Collective Harmony

18/06/2026

🫁 Adventitious Lung Sounds
Adventitious lung sounds are abnormal breath sounds heard on auscultation.
They usually indicate an underlying lung or airway pathology.

🔹 Crackles (Rales)

→ Discontinuous, high-pitched popping sounds
→ Heard mostly during inspiration

→ Why they occur
→ Air moving through fluid-filled alveoli
→ Sudden reopening of collapsed alveoli

→ Types
→ Fine crackles → Soft, hair-rubbing sound
→ Coarse crackles → Louder, bubbling / gurgling sound

→ Common causes
→ Pneumonia
→ Pulmonary edema
→ ARDS (Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome)
→ Heart failure

🔹 Wheeze

→ Musical, high-pitched whistling sound
→ Predominantly expiratory
→ May be inspiratory in severe airway obstruction

→ Why it occurs
→ Narrowing of airways due to
→ Bronchospasm
→ Mucosal edema
→ Airway inflammation

→ Common causes
→ Asthma
→ Bronchospasm
→ COPD

🔹 Rhonchi

→ Low-pitched, continuous, snoring-like sound

→ Why it occurs
→ Airflow through thick secretions
→ Obstruction in large airways

→ Key feature
→ Often clears or changes after coughing

→ Common causes
→ Chronic bronchitis
→ COPD

🔹 Pleural Friction Rub

→ Harsh, grating, creaking sound
→ Heard during both inspiration and expiration

→ Why it occurs
→ Inflamed parietal and visceral pleura rubbing together

→ Clinical clues
→ Often painful
→ Pain worsens with deep breathing

→ Common causes
→ Pleuritis
→ Pneumonia with pleural involvement
→ Pulmonary embolism
→ Early pleural effusion (before significant fluid accumulation)

🔹 Stridor 🚨

→ High-pitched, harsh sound
→ Usually inspiratory
→ May be biphasic depending on level of obstruction

→ Why it occurs
→ Upper airway obstruction at or above vocal cords

→ Medical emergency sign

→ Common causes
→ Croup
→ Epiglottitis
→ Foreign body aspiration
→ Laryngeal edema (e.g., anaphylaxis)

⭐ High-Yield Clinical Tip

→ Crackles → Think alveoli + fluid
→ Wheeze → Think narrowed airways
→ Rhonchi → Think secretions in large airways
→ Pleural rub → Think inflamed pleura
→ Stridor → Think upper airway emergency

17/06/2026

17/06/2026

Book in for Advanced Bowen Lymphatics TMJ or Thermal Auricular Therapy Earcandling with LYMPHATIC DRAINAGE MASSAGE

17/06/2026

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Taking the pauses very seriously... 😂

16/06/2026

Book in for Advanced Bowen Lymphatics or Thermal Auricular Therapy Earcandling with LYMPHATIC MASSAGE

Did you know?

Tight neck and shoulder muscles may affect how efficiently lymph fluid moves through the body. Good posture, deep breathing, gentle movement, and lymphatic drainage techniques can help support healthy lymphatic flow and reduce feelings of tension and heaviness.

Your lymphatic system doesn’t have a pump like the heart it relies on movement and breathing to keep fluid flowing.

15/06/2026

Open for Bookings 😍

Many people start EFT because they want relief from anxiety, stress, overwhelm, trauma, or emotional pain.

And often, relief comes quickly.

But the deeper transformation usually shows up somewhere else.

It’s the moment you receive the text that would have ruined your day—and it doesn’t.

The conversation that would have triggered an argument—and it doesn’t.

The criticism that would have sent you into self-doubt—and it doesn’t.

The memory that used to bring tears, panic, shame, or anger—and it simply feels like a memory.

This is one reason Clinical EFT has been studied so extensively for anxiety, PTSD, depression, and stress-related conditions.

The goal isn’t simply to help you feel calmer in the moment.

It’s to help the brain and nervous system update old emotional responses that no longer serve you.

When that happens, the trigger may still exist.

But the emotional charge attached to it begins to fade.

And that’s when many people realize:

Healing isn’t about controlling your reactions.

It’s about no longer needing to react the way you once did.

💬 What’s one trigger, pattern, or emotional reaction you’d love to have less power over your life?

15/06/2026

SINUSES 🙄
It's that time of year!
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13/06/2026

Feel it to Heal it 💞

The instinct when pain arrives is to escape it. Every tradition that has looked honestly at this impulse has said the same thing: it does not work.

What Rumi understood, and what the entire Sufi path is built around, is that pain is not an obstacle to the inner life. It is the entrance to it. The wound is not something that happens to you on the way to transformation. The wound is the place where transformation enters. This is not a consolation. It is a description of how the psyche actually moves.

Jung arrived at the same recognition through a different language. The shadow, the unlived life, the parts of the self that have been broken or buried, these are not problems to be solved before the real work begins. They are the material of the real work. Individuation does not happen in spite of suffering. It happens through the willingness to remain with suffering long enough to hear what it is saying.

The alchemical tradition described this as the nigredo, the blackening, the stage of decomposition that precedes all genuine transformation. The alchemists were precise about this: you cannot skip it. The gold does not appear before the lead has been fully dissolved. What looks like destruction is preparation.

The image of flowers growing through the spine is exact. The root is in the dark. The pain that runs through the center of the body is the same channel through which life rises. The flower does not grow despite the root being underground. It grows because of it.

Avoidance preserves the pain intact. Entering it is the only thing that changes it.

Artwork: “Live with Pain” M. Fatchurofi,