A Series of Unexplained Events: Treatments

I'd become so used to the crackling of electricity through my brain, that it had become my normal. It wasn't until a guy who was practicing an intuitive reading that I remembered it wasn't normal. "Your head... it's hell", he blurted. "I mean it's on fire", he said in an attempt to soften the harshness of the word hell. I immediately laughed and knew what he meant. I realised then that yeah, my head was hot, I'm sure I could keep a small town warm over winter with the amount of heat coming off me.

One of the the other guys in the group mentioned he bought a business, called the harmonic egg. Ok, I'm curious, harmonic egg? Turns out there was a place in NZ that had a harmonic egg. Turns out it's an egg-shaped capsule you sit inside of, while you receive light and sound therapy. I feel am receptive to sound therapy, so in a matter of a few clicks, I'd booked my 2 sessions. One session is in-person and the other is remote. Prior to the sessions, I filled out a form detailing what I wanted out of the sessions, and prior to the first session, I was asked to write out my intent and verbally repeat it 3 times. The session took 50 minutes, and all I had to do was relax during that time in the capsule.

I felt nice and relaxed afterward, and that evening, asleep in bed, I felt currents of electricity dance through my brain. The following session was done remotely, where I lay relaxed on my bed for 50 minutes. Nothing happened that evening in bed, nor any other time afterward. I'm not going to outright say that the harmonic egg doesn't have positive results for others just because I didn't get my desired results. I feel my situation could be a little left field compared to the usual orders of headaches, anxiety, and stress per se.

Next, I tried reiki. Well, first I trained in reiki. Then tried self-reiki. Then received an opportunity for a friend to do reiki on me. I found the experience relaxing, however, my brain went into overdrive. It wasn't hell, that sounds like it would be torturous, but a storm had definitely arrived. The reiki practitioner was working her way around my body, she reached the top of my head and didn't spend much time there and was down at my toes for a while. Afterward, sitting on her couch discussing the session, she revealed, "I couldn't stay around your head long, I thought I was having menopausal flushes, I started to sweat! It's like everything below your head is dead". Oops, my bad. However, I did mention that that morning at 3 am... I'd had a "solar storm experience" and had "lightning bolts" sent through my brain.

I'd had readings before, they can be either astounding, and other times they can be bitterly and hilariously wrong. I came across a tuning fork healing and reading opportunity and booked myself a session. She was lovely, sweet and she vaguely got her reading... rightish/wrongish. She picked up that I had a lot of energy radiating out of me, particularly my head. Her advice was that I needed more grounding, which is reasonable... electricity needs to exit somehow. However, I don't think she fully comprehended the intensity of the experiences I had had. And merely said solar storms were a good time to be... creative. Hmmmm, too generic for me to swallow, but it at least led me toward looking for ways of grounding myself.

For my fourth attempt to calm the "hell fires", I went on a 10-day silent Vipassana retreat. Basically, intensive meditation, to be exact, 100 hours of meditation. Between days 1 and 4, my head was still firing up. On some occasions when the pain in my hips and knees became too intense... I'd even let the lid off the electrical current in my head so that it would diminish the aches. But come day 5 and in particular day 6, I'd hit the jackpot. Still-point jackpot. Words will never capture the experience, but I'll give it a whirl. Part of the meditation technique is a body scan. And there was a moment, it may have lasted roughly 10 to 15 minutes, when everything in my mind went still and like a jet fighter pilot zeroing in on a pinpoint target, my point of focus narrowed down to this single point of attention. Where nothing else existed. I swear I heard it zero in.... the pitch in my ears accelerated up to pure silence, and then I was held in this silent void.

Then day 6 took it up a notch or two. The "body scan" is done mentally, of course, by feeling sensations on the skin and following those sensations down the body from crown to toes, then repeating that from toes to crown and continuing that over and over. It's more than the act of 'scanning' though, it's the state of the mind that's important, to remain equanimous and in the present moment. Then during our 4 pm meditation sitting, I'm scanning my body, and the flow begins to become more fluid, more free-flowing. There is no resistance, and the scanning gets faster and faster, it gets faster than I can mentally keep up with, and I realise I'm not doing the scanning. It's scanning by itself! I stop trying to keep up and I just.... observe. It gets faster, and faster and faster still, to the point that it's so fast that it feels like it's at every point of my body all at the same time. The scanning starts to expand beyond the surface of the skin, I become aware of a spherical space around me, about 1 meter in diameter. Suddenly, I hear two birds outside bashing themselves into the window in an attempt to break into the hall. I'm aware of the aches in my hips, but more like I know the ache is there but I am dull to it. I don't register it as pain or sharp or throbbing any longer, but I know it exists. I feel everything though, not just my hips, I notice everything at the same time. Every piece of information and sensation is known to me all at the same time. And yet I was in this sphere of complete stillness and peace. I was held in this state for about 45 minutes, and since then my head has not crackled with electricity, fire, or "hell" since.