The BODY as INFORMER

The BODY as INFORMER

Accord, Communication, Cell Signaling, Indicator Muscles, Innervation… and known be the experience of body, triggered by structure, form, balance, stress, the full province of consciousness.

The artistry of our anatomical structure was indeed fully embraced by Leonardo da Vinci. How is a body constructed for movement, for survival, for life itself? Is there a ‘measure’ of man? By what divinity are proportions created? How is  form and function aligned? Wherein lies the embrace of grace, spirit and beauty? Man as divine proportion, as sacred geometry, as living spirit, as the art of BEING,  are expressed in da Vinci’s drawings, paintings, depictions, constructions, illustrated dissections. The depth of his knowing, his inspired exploration, his brilliant discoveries, his ever questioning genius, have been given unto us, indeed as the ART of BEING. 

To understand the body, its calling for nurturance, support, awareness, is to understand the very workings of our everyday existence. Every pain, every discomfort, ever illness, every disease, is the body calling for reappraisal, for change, for balance. And so we look to nutrition, to exercise, to relaxation, to massage, to what brings joy, satisfaction, goal and purpose. The body is reactive, reactive, reactive… Health and wellbeing are the result of responsiveness to the reactive body.

By the understanding of the very responsiveness of specific muscles and innervation points, one can bring an informed awareness of what the body is signaling. The Deltoid Muscle, as an indicator muscle, is used to measure the presence of, or obstruction of, energetic flow. The Deltoid Muscle located on the outer aspect of the shoulder is recognized by its triangular shape. It was named after the Greek letter Delta for the similar shape they both share. The deltoid muscle is constructed with three main sets of fibers: anterior, middle, and posterior. These fibers are connected by a very thick tendon and are anchored into a V-shaped channel. This channel is housed in the shaft of the humerus bone in the arm. The deltoid muscle is responsible for the brunt of all arm rotation.  It is also tasked with stopping dislocation and injury to the humerus when carrying heavy loads. One of the most common injuries to the deltoid muscle is a deltoid strain. Deltoid strain is characterized by sudden and sharp pain where injured, intense soreness and pain when lifting the arm out from the side of the body, and tenderness and swelling caused by, and located at, the deltoid muscle. Pain and/or weakness of the deltoid muscle is not only an indication of physical injury, but is a responsive indicator to stress and/or trauma, real, remembered, perceived, or imagined.

The BODY as INFORMER… this the science and the art of direct body biofeedback. 

Rose Marie Raccioppi, MS FABI 

The Academics and the Arts

APOGEE Paradigm™

Tappan, New York 

Founder/Director APOGEE Acu-Tone™ 

Vibrational Sound Therapy 

845-359-9056

1-866-Acu-Tone

rmr@apogeelearning.com

www.acu-tone.com 

www.apogeeacutone.blogspot.com 

delta (n.) 

c. 1200, Greek letter shaped like a triangle, equivalent to our "D," the name from Phoenician daleth "tent door." Herodotus used it of the mouth of the Nile, and it was so used in English from 1550s; applied to other river mouths from 1790.

-oid 

word-forming element meaning "like, like that of, thing like a ______," from Latinized form of Greek -oeides, from eidos "form," related to idein "to see," eidenai "to know;" literally "to see," from PIE *weid-es-, from root *weid- "to see, to know" (see vision). The -o- is connective or a stem vowel from the previous element.

deltoid (adj.) 

1741, in deltoid muscle, so called for its shape, from Greek deltoeides "triangular," literally "shaped like the letter delta;" see delta + -oid.


An added WORD...
As I view anatomical images, with the eye and the heart and soul of a da Vinci, I am instantly brought to the wondrous, the miraculous, the commune of parts to whole... this ever the door to SELF...the substance of the art, the science, the breath of BEING ...

~Rose Marie Raccioppi

The Four Agreements ~ The WINNING WARRIOR Program™

Many program offerings billed as "Life Changing”  have been put forth. After having the blessings of working with scores of families, and hundreds of students, for the past 33 years, from kindergarten, elementary grades. junior high school, high school, college, graduate school, law school, medical school, and professional certification and licensing programs, CHANGE has come to mean:

…the expression of one’s ……………….Creative instincts 

…the acceptance of one’  ……………….Heartfelt knowing

…the willingness to face one’s deeper .....Awareness

…the appreciation of the need for ……....Nurturance

…the living and the declaration of ……...Gratitude

…the understanding of the power of …....Exchange 

If we are to operate in the world of BEING we are to understand what is meant by exchange.  How do we satisfy an institution’s requirement, a superior’s implied power, the demands of a work environment, the expectations of particular levels of performance, and be appropriately supportive of our personal perspectives and needs? Such principles of care and support are surprisingly simple. Knowing the difference between need and desire is a significant first step. We are the ultimate creators of our thoughts and perceptions, we are the deciders and the ultimate doers.

The training that indeed becomes ‘Life Changing”, one that calls for moment to moment awareness, one that requires honesty with self, one that accepts the role of cause, and understands effect, one that empowers breath by breath, is the adherence, the living of the Four Agreements and the integration of the Fifth Agreement, the Toltec Wisdom put forth by Don Miguel Ruiz.  Such understanding and practice becomes the ultimate exchange… the exchange of Self with Self… engaging, effective, efficient, energizing. APOGEE Acu-Tone™has integrated these principles and practices in THE WINNING WARRIOR Program. YOU are indeed the CHANGE you choose to BE.

The WINNING WARRIOR Program is based upon the integration of eastern and western principles of growth, development. learning and wellbeing. Whole Brain, Whole Body, Whole Self requires an awareness of what is present, what is needed and what is to be provided.

The WINNING WARRIOR Seven Point Program offers:

1.  The Basis for Health and Vitality

2.  Breath, Power and Focus

3.  Intention, Attention and Perseverance

4.  Exercises - Readiness for Action

5.  Learning an Integrative Approach 

6.  Communication and Creativity

7.  The SELF defined

Integrating the Winning Warrior Program™ with the Five Agreements has proven to be empowering as well as liberating physically, mentally, spiritually. A change in consciousness, a change in perception, a change in the habits of BEING, DOING, HAVING.

For Personal Enrollment and/or more information contact:

Rose Marie Raccioppi, MS FABI

Founder Director

APOGEE Acu-Tone™

Vibrational Sound Therapy

Tappan, New York

845-359-9056
RMR@apogeelearning.com

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APOGEE Acu-Tone™ ~ Solitons and Microtubules

APOGEE Acu-Tone™ - Solitons and Microtubules 
to heal and restore our latent health and corresponding state of presence 

Carl Florin C.Nth

Health,  Impressions and Conscious Experience:

What immediately comes to mind when we hear the word impressions? It is likely to be thought of as a more archaic way of expressing perception. Though today this use of the word appears to have fallen out in favor. When describing one’s role in an active sense we employ it more often in this way, “the speaker’s presentation made a big impression upon me." The word nonetheless retains a more descriptive way of describing perception. Upon closer examination we see the two more implicit meanings: a physical change on the one hand, and a change in  the focus or content of our awareness. At the present time we reserve the word perception for stimuli, which now more readily expresses these qualities.

A moments notice shows how an impression is related to physical imprint or change of structure. By further reflection we can see that a pattern or code in energy was delivered. In any case we know that in the common use of impression something noteworthy or memorable is invariably preceded and comprised of stimuli. Chladini Plates show this effect vividly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YedgubRZva8 A metal plate with fine sand resting on it will  form a distinct geometrical  pattern corresponding to the frequency of sound impinging upon it. We can see directly the core pattern or essence of this vibration immediately revealed. For some this may conjure up notions of platonic forms, eternal static blueprints for every dynamic manifestation of a given eternal pattern. The most amorphous energy invisible to the eye suddenly reveals its essence. We might wonder how does this visible pattern reveal the  sound which has so effected us?

In a previous installment of APOGEE Learning Blog, (APOGEE Learning: Finding Spirit in the Fabric of Space and Time - Microtubules and APOGEE Acu-Tone™ -
http://apogeelearning.blogspot.com/2012/04/finding-spirit-in-fabric-of-space-and.html) we explored how the latest science explains the transformation experienced with APOGEE Acu-Tone™. In that summary we learned that Microtubules, components of the cytoskeleton,  are ideally suited for resonating sound.  As if perfectly manufactured tuning forks of the cell, a new expansive way to explain a mode of reception on the micro-level of life has opened up. We can begin to see  how physiological processes of the cell, like the pattern in the sand, are in some sense also being transformed by the stimuli of experience.

Perhaps the most essential meaning that stands out in the word impression is this notion of Transformation. We say we are moved by music but we seldom realize how sound literally inscribes itself upon our being. How does the sound of outside become the sound of our conscious experience? How does any stimuli at all become the sound guiding the activity of our cells?

Solitons and Microtubules : Micro-Organs of Sound and Electricity:

The Soliton model in neuroscience is a very new model that successfully explains how signals are conducted within neurons.  It explains electrical signals moving across the cell's membrane in the form of particular kinds of sound (or density) pulses known as solitons. The soliton model therefore presents a direct challenge to the widely accepted Hodgkin–Huxley model which declares that signals travel as action potentials: voltage-gated ion channels in the membrane open and allow ions to rush into the cell, leading to the opening of other nearby ion channels in this way propagating the signal in a fundamentally electrical manner.

"It is undeniable that an electrical signal can be observed when an action potential propagates along a neuron. The Soliton model explains this as follows: the traveling soliton locally changes density and thickness of the membrane, and since the membrane contains many charged and polar substances, this will result in an electrical effect, akin to piezoelectricity. A Soliton is a density wave that neither changes shape or velocity as it travels therefore, it loses no energy or information." - membrane biophysics group,  Niels Bohr Institute. http://www.nbi.ku.dk/english/

What this means is once we percieve, stimuli has been transduced into electrical signals free to travel along nerves. Immediately expressed in the form of sound waves the information of the signal now takes upon a new meaning at a critical level of cell operation. As the signal from outside becomes a nerve signal, this signal as we have learned is further transformed into a complex orchestra of sound pulses at the cell level.  It becomes obvious why this mode of transmission has radical import on all cell functions, cell commands and cell behavoir. This is due to the fact that Cytoskeletal elements interact extensively and intimately with cellular membranes. Soliton Sound pulses in the lipid membrane of cells propogate directly into the cytoskeleton body to alter the cells electrical, structural, metabolic state. It determines the informational state of the cell itself, in that such a signaling  has the power to elicit and activate critical information from nuclear DNA used in repair and even ordinarily non- accessible powers of regeneration. The capacity of the cell to maintain itself depends on communication from nuclear DNA using a very minute percent of available material. This suggests a new and direct availability of the potentials for regenerative healing and conscious states alike.

Today, it is possible to design and transmit signal information to the level of cells to  hitherto unimaginable influence upon the body.  For those readers bold enough to grapple with these ideas and really explore these questions will be granted  entry to some of the most important  revelations. Imagine now, what would happen if a way to transmit sound directly into nerves were possible so as to bypass the electrical level of signal information in the body? Further imagine a way to use sound so as to  link nerve and major processing centers in the body by the same signal? Assembling them instantly to form new circuits that before were completely unavailable? Then you will have an approximate understanding of how APOGEE Acu-Tone™ operates on the physiology to heal and restore our latent health and corresponding state of presence.

APOGEE Learning™ is a revolutionary educational service and integrated treatment modality. APOGEE Acu-Tone™ is a decisively visionary somatic attunement method based on sound. Uniquely deciphering and connecting vital signalling processes in the body, APOGEE Acu-Tone™ reaches an unprecedented grasp over higher regulatory functions unlocking regenerative capabilities.  Our consultation was employed to analyze and counsel proper strategy for incorporation of this method.  

Carl Florin C.Nth
Biofeedback & Neurofeedback
Human Performance Specialist
Biofeedback-assisted meditation
280 Madison Avenue
New York City, New York 10016-0801

For more information or inquiries contact:

Rose Marie Raccioppi, MS FABI

Founder Director

APOGEE Acu-Tone™

Vibrational Sound Therapy

Tappan, New York

845-359-9056
RMR@apogeelearning.com

www.acu-tone.com

www.apogeeacutone.blogspot.com

For Added Relaxation and Benefit, the APOGEE Acu-Tone™ experience integrates the healing benefits of Far-infrared or radiant heat (FIR) . Such benefits have been exceedingly well received. For added information, provided here is an excellent explanation:  http://www.beyondbeds.com/far-infrared-heat-is-beneficial-to-people-and-pets.aspx

Spinal Resonance - Entrainment, the Harmonics of Balance and Wellbeing, the Responsive Nervous System

APOGEE Acu-Tone™ Spinal Resonance provides the called for Restorative Frequencies to reestablish the natural harmonics of the spine. 

Resonance is a natural phenomenon that occurs throughout all of nature.  All that vibrates has a resonant frequency that will spontaneously begin to vibrate in response to external vibrations that share the same or similar resonant frequency. Entrainment is the result of frequencies working in resonance.

When a middle C tuning fork is struck and begins to vibrate, a second middle C tuning fork nearby will also spontaneously begin to vibrate. Resonators, like tuning forks, have the ability to both transmit and respond to their resonant frequency vibrations. Nearby tuning forks that produce the other notes of the octave (D, E, F, G, A, B) will not vibrate because their resonant frequencies are different.

When the human body is viewed as a dynamic and unfolding resonant system of vibrations, one can compare it to an orchestrated symphony. Every cell, every molecule, every tissue, every bone harmonizes with a specific frequency and will produce a certain tone when stimulated. Just as the way a musical instrument is played, brings forth a specific sound or series of sounds, so too, with the way the body is “played’ will bring forth particular states of BEING. APOGEE Acu-Tone™ vibrational therapy works at a deep, cellular level where molecular properties are being balanced by vibrations. Body, mind, spirit, and a myriad of emotions, are responsive to vibration and vibrational changes.

Physicist, Dan Winter has shown that there is a standing wave resonance between the heart and brain, and that physiological measurements are possible showing harmonically ordered smooth sine waves. Our bodies are filled with oscillating fields: heartbeats, breath cycles, brainwaves, and vertebral acoustics. The beating of the heart, the ebb and flow of cerebrospinal fluid, and the expansion and contraction of the diaphragm all produce mechanical acoustic waves that flow throughout the body.

Molecules vibrate. These vibrations are passed on to other molecules.  Molecules act as both transmitter and receiver. Sound waves emitted by one molecule can be picked up by other molecules "tuned-in" to that frequency. Here again the principles of entrainment apply.

The Entrainment Transformation Principle, a physics phenomenon of resonance, first observed in the 17th century, has an effect on all of us. Entrainment is defined as the tendency for two oscillating bodies to lock into phase so that they vibrate in harmony. It is also defined as a synchronization of two or more rhythmic cycles. The principle of entrainment is universal, appearing in chemistry, pharmacology, biology, medicine, psychology, sociology, astronomy, architecture and more. The classic example shows individual pulsing heart muscle cells. When they are brought close together, they begin pulsing in synchrony. 

The history of entrainment is linked to Dutch scientist, Christian Huygens. In 1665. while working on the design of the pendulum clock, Huygens found that when he placed two of them on a wall near each other and swung the pendulums at different rates, they would eventually end up swinging in at the same rate. This is due to their mutual influence on one another. 

The entrainment process is quite evident in music. It is possible to have rhythmic entrainment, melodic entrainment and dynamic entrainment. Entrainment music has the potential to (1) resonate with the listener's feelings, (2) transform negativity into positivity, and (3) promote a state of liveliness or serenity. Certain sounds, in specific sequence can help bring the listener from one place to another. So too, with the pure acoustic sounds of stainless steel calibrated tuning forks when placed on spinal, cranium and acupuncture points and meridian pathways. One can be responsive to the vibrations inherent in crystals, minerals and gems. The form and structure of the Five Platonic Solids, and their relationship to each of the five elements, earth, water, fire, air and ether, have shown to have a profound vibrational influence on the body’s energetic responses. Through direct body biofeedback one comes to experience the myriad of changes that come about through the entrainment process.

APOGEE Acu-Tone™ provides enhancement of the function, the communication, of the nervous and organ systems by excitation of internal motion and cell communication. This via vibrational application of calibrated, medical grade tuning forks to spinal points, meridian pathways, auricular points and cranial points. By bringing forth tensional integrity, the body experiences, balance, relaxation, alignment, pain release, facial vibrancy, and an overall feeling of well being.

APOGEE Acu-Tone™ as developed by Rose Marie Raccioppi, MS FABI has brought consistently documented benefit. Testimonials speak to pain relief, deep relaxation, feelings of balance, facial vibrancy, improved flexibility, centeredness and wellbeing.

“...When force of circumstance upsets your balance, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. 

Habitual recurrence to harmony will increase your mastery of it..." 

Marcus Aurelius

For more information or inquiries contact:

Rose Marie Raccioppi, MS FABI

Founder Director

APOGEE Acu-Tone™

Vibrational Sound Therapy

Tappan, New York

845-359-9056
RMR@apogeelearning.com

www.acu-tone.com

www.apogeeacutone.blogspot.com

For Added Relaxation and Benefit, the APOGEE Acu-Tone™ experience integrates the healing benefits of Far-infrared or radiant heat (FIR) . Such benefits have been exceedingly well received. For added information, provided here is an excellent explanation:  http://www.beyondbeds.com/far-infrared-heat-is-beneficial-to-people-and-pets.aspx