March/April 2007 Alternative Health
Tune into Healing: Tuning Forks Relieve Menopausal Symptoms

by Bobbie Bay

Menopause and perimenopause represent a significant transition in the life of a woman. It’s a time when women access a new sense of power. As menses changes or stops, women no longer lose their power. Instead, they are able to access new levels of strength. During this time, women also experience physiological, psychological and spiritual changes.

Menopause issues are often associated with the changing rhythms and cycles within. By working on specific points with planetary energies, tuning forks can provide nurturing and emotional support during this transition. The frequencies reach deep within and move the woman to wholeness by helping her come into her own power and take on the role of the wise woman.

Acutonics is a system where precision calibrated tuning forks are tuned to the frequencies of the Earth, Moon, Sun and the other planets and are applied to specific acupoints. These forks can be used in place of needles to open healing potential and to correct imbalances.

Traditional treatment has labeled menopausal symptoms as either hormonal and/or psychological. Many women receive the diagnoses of Sjoegren's syndrome, hypothymia, nonspecific autoimmune disorder, fibromyalgia, depression, hypo or hyperthyroidism and chronic fatigue.

Feeling the Heat

Menopausal symptoms are almost always associated with heat. From an Eastern perspective, the diagnosis is kidney yin deficiency. Yin is the female, water and nurturing aspect. Yang is masculine, fire and active. Yin and yang are complimentary forces that exist within the body, nature and the universe.

When yin is deficient yang becomes excessive and the fire of yang will blaze or flare up. The result of flaring yang includes hot flashes, headaches, restlessness, sleeplessness and irritability. The heat can cause dryness of the mouth, eyes, and skin, and the joints can ache due to loss of moisture and lubrication. The head may feel full as the energy constantly rises, which can also make one feel ungrounded. Heat can also create unsettled feelings, including nervousness, anger and aggression, excessive bleeding or spotting. Emotions can range from depression to elation.

Psychospiritual symptoms may lead to low back or sacrum pain as the stability of the old life and our thinking is challenged. It is the time when kundalini energy is stirred and awakened for our soul’s spiritual growth. The nervous system becomes highly sensitive and everything becomes a crisis. Life can become overwhelming, and sleep disturbances and surging power can easily distress our systems.

Music of the Spheres

Acutonics works to ground the nervous system with the cycles of nature and the universe, and bring balance into the new rhythms and cycles of the body. We nourish the body and restore balance to the harmonies through the use of tuning forks, which are attuned to the Music of the Spheres.

The frequencies of the tuning forks are based on the work of Johannes Kepler, who discovered the elliptical path of the planets in the 1620s. Kepler calculated the velocity of all the known planets, invalidating the accepted concept of circular orbits. He presented scientific evidence of the relationship between the musical ratios and the planetary motion – The Music of the Spheres. In the 20th century, Hans Cousto translated the planetary velocities into musical transpositions of Kepler's planetary orbits, creating the foundation of the Acutonics system.

Menopause offers women an initiation into their power and a movement toward fulfilling their destiny. Women begin to feel their divine spark and often experience a heightened awareness as they are called to move beyond their existing structure. They begin to redesign their lives based on their inner authority and guidance, rather than from the outer authority of the external world.

The outer world and our families do not always support these transitions because they fear change. In other cultures this sacred time is celebrated as a rite of passage into one’s highest expression of both self and taking on one’s full wisdom.

Bobbie Bay B.S, L.M.T., C.C.P., is an internationally certified senior instructor of the Acutonics Healing Sound System and a certified practitioner. Email bobbie.bay@comcast.net for class schedules and private sessions or call 503-281-2877.