4^th Free Class:  What is my ultimate healing combination? 

Introduction Recap:  In the video for the first class Why is Your Shoulder Frozen? I explained that frozen shoulder is due to adhesive capsulitis, what that actually means, how to diagnose it, and possible causes. In the video for the second class What Professional Treatments are Available? I explained your treatment options regarding drugs and injections, manual methods, anesthesia required approaches, and Chinese medicine. In the video for the third class What Self-Healing Techniques Can You Use? I explained techniques you can do for yourself including nutritional approaches, mind-body methods, and EFT tapping, hypnosis and dreamwork, plus exploring symptoms as metaphors. If you missed those videos, you can use the email links to go back and watch them, and they will also be on the course pages.

I’m Dr. Larry Burk, and I have been a musculoskeletal radiologist for the past 35 years.  I am also a Certified Energy Health Practitioner and a mind-body coach. I co-founded Duke Integrative Medicine and am certified in hypnosis and acupuncture.  I am also trained in Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) or tapping.  More information about my coaching program can be found at www.larryburk.com.

Reasons I am Teaching:  I was one of the original researchers for shoulder MRI, and I’ve read 1000s of scans, including numerous with frozen shoulder. I’ve also treated frozen shoulder patients successfully. I had my own frozen shoulder and was able to heal quickly in a matter of weeks rather than months and months of suffering. My hope for these classes is that you will be able to obtain similar amazing results from what you learn here.

Introduction:  In this video I will outline a practical way to pull all these approaches together for optimal healing benefits and also discuss how considering your symptoms as metaphors can be useful in guiding the healing process. Today I will also be making an offer regarding the second half of this course which will start next Monday. I have modified my original plans based on feedback you have already given me in our Facebook group. Some of you have other causes of shoulder pain different from frozen shoulder.  For that reason, it is now called the Shoulder Pain Rapid Healing Course consisting of 4 experiential live interactive Zoom group sessions to learn my ultimate sequence of 6 favorite methods of self-healing.

Ultimate Healing Combination: A great way to start your day is to begin with some form of movement and breathing exercise such as tai chi or yoga, but my favorite is Qi Gong. I’ve been doing the Five Animal Frolics for about 5 minutes every morning for more than 20 years. It consists of gentle movements synchronized with the breath patterned after the motions of five different animals corresponding to the Chinese five elements. Embodying the deer, crane, monkey, tiger and bear stimulates the flow of chi through the acupuncture meridians that pass through the shoulder.

Qi gong is a good way to relax your body to prepare to quiet your mind during Meditation. I introduced a very simple way of meditating to patients at the Duke Lupus Clinic this summer who had never meditated before. I’ve practiced Transcendental Meditation (TM) since college and also trained in mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) at Duke Integrative Medicine.  I’ve combined the MBSR and TM approaches in a way that is easy to learn in 5 minutes. 

While you are meditating it can be useful to keep a notebook nearby to jot down any emotional issues that arise to use in the next step for Expressive Writing. I took a course Write to Heal from my friend John Evans at Duke Integrative Medicine, and he taught a structured approach which has been proven to work in boosting the immune system in many scientific studies. I had my lupus patients write about any emotional burdens they were dealing with after the brief meditation sessions, and they all found it beneficial.

Once you have gotten your emotions out of your body onto the page you can then proceed to do EFT tapping to delete the associated malware programs out of the memory files in the limbic system of your brain.  By repeating the name of the file that has a picture and story about the emotionally upsetting event, you will run the malware program triggering an energetic flashback in your body the original event. Tapping on the acupoints on your face and chest is like hitting the delete key on your computer and uninstalling the program.

After 5 minutes of the tapping protocol I usually do 5 minutes of Self-Hypnosis using imagery and visualization combined with color breathing techniques and therapeutic shaking to reset the body’s energy system. This approach includes accessing positive memories, reframing past emotional events and shifting the focus to future achievable goals for healing.

Combining these last 4 segments into a 20-minute process was well received by the lupus patients, and I also asked them about their Dreams, as I have all my coaching clients keep a dream diary.  I discovered that many of them were having violent dreams of self-defense as a metaphor for their autoimmune illness. Some of my clients with shoulder pain have had dreams of anger related to their inflammatory condition as in the case report below.

Case report:

One of my coaching clients is Jeannette, a 66-year old woman executive director of a non-profit with left shoulder pain for 3 months related to anger about a family member and a former board member. She needs to raise millions to move to a new building and has had angry dreams of conflict.

We did EFT tapping on how her left shoulder resents carrying this heavy burden and anxiety about her back-breaking responsibilities. She started doing a simple abundance exercise of carrying a $100 bill in her wallet and tapping on all the emotions associated with it. The next day she got a surprise phone call from a potential donor offering $500K instead of the 50K she was hoping for followed shortly afterward by winning a long shot government grant for another $500K. Her left shoulder pain improved with the fund-raising success and letting go of the anger.

Testimonial:

“Since I began working with Larry Burk on monthly EFT coaching calls, he has helped me transform a major fundraising challenge at work from a “heavy emotional burden” that was causing pain in my left arm and shoulder into an exciting creative opportunity. On each call we begin with a tapping session to address my current need or concern, then bring in a recent dream to explore possible connections. These sessions, which include inspiring visualizations, recharge my battery and motivate me to look forward to the next prospect, which we identify and address as a specific goal to work on. I leave the session feeling energized and empowered.” - J. M.

Shoulder Pain Rapid Healing Course:  If you want results similar to what she achieved in multiple private coaching sessions this course starting on Monday, 11/18, 5 PM EST, will take you through 4 experiential group learning classes on Zoom at a fraction of the cost.  The following 3 classes will be at the same time on 11/20, 22 and 25. The classes will be live interactive sessions with recordings available immediately afterward if you are not on the live program. With course registration today you will also receive 5 bonus gifts. Three have been created just for this course offering by my wife Dagmar Ehling, LAc, who is a founding partner in the most successful acupuncture clinic in the Research Triangle specializing in acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, nutrition, functional medicine and homeopathy with a 2-month waiting list.

Her 3 bonuses will be on Anti-inflammatory diets and her Top 5 nutritional supplements, plus a special surprise bonus gift. She will provide expert guidance on how to get the most high-quality products. I will provide 2 other bonuses related to MRI scan findings in rotator cuff tears and other diseases. These handouts are valued at $540. The four class hours of self-healing work is valued at $600.  The total value will be more than $1140, while the price of the course is only $197.   For this small investment in your healing process you will have the tools you need to recover your shoulder comfort and function and avoid more expensive and painful professional treatments.

Click the button below on the course page to register for the course!

Each class will begin with a brief slide presentation on different aspects of Symptoms as Metaphors including Chinese 5 elements, Louise Hay’s metaphysical symbolism and Brian Broom’s psychosomatic medicine, and Chakra Energy Centers. Brief dream analysis will be discussed next focusing on dreams that participants can submit for interpretation on the private Facebook group for the course. In each class we will proceed sequentially through the other 5 methods with refinements based on your feedback as we progress through the healing process. There will be plenty of time for comments about your experiences and discussion about how to customize it for your particular needs.  By the end you will have practiced enough to be able to do this sequence on your own.

Click the button below on the course page to register for this one-of-a-kind course!

Act now to get your place in the course as the offer will only be available this week for a limited time. There will be PayPal payment options on the registration page. I’m looking forward to connecting with you in person on Zoom next Monday. The goal is to have you Heal by the Holidays.