The only thing worse than the utter exhaustion of having been up all night with your baby is the frustration of not knowing what is wrong - not knowing why your baby can’t sleep. There are only a handful of reasons why babies cry: hunger, a dirty diaper, or some unidentified pain which is, of course, the worst reason.
However, there is another possibility - one which is much better known in European countries: a form of distress caused by subtle yet disturbing energies in the environment which are called Geopathic Stress. Geopathic Stress zones are areas in our living space above where harmful energies are emitted from the earth. European studies document the effects these zones have on our health, ability to sleep, and capacity to heal. Babies are very sensitive to subtle energies and are strongly aligned with the natural rhythms of the earth. If your baby sleeps in a room of your house where Geopathic Stress is present, sleeping will be very compromised for her or him.
Geopathic Stress is one of the reasons children have nightmares, fall out of bed or want to come into their parents' bed. It keeps them in a state of subtle constant stress and prevents relaxation and falling into deep sleep.
How familiar are you with the scene where you put your baby to bed in the middle of their crib, tuck her/him in, only to come back an hour later and find your baby has moved to one side, is scrunched up at the head of the crib or lying across the bottom. Unfortunately, babies can do very little to change their predicament except cry.
In the 1970's an Austrian dowser, Kaethe Bachler, published an extensive study with more than 3000 school children who had trouble with their sleep and/or school performance. She documented numerous cases which quickly improved as soon as the children‘s bed positions were changed. I have mentioned Kaethe Bachler's work in other articles. I recently discovered a reprint of her work in English at the Dowsing Convention in Vermont last month.
In my own practice as a Feng Shui and geopathology consultant, I have seen many cases confirming these observations. One of my personal favorites is a consult I did in a multi-family home in San Francisco. I was asked by a family to check the Feng Shui of their space. The way I work when I assess a home or business is very energy-oriented, I call it "European style" Feng Shui. When I dowsed the living and sleeping areas I found a major 12 inch wide geopathic line in the middle of the bedroom. Space was limited and there was no satisfactory way to rearrange the position of the bed - always our first attempted solution. We decided to install a Home Harmonizer to neutralize the affects of Geopathic Stress for the whole building.
Two days later, the family shared some feedback with me. The morning after my consult, my client ran into the neighbor from the other side of the building at the front door. The neighbor had not known of my visit. He reported that his 8 month old baby had slept through the night for the first time since they had moved in two or three months earlier.
I returned to investigate the second part of the house, I found that the same earth grid line which ran through the first family's bedroom also ran through the bedroom of the neighbor, directly under the baby's crib. The crib was positioned in such a way that the baby could not avoid lying above the geopathic zone. The energetic shield we installed harmonized the entire building. The baby for the first time slept restfully.
Typical reactions of children sleeping above Geopathic structures:
- Restless sleep: tossing, turning, kicking off blankets
- Always ending up on one side of the crib or bed, falling out of bed
- Nightmares and night terrors
- Running into the parents‘ bed in the middle of the night, often multiple times a night
- Hyperactivity during the day
- Lack of concentration in school and with homework
- ADD and similar behaviors
- Bedwetting
- Frequent colds, coughs and ear infections
- General weakening of the immune system, possible increase of allergies and many other chronic health issues
If you are not sure if Geopathic Stress is the cause for your baby‘s restlessness, try changing where he or she sleeps for a few nights. Usually it takes a few days for a small child to adapt and detox from the energetic charge of Geopathic Stress. The metabolism is even quicker in infants and you should see improvements within a day or two. An adult might take several weeks or even months to rid themselves of the negative energetic charge.
Please, also, reduce electronic equipment in your bedrooms as much as possible. Electro-magnetic pollution is a newer challenge falling under the field of geopathology. Keep clock radios, TVs, telephones, computers, charging stations, cell phones, and all wireless devices out of sleeping areas. We also recommend turning off your wireless router at night.
If you are interested in more information on Geopathic Stress, please also see www.Geopathology.com
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