Hemi-Sync® Journal 1998-4 (Fall)

eighteen minutes, hormones critical for muscle maintenance are released (Research spotlight 1994; Dunkin 1993; FAGWI 1995). Without this time in delta sleep, the body goes uncon- scious, but the restorative work is left undone. Symptoms of sleep deprivation set in. If lack of delta sleep persists, fibromyalgia-like symptoms—such as persistent and severe muscle pain—appear. Restoring proper delta sleep reduces or eliminates fibromyalgia symptoms (Leininger 1992; Doherty and Jones 1995). Hemi-Sync assists the brain to enter and maintain health- promoting deltawave patterns. Sleep is a learned behavior. Consistent use of the tapes every night upon retiring entrains the brain to this restorative habit. The change seems to be per- manent. Thankfully, once my wife, Sharon, was on a program of using the tapes every night, improvement occurred almost immediately (within two weeks). It was nine months before Sharon achieved consistent, normal sleeping patterns without Hemi-Sync. Most clients reclaim this sleep skill much sooner. Although Sharon's learning time was longer than average, after two years, she was pain free. Hemi-Sync sleep technology provides a drug-free solution that is gentle and easy to administer and has a permanent effect. Hemi-Sync is cost-effective, portable, and teaches additional healthful living skills. These skills are taught in the Sleep Better Workshop and through use of the POSITIVE IMMUNITY Program. POSITIVE IMMUNITY tapes provide layers of addi- tional benefits. As people learn to sleep and move into their bodies’ normal rhythms, they also learn how to boost their immune systems. We augment the POSITIVE IMMUNITY Program with HUMAN PLUS DeDiscomfort for offtape pain control. Case Report L. B. and her husband are caretakers of a senior citizen high-rise apartment complex. After being diagnosed with severe fibromyalgia by a regional medical center, she recalls this medical advice: “You will never work again. Go to Social Security, get disability, and learn to live with it the best you can. . . . Fibromyalgia will never kill you, but you may wish it did.” She came to us in desperation because relief from standard and alternative medical approaches was limited. Within a month of attending the EAI's Sleep Better Workshop, L. B. wrote, “.. . | have experienced some full nights’ sleep, free of medications, for the first time in one and one-half years. I came to the workshop excited about getting some help for my severe insomnia, yet apprehensive and full of concerns that this would not work for me. I am a Christian, raised in a Missouri Synod Lutheran background which, as you know, forbids ‘hypnosis,’ certain types of meditation, etc. | talked to some people about this workshop, and with all the gross ignorance out there, was warned that this might be ‘satanistic!’ Your straightforward, scientific approach calmed my anxieties. “I had been to the major clinics for health problems start- ing with Lyme disease since 1992, and even to the psychiatric clinic to obtain help after being told that this was ‘all in my head.’ We even tried biofeedback to help with the pain. No one, and I repeat, NO ONE [emphasis in original] was able to help with the sleep disturbance. My doctor was giving me sleeping pills and Trazadone’, an antidepressant that has a major side effect of sleepiness. He told me that if I refused to take the medications to finally get some sleep, I would end up in the mental hospital SOON [emphasis in original]! Desperate, I tried these too, and finally was able to get some ‘drug-induced’ sleep. The side effects were terrible! 1 quit the Trazadone and cut the sleeping pills in half. I just had to continue taking them in order to fall asleep. “Imagine my surprise and delight to realize that I had actu- ally ‘clicked out’ for part of one of the tapes on the first day of your Sleep Better Workshop! Since then I have been using the tapes every night and find that 1 have more energy and am getting back to my ‘presick’ work abilities. I need to learn to pace myself, however. I’ve had pain from overdoing as a result of this new burst of energy I feel. [L. B. washed every window in her complex two days after the workshop!) “Iam very much aware that Hemi-Sync is not a Magic Bullet but a progressive process. If there were any magic bullets, I think with all the clinics I have been through, one of the doctors would have discovered it! I know I have to work consistently with the tapes to benefit from and feel more comfortable with all these new tools you have provided me with for healing, pain, etc...” [Used with permission, May 1996] Two years later, in June 1998, we followed up with L. B. She reported that Hemi-Sync brain entrainment had per- manently changed her sleeping pattern. She now sleeps almost every night “like a log!” without using Hemi-Sync. She estimates iv --- PAGE 5 (OCR) --- Fall 1998 that she averages seven hours of sleep, without interruption, awaking refreshed. If there is an occasional “bad night,” she can usually pinpoint an increased stress in her life as the cause. In those cases, L. B. puts on a sleep tape and has a “refresher course” for that evening. L.B. has not seen a doctor since the Sleep Better Workshop. “No reason to,” she says. “I feel wonderful. I now do everything I did before. I work a regular day, and then some. I can lift everything I could before. The docs told me I would never be able to lift much again. I may have an occasional pain from overexertion, but it's like the old days before fibromyalgia, nor- mal aches. Never anywhere near as severe as before. Essentially Iam now pain free! The POSITIVE IMMUNITY Program is so helpful. When I was in the midst of the fibromyalgia battle, I would be susceptible to every bug that went around. Now I hardly ever get sick. Tell those doubting Thomases that my sister is martied to a Missouri Synod minister. They now have the tapes [POSITIVE IMMUNITY Program] in their church library!” References — Coren, S. 1996. Sleep Thieves. New York: Free Press. — Doherty, M., and A. Jones. 1995. Fibromyalgia syndrome. British Medical Journal, 11 February. - Dunkin, M. A. 1993. Fibromyalgia. Arthritis Today, Septem- ber/October. - Fan, P.T., and M. E. Blanton. 1994. Clinical features and diagnosis of fibromyalgia. Journal of Musculoskeletal Medicine, April, 24-42. — Fibromyalgia Association of Greater Washington, Inc., Fairfax, Va. (FAGWI). 1995. Monograph on fibromyalgia syndrome, fall. — Goldenberg, D. L. 1989. Overview of fibrositis/fibro- myalgia. Hospital Practice, 30 September. — Leininger, J. 1992. Fibromyalgia: A diagnostic challenge. Arthritis Northwest: Arthritis Foundation, fall/winter. — Research spotlight. 1994. Arthritis Today, January/February. - Sherman, C. 1992. Managing fibromyalgia with exercise. The Physician and Sports Medicine, October, 166-72. fe) For more information on the Sleep Better Workshop™ , contact Scott and Sharon Taylor, Cofounders Expanded Awareness Institute RR 1, Box 236€ St. Peter, MN 56082 Phone: (507) 387-6777 Fax: (507) 387-6777 E-Mail: awareedu@prairie.lakes.com THE MONROE INSTITUTE BOARD OF ADVISORS | Laurie A. Monroe | James Beal | Wilson Bullard, PhD ! Gregory D. 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