to be hidden but at what cost? Does it help us deal with this situation better in the future if we keep it a secret? How can we learn from this horrible situation if we don’t tell the truth about it?

How many teen suicides could be avoided if we shed some light on this? If we talked about it.

REALLY TALKED ABOUT IT.

It’s not something to be ashamed of. Some people are genetically predisposed. Others are in an environment that creates it while others have their own traumas and demons to work out. We all do.

 It left me wondering: If there are endless possibilities in the world and within ourselves, how can someone have painted themselves into a corner so dark that there is only one way out?

Depression is like that. It has a way of shutting the blinds, closing the door and sometimes throwing away the key.  At this point it becomes very hard for help to get through. It takes WANTING to get better, to get the help you need.

Hopelessness is one of the key markers of depression. Hope is exactly what one needs to take the first steps to recovery. Not a lot of it. Just a little bit. Just enough to get you out of bed and open the door a crack. Let some light in, let in a possibility or two that there are other options out there.

A ton of options really. I feel it’s been my life’s purpose to try all sorts of healing, therapy and courses in order to synthesize the information for myself, for my growth to combat my teen depression.

I have a long way to go of course but I’ve come a long way.

I’ve had to tune out my overactive brain and critical thoughts and replace them with empowering ones.

I’ve decided to trust each day that I deserve to be loved unconditionally.

I’ve opened myself up to receive love and not be fearful of it.

I have stopped underestimating myself and started believing in my magic.

For those out there that are suffering there is a solution. There are many solutions. If you could believe for just one moment that you being on this earth has tremendous value that the universe has set out for you challenges but none you can’t surmount when you create an opening for change.

The door doesn’t have to swing wide open. It just needs to be open a crack to let the light in.

If you or someone you know are struggling with depression please reach out to someone. Of course I am always here to help. I would love witness your transformation. It is possible.

Share this with someone who may look perfectly fine on the outside but who you feel is shrinking on the inside. It could save their life.

~ Madeleine

Are You a Sponge for Emotions?

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My dad has always said that I need a peaceful environment. I guess he noticed how frazzled I got when things got too chaotic around me growing up. It could be subtle or obvious but I would felt all the tension or negativity more than the average bear and it would affect me especially since everyone was feeling different things.

 When you’re a sponge for all the emotions around you, it can get overwhelming and affect your mood, productivity or even your sanity at times.

Being spongy is a blessing and a curse. It’s a blessing when you can use it to help someone or when you’re in a pleasant environment but it’s a curse when you’re surrounded by people that are stressed or upset and you absorb it all like a sponge.

Another word for spongy is being an “empath”.

Empaths pick up on emotions around them.  It becomes an issue is when:

  1. We have trouble not absorbing it, we have no choice.
  2. We have trouble letting it go

Empaths can’t squeeze out the sponge so easily. We carry it around with us. It’s not good for our health or our state of mind and it continues to build up inside.

So what do you do if you’re a spongy empath? Well lucky for you there are many ways to squeeze out that sponge and release all those absorbed feelings.

The most effective ones I’ve experienced are one and two on the list below. Hands down the fastest way to dump all that accumulated stuff that you don’t want to carry around anymore while empowering different aspects of the self.

Effective Ways to Squeeze Out the Sponge:

  1. Trame Vibrational Healing
  2. Qi Gong (the clearing one by Master Yap)
  3. Healing
  4. Therapy
  5. Meditation
  6. Walking in nature
  7. Yoga

Being spongy steals you away from your own present moment and transports you to another’s reality. There isn’t anything wrong with that in moderation but I find the more you feel other’s stuff, the more drawn into their drama you become. It has the tendency to replace your own mental space and temporarily takes your focus away from your own life.

One of my clients’ told me that she was so aware of their boss lurking around the corner that she was on edge the whole day and couldn’t get into her groove at work.  She was so worried that at any second the big boss will pop his head in and criticize her.

She being a sponge felt everyone around her and it was affecting her ability to focus on her work.  After two Trame Vibrational Therapy sessions she said: “You know what? It doesn’t matter what is going on around me, I just don’t take it on”. She continued to explain how even in the presence of auditors, she didn’t break a sweat. It was like water off a ducks back!

One big advantage of Trame Vibrational Therapy is that it squeezes out that sponge so that you don’t continue to accumulate everyone’s stuff. Secondly, it makes you less sensitive to the drama around you leaving you better able to deal with everyday stress or even bigger life stresses. You can tune in if you choose but it becomes a choice not a given.

Don’t get me wrong being empathetic is a gift but there is a balance to be found between being empathetic and being present to your own thoughts and feelings and living YOUR life.

When this is off balance we can feel we are at the mercy of what is going on around us.  We feel defenseless to swim in the soup of emotions that surround us.  If you have the choice to leave that is great but oftentimes we’re at work and can’t change our environment.

If you can’t change your environment, change your perception of your environment.

Trame is like a “big data dump” as one of my clients described. She felt empty and quiet inside afterwards.

If you’re a spongy person, make sure you get regular if not, daily data dumps by doing any of the strategies I’ve mentioned in this article or one of your own that gives you peace and quiet inside. This “data” accumulates inside of us and needs to be cleared out regularly otherwise it will start affecting our health, mental clarity, sleep, relationships and ability to experience joy.

In this life, it is all about you and your growth. It’s okay to focus inward and pay attention to you. There is nothing wrong with that.

To your growth & awareness!

With gratitude,

Madeleine Dasilva