Music has always been recognized as having a powerful effect on human
consciousness. But in the past few years, there has been more research
into the science of sound, and how it can be used to improve our lives.
We are learning why different kinds of music and sounds have the effects
that they do on the body, emotions, mind, and spirit. Science tells us
that all life is energy in one form or another. Further, this energy is
eternal, changing and morphing from one shape or form to another. Each
'energy shape' has its own particular pattern of frequencies, or
vibrations. When one form experiences a matching frequency in the form
of a musical note, the form will begin to vibrate in sympathy with the
note in sympathetic resonance. A strong enough vibration can even cause
a form to restructure itself, as has been noted with cancer cells,
crystal glasses, water crystals etc. With the Himalayan bowls,(also
known as Tibetan Singing Bowls) every note creates sympathetic resonance
with every other note producing harmonic overtones that commence the
healing process. Let us, for a moment, look at the difference between
healing and curing: Curing is an end product or finite result.
Dictionary definitions define it as "the complete biological resolution
of a diseased state" or " the elimination of disease, distress, evil".
Healing is a Process and infinite in nature. Some
definitions include: "the making or becoming whole, the mending of a
breach", "to free from grief , troubles, evil", " restoring to health or
soundness"; and my personal favorite by Jeanne Acheerberg "an intuitive
perception of the universe and all its inhabitants as being of one
fabric." Healing is a movement from disharmony to harmony, from duality
to non-duality or Divine Awareness. The journey of healing then is a
spiritual awakening with consequences on our physical well being. As we
awaken, our perspective shifts. As our perspective shifts, our vibration
shifts. As our vibration shifts, our cellular make up shifts. The shifts
can not occur as separate entities- they affect the whole of who we are
and extend infinitely. This link between body and spirit has been much
ignored by the medical profession but the link is quite clear.Healing is
a process where we are released from an ego centered finite perspective
of ourselves in the world and move into our essence where our vibratory
energy is connected with the universe. Healing can lead to being cured.
But if one is simply cured on a physical level, without sufficient
healing, the core issue that caused the condition in the first place is
likely to manifest again. A vital step in the healing process is that of
establishing resonance with the condition in question. Most people
resist their condition. You cannot release that which you do not own.
Sound is the train that helps us get to healing. How? We now know that
different pulses stimulate different brainwave centers. We also know
that we can create brainwave entrainment through a process of
sympathetic resonance and that we normally entrain or fall into
vibrational step to the strongest vibrations in our immediate
environment. Our body is a perfect transmitter of vibration, being 70%
water Further, nerve bundles in our spine transmit vibrational sensory
data to brain stem and limbic system (our emotional processing center).
Placing bowls directly on the body significantly increases their
effectiveness. The bowls vibrate at the frequency of perfection,
otherwise known as the Sanskrit mantra AUM. They create harmonic
overtones in which each note contains all other notes and none is a
separate entity on its own. Their sound entrains us into health by
entraining our energetic system to resonate with them in their
perfection. In the universe every dissonant chord tends toward becoming
a harmony.
and that's what they help our bodies to do. The harmonic resonance of
the bowls literally pulls us back into a more universal energetic flow.
They effectively transmit their soothing and peaceful vibrations through
our 70% water body in a way that affects our entire nervous and immune
system and initiates the relaxation response bringing us into a Theta
brainwave state (waking dream state that is home to creativity,
inspiration, intuition and where we can let go of our ego boundaries, of
our consciousness of our physical state and connect with the
non-physical, non dualistic.) The sound vibrations of the bowls balance
our right and left brain and with repetition in conjunction with
visualization can hold us in the Theta state for longer and longer
periods of time. The vibrational sound from the Himalayan bowls
initializes our parasympathetic nervous system and helps to raise the
disease fighting immune cells while also reducing our stress response
and creating cardio respitory synchrony (the synchronized flow of our
brain, respitory and heart rate waves). Our capacity to heal from any
illness is predicated on our body's ability to achieve cardio-respitory
synchrony and this is exactly what is achieved by listening to the
bowls. When they are placed directly on your body, as in a private
session, then the healing potential is greatly increased because you are
receiving the vibrations in your muscles and organs in addition to
hearing them. In other words Vibrational Sound creates the optimum
physical/spiritual container needed for healing. Dr Mitch Gaynor,
Director of Oncology at the Cornel Cancer Prevention Center states:
"'Sound can redress imbalances on every level of physiologic functioning
and can play a positive role in the treatment of virtually any medical
disorder.Bowls are teachers: Let's not reduce the healing that takes
place only to science. We have already seen that healing is predicated
on spiritual awakening. The bowls can be seen as great teachers. They
carry the Buddhist Voidness teachings which purport that nothing exists
independently of anything else. Each note from these sacred instruments
contains all other notes and herein lies their magic. Although
possessing a variety of harmonics, the fundamental vibration of each
bowl is rooted in the Sanskrit mantra OM. This is the vibration that our
brains entrained with. This primordial sound is the perfection of the
universe. The ensuing sympathetic resonance between brain and bowls
reawakens the intrinsic blissful self in us. Our attitudes, beliefs and
behaviors will either engage with or sabotage the healing potential as
well. Positive thinking can strengthen your immune system and change
your life. The combination of the sound vibration of the bowls with
positive visualization and affirmations will greatly enhance the healing
experience.
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