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Sound Awakenings Offers Sound Healing and More

Sound Healing with Tibetan Singing Bowls is an ancient healing art that offers balance, clearing, healing and rejuvenation. Benefits include deep relaxation, stress reduction, lower blood pressure, improved concentration, increased creativity, and heightened intuition as well as other positive healing effects. Why Sound Healing? Quantum physics tells us that everything is a vibrating energy, and just as a musical instrument falls out of tune, our bodies also can fall out of tune. Sound therapy helps us shift from a lower vibrational frequency (negative energy, stress, anger, fear) to a higher one.

What to expect in a session? Clients lie on a soft, heated cushion on the floor, surrounded by the bowls. Vibrations surround the client as the bowls are softly rung in a pattern determined by the client’s needs, based on ancient Tibetan protocols. Bowls are also rung on the body for added comfort and healing.

Denise Mihalik founded Sound Awakenings to assist others on the path of healing and self-empowerment through the medium of sound. As a professional classical singer, voice instructor, yoga, Yogavoice® instructor and Certified Sound Healer, she combines her love of music and yoga and offers individual and group sound healing sessions, voice lessons, kirtan and workshops in order to assist others in finding their true self-expression; be it speaking, singing, one’s inner truth/soul voice or simply accessing the silence within.

Locations- Straube Center, Pennington, NJ, and StudioYoga, Madison, NJ. For information, contact 215-205-2687 or [email protected]. SoundAwakenings.biz.

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Tick Talk

Spring officially sprung on March 21. We have turned our clocks ahead. We are looking forward to warm winds, sunny skies and the smell of fresh cut grass. The daffodils and tulips have recently bloomed and we are just starting with the yard work that comes with the warmer weather.  Sadly, another season has started ramping up.  Tick season.

•             The best form of protection is prevention. Educating oneself about tick activity and how our behaviors overlap with tick habitats is the first step.

•             According to the NJ DOH, in 2022 Hunterdon County led the state with a Lyme disease incidence rate of 426 cases per 100,000 people. The fact is ticks spend approximately 90% of their lives not on a host but aggressively searching for one, molting to their next stage or over-wintering. This is why a tick remediation program should be implemented on school grounds where NJ DOH deems high risk for tick exposure and subsequent attachment to human hosts.

•             Governor Murphy has signed a bill that mandates tick education in NJ public schools. See this for the details.  Tick education must now be incorporated into K-12 school curriculum. See link:

https://www.nj.gov/education/broadcasts/2023/sept/27/TicksandTick-BorneIllnessEducation.pdf

•             May is a great month to remind the public that tick activity is in full swing. In New Jersey, there are many tickborne diseases that affect residents, including Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, Ehrlichiosis, Lyme disease, Powassan, and Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiosis.

•             For years, the focus has mainly been about protecting ourselves from Lyme disease. But other tick-borne diseases are on the rise in Central Jersey. An increase of incidence of Babesia and Anaplasma are sidelining people too. These two pathogens are scary because they effect our blood cells. Babesia affects the red blood cells and Anaplasma effects the white blood cells.

•             Ticks can be infected with more than one pathogen. When you contract Lyme it is possible to contract more than just that one disease. This is called a co-infection. It is super important to pay attention to your symptoms. See link.

https://twp.freehold.nj.us/480/Disease-Co-Infection

A good resource from the State:

https://www.nj.gov/health/cd/topics/tickborne.shtml

 

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