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Hi, I wonder if anyone can assist me with some information or insight about migraine headaches.  I have gotten migraines since I was 12, the classic kind with blindness and flashing lights, not like a normal headache at all.  A lot of people don't even know what migraines are so it makes it frustrating sometime when people think it is just a really bad headache.  Anyway, I used to get them just once or twice a year for the past 20 years but now I am getting them all the time, and I seem to get more of them when I am doing more spiritual work.  I remember someone once telling me there was a spiritual component to migraines but I can't remember what they said exactly.  
Anyway, mine are really painful and leave me totally depleted for about 2 days, which is no fun when you have little kids around, so I'm hoping for some kind of guidance here, especially as they seem to be getting more frequent, with one happening just a few days after my tummo session and then another one....thank you

: Hi, I wonder if anyone can assist me with some information or insight about migraine headaches.  

Hi.  This subject came up a few days ago on the K-list board.  I'll comment because I work with migraines quite successfully and it is very treatable.

While there can be a 'spiritual' component to migraines (or anything) my approach is to look for the physiological ingredients and go from there (especially when intense pain is involved).  Why read anything into stuff?  That said, it's quite possible that energy moving up the spine and hitting a block at (as often happens, apparently) the jade gate for instance, can set in motion all kinds of chaos.

I recommend you look up a GOOD craniosacral therapist in your area and have a series of treatments.  I also recommend that you talk with them first and specifically request that they get your skull straight before trying to do a bunch of emotional release stuff on you.  If you don't know what that means, just ask them to do that and be very firm.  You'll know if they're doing the right thing because your migraines will dissappear and they'll be doing lots of work on your head.  It's possible to significantly control and/or get rid of your migraines using craniosacral therapy.  I have folks come in with your exact symptoms...with sun glasses on, ear plugs in, difficulty walking and tears streaming down their face because of the agony.  The migraine is gone within minutes with appropriate work...and I'm talking about a full blown migraine.

If you talk to a therapist and they insist that 'releasing the emotional will release the headache' I suggest you save your money and find a different therapist.  That is a clear sign that they are going to project their own emotional crap onto you.  Ask if they've had experience working with migraines.  I'm NOT saying that releasing the emotional won't help things, but when you're barely able to breathe because of your pain, do you want someone to just get your head straight, or do you want them to help you to 'feeeeeeeeeelll'  your stuff out?  I should think you're feeling quite enough, eh?

Good luck with this.  
Blessings!
Eileen

Eileen, thank you for your post.  I actually have worked with two craniosacral therapists previously both of whom were highly recommended.  The first one did some nice work on me that i appreciated, but didn't help with the migraines.  To be fair, I didn't ask her specifically for migraine treatment...still, shouldn't the work have balanced that out anyway?  We did at least five session, maybe more like seven.....The second craniosacral therapist i went to....this was about 6 months ago....told me that I have some kind of problem, I think he said "fault" with my spheno-basilar hinge.  He said he thought I had had it since I was very young, around three, from something like a car accident or a very severe fall.  Well, my parents never told me about any car accident or anything like that. Also, I've worked with a rolfer before who adjusted my sphenoid and he never said anything like that. This spheno-basilar fault guy said that the only possible way to change my condition would be to do cranio-sacral work every day for seven years because that's what it would take to change the shape of bone, and even that might not work.  So his basic message was that i was going to have to live with it and with my other various structural problems (some of which are now gone thanks to a good chiropractor). I love how when bodyworkers or therapists don't know what's wrong with you because it's beyond their skill level, they tell you that your problem is incurable and to "live with it". How he could know these things without an xray or whatever is a mystery to me, and I think he's probably full of shit, but I'd be very interested to know what you think of this.  Thank you

  Eileen gave you excellent advice. Maintain the physical.

 To that I would add, keep your crown chakra open. K and tummo are upward flow, the crown chakra is the chimney for the fire. The karma released has to exit there and if your crown is closed you end up with too much energy in your head. Blocked chimney.

  The opening crown flower at the beginning of the grounding, is symbolic language telling the body to open the crown chakra. Imagine the migraine blowing away like pollen, at the first sign of pain.

 In the initiation we worked with a lot of defensive patterns... I won't go into detail but for you one of those is a tendency to think too much. To try to anticipate and control, which leads to negative thought patterns, worry, stress and drama.  That will unground you and close your crown chakra.

 Surrender is the imperative of Kundalini, and for you, migraines are Goddess' whacking stick. You have some lifelong patterns to change, and maybe the threat of migraine is the motivation you require.

  Blessings...

: Hi, I wonder if anyone can assist me with some information or insight about migraine headaches.  I have gotten migraines since I was 12, the classic kind with blindness and flashing lights, not like a normal headache at all.  A lot of people don't even know what migraines are so it makes it frustrating sometime when people think it is just a really bad headache.  Anyway, I used to get them just once or twice a year for the past 20 years but now I am getting them all the time, and I seem to get more of them when I am doing more spiritual work.  I remember someone once telling me there was a spiritual component to migraines but I can't remember what they said exactly.  
: Anyway, mine are really painful and leave me totally depleted for about 2 days, which is no fun when you have little kids around, so I'm hoping for some kind of guidance here, especially as they seem to be getting more frequent, with one happening just a few days after my tummo session and then another one....thank you

:>>The first one did some nice work on me that i appreciated, but didn't help with the migraines.
To be fair, I didn't ask her specifically for migraine treatment...still, shouldn't the work have balanced that out anyway?  
.....The second craniosacral therapist i went to......told me that I have some kind of problem, I think he said "fault" with my spheno-basilar hinge.

Well, you have seen/experienced exactly what I meant when I said "projecting their crap" on to you.  This has become quite a sore-spot for me, both from therapists projecting on to me personally, and from my clients complaining about what such therapists have done to them.  When I first began as a massage/CST therapist I also did a fair share of projecting, so when I realized what was happening, I completely changed the way I go about things!  

The spheno-basilar joint is critical in the head, but then, all the joints are critical.  When a therapist sets to work on your system, a very clear (picture) is available to them.  Each therapist perceives things in their own way.  But I'll use picture for the sake of the explanation.  When I connect to (your) system I perceive the system as a whole, and/or each individual (set of) bone(s) in their motion.  This is how that therapist noted the spheno-basilar joint was 'faulted.'  They told you this bit of information that meant nothing to you in order to inflate their ego, and then they demonstrated their incompetance by telling you how hard it was going to be to fix the problem.  They were indeed the problem, in my opinion!

No therapist has a right to tell you how you came upon anything.  Often there are intuitive hits, but how does it serve you for the therapist to TELL you something happened?  Again, another ego trip.  I had a woman tell me that this 'therapist' told her she had been sexually abused when she was 5 years old, and this woman had no recalled memory of any such things.  However, with this tidbit of projection, she has now created this huge drama which has created a lot of dysfunction in her mind and body.  Even if she had been abused, her mind and body was not creating dysfunction related to that until the woman brought it up.  Our subconscious minds are like obediant dogs, waiting for new commands...and every person we give our power over to does indeed offer commands to the subconscious mind...which then seeks to help you believe these things into truth/reality!  

Anyway, here's my experience woven with a bit of opinion as well:  The bones do become faulted.  Sometimes it's because of an accident, sometimes it's from emotional stuff, and sometimes it's from energy getting stuck, such as when K rises.  Regardless, when the therapist sits with the client and notes the faults, and the appropriate harmony between therapist and client is set into motion, the CLIENT's body, supported by (not done for...SUPPORTED BY) the therapist will cause the client's own body to move things back into a harmonious pattern.  The greater the trust between both parties, and the better the therapist is at staying out of the way so to speak, the better comes the change.  During that change there is often release...sometimes big, sometimes only perceptive to the therapist.  What more do you need?  Why put drama to it?

What I have noticed is that by staying in a supportive role and staying grounded, these releases are just simply grounded through my body.  Often the client is waaaaaaaaayyyyyyy off in la la land because their nervous system is so utterly relaxed and SAFE that they don't even pay attention to any releases.  It is truly an experience of sacred harmony.

If the therapist suggested that you need daily treatments for 6 months then you did the right thing:  run.  The body knows how to fix itself.  Even if there is a physiological deviation (such as a broken bone or major surgical repairs) the body will energetically resume the appropriate pattern and the person will enjoy the change.  It can happen in a single session, but may sometimes need some reinforcement in order to maintain the pattern.  But not daily for 6 months for gods sake!  O YIKES!

I have worked with people who have had major brain surgery and major head trauma...  Some were missing entire sections of bones, had bones fused, or metal plates, etc.  I've had zero trouble supporting these clients as their own bodies move back into harmony.  I did not heal them.  I only walked with them a little ways in order to remind their systems how it can be again.  In a sense, I'm only there listening to the system, and then asking it what it needs, and then asking it to go there while I observe.  

So here's what I suggest...  Ask Goddess (or whatever representation is appropriate for you) to help you find the right therapist to assist you.  Trust that you will find such a person.  Ask them straight up when you call them:  "Are you a healer?"  Me, personally, I promptly walk away from all who say they are healers.  That's my own thing, I'll admit it.  You are the healer, in my opinion, not the therapist.

And grounding and opening the crown is helpful too, as Mystress said.  Very important.  

Ya know, I'm looking at this entire subject with great interest because I'm currently so frustrated with the 'healer's mentality' that I wonder if I want to continue doing what I do.  Some people come to me expecting to be healed, and when I don't start projecting all this crap onto them and trying to rescue them, they get upset with me.  I've got some work to do on my own self about this entire issue.  I'm just fed up with the mentality, and would like to wash my hands of it.  Problem is that I love what I do.  I love that beautiful harmony that exists between me and a client when everything is just open and clear and pure.  I love it when people realize how powerful they are!

Sigh.   Good luck.  You will find what you need - just keep looking.  I'll straighten myself out too.  : )
Blessings!
eileen