The Extra Mile, Cool Lo-Tech Tool for Backpackers & Day Hikers, to Help Ease Tight, Cramping Muscles and Fatigue

Santa Fe, NM (PRWEB) March 22, 2006

To go the Extra Mile, backpackers and day hikers will be intrigued by The Extra Mile Tuning Fork, a lightweight lo-tech tool. Tight and cramping muscles and fatigue can be eased by the sound wave created by the Extra Mile Tuning Fork. The therapeutic application of using tuning forks, carefully calibrated to certain frequencies, on the body is an emerging field of vibrational medicine known as Sound Therapy or Sound Healing. The Extra Mile Tuning Fork is tuned to Ohm (Om), a tone based on the earth’s natural vibratory frequency that has been safely used for thousands of years by cultures throughout our world.

A tuning fork is lo-tech in the sense that it requires no batteries or power supply. Just strike the weighted end of the fork on the bottom of your hiking shoe to activate the vibration. Then apply the stem of the fork to your body (following the recommended acupressure points) to help ease tight muscles, increase the flow of energy, and to help promote deep breathing. How does this work? The sound wave created by the Extra Mile works like kinetic energy to help clear blockages to the natural energy flow through the body’s meridians, while relaxing tight muscles. The Ohm tone is based on the elliptical orbit of the earth, which makes it a grounding, centering and energizing frequency. This tuning fork is calibrated to the Ohm (Om) frequency, long considered a healing tone throughout the world.

The therapeutic effects of the Ohm tone are presently being studied and observed by researchers, clinicians and practitioners in the field of Complementary Alternative Medicine. A founder of a Sound Healing Institute and originator of therapies utilizing sound instruments, Marjorie de Muynck, author of the Extra Mile booklet and co-author of the textbook, "There's No Place Like Ohm, Sound Healing, Oriental Medicine and the Cosmic Mysteries" is one such example. Marjorie is presently doing graduate work at Boston University, while studying the music medicine connection; she has also pioneered two musical works in the key of Ohm, "There's No Place Like Ohm." A lover of outdoor activities with an educational background in Oriental Medicine, Marjorie felt the wider public could benefit from the therapeutic effects of the Ohm Tuning Fork, which is how the Extra Mile came to be.

Made of lightweight space grade aluminum, this tool weighs only 2 ounces, and can fit easily in any waist of backpack. The product comes with a booklet with easy to follow directions and photographs illustrating how to use the Extra Mile Tuning Fork on select acupuncture points.

One of the recommended points (or placements on the body) is considered by ancient Chinese physicians and modern day acupuncturists to be one of the most vital on your body. The translation of the Chinese word for this point is Zusanli; “li” figuratively means distance or mile, suggesting that stimulating this point provides the ability to walk the Extra Mile.

The therapeutic benefits of acupuncture are well known and increasingly in the mainstream. Clearing energetic blockages and activating the “chi” following the same principles with sound vibration using the Ohm Tuning Fork is easy, safe, and effective. On your next backpacking trip or day hike, try out this cool lo-tech tool, to help you go the Extra Mile.

Founded in 2003, Lemniscate Music (a division of soundhealingtools.com) has been providing healthcare practitioners and the general public with intelligently informed Sound Healing tools.

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