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Bach Flowers and Emotional Balance

Today I want to talk about something that is near and dear to my heart: Bach Flower essences, a natural path to emotional healing. Welcome to Quantum Waves of Wellness. I’m your host, Dr. Paula Apro—Doctor of Natural Medicine, holistic health mentor, and your guide to unlocking the healing power within. Today, we are going to explore one of my favorite ways to bring your emotions back into balance. Some of you may already know what Bach Flowers are, and some of you may be thinking, “I’ve heard the name, but I really don’t know much about them.” And honestly, that was me many years ago. I remember one of my roommates back in energy medicine school was starting to study them. The Bach Flowers were not part of our curriculum, and I was curious, but I had enough to worry about just trying to finish my certification. So I put my curiosity on hold. And then they resurfaced in a big way as I was completing my recent advanced degrees. I chose to work with the Bach Flower essences as the basis for my PhD dissertation research project. My fascination with them certainly grew during and after that project, but then life gets busy, I have a million other directions I’m always running in, and I simply forgot how very much I appreciate these magical little remedies. It wasn’t until I recently ran a Bach Flower workshop at the local high school here in Maine that my love and appreciation for them came flooding back. So today I thought I would share a little bit about what they are and why I love them so much. I have always been fascinated by the connection between emotions and health. In fact, if you’ve listened to this podcast for any length of time, you know that I talk about emotions quite a bit. I think we often underestimate how much influence they have over our lives. But the truth is, up to 90% of dis-ease in the body or mind is linked back to negative emotional energy trapped in the biofield. Most of us are carrying things around that we never fully processed. We all know it as “emotional baggage.” The worry, fear, resentment, grief, disappointment, etc . . . it can be from any time in our lives, and we just keep dragging it with us into the future. There is no doubt that it affects our energy, our outlook on life, and most definitely our health. That was exactly what fascinated Dr. Edward Bach. I guess I should back up a little bit and explain who Dr. Bach was. Dr. Edward Bach was a physician in England back in the early 1900s. He became increasingly frustrated with the idea of treating only physical symptoms. Sound familiar? I think we could use more Dr. Bachs in this world today! He started noticing that people with the same illnesses often had very similar personalities, emotional patterns, attitudes, and responses to stress. And he began wondering if those emotional patterns mattered when it came to health. His research led him to conclude that emotions and an unhappy spirit were the root of all dis-ease. Therefore, his aim was to make the spirit happy again by balancing emotions as a path to wellness. This resonated with me greatly because one of my favorite Quantum Physics healing theories is called “Downward Causation.” What this theory states is that healing goes “from the top down” . . . From the Spirit body, to the Mental body, to the Emotional body, to the Vital Body, and then finally to the physical body. Basically, healing the Spirit will heal everything else beneath it. This is where spontaneous remissions take place. If you only heal your Physical body without addressing the emotional, mental, and spiritual, chances are very great that the illness or disease will only resurface somewhere down the road. Since my dissertation had to prove out one of the Quantum Physics theories, I decided to see if I could prove that healing the spirit using Bach Flowers could actually reduce pain in the physical body. Now the research project was much more complicated than that, but I’m not going to bore you with the details. I just wanted to explain how I really got so intrigued with the Bach Flowers. By working with 20 different subjects and taking deep dives into their emotional wellness and their corresponding physical symptoms, there was NO DENYING the intimate connection between the two. Dr. Bach developed a system of 38 flower remedies designed to support different emotional states. I honestly can’t explain how a flower can affect an emotion, but that is the beauty of energy medicine... you don’t have to understand it, or even believe in it, to have it work. It just works. Through my research project, I was able to closely map out various people’s emotional challenges and correlate them to very specific physical ailments. And of course, the beauty of all this was that I used voice analysis to help us determine the Bach Flower essences that each individual was most in need of. The challenge is knowing, or guessing, which Bach Flowers would be the most beneficial for you. This can be very tricky because: * Sometimes our conscious mind is not really aware of how we truly feel because we are repressing old wounds. * And oftentimes, we are in complete denial of our hidden emotional states. Case in point... just this past weekend, I got inspired to make myself a custom remedy. I used my voice analysis to determine my highest priority flower essences. One of the flowers that came up as a high priority was Holly, and this particular one is to help with the feelings of “hate and jealousy.” Like most people, I immediately rejected the need for that particular flower because I feel that I don’t have a single ounce of hate or jealousy in me. But then I dug a little deeper into the essence of that flower. All of the flowers give you the negative personality traits that they are meant to balance, but sometimes it’s better to focus more on the positive virtue they are meant to bring. For instance, rather than me saying, “this is BS, the voice analysis must be wrong because I’m not at all a hateful or jealous person” ... I instead looked deeper into the potential benefits of taking this particular essence. It was then that I discovered that people in need of this flower may be unconsciously suffering from insecurity, and they may lack the ability to love. Hmmmm, now this sounds more like me! This really hit home for me, and I certainly could identify with this rather than feelings of hatred and jealousy. My wounded and closed heart seems to be a common recurring theme in most of my voice analyses. I went on to read that, “Holly protects us from everything that is not Universal Love. Holly opens the heart and unites us with Divine Love.” And I thought, “Yes, please. Give me some of that!” So my point here is that I would have NEVER chosen this flower for myself, but my subconscious knows better, and a voice analysis gives us the power to bypass the conscious mind and get information directly from the subconscious. I just find this so fascinating because many people are completely unaware of the emotional patterns they are carrying. And if you don’t know something is there, how can you address it? It’s a little bit like carrying a backpack full of rocks. If you’ve been carrying it long enough, eventually it just feels normal. You stop noticing the weight. But the weight is still there and so is your emotional stress. It gave me so much joy to introduce the Bach Flowers and voice analysis to the participants of my recent workshop. Every single person agreed that their voice analysis was spot on. Somehow this technology ‘just knew them.’ One of my favorite aspects of working with the Bach Flowers is that it changes the typical perspective of people seeking to improve their health. Rather than asking, “What’s wrong with me?” working with the Bach Flowers reframes the questions to, “What emotions are asking for my attention?” Usually it’s the emotions underneath the symptoms that are the pieces we’ve been missing all along. I always say... “Symptoms are messages.” But now I know that emotions are messages too! Now for the bad news. It’s usually very difficult for many people to get in touch with their emotions, me included. If at any given time in a normal day somebody asked me how I “feel,” I would have a hard time assigning an emotion or really even knowing how I feel. The sad truth is that most people are completely disconnected from their bodies and feelings so it’s hard to know what balancing you may need. And that’s where the voice analysis is like gold. You don’t have to know how to get in touch with your true feelings. Your subconscious does all the work for you. If you are interested in experiencing this for yourself, and you can be in Rockland, Maine on Thursday, August 6th, I’ll be running my Soothe Your Soul - Bach Flower Workshop from 6 - 8 PM. For more details, please visit the Events tab at www.thezenden.me [https://www.thezenden.me] Thanks so much for listening. If you enjoyed this episode, please consider subscribing and/or sharing with a friend. Until next time, continue to ride those waves of wellness. Quantum Waves of Wellness is a reader-supported publication. 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Wired, Tired, and Energetically Overloaded

Hello everyone, and welcome back to Quantum Waves of Wellness. I’m your host, Dr. Paula Apro, holistic health mentor, energy guru, and your guide to unlocking the healing power within. Today I’m going to explore some hidden energetic influences affecting your health and a possible way to better thrive in today’s challenging world. There is something lurking all around us that we cannot see… cannot smell… and often, we don’t even think about… yet we are immersed in it every single day. And that is EMFs. Those evil Electromagnetic frequencies. Don’t get me wrong, I love technology as much as the next person, and I would be lost without it. We live in a wireless world that makes things very convenient every single day. There’s no going back to life without wireless technology. But the reality is this… The human body was never designed to be surrounded by this level of constant man-made electromagnetic exposure 24 hours a day. For thousands of years, humans lived primarily within the Earth’s natural electromagnetic environment. Today, we are swimming in an ocean of artificial frequencies coming from cell towers, wireless routers, smart homes, tablets, smart watches, earbuds, televisions, and devices that stay way too close to our bodies almost constantly. And while science continues to debate just how much impact these EMFs may have on human biology, most of us don’t need a scientific report to realize that we simply don’t feel well. We’re more wired and tired. More restless. More anxious. More mentally foggy. And perhaps most commonly of all… We’re not sleeping well. I can’t tell you how many of my clients complain about waking up between 2 and 4 in the morning every single day, unable to get back into deep restorative sleep. I have always been able to relate because, after menopause, I was also one of them. I think I just resolved to the fact that “as you get older, it’s harder to sleep.” And after menopause, hormones are imbalanced. That was just a fact of life. I guess I figured that if that was my biggest problem, then I’m doing alright. I never really tried to address it or improve it. And maybe there’s another little lesson here. You know how when you focus too much on something that is wrong, and you try too hard to “fix yourself?” Well, things rarely improve if you’re focusing on the negative. I wasn’t giving my sleep disruption a single thought, and now I’m finding it almost funny that I greatly improved it, quite by accident. And how did I do that? Well, I recently acquired a new device called the Qi-Me device from a company called Waveguard. They claim to help the human body better handle EMFs. There are so many other products out there making similar claims that I just wasn’t quite sure I was buying it. The industry can get really hard to navigate because you don’t know who to trust. Luckily for me, I have the superpower to be able to test energy, and that’s exactly what I did the minute I took the product out of the package. I have to say, I was a bit skeptical based on its very simplistic design. It’s basically a block of wood with a golden metal plate on top. What caught my attention about this particular product is that it does not actually claim to block EMFs or shut down your WiFi signal. Instead, the company says the device uses what they call a patented depolarization process designed to transform concentrated man-made electromagnetic radiation into a more dispersed form that behaves more like naturally occurring environmental frequencies. Now this is interesting. It seemed to be a very different approach. In simple language, the idea is not to eliminate technology…but to help the body interact with these frequencies differently. And now that I think about it, I didn’t exactly test for bad energy. In other words, I have special pendulums that can detect toxic energy. Rather than using one of those, I instead used a pendulum that measures the strength of my own biofield. I first measured myself to get a baseline. Then I placed my hand over my laptop, which was turned on with Bluetooth and wifi both activated, and I tested my energy again. No big surprise, it tanked. Then, I kept my hand over the laptop and picked up the Qi-Me block and watched the pendulum spin increase until it was stronger than my baseline energy. Impressive! The part about the Qi-Me product that I love is that it’s passive and requires no charging, batteries, apps, or setup. You simply keep it near you — on your body, at your desk, or near your bed. What I didn’t like about it was that, although it is small, it’s not small enough to wear or carry with you everywhere. The only thing I could imagine doing with it was either putting it on my desk near my computer or leaving it on my nightstand. Since I am constantly moving around the house with my computer and I no longer consistently sit in my office, I decided to just place it on my nightstand. After that, I pretty much forgot all about it. It was after about 3 weeks that I was having a conversation with somebody about how my sleep has been amazing. I mean, I now sleep throughout most nights without waking up at all. My husband getting up doesn’t wake me up. My dog moving about the bed doesn’t wake me up. And apparently my hormones are no longer waking me up. It was shortly after this conversation when it dawned on me that I placed that little block of wood on my nightstand. Could that be making the difference? I honestly can’t tell you anything definitively. I mean, how could it be proven? All I can say is that I’m impressed with the little product. I have no idea how it works, but then again, I couldn’t really explain most of the healing tools that I use. That’s what I love the most about energy medicine. You don’t have to understand it or even believe it for it to work. I believe in the Qi-Me enough to stand behind it. I feel that the more little things we can do daily to reduce our toxic exposure, the better off we will be. Many of us buy organic foods and steer clear of toxic cleaning products, but we also can’t forget that humans are energetic beings living inside energetic environments. Everything carries frequency. Everything carries information. And our bodies are constantly responding to the invisible world around us. So whether you explore EMF reduction through grounding, limiting screen exposure, turning off devices at night, spending more time in nature, or experimenting with tools like this one… take small steps in the right direction as often as you can. If you’re interested in learning more about the Qi-Me product, there’s a link in my show notes. Thank you so much for joining me for another episode of Quantum Waves of Wellness. And until next time…stay curious, stay conscious, and keep riding the waves of wellness. Quantum Waves of Wellness is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drapro.substack.com/subscribe [https://drapro.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

The Original Vibration

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Me on Video - Yikes!

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The Smallest Habit That Could Be Affecting Your Health

I want to talk about something today that might seem really trivial at first. But for me, it turned out to be a major game-changer in my health. Welcome to Quantum Waves of Wellness. I’m your host, Dr. Paula Apro—Doctor of Natural Medicine, holistic health mentor, and your guide to unlocking the healing power within. Today, I’m going to share a personal story about seemingly safe substances that we consume every single day and how they can quietly have a huge impact on our health. For most of my life, I suffered from ridiculously itchy ears. The urge to itch my ears was overwhelming, and it literally put me in danger when downhill mountain biking or driving my motorcycle. Knowing it wasn’t safe, I still just HAD to take one of my hands off the handlebars to scratch my ears. I went to see an ear, nose, and throat specialist, and he offered me about 5 minutes of his time and handed me a food allergy list of the things that I should avoid, while writing me a prescription for an ointment to drop into my ears. I gotta say, that ointment, whatever it was, worked like a charm. One drop and I had immediate relief. Problem solved, right? Wrong. When my insurance company decided they would no longer cover it and I found out the tiny bottle of ointment would cost me hundreds of dollars a month, I went back to suffering with itchy years. For YEARS. Most of my life, in fact. Until about four years ago, when I went to see an iridologist. This is somebody who studies the color variations of the iris of your eyeballs and links this information back to your health status. I was always curious about this modality, and during that session, I was told that spices and seasonings were one of the biggest stressors on my system. Specifically, that they were putting a burden on my kidneys and were linked to uric acid. At the time, I was also dealing with gout in one of my toes. So I already knew my body was struggling with something inflammatory. That part wasn’t a mystery. But spices? They were never on my radar. I spent years trying to figure out what foods caused the problems until I finally gave up and determined that EVERYTHING made my ears itch. So this was a very interesting discovery. I followed her advice to be very strict about what I use. Positively no onion or garlic powder (which is used in nearly everything in a restaurant), and I was also instructed to never touch anything with additional flavoring, especially potato chips. I followed this advice and threw away almost all of my spices. Just about all of my cooking is as bland and tasteless as can be, but guess what? My itchy ear problem has almost completely subsided. Now I just want to remind you that when you have a symptom, and it can be anything, it’s your body’s way of trying to tell you something. Yes, I get that itchy ears aren’t life-threatening, and I could have easily lived the rest of my life with the itchiness. But that was a sign that my kidneys were struggling, and the next symptom that showed up (the gout in my toes) was my next message. Not many people might connect itchy ears to painful toes, but for me, they were absolutely connected. And I should also mention that my fingers were also starting to get swollen, stiff, and very sore. All of this has been resolved. My toes and fingers shrank back to normal size with no more pain, and I pretty much forgot all about this story. Until last month . . . My stepdaughter came to stay with us for about a month, and she is an amazing cook. Everything she made was full of flavor, and I really enjoyed eating tasty food again. But within a few days, I noticed something. My ears started itching again. Not occasionally—almost constantly. And it hit me pretty quickly. Nothing else had changed. The only real difference was what I was eating. The seasonings were back. It was such a clear reminder that my body hadn’t forgotten. And then, almost right after she left, I came across a video on YouTube all about spices that I will share in the show notes. The timing was perfect because it reinforced everything I had already experienced firsthand. The video breaks down something that most people don’t think about. We assume spices are harmless, clean, and maybe even beneficial. But when you actually look at what’s in a lot of these blends… It’s not just herbs and spices. There are fillers. Anti-caking agents. Preservatives. Ingredients labeled as “natural flavors,” which can mean a lot of different things...usually all toxic. Sometimes, even added sugars. And it made me think about how careful so many people try to be. We buy organic foods. We avoid processed foods. We read the nutrition labels. But then we reach for something we use every single day—without ever really thinking about it. And that’s the part that struck me the most. It’s not always the big things that we have to watch out for (like going to McDonald’s or eating a ½ gallon of ice cream). It’s the small things that we do consistently and constantly. Those things that we don’t even think twice about. For me, it showed up as itchy ears. For someone else, it might show up very differently. But the point is, the body notices and tries to let you know if there’s a problem. I just want to take this opportunity to encourage you to watch that video and take a good hard look at your spice rack. Maybe even get curious enough to experiment a little. Try removing something for a period of time and see how your body responds. Then bring it back in and notice what changes. And don’t forget that I can test you, energetically speaking. I can tell if any substance is negatively affecting your energy and therefor your health. If you’re interested in that service, please just reach out. Sometimes the answers we’re looking for are hiding in the most unexpected places, and I can help you uncover them. Thanks so much for listening to this episode of Quantum Waves of Wellness. I hope I inspired you to do a little digging in your own pantry. If you enjoyed this information, please consider hitting one of those subscribe buttons and or sharing with a friend. Until next time . . . Quantum Waves of Wellness is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit drapro.substack.com/subscribe [https://drapro.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]