Pain in the arm often originates in the nerves and sometimes is from a pinch in the cervical or neck region in the spine.
The nerve gets pinched in the neck and can cause numbness, pins and needles, dullness in the arm and hand.
Bruised nerve
If a nerve is bruised from a knock or fall it can also cause pain in the above region. If a person lays on the side of the body in an awkward way for too long for example when a mum is breast feeding it can effect the nerve in the deltoid region. See Radial nerve.
Repair
Nerves take time to repair sometimes longer than most muscles. They are very hard to feel so not as user friendly like a muscle or bone to fix.
Mostly good posture, massage and stretching around the area of the pain and the originating cervical or thoracic spinal region is recommended.
Warmth and heat can also speed up the recovery as energy is supplied to the area and the cells start to repair. Also a positive mind helps as the patient focuses on the region mentally and brings their life force into play for the cells health.
Anatomy Radial Nerve The radial, ulnar, and median nerves, having already supplied connections to the arm and forearm, continue into the hand where they form a branching network of nerve fibers. Median Nerve The median nerve supplies the muscles and sensory receptors of the skin in the lateral (thumb side) palm, first, second, and third digits (thumb, index, and middle fingers), and lateral half of the fourth digit (ring finger). Along the dorsum (back) of the hand, the radial nerve supplies the muscles and sensory receptors in the lateral dorsum, and the first, second, and third digits. Ulnal Nerve On the medial side of the hand, the ulnar nerve supplies the sensory receptors and muscles in the medial palm, medial dorsum, medial half of the fourth digit, and the fifth digit (pinky finger).
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In 1991 I made a visit to Ganeshpuri to study Siddha yoga with Gurumayi via Bombay and the Mahabharati sangeet tabla music school with teacher Nayan Ghosh son of the famous Nikil Ghosh.
I was given the job of teaching tabla at the ashram to kirtan musicians by the day.
It was an odd situation that I found myself in as on the first day of my arrival Gurumayi was at darshan where devotees hear a talk, and various matters are discussed to name a few possibilities when she became irate at the head organizers for not procuring a tabla teacher at the ashram and threatened to fire them if they did not come upon one forthright.
Henceforth I stepped forth and bingo !!!!! I had a job. A job far more interesting than doing dishes or sweeping floors or cleaning toilets. I must say non or the latter are beyond sadhana and are infinitely
useful of course for liberation from the ego, nonetheless I began teaching.
As it turned out I began playing music with a shakuhachi player from Japan some evenings who liked to improvise but only got once to play in the main bajaan room because of the stiff competition for the music roles. And I mean fierce. There was a nice African American drummer who played pakawaj a 2 sided long drum from Nth India and he was not about to leave his station in a hurry.
After some weeks of meditation and teaching I began to walk outside the ashrm during the day and visit the local eateries near the ashram. There was a western restaurant for cashed up Americans and an Indian basics kitchen on the ashram to cater for the locals. The latter was not flash but fed / kept the blood circulating.
There were local cafes just outside the main gate and down the road and as I was used to local Indian food in all my years of travel I did not have the fear of death by eating like the fly in fly out westerners. They were given horror stories by other sannyasins about India and most of them never left the ashram for Bombay or anywhere in India. They literally flew in from the airport and to Ganeshpuri.
During the afternoons I would walk to the Ganeshpuri village and then to the mandir of Nityananda.
It had a huge drum in the corner and was filled by a sublime atmosphere. Just to go there and sit was uplifting. One could feel the subtle vibration of the gurus bhakti there palpably. It was sad that the students were put off from discovering Nityananda's village and local India, the real India.
Having tasted the beautiful aura of this guru I was touched by a majestic presence. Whenever I see his image I feel the magnitude of his grace.
Not long afterwards a friend visited the ashram and told me of Baba Virsah Singh and within a week I was in Delhi and sitting in front of my teacher and in the midst of profound change in my life. I am forever grateful.
It will allow you to transcend this illusion of self and other.
Use it as meditation to become aligned to Oneness.
Sound Ahh to open your heart.
Practice
sit quietly morning and evening
Sing the seed mantra song with an open heart
Become aware of feelings and thoughts,
Softly breath
Merge with the universe
Be joyful
The sound will enable you.
Embrace the love within everthing.
Theoretical notes
In music therapy sound resonates within each person on a spiritual level affecting deep inner emotions, feelings and thinking.
Sound being unseen is also immediate, like smell and aroma it bypasses the brain often deep in our unconscious selves.
For elders who sing or listen to music with dementia this can prove miraculous as their memory immediately remembers places, feelings and people where normally ther mind fails with the illness.
The sound Ahh is is the first segment of AUM trilogy of sounds.
It effects the heart chakra and creates a sattvic (harmony) quality of love and devotion.
Mantras
Many mantras used in bajaan singing have this seed sound or "Bij" in them.
The Ahh in Namah in, 'Om Namah Shiva ' comes to mind. The Raa in, 'Shri Ram Jai Ram Jai Jai Ram" is another.
To create good results repetition and continuous practice is needed. These sounds can heal the mind, the emotions and the physical body.
As a healer I often use mantra in my work with often amazing results in opening and healing emotional wounds and allowing surrender and release leading to forgiveness and equinimity.
