What is Geopathic Stress in A Home?

If your house is suffering from geopathic stress, you will have to search for good solutions. In most cases, geopathic stress can be dealt with and the strong earth energies can be either redirected or neutralized in order to create a healthier energy in the house.

Before you find the best cure, or solution for a geopathic stress house, you will have to clearly define what type of geopathic stress your home is experiencing.There are many types of earth energies that can create difficulties in a human dwelling, you will need to either dowse yourself or look for a professional dowser for help.It is important to understand that none of the earth energies we are dealing with are dangerous or malevolent, there is no need for fear. The reason these energies are challenging for human health is because their strong vibrations can weaken a person's immune system if one is exposed to them for a long period of time.

So, it is wise to avoid spending too much time (or let alone having your bed!) in an area where there is a strong presence of earth energies such as an underground water stream, for example, or a crossing of Hartmann or Benker lines.If you decide to dowse by yourself, be sure to formulate very clear questions about specific type of geopathic stress your house might be experiencing. Is it a fast underground river that is disturbing the energy in your bedroom? Or, is it a crossing of earth lines that is creating an overpowering field in your children's room?In addition to being very specific, accept that you might be dealing with a combination of earth energies. You might have an underground water stream, for example, as well as a crossing of Benker lines; maybe even some geologic anomalies or vortexes.
The more you know about geopathic stress including specific earth grid lines, such as Hartmann, Benker, Curry lines and other, the more effective your solutions will be. The influence of earth energies might not be constant, but rather cyclical. More often than not, the intensity of an underground river flow will change with the seasons, as well as with the lunar tides.In most cases, it does not really make a difference if you live in a house or in an apartment building with many floors. Some earth energies can be felt just a strong, if not even stronger, on the 12th floor (as compared to the ground floor) because of specific building materials.

Are there good solutions to help you neutralize the geopathic stress in your home?

Yes, there are many solutions you can explore. The first, and most practical, solution is to:

Reposition Your Furniture. If your bed, your desk or your living room furniture (where you tend to spend a lot of time) happens to be in a geopathic stress area, you need to reposition it. If this is not possible, or if the geopathic stress area is too big/covers most of your house, explore further solutions for geopathic stress.

They are generally divided into two categories: tools to neutralize the energy of your home and various tools to strengthen your own, personal energy.

1. Geopathic Stress Solutions for A Home. There are many instruments on the market that are designed to clear a home or an office from harmful vibrations. Geopathic tools such as Space Harmonizers, Pyramids, Energy Plates, Geo Resonators, Crystals and even devices that employ laser beams are used to protect the energy of a home.

One popular, and very simple, method is to place copper, brass or steel rods (you can also use rings or wires) at specific points in the ground around your house, or in specific areas inside your home. The points where they need to be placed can be identified by dowsing.

In order to make this method work, you have to know the direction of the flow of earth lines you need to block/neutralize, as well as the distance between them. Basically, when you place specific tools in specific areas of your home, you are creating a grid of safe energy.

2. Personal Energy Geopathic Stress Protection Tools. There is a wide variety of personal energy tools to help strengthen your energy and protect from geopathic stress (as well as EMF Radition). These tools are made by using various type of technologies, materials and designs. You can find them under various names, from Personal Protection Pendants to Bio-Shield or Bio-Resonance Pendants, Tesla Pendants, and other.

Most of the geopathic stress personal protection tools come as pendants made with crystals, silver or gold. Some look very attractive and can be worn as jewelry, and some are worn unnoticed. The price range is anywhere from Rs.2500 for a simple pendant to over Rs. 18000 for a pendant made from gold; you can find a variety of options and info on-line.

Because this is a relatively new field, be sure to research it well and compare not only the prices but also the effectiveness of each tool that might help you. As with everything new, do not hesitate to ask as many questions as needed in order to make the right choice.

Other Symptoms and Signs of Geopathic Stress

BEHAVIOURAL PROBLEMS:
PHYSICAL, SEXUAL, OR VERBAL ABUSE OF CHILDREN OR SPOUSE,
ROAD RAGE,
LOCATION-SPECIFIC AGGRESSION,
STRESSED RELATIONSHIPS,
DIVORCE,

Bad neighbour syndrome

Social symptoms can include vandalism, burglary, fighting and warfare, corruption, financial decay, and bad luck in all its forms. Bad neighbour syndrome can frequently be traced to a Sha stream flowing from aggressor to victim.

Sick building syndrome

The World Health Organisation estimate that 30% of offices, hotels, institutions and industrial premises have SBS. causing: headaches, tension between staff, lethargy, respiratory infection, dry skin and throat, eye symptoms, loss of concentration, depression, stress and fatigue, leading to a high rate of absenteeism, increased staff turnover, and lowered morale. While electro-, micro-, and radio wave and chemical pollution are undoubtedly major factors, SBS is generally rooted in the presence of Sha streams under the property. Sha Qi can be spread from the path of the streams throughout a building by the steel construction frame, wiring loom and pipework, just as it is spread along railway tracks or a metal bed frame. Thus a steel-framed cattle shed with Sha streams running through it will usually feel much more unhappy than a brick and wood barn.

Geopsychic stress

Haunting of earth-bound human ghosts and other entities, including poltergeist activity are invariably tied to negative earth energies. Ghost and spirit release and exorcism performed without attention to cleaning up the local earth energies can sometimes result in a new crop in the next day.
Dislocated nature spirits and disturbed landscape entities can also hold trauma to the earth’s etheric web within the landscape, and are often the bearers of emotion (apathy, grief, fear, anger, etc.) in the atmosphere of a place.
Predecessor Qi (memory and atmosphere of past events in a place) will be thicker and more troublesome with GS.

Physical decay

The path of a Sha stream can often be traced within the home by following the piles of chronically unresolved clutter across a house. Other clues include piles of rubbish, cracks in glass, brick and plaster work, recurring mechanical and electrical breakdowns, derelict areas, and accident black spots both within the home and outside. Fruit and vegetables, grain, ale, cheese, jam, wine and photographic film will all spoil quickly when stored in the wrong place.

Recurrent bad luck

Poor workmanship,
Hostile staff relations,
Difficulty selling a property.

Animals

In the animal realm, most mammals instinctively avoid spending time over Sha streams, gravitating instead to Sheng Qi streams i.e. the healthy, free-flowing earth meridians. Dogs will instinctively avoid kennels and beds on GS lines, though obedience to their human’s instructions can be the death of them. Birds are reckoned to be most sensitive, and horses most resilient, though many chronically ill or injury-prone horses are found to be stabled on Sha streams.
Cats, owls, corvids, snakes, slugs and snails are however attracted to Sha streams, and a cat’s favorite sleeping place (in the absence of an obvious source of warmth) is very often a sure clue to the location of a Sha stream crossing. Local cats will gather in the neighborhood GS hot-spot. A cat who regularly sleeps in the same spot on a bed is certainly performing a diagnostic, and possibly a protective function, though if the GS is too strong the cat will also suffer. Insects, parasites, bacteria and viruses also thrive on Sha streams, and ant and wasp nests invariably provide a similar clue: thus a Sha stream is the right location for a beehive.

Plants

Clues to the path of a Sha stream in the vegetable world include lightning-struck trees, dead or stunted gaps in hedges and avenues of trees, infertile fruit trees, cankers, and strangely twisted trees (usually in the direction of current flow). Fruit trees are the most sensitive, while oaks, redwoods and ashes are more resilient, and elders seem to be positively attracted. Lawns will often betray bare patches, moss, silver weed and fungi, while vegetable gardens will reveal stunted or mutated growth, especially along the edge lines of the Sha streams.
Ivy, bindweed, nettles, docks, thistles, foxgloves, ferns and nightshades are naturally attracted, and indeed the appropriate medicinal herbs for a sick person are usually to be found in the garden along the path of a Sha stream running though their bed.

Geopathic stress and feng shui

Geopathic Stress and Earth Acupuncture have always been an integral if esoteric part of Feng Shui practice. Where the Feng Shui form of a building or landscape is poor, the effects of GS will be worse. Where a GS line runs across or through other key points in a property besides the bed, such as the front door, front gate, or center of a house, the quality of Qi entering the property will be compromised and the whole building will suffer.
Where GS lines coincide with Compass School sectors, for example in a Ba Gua, Ba Zhai, Ming Gua or Fei Xing chart, the type of effect that the GS will provoke can be anticipated – it can deplete a good portent or activate a bad one. For example, in my own professional experience, every single bedroom surveyed belonging to a child who has died has suffered from medium to strong GS lines in conjunction with the Jue Ming (severed fate) Ba Zhai portent in their bedroom.

Medical Implications of Geopathic Stress

         In the sensitive or weak patient, or in anyone exposed for a sufficient length of time, geopathic stress may be sufficient to overcome the body’s natural homeostatic regulation and lead into a disease spiral, presenting at first a confused non-specific symptom picture. Measurable physiological effects of geopathic stress include changes in the electrical polarity of the cell membrane with impeded ionization across the cell wall; altered spin oscillation and proton resonance of protein molecules; faulty hydrogen bonding; disturbed mesenchyme base regulation, hormone balance and pH values.

The most frequently found symptoms occurring at an early stage of exposure to geopathic stress, perhaps immediately upon moving to a new house, are sleep disturbances. The siting of a patient’s bed seems to be the most important factor, after which come favorite chair, desk, room in which most working time is spent, and so forth.

Pathological symptoms can include restlessness, difficulty in getting to sleep, excessive dreaming, excessively heavy sleep and sleep requirements, waking un-refreshed, cold or restless feet and legs in bed, asthma and respiratory difficulties at night, fatigue and lethargy, unexplained mood changes, aggression and depression.

Patients often wake up at an odd angle in bed, perhaps on the edge of the bed as far as possible from the center of stress, while children might sleep-walk. Cats tend to prefer sleeping over a stress hot-spot, other things like warmth being equal; dogs and most other mammals prefer to avoid them. It is interesting to see the mechanism whereby healthy humans are naturally sensitive to avoiding such stressed areas, while humans on a disease cycle naturally gravitate in spite themselves to sleeping in beds whose geography enhances their pathological tendency (in much the same way that patients displaying the Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) syndrome of Spleen Yang deficiency love bananas, and therefore further increase the Cold Phlegm in their system. The two broad categories of geopathic disturbance are yin – the discharging field, and yang – the charging field, ranging from the geomagnetic baseline of 65,000 nano-Tesla by up to 8,000 nT either way.

The yin fields are associated with underground water flows, underground caverns and rock hollows, the running water causing a decrease in the intensity of the rocks’ geomagnetic field strong enough to influence living organisms on the surface. Where two underground streams cross the effect is enhanced.
The pathological states associated with the yin fields manifest first as the above-noted sleep disturbances and mental symptoms. Over time, in the idiom of TCM, Qi Xu (energy deficiency) syndromes worsen to become Xue Xu (Blood deficiency) and Wei (wasting and paralyzing) conditions – fatigue, neurasthenia, depression, arthritis, diabetes mellitus, cancers, multiple sclerosis, myopathies and neuropathies and other degenerative disorders.

These zones in space, represented at their strongest as a crossing point of two unhealthy underground streams, represent energy sinks sacred to the degenerative and dissolute forces, As such they are exceptionally good sites for compost heaps, for letting go of angry grievances, or for cooling off hyperactive children for a few minutes, but less helpful to the regenerative aspect of health and healing.

The yang fields are especially associated with fault zones and with coal and oil deposits. Found in such regions are changes in ionization, infra-red emission and AC & DC current; low frequency atmospheric pulsations with increased probability of lightning strikes; and low-level radiation emissions. As might be expected, yang fields lead to Qi Shi (energy excess) states such as hypertension, cardiac problems, strokes, migraines, epileptic fits, gastritis, alcoholism, mania and schizophrenia.

Global geomagnetic grid crossing points can be associated with both yin and yang fields.
A survey of the world’s literature concerning GS shows a remarkable concordance of experience regarding the medical symptoms associated with exposure. For example, a list of known symptoms from the Chinese Feng Shui tradition that I was given in 1996 was identical in every respect to a list that I had myself previously compiled from the Western literature and my own experience:
CANCER is the most notorious of these, and tumors are known to develop almost always at exactly the spot where two or more GS lines cross a person’s body as they lie asleep in their bed. All mammals are considered to produce cancerous cells on a continual basis, though they are also continuously destroyed by the body’s immune system. Stress on the immune system caused by GS is seen as responsible for the resulting overgrowth of cancer cells. Professional dowsers tell many stories of patients whose tumors have ‘mysteriously’ disappeared after moving their sleeping position away from the GS lines.

LEUKAEMIAS & LYMPHOMAS are particularly associated with a strong electro pollution component within the GS lines.
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS,
MOTOR NEURON DISEASE,
PARKINSON’S DISEASE,
and many other CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM, WASTING AND PARALYZING DISEASES OF THE FLESH, MUSCLES AND NERVES,
e.g. NECROTIC FASCISTIC, NEURASTHENIA GRAVIES,
all diagnosed as ‘Earth element disorders’ in Traditional Chinese Medicine.
INFERTILITY (storks will not visit, let alone nest on geopathically stressed locations!),
DIFFICULT PREGNANCIES,
MISCARRIAGE,
PREMATURE BIRTH,UNHEALTHY NEW-BORN BABIES, including DOWN’S SYNDROME and other GENETIC ABNORMALITIES.
Women are considered more likely to be at risk from geopathic stress because their hormonal systems are more susceptible. Foresight, the British pre-conception care organization, now suggest that all couples trying for a baby should get their homes checked for geopathic stress and electromagnetic stress.
N.B. a baby girl is born with approximately 25,000 eggs, which will all be affected by GS if the maternal bed during pregnancy is compromised, thus potentiating genetic weakness in future generations.
SUDDEN INFANT DEATH SYNDROME (S.I.D.S., ‘COT DEATH’)
Has well-established connections with exposure to geopathic and electromagnetic stress, microwave communication transmissions, proximity to nuclear power plants and research establishments, and baby dribble reacting with fire-retardant chemicals in cot mattresses (as well as a compromised breathing control mechanism in the brain-stem caused by an impacted occiput at birth, and treatable with cranial osteopathy).

BABIES CRYING CONTINUOUSLY

Can often be relieved simply by moving the cot a few feet away from the geopathogenic zone. Babies repeatedly found sleeping in one corner or edge of the cot, (or children and adults repeatedly falling out of bed), is probably an instinctual attempt to escape from the worst of the GS. The diagrams below, from respected British dowser Rolf Gordon, are cases where babies have been trying to avoid GS in their sleep. All the babies slept peacefully after their cots were moved to a Geopathic Stress free place.CHILDREN BED WETTING,

ALLERGIES,
ECZEMA and ASTHMA,
FAILURE TO THRIVE,
ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER,
HYPERACTIVITY,
LEARNING DIFFICULTIES,
DIFFICULT TO CONTROL.

The respected Austrian researcher Kathe Bachler surveyed over 3000 school children, and showed 95% of children with learning difficulties, hyperactive tendencies or continuous bad behaviour, either slept or had their school desks (or both) in locations with marked GS. When she moved the children into stress free places, they nearly all showed a marked improvement, often going from bottom to top of their class in one term. She concluded that GS affects a high proportion of children who continuously play truant or who are refused places in ordinary schools due to misbehaviour. Class teachers in schools suffering with GS have a high rate of absenteeism.

Exposure to GS during childhood can make a person particularly sensitive to GS for the rest of their life, as well as prone to choose to inhabit places with a similar and familiar level of geopathic stress.
POST-VIRAL FATIGUE, MYALGIC ENCEPHALOMYELTIS (M.E.)

The symptoms of M.E. include:
FATIGUE,
SEVERE MUSCLE PAIN,
EXHAUSTION AFTER THE SMALLEST PHYSICAL OR MENTAL EXERTION
HEADACHES,
DIZZINESS,
INABILITY TO CONCENTRATE,
HYPERSENSITIVITY TO TEMPERATURE CHANGES,
HYPERSENSITIVITY TO LIGHT,
PALLOR,
IRRITABILITY,
LACK OF PATIENCE,
FEELING OF WRETCHEDNESS,

M.E. is usually triggered by the contraction of a virus such a glandular fever, an emotional shock or a physical accident, and displays symptoms of a compromised immune system, particularly of the spleen and thymus. It is almost invariably a disease with a strong GS component.

ANY OF THE ABOVE SYMPTOMS, AND MANY OTHER CHRONICALLY DEPLETED ENERGY STATES AND IMPAIRED IMMUNE AND LYMPHATIC SYSTEM CONDITIONS, CHRONIC CANDIDIASIS
Chronic candida overgrowth, while linked directly to antibiotic use, almost invariably has a strong GS component.

INSOMNIA,
RESTLESS SLEEP,
The person may have difficulty sleeping as the body is on continuous alert.
BAD DREAMS (you may be sharing aspects of the same nightmare as others asleep on the same disturbed water line)
SLEEP WALKING,
GRINDING OF TEETH,
AWAKEN FEELING UNREFRESHED in the morning, or with:
FATIGUE,
MUZZY HEAD,
HEADACHE,
BACKACHE,
CRAMPS,
FEELING COLD,
TINGLING IN ARMS AND LEGS,
RESTLESSNESS.
ENDOCRINE DYSFUNCTIONS
Of all types, including
PITUITARY – giantism, dwarfism, etc…
THYROID – hyper or hypo
ADRENAL – hyper or hypo
HEART DISEASES of all types,
HYPERTENSION,
HYPERACTIVITY,
CROHN’S DISEASE e.g. an area of East Grinstead in Sussex famous among local G.P.s for having an unusually high concentration of patients suffering from this debilitating bowel disorder.
KIDNEY STONES e.g. ditto in a street in Newick, Sussex.
TUBERCULOSIS
ONSET OF: A.I.D.S.,
MENINGITIS,
E’COLI FOOD POISONING,
BSE,
LEGIONNAIRES DISEASE,
S.A.R.S.,
MIGRAINES,
ASTHMA,
ECZEMA,
ARTHRITIS & RHEUMATIC DISORDERS
Sore joints will often coincide exactly with the crossing point of negative earth energy lines on the bed.
LOSS OF BALANCE,
SHORT TERM MEMORY LOSS,
SCHIZOPHRENIA, AND A HOST OF MENTAL DISORDERS INCLUDING
OBSESSIONS (the focus of the obsession may be explicable in terms of the causal trauma to the local earth meridians)
ADDICTIONS,
DEPRESSION,
ANXIETY,
PANIC ATTACKS,
EMOTIONAL OVER-SENSITIVITY
PSYCHO-SEXUAL DISORDERS,
SUICIDES,
LOSS OF APPETITE,
ANOREXIA,
BULIMIA,
ALLERGIES
To drink, food, or environmental triggers.
LOCATION SPECIFIC ILLNESSES
Which dramatically worsen on returning home.
NOT WANTING TO GO HOME OR TO BED
And therefore finding excuses not to.
RESISTANCE TO TREATMENT (HOLISTIC OR ORTHODOX)
Long-term physical & mental illnesses where present treatment does not seem to work.

Many hospital nurses talk of some beds having a reputation where occupying patients seem to have more difficulty in recovering or where the death rate is higher.
Baron von Pohl came to the conclusion towards the end of his career that every single disease of humanity could be linked to disturbed underground streams with the single exception of gout (I have encountered one case of gout that was directly attributable to GS, which no doubt shows that we each have our blind spots!).

In the acupuncture tradition a point on the hand just distal to the fourth and fifth metacarpal junction (Triple Heater 3-1/3rd) is a prime Geopathic Stress test point, for both diagnosis and treatment.

Kinesiology (muscle testing), electro-dermal screening devices such as the MORA and VEGA machines, and Blood Crystalline Analysis may also be employed to diagnose GS as significant for a patient.

Types of Geopathic Stress

Modern understanding of Geopathic stress recognizes a number of different sources. Generally the most dangerous are the harmful underground water veins known to European dowsers as black streams, and to the Chinese as channels of underground Sha Qi. Also important are geological faults, radon gas, mineral deposits, ley line crossings, and global geomagnetic grid crossings. Latterly, the entire spectrum of AC pulsed electromagnetic fields and industrial and medical ionizing radiation sources have also to be considered, as well as microwave and radio wave transmissions, and DC field disruptions caused by metal objects.

UNDERGROUND WATER
As water flows through underground passages, fractures and fissures, it produces its own electromagnetic field, often high into microwave frequency. This field fluctuates depending on what is dissolved in it, how fast it is flowing, and whether it is interacting with any other type of earth energy. Interference with the earth’s natural energy field is particularly marked where these underground streams flow, and especially at the crossing points of two watercourses or other types of energy line. In a league table of radiation associated with biological damage, the outside edge lines of subterranean watercourses are at the very top, and they are found in association with many terminal and debilitating diseases.
A skilled dowser can easily detect this type of energy line. It can also be detected by a German analytical instrument developed by Dr. Ernst Hartmann and Dr. Dieter Ashcroft in Essen, which confirms this dowsable energy above subterranean water lines. The Genitron Felix-3, used in German universities and research institutes, detects ultra short and radio microwave frequencies and prints them out on a UKW- Spectrometer and Line drawer.

The radiation rises vertically above the underground watercourses, and the deleterious effects are evident many stories up. The adverse health effects may include deprivation of regenerating sleep resulting in arthritis, cancer, enhanced production of microbes encouraging mold and rot, degenerative diseases and rheumatism. The molecules of moving underground water interact with the structure of the strata it is flowing through, producing a positive vertical electric field, a dc generated magnetic field, radio frequencies ranging from 87 – 101 MHz and ultra-short waves which are organized into narrow bands about 6-8 cm wide.

Sha Streams
Sha streams can be defined as underground water veins that give off noxious radiations which can be harmful to life above them. They can be seen as earth meridians (Mai) whose flow has become stagnant or polluted, giving rise to Sha Qi. This Sha Qi includes radon gas as well as subtler elements.
Harmful radiation rises in a vertical plane from the underground stream to the earth’s surface and above. The stream may be anything from 1ft – 3000ft deep and from 1ft – 300ft wide (the widest corresponding to a major ley line). The two edge lines and the centre line dowse as the strongest, sharpest Qi and are potentially the most dangerous places on the stream for habitual exposure. The edge lines are found to be more associated with physical diseases such as tumours, while the centre lines have more of an association with mental and psycho-spiritual disturbances. Where the underground water vein is a primary riser the edge lines are the more dangerous, while on the descending veins it is the centre line that is the strongest (and over which standing stones are sited in ancient British geomancy).
The streams may display tributaries and convergences, and dowsable echoes parallel to the main stream. They may display course changes, especially after earthquakes and droughts. They are known to be stronger at midday, mid-summer, full moon, and during periods of heightened solar flare (sunspot) activity. They are also known to be associated with higher levels of ionising radiation, and with lightning strikes and other atmospheric phenomena.

Sha Streams: Causes
A Sha stream is a sick Lung Mai or earth meridian. There is a well-established link between Sha streams and traumas to the earth’s etheric web that have caused the flow of Qi to stagnate in the channels. Typical examples of such traumas include the building of railway and motorway cuttings, tunnels and embankments, quarries and mines, and building foundations, especially those with steel footings. Also implicated are heavy industry sites, power stations and electricity sub-stations, military bases, steel pilings, poles and road signs. Old battlegrounds and historical sites of trauma such as witch-burnings and executions can also retain much Sha Qi, as sometimes can natural topography.
On a subtler level, homes, shopping centres, airports and modern housing estates developed without any traditional foundation-stone laying ceremonies, without offerings made in good faith to the nature spirits whose land has been taken for development, will usually display signs of a traumatised Elemental life and stagnant Qi in the earth meridians.

Sha Streams: Remedies
There is much that can be done to ameliorate or remove Geopathic stress arising from disturbed underground water veins, and protocols can be divided into three types: avoiding, shielding and curative.
‘Avoiding’ generally involves moving the bed away from the zones of disturbance, having identified them with dowsing rods or meters. This is the ideal short-term solution, however it is often not practical in a typical small house.
To shield a residence from the path and effects of a Sha stream, traditional Chinese devices include the building of a Dragon wall (a screen wall with an undulating ridge), the digging of a ditch or the burying of a protective talisman at an appropriate point on the path of the stream. Modern Western methods include a layer of cork tiles or bath mats placed under the bed, the careful placing of crystals, bottles of salt, copper rods, coils and ankhs, or the installation of radionic devices such as the Spiral Of Tranquillity, and Raditech, Helios and Geomack machines, generally using Multi-Wave Oscillators or Radionics to establish a shielding field.

Ideally the disturbed water line can be healed: to cure a Sha stream the Sha Qi has to be transformed into Sheng Qi by the practice of Earth Acupuncture. This can be performed using wood, metal, stone or crystal “needles”, or other healing interventions, applied to the appropriate earth acupuncture points (Xue) for a variable time. This could be a few seconds or a few hours, or could be a permanent placement according to the size and nature of the underground stream. The Sha streams are thus transformed into Sheng Qi streams. With larger meridians, as with geological faults, a needle may need to be left in place permanently.

A wide range of other curative styles have been employed, from the application of flower and gem essences or symbols to selected points, through offerings and dialogue with local nature spirits and landscape angels, to ceremony, prayer, meditation and focussed visualisation and distant healing. These may be broadly classified under the heading of ‘Earth Acupuncture’ in as much as they all represent a therapeutic input to the local situation, gaining leverage to transform ill health via the focus through a specific point or points on the ground. What all these cures have in common is a therapeutic intention, often in a sacred ceremonial context. Often the spirit world will need to be addressed directly, in Heaven as well as
Underground.

Fire, in the form of candles, incense, moxa, sage or a ‘bon’-fire may also be employed – the old Beacon hills of Britain are moxibustion points in the landscape for the purification of the land. They are fired at the appropriate moments in the cycle of the seasons – the fire festivals.

Permanent needles may take the form of sculptures and statues, standing stones, moving water features, or a specially planted tree. A gravestone may be seen as a style of earth acupuncture needle, balancing the Yin Qi of the corpse with a Yang form to reunite the Qi of Heaven and Earth. On a larger scale, pagodas, temples, churches and cathedrals all function as earth acupuncture needles to the same effect. Ringing the local church bells used to be traditional practice to ward off impending lightning strikes.

Traditional earth acupuncture techniques to promote the flow of Qi in a blocked meridian under a house will generally have an instantaneous effect in dispelling an associated accumulation of radon. Where the radon concentration derives from Sha streams the effect is usually permanent as long as the streams remain healthy and free-flowing.

If the causal traumas can be successfully released from the earth meridians, the cure should be permanent. However, especially in urban environments there is so much ongoing disturbance to the ground, not to mention electro- and other pollution inputs, that regular (perhaps yearly) check-ups and/or the installation of shielding devices in addition may be desirable. Whilst it is laudable that in some parts of Europe a housing development is no longer permitted without having had a dowser first survey the land, this still begs the question of what geomantic disturbances the building construction may then cause.

What is Geopathic Stress ?

Geopathic Stress is a relatively new term that covers the relationship between earth energies and people's well-being.

"Geo" obviously means "Earth" (or "Land"). The term "Pathic" is a very interesting one. It indicates both a disease, as well as a cure for disease. It also indicates the ability to feel, perceive or be sensitive to specific energies (as in telepathic).

The most accurate definition of geopathic stress is the study of earth energies and their effect on human well-being. You will find that sometimes there will be more topics included under the same "geopathic stress" umbrella, such as the sick building syndrome, or the EMF Pollution (Electro Magnetic Field). This is not exactly accurate, so we will stay with the original definition of geopathic stress as the study of earth energies and their effect on human health.
There are various types of earth energies, some very beneficent for human health, and some detrimental. In ancient times the feng shui masters and geomancers were familiar with the earth currents; they knew which sites to recommend for building, and which sites to avoid.
We have lost interest in this knowledge in the modern times, and are coming back to it now because there is an increase in the number of geopathic stress related diseases.
Basically, various underground formations, such as subterranean water currents, specific mineral deposits, or different fault lines emit specific electromagnetic fields that can be harmful for a human dwelling.

If you are just passing through an area with geopathic stress, there will be little or no concern. However, if your house is located in a geopathic stress area, you really need to understand what is happening and find appropriate solutions to protect your health.

Note:-
If you tend to get sick often, experience low energy, cannot sleep well, and your cat loves to spend time in your bed, it is important to check your house, especially your bedroom, for geopathic stress.