Rise Unafraid - The Truth Behind Epilepsy
By Janine Fattaleh Diliani
By Janine Fattaleh Diliani
This article is taken from pages 187-193 of Janine Fattaleh Diliani's book "Rise Unafraid - The Truth Behind Epilepsy" . It is her experiences with Attunement and epilepsy. I hope you find it useful.
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Attunement Therapy:
I never considered traditional ‘talk’ therapy, but Lara, in Jerusalem, encouraged me to
try energy healing through attunement therapy. This is how I met Jeffrey Goldstein
(Jeff), a remarkable attunement instructor and therapist who offers spiritual guidance
and is also a somatic experience practitioner. He helped me a great deal, and I learned
a lot from him. He believes in peace and conducts workshops on his healing practices
and emotional wellness aids with organizations in Palestine.
Attunement is the spiritual practice of opening one’s thoughts and feelings to the
source of wisdom and love. It is a healing modality offered through the hands, though
without touch. This is how Jeff describes attunement:
Attunement is a method of Energy Therapy that helps to bring the body into
homeostasis by nurturing, relaxing, and therefore regulating the body's systems.
It also helps the nervous system to restart or renew itself into the present
moment and it affects the electromagnetic patterns within the brain waves.
This is excellent for those afflicted with epilepsy, because of the vast
dysregulation that is created in the nervous system.
Janine took advantage of this state of relaxation, which assisted her to feel
better about herself when she had an attack.
At the time, only two people knew I was going to attunement therapy: Lara, who
joined me for my first session, and Allison, who took me a few times after that. I didn’t
want anyone else to know that I was even trying this, and I’m not really sure why. I just
kept it to myself. Now, I can’t say enough about how important it was—and still is—to
me. I often recommend it to people in the hope that they will benefit and get as much
from it as I do. Even after becoming seizure free, I still go to attunement therapy, and
with my seizures gone, I am more relaxed and benefit a lot from it.
The brain is a complex organ. It is constantly at work, sending electrical signals,
communicating, building new neural connections, and so on. This electrical activity, also
known as brainwaves, reflects our state of mind. Our reality is not based on outside
influences; it is an internal process based on our thoughts, perceptions, and emotions. If
we can deepen our understanding of these brainwaves, we can control our reality.
Our brainwaves have five frequencies: beta, alpha, theta, delta, and gamma. It is
entirely natural for humans to experience these different states at different times of the
day, though one state is generally dominant.
The theta brainwave frequency is the one in which the body and mind’s natural
self-healing processes are activated and optimized. Theta brainwaves are present
during deep relaxation, dreaming, meditation, and hypnosis. They can be a source of
creativity, intuition, increased memory, and enhanced concentration. When these brain
waves are induced through certain mental practices, they lower stress and anxiety
levels and facilitate healing and growth. Accessing the theta frequency of brainwaves
allows us to act below the level of the conscious mind, in the first stage of the dream
state. This facilitates the ideal mental and physiological state for healing, and it also
enables us to access the power and wisdom of our unconscious mind, which is normally
inaccessible in more alert states.
Receiving attunement meant I was healing myself from within. It is the most
profound healing therapy I’ve ever experienced. We all have the ability to heal
ourselves, but attunement therapy helps awaken the soul. We are all made up of
energy, and it flows through us. We don’t actually see it, but it’s there. It is the energy of
our life force. This energy comes from the Universal Source—the highest power in your
belief system—and is channeled by the attunement practitioner, flowing through them to
the receiver.
Attunement is more sensing, less thinking, and I found this type of therapy to be
very powerful. It helped me find peace with myself and with my disorder so my thoughts
and feelings could stop fighting each other. It enabled me to break free of the endless
negative, even suicidal, thoughts that plagued me. I found the healing sessions to be
extremely relaxing and very therapeutic.
I would go into a deep state of stillness, where emotions could be released.
Then, my subconscious mind carried me to the places that needed healing. In stillness,
I would reach inward and listen to the voice hidden inside me. All I had to do was close
my eyes and relax. Almost immediately, I would feel a warmth and a tingling sensation
of gentle energy flow. This experience differs from one person to another. Some feel a
deep, calm relaxation, others have a whole host of different experiences and
sensations, as I did. I believed in the process, and therefore, it had a strong positive
effect on me.
I gave myself permission to open and release all the trapped energy that had
been locked up inside my body and help it melt away. On many occasions, I felt like my
body was completely surrounded by a protective bubble of light. Attunement made me
feel like I was free. I regard it as a form of spiritual guidance. I didn’t want to let it
overtake me, and it wasn’t a replacement for my Christianity, which I believe in strongly,
but it helped me a great deal.
During my second attunement healing session, while wrapped in a deep stillness,
I noticed my legs very slowly tucking in toward my stomach, as if I were a fetus in a
womb. I assumed this was because I was seeking help for my epilepsy, which began
when I was a baby. When I told Allison—who was in the room the whole time—about
this experience and the suspected causes behind it, she said, “Your body didn’t move.
You were lying still throughout the whole attunement session and there were tears.”
I later learned that experience was part of what is known as Theta Healing. In
Theta Healing, you imagine yourself floating up above your head through your Crown
Chakra to ask God for help. When this happens, your brainwaves instantly shift into the
theta range, the realm of the subconscious. This holds our memories, including our
memories of sensations. It also governs our attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.
Lorine joined me once to see what an attunement therapy session looked like.
She didn’t know what to expect, since she didn’t entirely believe what I told her about
my previous experiences. What she saw amazed her so much that it took her a few
days to make sense of it all.
During that session, I released a lot of anger. I clenched my fists, and tears rolled
down my cheeks endlessly. Lorine was able to see these reactions because my motor
neurons kicked in. Motor neurons are found in the nervous system and activate muscle
cells. They carry information from the central nervous system to the muscle cells, telling
my fists to clench. This happened while I was in deep meditative state. My mind and
body were communicating with each other. I would open my arms wide and feel at
peace. Then, suddenly, I would feel my fists start to clench in anger. Then, the process
would repeat; I’d reopen my arms in very slow motion, and a feeling of peace would
return. I was releasing all the anguish and rage that had formed deep inside me.
Attunement sessions aren’t all like that. Sometimes, the body can feel something
happening, but it doesn’t necessarily move, which is what happened with Allison during
my second experience with attunement.
During theta brainwave activity, both the body and mind experience enhanced
rejuvenation, growth, and healing. Due to the deep levels of relaxation that theta
brainwaves facilitate, the body and mind can more easily restore themselves during and
after illness, as well as after mental burnout and physical exertion.
With attunement, I found an easier way to release my pent-up body emotions.
The body never forgets, and my subconscious was full of sustained, long-term pain and
intense mental suffering, both from the fact of having seizures and also from the side
effects of my medications to control the seizures.
After the session she observed, Lorine said to me, “All these years I’ve known
you, I never knew how much pain you’ve hidden and felt inside. All I’ve ever seen in you
is strength and like Jeff said, you don’t see your strength.”
A few years after my surgery, I was reflecting on my journey one day and began
to cry. I needed to thank everyone who had helped me over the years, and I ended up
sending them a very emotional voice message. Later, when Lorine brought it up, I
realized that I had probably made her cry with my outpouring of emotions, though she
doesn’t cry easily. To lighten the mood, I followed up with, “Ha ha, I bet that made you
cry.”
She replied, “That didn’t make me cry. The only time I cried for you was when I
saw your reactions during your attunement session, when you released all that pain
you’ve been holding inside, which you hid so well.”
That’s why this incident made her cry when nothing else having to do with me
ever had. She felt such sympathy for what I was going through on the inside. She
couldn’t believe what was happening before her very eyes. She saw how real it was and
that I wasn’t putting on an act.
I felt the same way during my first few attunement sessions; I couldn’t believe
what was happening while it was happening to me. I could feel what was happening, but
I wasn’t the one doing it. That’s why I decided to learn everything there is to know about
attunement—because of its realness. I wanted to justify what I was experiencing, why it
was happening, and why others were able to witness what I was experiencing.
Attunement helped me relax and release, but it didn’t control my seizures. It may
work that way for some people, but for me, it was more about emotional and
psychological wellness.
I continued working with Jeff, and in time, I was able to release all my emotional
bodily memories. He made a big difference in my life and freed me from so much past
pain. After I completed my healing journey, I created a token of appreciation for him so
he would know just how much he helped me. It speaks to how powerful attunement
therapy was for me:
I never considered traditional ‘talk’ therapy, but Lara, in Jerusalem, encouraged me to
try energy healing through attunement therapy. This is how I met Jeffrey Goldstein
(Jeff), a remarkable attunement instructor and therapist who offers spiritual guidance
and is also a somatic experience practitioner. He helped me a great deal, and I learned
a lot from him. He believes in peace and conducts workshops on his healing practices
and emotional wellness aids with organizations in Palestine.
Attunement is the spiritual practice of opening one’s thoughts and feelings to the
source of wisdom and love. It is a healing modality offered through the hands, though
without touch. This is how Jeff describes attunement:
Attunement is a method of Energy Therapy that helps to bring the body into
homeostasis by nurturing, relaxing, and therefore regulating the body's systems.
It also helps the nervous system to restart or renew itself into the present
moment and it affects the electromagnetic patterns within the brain waves.
This is excellent for those afflicted with epilepsy, because of the vast
dysregulation that is created in the nervous system.
Janine took advantage of this state of relaxation, which assisted her to feel
better about herself when she had an attack.
At the time, only two people knew I was going to attunement therapy: Lara, who
joined me for my first session, and Allison, who took me a few times after that. I didn’t
want anyone else to know that I was even trying this, and I’m not really sure why. I just
kept it to myself. Now, I can’t say enough about how important it was—and still is—to
me. I often recommend it to people in the hope that they will benefit and get as much
from it as I do. Even after becoming seizure free, I still go to attunement therapy, and
with my seizures gone, I am more relaxed and benefit a lot from it.
The brain is a complex organ. It is constantly at work, sending electrical signals,
communicating, building new neural connections, and so on. This electrical activity, also
known as brainwaves, reflects our state of mind. Our reality is not based on outside
influences; it is an internal process based on our thoughts, perceptions, and emotions. If
we can deepen our understanding of these brainwaves, we can control our reality.
Our brainwaves have five frequencies: beta, alpha, theta, delta, and gamma. It is
entirely natural for humans to experience these different states at different times of the
day, though one state is generally dominant.
The theta brainwave frequency is the one in which the body and mind’s natural
self-healing processes are activated and optimized. Theta brainwaves are present
during deep relaxation, dreaming, meditation, and hypnosis. They can be a source of
creativity, intuition, increased memory, and enhanced concentration. When these brain
waves are induced through certain mental practices, they lower stress and anxiety
levels and facilitate healing and growth. Accessing the theta frequency of brainwaves
allows us to act below the level of the conscious mind, in the first stage of the dream
state. This facilitates the ideal mental and physiological state for healing, and it also
enables us to access the power and wisdom of our unconscious mind, which is normally
inaccessible in more alert states.
Receiving attunement meant I was healing myself from within. It is the most
profound healing therapy I’ve ever experienced. We all have the ability to heal
ourselves, but attunement therapy helps awaken the soul. We are all made up of
energy, and it flows through us. We don’t actually see it, but it’s there. It is the energy of
our life force. This energy comes from the Universal Source—the highest power in your
belief system—and is channeled by the attunement practitioner, flowing through them to
the receiver.
Attunement is more sensing, less thinking, and I found this type of therapy to be
very powerful. It helped me find peace with myself and with my disorder so my thoughts
and feelings could stop fighting each other. It enabled me to break free of the endless
negative, even suicidal, thoughts that plagued me. I found the healing sessions to be
extremely relaxing and very therapeutic.
I would go into a deep state of stillness, where emotions could be released.
Then, my subconscious mind carried me to the places that needed healing. In stillness,
I would reach inward and listen to the voice hidden inside me. All I had to do was close
my eyes and relax. Almost immediately, I would feel a warmth and a tingling sensation
of gentle energy flow. This experience differs from one person to another. Some feel a
deep, calm relaxation, others have a whole host of different experiences and
sensations, as I did. I believed in the process, and therefore, it had a strong positive
effect on me.
I gave myself permission to open and release all the trapped energy that had
been locked up inside my body and help it melt away. On many occasions, I felt like my
body was completely surrounded by a protective bubble of light. Attunement made me
feel like I was free. I regard it as a form of spiritual guidance. I didn’t want to let it
overtake me, and it wasn’t a replacement for my Christianity, which I believe in strongly,
but it helped me a great deal.
During my second attunement healing session, while wrapped in a deep stillness,
I noticed my legs very slowly tucking in toward my stomach, as if I were a fetus in a
womb. I assumed this was because I was seeking help for my epilepsy, which began
when I was a baby. When I told Allison—who was in the room the whole time—about
this experience and the suspected causes behind it, she said, “Your body didn’t move.
You were lying still throughout the whole attunement session and there were tears.”
I later learned that experience was part of what is known as Theta Healing. In
Theta Healing, you imagine yourself floating up above your head through your Crown
Chakra to ask God for help. When this happens, your brainwaves instantly shift into the
theta range, the realm of the subconscious. This holds our memories, including our
memories of sensations. It also governs our attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.
Lorine joined me once to see what an attunement therapy session looked like.
She didn’t know what to expect, since she didn’t entirely believe what I told her about
my previous experiences. What she saw amazed her so much that it took her a few
days to make sense of it all.
During that session, I released a lot of anger. I clenched my fists, and tears rolled
down my cheeks endlessly. Lorine was able to see these reactions because my motor
neurons kicked in. Motor neurons are found in the nervous system and activate muscle
cells. They carry information from the central nervous system to the muscle cells, telling
my fists to clench. This happened while I was in deep meditative state. My mind and
body were communicating with each other. I would open my arms wide and feel at
peace. Then, suddenly, I would feel my fists start to clench in anger. Then, the process
would repeat; I’d reopen my arms in very slow motion, and a feeling of peace would
return. I was releasing all the anguish and rage that had formed deep inside me.
Attunement sessions aren’t all like that. Sometimes, the body can feel something
happening, but it doesn’t necessarily move, which is what happened with Allison during
my second experience with attunement.
During theta brainwave activity, both the body and mind experience enhanced
rejuvenation, growth, and healing. Due to the deep levels of relaxation that theta
brainwaves facilitate, the body and mind can more easily restore themselves during and
after illness, as well as after mental burnout and physical exertion.
With attunement, I found an easier way to release my pent-up body emotions.
The body never forgets, and my subconscious was full of sustained, long-term pain and
intense mental suffering, both from the fact of having seizures and also from the side
effects of my medications to control the seizures.
After the session she observed, Lorine said to me, “All these years I’ve known
you, I never knew how much pain you’ve hidden and felt inside. All I’ve ever seen in you
is strength and like Jeff said, you don’t see your strength.”
A few years after my surgery, I was reflecting on my journey one day and began
to cry. I needed to thank everyone who had helped me over the years, and I ended up
sending them a very emotional voice message. Later, when Lorine brought it up, I
realized that I had probably made her cry with my outpouring of emotions, though she
doesn’t cry easily. To lighten the mood, I followed up with, “Ha ha, I bet that made you
cry.”
She replied, “That didn’t make me cry. The only time I cried for you was when I
saw your reactions during your attunement session, when you released all that pain
you’ve been holding inside, which you hid so well.”
That’s why this incident made her cry when nothing else having to do with me
ever had. She felt such sympathy for what I was going through on the inside. She
couldn’t believe what was happening before her very eyes. She saw how real it was and
that I wasn’t putting on an act.
I felt the same way during my first few attunement sessions; I couldn’t believe
what was happening while it was happening to me. I could feel what was happening, but
I wasn’t the one doing it. That’s why I decided to learn everything there is to know about
attunement—because of its realness. I wanted to justify what I was experiencing, why it
was happening, and why others were able to witness what I was experiencing.
Attunement helped me relax and release, but it didn’t control my seizures. It may
work that way for some people, but for me, it was more about emotional and
psychological wellness.
I continued working with Jeff, and in time, I was able to release all my emotional
bodily memories. He made a big difference in my life and freed me from so much past
pain. After I completed my healing journey, I created a token of appreciation for him so
he would know just how much he helped me. It speaks to how powerful attunement
therapy was for me:
Janine takes us on a journey into the truth behind epilepsy. She writes poignantly about her 25-year cycle of suffering from seizures, the challenges she encountered along the way, and the surgery that ultimately gave her back her life. She reflects
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