Focus for Root Chakra Healing

Ger - Cycle of Seasons

Nyd - Inner Stregnth

Feoh - Working Towards Success

Wyn - Acknowledgment / Closeness to god/gods

Eoh - Rebirth / Endurance

Ing - Conclusion

The Square and Circle represent the Root Chakra itself, as does the color red. The choice of black and silver for the symbols is based solely on aesthetics. I happened to be very fond of the three colors in combination.

It is important to note that the descriptions given above for the Runes on this focus depict only the short and simple description of the facet of each rune that I felt applied to the purposes of the Root Chakra. Like most symbols, runes bear multiple meanings and the translation of those meanings is dependent upon circumstance and the person doing the translation. Another person might interpret this focus completely differently, and that is fine with me as long as it is used for good purposes.

Creativity

Since I have been stuck at home going stir crazy between dizzy spells, I decided that one of my prayers had actually been answered. One thing I have lacked lately is time. Now I have it in abundance, although I still have to fit any activities in between the dizzy spells.

So what do I do with my time? I use it for creative expression. There hasn't been time in my life for art or music since I started massage school on top of the full-time job at the giant company. While massage itself is a creative expression, and I've enjoyed it immensely, I have missed being able to do things like paint and color.

So now that I am a little less dizzy, I have dug out my pencils, paints, coloring books, and canvases. My art has been a dual purpose expression. I have created a canvas piece that will only mean something to someone who is familiar with both Chakra work, and with the Northern Futhark of Norse Runes. What I created is a focus piece for working on the Root Chakra. I have found it very helpful. I will download a photo of it so if anyone else is in need, perhaps they can make use of it as well.

The coloring books I dug out are not what most people will expect. Not Disney movie themes or Barbie or Transformers - I would color those if I had them, but these are more my style. For Christmas one year, Yaw gave me two coloring books by an artist named Denise Suazo Shoemake. They are mature, artistic themes, intended to be colored with pencils or markers. I use pencils mostly because I love how they blend. Anyone who knows me well, knows I also love to do Doodle Art posters, but at the moment, I don't have sufficient space for that size of a picture. I gave several of them to my nieces and nephew a while back, but I kept a few that I still want to complete.

Once my head clears up and I can get back to work and school (oy), I will work hard to complete everything that is required of me, so that I can eventually reach the point where massage is my career, and then I'll have more time for these things. I look forward to it with great anticipation. :-)

Mud in My Head

May 26th, I passed out at work. "Passed out" isn't really the best way to describe what happened - I never lost consciousness. I was awake, and aware of my surroundings. I was not able to clearly communicate and my head weighed about a million pounds. It was not pleasant. Yaw took me to the emergency on the recommendation of the paramedics who came and checked me out.

The emergency room, in their typical way, listened to precisely two words I said to them: cough medicine. They blamed the whole event on some Robetussin I was taking for an annoying cough and said I should stop taking it. I did, and went back to work after an extended Memorial Day weekend. Five days total, and I felt A LITTLE better, but definitely still had weird-head going on.

I mucked through as well as I could, but on June 7, it struck again - and at work again. This time Yaw wasn't there, so Deb drove me home. When Yaw found out, he called on a friend to drag me out to the doctor for examination. This doctor listened to a lot more words, and even attempted to listen to some recordings I'd made of recent things in my medical life. Attempted, but didn't succeed. I wasn't clear enough to explain how to get the phone on speaker mode, so they couldn't hear it; so they didn't try anymore. However, they did come up with a diagnosis - vertigo - and gave me more time off from work and a prescription. I started the prescription, which basically just knocked me on my butt all day every day.

Then I reacted to the prescription. OH. JOY. Stop the prescription, go on corticosteroids for the rash, and try something else for the vertigo. Something else is Dramamine. Again, knocks me on my butt, but I have to take it about every 4 hours. Nope.

Up to this point, I'd been through heart monitors, lung X-rays, blood tests, and more blood tests. They did some of the simpler vertigo tests on me and said my eyes didn't do what they were looking for. They sent me for a CT scan, which - like everything else up to this point - came out NORMAL. Well, something somewhere is NOT NORMAL or my head wouldn't be like this.

Next step - ENT specialist. More nifty tests. Did those Wednesday. This time they made me dizzy on purpose. Only one of the tests really made me feel dizzy, but hopefully it showed them what they were looking for. I'm in wait-mode right now. I go back Monday for results with the doc and hopefully a plan of action. At this point, I've been out of work 9 business days. Working on FMLA / Short Term Disability. Not sure when this will end, but from what Ann tells me, it'll come and go.

OH. JOY.

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