Advice please: Insomnia and headaches worse after seeing healer

[kudos100]

I've suffered from chronic insomnia and headaches for the last 5 years as a result of doing EFT tapping, which caused some sort of energy blockage in my head.

 

Over the last 5 years I have tried many things (acupuncture, reiki, qi gong,) but nothing has really got rid of the problem.

 

Last week I went to see an energy healer and although I felt some better physically, I found it almost impossible to sleep that night. Since then my sleep has been even worse and I have been getting headaches more frequently.

 

If feels as though the energy is even more concentrated in my head.

 

I'm really reluctant to go back as I've had such a bad experience. The guy is a powerful healer and I think that he may have tried to release the block and made it worse.

 

I wonder if anyone has some ideas about removing energy from the head. I've heard about grounding it and have had some success with pushing it down to my feet.

 

I'm at the end of my tether with this and am tired of taking 3 different pills to help me sleep.

 

Any ideas or personal experience would be great.

 

 

 

 

[Friend]

How you know it is from EFT tapping?

[kudos100]

I felt a surge of energy in the front of my head and eyes while doing the tapping and then couldn't sleep at all that night. I have had problems sleeping ever since.

[de_paradise]

Energy, in reality it is continuously moving, similar to blood. Feelings of pressures may be due to overall unbalanced openings of energy channels, and therefore the solution is a rigorous, long-term self-application to energy balancing activities (not little fixes and herbs). Get into nature, camping, sports, surfing, canyoning, mountain hiking, etc. The 9 bottled breath meditation is good for balancing. Salt water baths. Common reasons for insomnia is stress, pressures, psychological emotional issues. EFT is not a cause but became a trigger for unbalanced opening of energy channels, letting the unresolved emotional issues to come to the forefront, affecting sleep balance.

Edited June 20, 2014 by de_paradise

[Friend]

I felt a surge of energy in the front of my head and eyes while doing the tapping and then couldn't sleep at all that night. I have had problems sleeping ever since.

What was the issue you tapped?

[kudos100]

EFT is not a cause but became a trigger for unbalanced opening of energy channels, letting the unresolved emotional issues to come to the forefront, affecting sleep balance.

 

I agree. The trouble is I have spent the last 5 years of my life trying many things and nothing has worked. I regularly mountain bike, get out in nature and do all of the common things to help the body maintain balance.

 

I want to try a find a way to get my energy channels back into balance and so far have not had much luck. It feels like an impossible puzzle as meditation, reiki, acupuncture and qi gong have only helped so much and am running out of things to try.

[Aetherous]

Do physical labor each day, to the point where you're very tired by the time you want to sleep.

Edited June 21, 2014 by Aetherous

[Silent Answers]

Can I suggest that after years of suffering you have become conditioned to carrying it around. In other words, you're too used to it being stuck there and subconsciously won't let it ease up.

 

Try to refocus your attention to elsewhere... Mentally stroke the pain down your body to your heels and into the earth gently with some relaxing music very faintly in the background.

 

Alternatively close your eyes, head slightlyyyy tilted back, eyes still shut but looking up towards the area between your eyebrows and visualise the pain melting/flowing/spilling backwards out of your skull.

 

If that fails...have you ever smoked marijuana? Certain strains are great for pain relief and if you combine it with some qigong it might do the trick and loosen you up.

 

I can't imagine having spent 5 years like that!

Edited June 21, 2014 by Silent Answers

[GrandmasterP]

Hi kudos100.

Might the remedy lie in your post?

Two healing types interventions and after each one you are worse off than you were before.

Maybe that's an indication for you not to look outside to another person to take on the responsibility for healing you but to have a go for yourself.

Regular disciplined cultivation is a good start.

Fresh air and lots of exercise.

You'll sleep if you are physically tired from good healthy exercise.

Lay off booze completely if you use that and avoid caffeine apart from good tea.

Don't drink soda pop or anything 'fizzy'.

Change comes from within.

Warmest best regards to you for all success.

Edited June 21, 2014 by GrandmasterP

[Friend]

I agree. The trouble is I have spent the last 5 years of my life trying many things and nothing has worked. I regularly mountain bike, get out in nature and do all of the common things to help the body maintain balance.

 

I want to try a find a way to get my energy channels back into balance and so far have not had much luck. It feels like an impossible puzzle as meditation, reiki, acupuncture and qi gong have only helped so much and am running out of things to try.

You might do not take the possibility but the phenomenom is bound to the wish by removing the issue.

When a goal is strongly wished then a special trial will be given to give you the lecture to reach your goal.

You will run into things to solve it and each part is only one piece of puzzle solving things around the problem

itself. Even if you want to change it, when the task it not solved it wont go away.

Healers can not interfere with lesson.

Later reflection on it will have impact later on understanding what is now learned.

[de_paradise]

At the moment I am helping a woman with similar insomnia problem. I see two reasons: One is, repressed emotions from history, like guilt, self-blame, self-pity. Reason 2 is a tension-filled lifestyle. Neither of these two reasons are palatable because reason 1 means getting deeper and deeper into hidden stuff that does not want to be seen, so painful so she spent alot of effort in repressing it. Reason 2 means that the solution would to move on or totally quit the lifestyle (business success) to an unknown, likely less successful life.

 

So the easier route is to suggest a lower chakra energizing lifestyle, close to the outdoors as much as possible, so a rebalance happens in a natural way, rather than deliberate therapy, which is always hit and miss--as you have seen. If you go to a therapist or specialist in some sprititual modality, they will always sell you on their interpretations of the problem, and sell you on their solution.

 

If there was a death of a loved one previous to the insomnia, then you may want to include spirit attachment as possible cause.

[kudos100]

Hi kudos100.

Might the remedy lie in your post?

Two healing types interventions and after each one you are worse off than you were before.

Maybe that's an indication for you not to look outside to another person to take on the responsibility for healing you but to have a go for yourself.

Regular disciplined cultivation is a good start.

Fresh air and lots of exercise.

You'll sleep if you are physically tired from good healthy exercise.

Lay off booze completely if you use that and avoid caffeine apart from good tea.

Don't drink soda pop or anything 'fizzy'.

Change comes from within.

Warmest best regards to you for all success.

 

I agree I've not had much luck with healing methods. The things you mention help somewhat, but I get a opposite response to exercise. I feel tired but cannot sleep. It is torture. I love mountain biking, but find it really hard as my nervous system and brain seem to get wound up and I am half dead the next day due to lack of sleep.

 

I never had any problems sleeping until I tried EFT.

 

I hardly ever drink, never consume caffeine and do not take any stimulants.

 

I sleep in a blacked out room with no electrical devices and do not watch tv or surf the net before bed. I listen to meditation tapes before bed and wear earplugs.

 

I've tried tens of different supplements and pills. I meditate before bed sometimes.

 

Nothing really has a decent effect and without sleeping pills I will sleep for 2-3 hours.

[Andrei]

Have you tried 5-HTP? This is the precursor of serotonine, which is the precursor of melatonine. Also you can try to eat as a last meal before bed (dinner) either a heavy meal like meat or something greasy, like a warm glass of milk with ghee. Turkey or chicken has the most content of tryptophan which is the precursor of H-5TP which is etc. alhough any meat has tryptophan. Also rice has the highest content of tryptophan, if you are not a meat eater you can try rice boiled in milk before bed. I think you are a pitta type constitution according to ayurveda, pitta gives insomnia. You can search on google pitta type ayurvedic diet.

 

Sometimes I do have headaches and insomnia because of the headaches but in my case is because I am vata type and i get external wind and cold inside the head due to air conditioning. Sometimes I get the headaches just because of the outside cold wind, which enters into the head through the wind gates ( there are some acupuncture points at the base of the skull). When i get this type pf headaches I drink some hot tea with hot spices to expel the wind, and I massage the skull around the hairline with Tiger Balm or any strong balm that contains menthol, eucalyptus oil, camphor I put a towel around my head and sleep with pillows on top. But this type of insomnia and headaches is caused by wind and cold which is just the opposites of the pitta (excessive fire) type of insomnia.

 

So it depends on what energy type you are and what energy you are exposed at, and also what you eat.

Edited June 21, 2014 by Andrei

[mike 134]

I wonder if anyone has some ideas about removing energy from the head. I've heard about grounding it and have had some success with pushing it down to my feet.

 

I've been fighting against this for years now, and I consider myself somewhat of an expert.

 

Most methods you see floating around are slow, passive, and nonspecific. Like relaxing, exercising, eating healthy foods, etc. By the time you have enough stuff stuck in your head to cause insomnia, these methods will not be enough, and you will need to take a more active approach.

 

The energy, or whatever you want to call it, flows in specific paths. The path it takes going down is the front limb of the micro cosmic orbit, starting from the top of your head and going down the front of your body. That means your forehead, nose bridge, down your tongue (keep the tip of the tongue pressed against your hard palate), chin, front of neck, front of chest, and the front of your belly.

 

You need to place all of your concentration to the top of your head. Gentle attention is not enough. You need to fight, grit your teeth, and put every ounce of your sweat, blood, and determination into focus up there. Then push down hard, down the path I described above, ending in your belly. Then start at the top again, and push down again. Keep doing this, and eventually you will feel a stream of heat flowing downwards. That's the beautiful sensation of energy getting the @#%@ out of your head and back to your belly where it belongs.

[Friend]

Mike 134 told the right thing.

But can you move what is stuck in the head kudos100?

When the healer put energy into your head then it is wrong,

as powerful as he is you said he should have disperse it or pull it out.

[kudos100]

I've been fighting against this for years now, and I consider myself somewhat of an expert.

 

Most methods you see floating around are slow, passive, and nonspecific. Like relaxing, exercising, eating healthy foods, etc. By the time you have enough stuff stuck in your head to cause insomnia, these methods will not be enough, and you will need to take a more active approach.

 

The energy, or whatever you want to call it, flows in specific paths. The path it takes going down is the front limb of the micro cosmic orbit, starting from the top of your head and going down the front of your body. That means your forehead, nose bridge, down your tongue (keep the tip of the tongue pressed against your hard palate), chin, front of neck, front of chest, and the front of your belly.

 

You need to place all of your concentration to the top of your head. Gentle attention is not enough. You need to fight, grit your teeth, and put every ounce of your sweat, blood, and determination into focus up there. Then push down hard, down the path I described above, ending in your belly. Then start at the top again, and push down again. Keep doing this, and eventually you will feel a stream of heat flowing downwards. That's the beautiful sensation of energy getting the @#%@ out of your head and back to your belly where it belongs.

 

Thank you for this mike, it describes exactly what my situation is. None of the regular suggestions touch the energy in my head. The only thing I have had success with is acupuncture which moves the energy around my body a bit and forcefully pushing the energy down myself. It is not particularly pleasant as it feels like an electric shock coming out of my head and down my spine. Most of the time I am pushing it down the back rather than the front. I normally do this before sleep as it seems to help get some of the energy down for a bit.

 

Can I ask how.much time do you spend pushing the energy down? I normally do 10-15 minutes before feeling drained.

 

No matter how much I try the energy always returns to my head and the cycle continues.

[Andrei]

If you put your energy from head to intestines, then you need to have your intestines full with food, especially that kind of food that gives you sleepness.

[Aetherous]

No matter how much I try the energy always returns to my head and the cycle continues.

 

This is because it's not a good technique...

 

Why? Because the flow of pretty much all of the channels is naturally upward, even the front channel of the MCO. Also because when you use your mind to sink energy downward, it causes an over-activation of energy in the head, which coincidentally causes the energy to just continue rising. It also causes a counterflow of qi in the channels...which basically means they stop functioning correctly and you just get further strange symptoms.

 

A downward flow done gently and moderately isn't so bad if the practice is done for the right reasons...but even then, contrary to what people think, it actually causes a further opening of the crown and an empowering in the head, rather than a natural flow of energy in the whole body.

 

Just throwing that out there in case you decide it's not working well enough for you.

[Friend]

This is because it's not a good technique...

 

Why? Because the flow of pretty much all of the channels is naturally upward, even the front channel of the MCO. Also because when you use your mind to sink energy downward, it causes an over-activation of energy in the head, which coincidentally causes the energy to just continue rising. It also causes a counterflow of qi in the channels...which basically means they stop functioning correctly and you just get further strange symptoms.

 

A downward flow done gently and moderately isn't so bad if the practice is done for the right reasons...but even then, contrary to what people think, it actually causes a further opening of the crown and an empowering in the head, rather than a natural flow of energy in the whole body.

 

Just throwing that out there in case you decide it's not working well enough for you.

It works but the energy has to flow,

when it acts like a dead mass then it is like ball on water you push into water.

The energy has to flow and spread through the body.

[mike 134]

Can I ask how.much time do you spend pushing the energy down? I normally do 10-15 minutes before feeling drained.

 

 

I'm not always so gracious but I know full well how bad energy-stuck-in-the-head is (worse than most mental illnesses), so I will give you some detailed pointers.

 

- you can also try to move the "energy" down your back. This is the posterior part of the micro-cosmic orbit. So start at the top of your head, and push downwards through the back. You can also try the "central channel"; push straight down the center of your body. I sometimes alternate the three. I would do one cycle down the front, the next down the back, and the last down the center, then repeat. You can choose another order, it doesn't really matter. But most of the time I do front only.

 

-you don't have to start at the very top of your head. Start where you can generate so heat or pressure, something that you can feel. This might be slightly behind the top. Or maybe its your forehead, or perhaps in the bridge of your nose.

 

-when you trace downwards, no matter which channel, you should ALWAYS exhale, and do it through your nose. Put some pressure on the exhale, like you are fogging a mirror, only deeper (valsalva). Each cycle (from top of head to belly) takes 5-10 seconds. Then take a regular inhale, and then do another cycle. I like to do everything while laying down flat in bed.

 

-place more emphasis at the beginning, in your head. You really want to trace out the head to neck path carefully. But going from the heart to the belly, or from the belly to the genitals, is not as important. If you don't feel anything, use these 3 reference points: the bridge of your nose, the hard palate where your tongue touches, and the base of the neck. Imagine a line joining these 3 points, and PUSH HARD down this line.

 

-sometimes I bob my head (thus moving the neck) while I trace down. This sometimes helps in getting that shit down the neck.

 

- sometimes I try the "proper" micro-cosmic orbit. That is, going UP the back, and down the front. You might think this is counter-intuitive, since you start by going up, but sometimes this actually works better for symptoms. When you trace up you should inhale, but don't put any pressure on it, and reverse to exhale on your way down.

 

-keep the tip of tongue touching hard palate at all times, even while doing everyday activities.

 

-once you get this stuff out, you need to keep it out. That's when general lifestyle advice comes in. For me, the most important is aerobic exercise. Go run or get on a cardio machine for 30 min a day. This will distribute the energy to your body instead of your head. Avoid stress, don't drink caffeine, and don't think too hard (this sends that stuff to your head like nothing else).

[bax44]

 

 

I'm not always so gracious

Lol... Wow. Maybe good thing you're not too, we'd all have the spooky koond-a-lini ruining our lives. Edited June 22, 2014 by bax44

[Goldleaf]

I agree. The trouble is I have spent the last 5 years of my life trying many things and nothing has worked. I regularly mountain bike, get out in nature and do all of the common things to help the body maintain balance.

 

I want to try a find a way to get my energy channels back into balance and so far have not had much luck. It feels like an impossible puzzle as meditation, reiki, acupuncture and qi gong have only helped so much and am running out of things to try.

 

Hi kudos100,

 

Your problem sounds like something I had recently experienced, and I had the exact same approach. (Which didn't work).

 

ONe of the things I realised, is that qigong and the Western mindset, doesn't go together (I'm assuming you are from a Western soceity). We are taught in the West that everything has a formula, everything is a puzzle to be solved, cause and effect, and the biggest thing, that to improve something, we have to add to it.

 

Then qigong comes along, and the fact is, if I really want to get something out ofr it, I have to do the exact opposite of each of those things. And the fact is that qigong is like life!

 

-Qigong isn't a formula, its a mixture.

 

-There is no puzzle to be solved, nothing to be improved, when thousands of years of efforts of past masters (thanks to them!) has distilled qigong (assuming you are pracrticing high-quality qigong) to its best, I repeat, best that it can offer you.

 

-There is no cause and effect! There simply is action and inaction! Everything is cause and effect, and nothing is cause and effect!

 

So may I humbly suggest the following. Give the above approach a try, see how it feels for you. Also you could try focus on letting go, and enjoying. Do nothing, no chi kung, no deep breathing, no meditation, for a day or even two, to let your energy settled down. Just enjoy. Enjoy simple things. Trust your body, it will let your energy settle down, and if things haven't improved, try asking another high-level healer for an energy healing. But DON'T practice chi kung before or after the healing. (It worked for me after I was getting horrible horrible sleeps from overtraining, see- my recent post in healing circle).

 

Then, be wary of overtrainig in future. If you are practic ing high-quality chi kung, it is always better to undertrain than overtrain. If you are worrying about getting "the perfect amount" of chi kung, than you need to readjusting your approach! And/or doulbe check with your chi kung teacher regarding combining variuos healing techniques yuou mentioned.

 

It may be hard to try this new approach, because it was for me, but one way to look at it is - you have all these wonderful healing techniques at your disposal, so why worry! You are set for life.

 

Gl

Edited June 24, 2014 by Goldleaf