What May Still Be Possible? Sound, Neuroplasticity, and Brain Health After Injury

Welcome to Brain Health and Healing. I'm Sandra

Lee. This show is for people living with head injuries and

the families and supporters who love them. If you are ready to

reclaim your life, identity, and dreams for the future, you are

in the right place. Welcome to Brain Health and Healing. I am

Sandra Lee on location today. We're going to record an episode

about the progression that I have taken in working with

people with injuries to their head like falls, strokes, and

accidents, because there've been two distinct phases of this work

that I have been doing for several years. I have been using

intuitive sound healing to help people with whatever injury they

have going on, whatever situation they have going on,

and I have been focusing this at least part of the time on

helping people's brains to recover. And over the course of

this episode, I'm going to share two people with you whose

experiences have been remarkable, so that you can see

a little bit about what's possible with each of these two

ways of working.

So with intuitive sound healing, part of what's happening is I am

getting an image in my mind of the person's brain or whatever

it is I am working with. In my mind, I get an intuitive picture

of what's going on for this person with their brain. Now,

it's not diagnostic; it's just what I see. But I have found it

to be very helpful in helping people to recover whatever it is

that they need with their brain. So, I see an image of the brain

in my mind, and I can see where the energy is stuck or where

it's flowing. And you've heard me talk in other episodes about

what this concept of energy is and the importance of having

energy moving, flowing through the area, flowing through the

body, connecting to the Earth, connecting to the Sun above.

This is what I call energy flow. And when the energy is flowing,

then the person's body, their mind, their being, their brain

are able to work more readily. The mind can be clearer, and if

the body has healing that it needs to do, it's more able to

do that when that energy is flowing.

When the energy is not flowing, then everything becomes

compromised. Everything becomes stuck. You've heard me talk in a

previous episode about how when I kick something and I jam my

foot, the energy gets stuck in the area, and that keeps me from

being able to walk, it keeps my mind from being able to work.

So, when the energy is flowing, then everything is able to work

well, including the body's ability to heal itself. And when

the energy is stuck or confused, that compromises all of those

functions. The ability to operate is compromised. So, when

I am working with the people's brains, I am seeing an image of

the brain in my mind, and I can see where the energy is stuck or

chaotic and when it is flowing. And then helping it to flow is a

big part of what it is I am doing. At the same time, I am

also seeing the issues or the traumas or the situations that

the person has stuck in that area. So, when it comes to a car

accident, for example, there's been an impact of the head

against the window, for example, and then the energy is stuck

there. Everything associated with the accident, everything

associated with the person's life, the stresses, the things

going on in their relationship at that time may be stuck in

that injury area.

Does that make sense? Everything going on for the person at the

time of the injury can be stuck in the injury area. This is

critically important because allowing whatever it is that's

stuck there to be released is a big part of how I find it really

helpful to get that energy flowing again and allow the

function to be able to return. So, I'm working with the energy,

it's either chaos or blocked, and get it flowing again, and

then the issues that are stuck in the area, both from the

actual injury as well as from the life situations happening

for the person at the time that can be stuck. That enables those

issues to start resolving and be released, so that the person is

able to heal themselves.

You've heard me say that the brain heals itself every day of

your life, and part of what facilitates this healing is

allowing whatever it is that's stuck in the area to be able to

move and resolve. Now, in addition to everything happening

before the injury can get stuck in the area, everything that

happens after the injury can also get stuck. So, if people

say things to you after the injury about the injury, if you

say things to yourself about the injury, that was stupid of me to

do this in the car and get into an accident or whatever, if

there is, you know, a fight that happens between you and other

people due to the injury, it can store in there. If you have

interactions with medical practitioners, with doctors

following the injury, that can also become stored in the area.

Does that make sense? Everything associated with the time period

and the injury itself and everything that happens around

it can become stuck in the area of the injury. So, in working

with helping the body to be able to resolve and release all of

that stuff, can be very, very important in facilitating

recovery.

So, this is part of what I am doing when I am doing the

intuitive sound sound healing with the person following their

injury. Now, this can happen right after the injury or any

time after that. I have been able to help people with both

short-term injuries and longer-term injuries to be able

to improve, to be able to release whatever it is that's in

there, and restore function, decrease discomfort. I have

examples of both of those that I'm going to share with you,

okay? So, I am working with this image in my mind of the brain

and the energy that's stuck or flowing and the issues that come

up. So, the person's body talks to me, gives me information

about the person, about the situation, about the

circumstances going on in their life or whatever it is that may

be stuck. I get information about that intuitively. So, it's

like the person's soul, the person's unconscious mind, the

person's body, however we want to think about it, gives that

information to me so that I am able to speak it to the person

so they hear that. They hear what I perceive about the energy

being stuck, about the issues that I pick up, not like it's

diagnostic, it may be accurate, it may be totally off base, but

I assume that whatever information I receive while I am

working with somebody is for them. I tell them whatever it is

that comes up, and I say, If this fits, great. If it doesn't

fit, fine. It doesn't have to. Just let it go if it doesn't

fit. But often I find that when I say whatever it is, their

energy starts to shift.

Things start to change because if this is information that

their system is not conscious of, by me speaking it, they

become conscious. And I look at it that symptoms are the body's

way of getting attention, is saying, Hey, this is important.

I need you to know this. When the person becomes conscious of

it, the unconscious mind says, Great, you got the message. And

then it can allow the symptom to shift and change. So I speak

what comes up to them, they receive it, energy can shift.

And then we work with that. I say, What you want your body to

do is this. I say, The energy is stuck here. You want to allow it

to flow, go down your body, go out your feet into the ground.

Whatever it is we want their body to do with that

information, with the energy that is stuck, I tell them so

that they are intending and using their attention, their

intention to be able to tell the body what they want it to do.

When you are the person who has healing to do, your telling your

brain and your body what it is you want is so powerful. Your

body can heal itself and you are directing the show with what you

say, with what you feel, with what you do. So when you choose

to take the instructions that I say, This is what I see going

on.

You want that energy to flow, by giving your body and your brain

those instructions, your body says, Okay, sure. We'll do that

for you. And that's how healing happens. Your body heals itself.

Your brain heals itself. When I am doing this, I am taking my

tuning fork and my hockey puck and I am making this sound that

helps me be able to pick up more intuitive information and it

helps my client to hear that and use that to help them accomplish

what we want them to accomplish energetically. Here's some

stories about impact that I have had with my clients. Let me

first talk about I'm going to call her Nadia. That's not her

name. I'm just changing the name for the purposes of telling a

story. Nadia, when I met her, had had a very significant brain

injury over a decade prior. She describes it that she fell and

her head bounced on the ground like several times, giving her

pretty significant brain injury, and she was in a coma. So this

had impacted her health, her ability to function in a massive

way, and she had gone to medical practitioners. When I started

working with her, here's how she describes it now. She says, If

it hadn't been for Sandra Lee, meaning me, she would still be

sitting in her chair, in her house, wearing two pairs of

polarized sunglasses with the lights down and the sound off.

That's how she was getting through her days, and she

described it that, you know, she really wanted the end to come,

and she wanted it to be now. She didn't know how she was going to

move forward with life.

Things were really, really difficult. And she had very

little interaction with people because she was just so messed

up. And she found herself not able to talk to people about it

because people didn't really understand. People didn't really

listen to her. So she just like stayed on her own, and stayed in

her house, in the dark, with the polarized sunglasses on, and

like just surviving. Life was pretty difficult. And then she

somehow found my number. The story about that, but she found

my number, and she called me. And then I started working with

her. And all I was doing was this: you know, getting an image

of her brain in my mind and all the stuff that was there, and we

worked quite a while to help her just to release all of this

stuff. Release all of this stuff. And like things started

getting better. Like she started being able to go outside and not

be so sensitive to light. She even went outside without

sunglasses on one time. And she started like socializing. She

went to a holiday party and enjoyed being with people, and

not so self-conscious. So it's like she started getting her

life back. She started living again. It was really dramatic

difference. Now, all of that was just was just this intuitive

sound healing work that I do. Made a tremendous difference for

her in her life.

Along the way, we worked on a lot of things, not just about

the injury, about her family origin, all sorts of history,

and help her body release all of that trauma that it had been

holding onto for so long. So, that's a difference that the

intuitive sound healing that I do made for Nadia. Now, let's

talk about someone who has had a more recent injury, and again,

this person has given me permission to share the story

with you because she knows that it's going to make a difference

out there to hear that the work that I am doing has this impact.

So my friend had been in a really serious car accident. I'm

going to call her Georgia. That's not her name, but she was

in a really serious car accident and suffered a very severe brain

injury. She lost the ability to walk and talk, and and more. You

know, sensation, all sorts of different things just were gone.

She received ongoing treatment from the accident onward. She's

really fortunate in being able to get so much treatment, but

she really insisted on it because, you know, life was not

going to be survivable if she didn't get better. So, she

received ongoing treatment and recovered her ability to walk

and talk, which is wonderful.

However, she's not walking normally or well, and talking is

difficult. Before reaching that point, 7 months into her

recovery, I did my first intuitive sound healing session

with her. Now, this is somebody who I've known for years. We're

both energy healers, so, we're accustomed to working together.

So, I did this intuitive sound healing with her, and in that

first session with her, 7 months into her recovery from this

accident, she said, while I am working on her, It feels like I

can hear like metal crunching sounds releasing from my brain.

So, her brain was releasing some of the trauma from the accident

itself, and she said, It feels like I can breathe in my brain

again.

There's an area in her brain that would've been very, very

dense and tight, and her body, her brain released some of the

trauma from the accident, and she was able to breathe more in

that area. She's very articulate and has these wonderful ways of

expressing what's happened to her. That was a really profound

change that she experienced through the intuitive sound

healing work that I do. So, that is the first phase of this work

that I have been doing with intuitive sound healing to help

people recover from brain injuries. We have both Nadia,

who had a long-ago accident, and then someone who is more recent

and actively recovering, and the difference that my doing this

intuitive sound healing work made for both of them. Now, what

happened when I added to this mixture a chart that helps the

brain with its ability to heal itself, neuroplasticity?

Neuroplasticity is when something is not working

properly, and I cause my brain to do it that it puts in new

synapses, new nerve connections to build functions and to

strengthen my ability.

So, this chart was developed by John Kennedy. He's a

neuroplastician, and the military asked him to develop

something that would help soldiers heal from brain

injuries. And so he developed this chart and tested it, and

found that it actually did work. Using this chart, reading some

arrows, helps the brain to be able to repair damage from

injuries. It helps from PTSD. It helps with focus issues,

emotional regulation, and it helps with people who are

starting to lose their capacity to remember things, to be clear

in their thinking. So already, this exercise all by itself with

a practitioner who works with the chart helps people recover

from all those things. So, I learned how to use this chart,

and I use it now in association with the intuitive brain healing

that I was already doing, using the tuning fork and hockey puck

and my intuitive capacities. So, what happened when I added this

chart? It dramatically increased the results that I was getting

with people. Dramatically increased my results. So let's

talk about what happened with Nadia and Georgia, my two

wonderful clients who've given me permission to share their

stories. So, what happened when I started working with Nadia?

Nadia's injury had occurred over a decade prior, and she'd had,

you know, it head-landed and went into a coma, and she lost a

lot of things, a lot of abilities.

So, when I added the brain training chart, one of the

sessions that she had was like she said, Wow. She saw the light

differently in her house. She's had this house for over 30 years

and she's painted the house, you know, been in the house forever,

and suddenly, like the space was more open. Her house was more

open. She could see the light. She could hear the birds

differently. She was hearing all these things, and and just

living, experiencing life in a different way. She started

remembering who she used to be years ago. And she said, You

know, I am that person. She started identifying herself

again as the person who she used to be. You know, this was well

after COVID, and she had gotten a job for the first time since

COVID, driving a car, not a very demanding job. Now, she's

looking for jobs that are much more like using her capacity.

And she told me something she hadn't told me before. She used

to do physics. So now, she's like stepping forward into being

more the person who she used to be, the way she used to think of

herself as being, and doing things that are more capable.

She's looking forward to life now in a way that she wasn't

before. And, you know, she said, Before meeting Sandra Lee, I was

sitting in my house in the dark, wearing two pairs of sunglasses

with the sound off. And if not for me, she would be back there.

Now, she's living her life again, looking forward to life.

What is life going to bring me now? A whole new life. Working

with me doing the intuitive sound healing, and now the

addition of this brain chart has given so much to her. Her life

had tremendously changed just with the sound healing work that

I had done, but adding this new piece enabled her to make so

much more progress. She's progressing faster than ever. So

that's my friend Nadia. Now let's talk about Georgia, who is

recovering from a car accident. Her car accident happened almost

2 years ago, and she's been in recovery, in treatment, since.

And I talked last time about how she has recovered the ability to

walk and talk, and she's, you know, had been starting to

recover some function. So, prior to the session that added this

brain chart, I asked her how she was doing, and she said that in

December, meaning a year and a half into her recovery, she had

started getting sensation back into her palm.

This is normal function for you and I, just starting to return a

year and a half into recovery. So, this first session that I

did with her, again, this is following the intuitive sound

healing work that I done with her previously. So, this session

that I did with her adding this chart happened almost two years

into her recovery. So, she's reading the chart, and I am

working on her brain, helping to clear things just like I have

before. And she said, I can feel my eye connect to my brain

better. Pretty amazing to have that awareness, that fine tuning

of function. So that was pretty cool. At the end of the session,

I asked her, How's your hand? And she said, Feels like I have

sunshine in my palm, and I hadn't been able to articulate

my wrist, and now I can. So she was able to use her hand better.

Now, when people are recovering from serious accidents like

this, or serious strokes, every little gain is huge. Takes a lot

of therapy, a lot of sessions, to recover even small things.

And so, to have this significant change in her ability to use her

hand was huge, but that wasn't all. I asked her, Stand up and

walk. She said, I haven't been able to feel the position of my

foot. Now I can.

So she was able to walk better. Isn't that amazing? After the

session a while, she told me more about what happened after

this. She started being able to walk to the mailbox, which takes

a block to walk to the mailbox. And she was leaning on her cane

and leaning on her son for support. Then she decided she

was going to try walking the the mailbox without leaning on her

son, so she went with just her cane, and she did it!

Independence is a huge thing for people who have are recovering

from brain injuries, because they are so dependent on other

people. To be able to do something simple like walk to

the mailbox without assistance was huge. So she said that

sometime after this session, that she had been able to do

that. But we're not quite there yet. We're still like after the

session happened. So, a couple days after the session, she

messaged me and said, I'm no longer tripping over logs in my

mind. Trying to come up with what to say, putting her

thoughts together was easier. She was no longer stumbling and

tripping over things in her mind, trying to come up with

what to say. So, speaking was easier. All of that change

happened with one session, incorporating the intuitive

sound healing I do and this brain exercise. Eye connect to

her brain better, sunshine in her palm, and able to use her

hand, able to walk better, and more ease in speaking, because

putting her thoughts together was easier. All of that changed

with one session, almost 2 years into her recovery. This is a

tremendous amount of change to happen in a short time.

So this is what's possible in helping the brain to recover its

ability with the intuitive sound healing work that I do, combined

with this brain training work. Nobody taught me how to do this.

I'm the only person who does this combination of techniques.

Yes, I've learned Biofield Tuning, I've learned how to do

the combat brain training, but when I have these things, these

abilities I have to do, and someone comes to me with a need,

I pull on all of the skills that I have and create something new.

This work that I am doing, I am the only person doing it. So if

you know someone who's experienced a head injury, car

accident, stroke, fall, or somebody who wants to be able to

focus better, or is forgetting things, where they left the car,

where the keys are, or, What is that word that I want? I can

help. I invite you to schedule a share your story call with me, a

10-minute call where you get to share your story, share your

experience.

This is not a sales call. And if you want to talk with me about

working together, we can schedule another call after

that. So to do that, go to shinewithsandra.com/brainstory.

There's a link in the show notes. Look forward to talking

with you about how we can help you heal your brain. Your brain

heals itself every day of your life. What I'm doing is not not

diagnostic, it's not medical. I'm just telling people what I

see, using sound to help them help their brain. Look forward

to talking with you soon. I am Sandra Lee, Brain Health and

Healing. Go to the Facebook group Brain Health and Healing

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