Experiencing Biofield Tuning

Healing through Forks

I had the privilege of experiencing biofield tuning (through tuning forks) this past weekend. My friend, fellow suicide survivor, Allison Smith, who I met through my writing, gave me a complimentary session. She is a biofield tuning practitioner based in Wilmington, NC.

It was an exciting and mind-boggling experience. I am still trying to ‘process’ it and make sense of it, intellectually, as I do.

Yet, it also strikes me as something like EMDR, a body experience that can’t really be entirely expressed in/through words. Rather, it must be felt through the body.

This is a humbling thing for me to admit—an English professor, someone who greatly esteems the power of the written word and the intellect/the mind to make sense of the world around me.

I’ll try my best though—

As my friend did this meridian flush, using her forks, I felt deeply relaxed at points, intensely happy at times, and euphoric at other moments. I felt surges and rushes of dopamine and oxytocin—how do I know that?

Because as someone who has depression and anxiety, I know what it feels like not to have those important substances coursing through me, so when I feel them, after yoga or a medicine balance, I recognize and welcome the noticeable change.

The happy moments reminded me of exercise highs/post Bikram 26 high, the buzz you get from just the right amount of a cocktail and the float-y feeling of imbibing a just right amount of good cannabis. But it stayed, and it didn’t die off, or get too intense.

I felt like my body was very relaxed, like after a good hour and a half massage. But it was immediate; after only 15-20 minutes into the session, I felt like a massage therapist had worked on me for hours.

All of this from forks? Tuning? Vibrations? Sounds?

It’s more than a little mind-boggling to me, but I can’t deny my embodied experience.

Therefore, I am endeavoring to learn more about this biofield tuning paradigm, hypothesized by Eileen Day McKusick.

I’m sure that I’ll write more about this in the future. But at this point, I am just grateful. I don’t need to understand all the healing options, remedies and methods out there. I am simply glad that they exist and that they have been placed in my path. That others have discovered them, and worked at them, and they can help me on my journey.

I believe there is much about our bodies, our trauma and pain, and our healing, that western medicine—the practice of modern medicine, and pharmaceuticals, cannot touch or wholly cure.

Because of the interconnectedness of our universe, we need greater emphasis on embodied healing and understanding all that comprises our beings, and perhaps energetically and electrically as well, as we may learn from biofield tuning and the healing that so many experience as a result of it.

Simply put: another tool in my toolbox to address and work to heal my intergenerational, embodied, lived trauma.

For this, I am immensely appreciative.