According to the ancient healing tradition of Chinese medicine and Yogic traditions, emotions play a key role in understanding dis-ease. The Five-Element Cycle has each element linked to a Yin/Yang organ, emotion and sound as well as other categories not mentioned here.

They are:

Wood – Liver/Gall Bladder – Anger – Shout Fire – Heart/Small Intestine – Joy – Laugh Earth – Spleen/Stomach – Worry – Sing Metal – Lung/Large Intestine – Grief – Weep Water – Kidney/Urinary Bladder – Fear – Groan

Other emotions that are powerful forces energetically are rage, hatred, bitterness, heartlessness, and shock. Many times, they also have accompanying sounds when the intent is to resolve the feelings and usher in healing and wholeness. Emotions-energy in motion-are experienced and felt on a vibrational level in the body and need a receptive, sacred space to be expressed. The emotions themselves are not the cause of dis-ease. The suppression, denial and avoidance of what is being felt ,is what sets the stage for dis-ease and imbalance.

Sound, being a vibrational energy, has a key role in overall health as well. When the sound is allowed to vibrate in relation to the emotion that is felt, energy that was blocked is freed up in the physical and astral bodies. In practice, for example, when grief is felt and the energy that often wells up in the chest, throat and eyes is allowed to move, weeping or crying may be the sound expressed. The actual sounding of the grief is a healing process because the energy is not blocked or held back to later manifest, sometimes years later, as a respiratory ailment, sore throat or constipation. Being with the emotion and allowing it to tell its story in the form of a sound is key to resolving deeply rooted issues which often manifest physically. When the conscious awareness and intent to feel an emotion is present, and the sound is not judged or repressed, the awesome power of the vibrational energy of sound as movement is experienced. Vibration is movement, and when judgment is released on the form of that vibration or movement, authentic healing is possible.

Trusting the process, being willing to let go of “being in control” of a situation and honoring the space as safe and divinely protected are key in experiencing the healing benefits of sounding and emotional expression. Exploring parts of the self that may often be overlooked, misunderstood or judged can bring clarity, growth, and change for a healthier and more fulfilling life. By balancing the Charkras with tuning forks,and then taking the client thru a emotional release process, using vibrational yoga therapy, one can get tremendous release, and bring ones self back into wholeness. The client is also inside a sacred healing space created for the process to unfold in a safe manner.

About the author

Charles Lightwalker is a Metis shaman, author, medical intuitive, and healer. For more information visit the web site: www.thefamilyoflight.com.

By John Beaulieu, ND, PhD

Landmark research is shedding new light on the effects of music and sound in relationship to healing and energy. In 2002, Dr. George Stefano and I made an exciting discovery: Specific vibrations transferred to cells using tuning forks causes the spiking of nitric oxide. This release of nitric oxide sets off a cascade physiological events that directly influences our health, well-being, state of mind, and consciousness.

Tuning forks spike nitric oxide. Why is that important?

In 1998, Robert F Furchgott, Louis J Ingnarro, and Ferid Murad made a discovery which changed medicine. They discovered that our cells produce and release nitric oxide. Their discovery was so important that they won the Nobel Prize in Medicine and so significant that the U.S. government and the pharmaceutical medical complex has spent over two hundred million dollars investigating this gas.

Nitric oxide is a molecule created by a nitrogen atom bound to an oxygen atom. It is made in our cells and released into the surrounding tissues as a gas. The release of nitric oxide by our cells is termed puffing by scientists to describe the rising and falling of this gas. The puffing cycle is like a wave which takes three minutes to rise and three minutes to fall.

The rising phase of the wave is the release of nitric oxide which sends a signal to our cells to relax. During the falling phase of the wave nitric oxide dissipates and our cells become more active. The calm between the rising and falling we call still point and we will talk more about its importance in a subsequent article.

When are cells are puffing nitric oxide in natural rhythmic cycles, we experience these benefits:

* Enhances cell vitality, vascular flow and heart healing
* Destroys bacteria and virus at a micro level which naturally enhances our immune system and increases our ability to prevent and fight infections
* Increases resistance to stress and greater levels of energy and stamina
* Sharpens mental clarity and diminishes states of depression due to the balancing of the autonomic nervous system
* Improves digestion and natural cleansing

Our research demonstrates that when BioSonic tuning forks are placed on bone or connective tissue they resonate throughout our whole body in wave like patterns causing the cells to spike nitric oxide. Research further suggests that listening to tuning forks as well as certain music can spike nitric oxide. The implications of this research in both the medical and energy paradigms are profound.

The puffing of nitric oxide in our cells is a universal source of health and well-being. New research in the field of sound and biochemistry now shows that tuning forks spike nitric oxide causing our cells to rhythmically puff again. This research opens the doorway for the possibility of a whole new scientific paradigm of music and sound healing for the future.

The above reference BioSonics/Cell Dynamics research used an Otto 128 cps tuning fork which resonates with a proportion called the Golden Mean. Body Tuners creates a similar pulsation.

Did You Know You Can Tune Your Body?

Like adjusting a piano, your body can be tuned to achieve optimal physical balance. Tapping two BioSonic tuning forks will instantaneously alter your body’s biochemistry and bring your nervous system, muscle tone and organs into harmonic balance. In seconds … your body enters a deep state of relaxation. Feeling centered, your mind will be at peace…

Experience states of deep relaxation in seconds, reduce stress instantaneously, increase blood flow, enhance immune response, fully integrate body & mind, and transcend to higher levels of consciousness by using tuning forks. BioSonic’s precision-tested tuning forks are easy to learn, simple to use and the healing benefits are miraculous. Learn more about healing with tuning forks at BioSonics now.

Every cell in every person, rock and tree also has its own natural resonating frequency, which is ideally in harmony with the unit as a whole. Every sound, from the delicacy of a pure musical note to the harsh retort of a gun, sends out a wave of energy. This wave is vibrating at its own frequency, which then affects everything in its path.

In human beings, the balanced interaction of all the frequencies resonating in and through our bodies is what makes us work. When our frequencies resonate in sync, we are healthy. We feel good, and we feel connected with our own selves and those around us. We are “in tune.”

For creatures such as the whales and dolphins, resonating in perfect harmony is essential. If these creatures are not in tune with each other, they cannot communicate. Reproduction and survival depend completely upon this ability to recognize and reply to each other’s “song.”

For humans, the issue is not quite so critical, but when we are “out of tune,” many problems can develop. Just as all the musicians in a symphony orchestra must be tuned to each other for the music to sound good, so, too, must all of our cells be in tune with each other for us to feel good. And just as any number of things can make a musical instrument go out of tune – like changes in temperature or humidity or a sudden bump – any number of things can jostle the cells in our body out of tune.

A good example of the physical effect of vibrating energy is the scraping of nails against a chalkboard. This grating noise produces physical changes in anyone who hears it. Our teeth tingle and the hair on the back of our necks stands up. The tone itself is creating a frequency that is adversely affecting the rate of vibration in the cells of the body experiencing it.

Have you ever used those ultrasonic machines to repel rodents or insects? You know, the ones that chase away the pests without chemicals? Those devices are working on pure sound. Frequencies in these machines produce sound that only the pests can hear, but it is absolutely repelling to them. It creates a very definite physical reaction in them – they scurry away!

Isn’t that kind of how you feel when you hear unpleasant sounds? You try to get away. If you can’t get away, your body reacts negatively to those sounds. We notice the most obvious things at once – we cover our ears, or tense up, or start to get nervous. But the effects go far beyond the obvious.

Scientific tests have shown that bombardment of the body by unpleasant sounds actually increases blood pressure, pulse and respiratory rates. The blood’s magnesium level falls, and extra fats are released into the bloodstream. This is definitely not a good thing, especially if you have high cholesterol!

Music is a way to experience vibrations in a pure form. Music is the art of vibrations. Whether music has a positive or negative physical effect depends on how it is arranged and presented. The source of the sound, the volume, even the purity of the tone, has everything to do with the physical effect it has on our human bodies.

The same holds true for other living things.

Everyone has heard the stories of miraculous comebacks for house plants that have had music played near them. You may even have tried playing Mozart for your own philodendron. It makes a lot of sense, if you understand that everything has its own natural resonating frequency, and that different musical frequencies have varying effects on all things. Scientific research has confirmed this fact, especially for plants.

A researcher in Minnesota found that agricultural plants such as corn respond and grow at an amazing rate when they are exposed to the sounds of the sitar (a traditional stringed instrument from India).

Another researcher in Denver, Colorado, compared the effects that different kinds of music had on plants. We found this research very interesting. Plants were placed in five identical greenhouses. Soil, light and water conditions were all identical, and the types of plants were the same in all of the greenhouses. For several months, the researcher pumped different kinds of music into each of the greenhouses. In one, Bach was played, in the second, Indian music, the third, loud rock, and the last, country and Western music was played. In the fifth greenhouse, no music was played at all.

The plants in the greenhouse where only heavy rock music was played did not do well at all. Their growth was stunted, and they would not flower. In the greenhouses with Bach and Indian music, the plants were green and healthy, with many flowers. The plants that heard country and Western music grew the same as those with no music – at a moderate rate, and with a normal amount of flowers.

Now, it doesn’t seem likely that the plants had an “emotional” response to the music. So it must have been something in the actual rate of vibration, the frequency of the sound waves that affected their growth.

If music has such a profound effect on relatively simple organisms, what must it do to more complex systems?

We’ve all heard of people being able to sing a note for an extended period of time, and being able to break a glass with it. When jets burst through the sound barrier, they cause a sonic boom that breaks windows for miles around. That is what happens when sounds create disorder on a visible scale.

Think about the disorder all those vibrations are creating inside our bodies, where we cannot see their effects. Are organs being scrambled? Are brain cells being jostled?

Consider all of the things that you hear every day. The jangling of an alarm clock, airplanes flying overhead, trucks and buses rumbling by, the low-riders with mega bass speakers waiting beside you at the stoplight. Televisions, telephones, dogs barking, children playing, sirens, machinery at work; just imagine all the different frequencies that those noises are sending out.

Now think of all the frequencies you cannot hear. The human ear has a very limited range of hearing. Sound waves above and below that range are not physically heard, but they STILL affect the rate of resonance in our bodies. One example of inaudible sound is the radio wave. These tones are audible only when you have a receiver with which to pick them up, but they are always there. Hundreds of thousands of them are entering and bombarding our bodies and individual cells every second, every minute, every day for our entire lives. The trouble is, many of these frequencies are damaging to the human body. They are literally altering the natural resonance of our DNA and changing our cellular structures.

If you have ten tuning forks all tuned to the same frequency and you strike only one, they will all begin to chime together. However, if you strike a tuning fork tuned differently and place it near the others, they will all stop. Now, if these dissonant frequencies can stop the vibration of a simple tuning fork, what must they do to the delicate balance in our human bodies?

To begin with, they can physically damage our ears. People in modern society have a great degree of hearing loss. Whether frequencies originate from random noise like jet engines or rock music emanating from stacks of amplifiers, the vibrations actually damage the delicate tissues that allow us to hear.

The physical damage, however, is dwarfed by the social consequences of hearing loss. Conversations become difficult, movies are not nearly so enjoyable, even driving takes on an added dimension of danger. Many people who suffer from hearing loss become despondent and withdrawn, just because it’s too hard to communicate!

The ears are not the only body parts that suffer from jarring, loud or discordant sounds, including certain kinds of music.

When exposed to a multitude of instruments and voices, an erratic beat and electronic distortion of the notes themselves, the resonating frequency of the human body is thrown into chaos. The organs begin to vibrate out of sync with the nervous system, which can’t keep up with the rate of breathing, which… it goes on an on.

Is it any wonder that so many of us feel stressed, tired and irritable? Our cells are vibrating at erratic levels, out of sync with each other. In advanced cases, this bombardment of frequencies can cause many physical changes and lead to disease in the body. How do you counteract this insidious invasion by sound?

You do this by being conscious of frequencies that disrupt your body’s own rate of resonance, eliminating them, and ultimately replacing them with frequencies that have a positive impact on the body. You need to “tune up!”

There are many therapists who actually use tone generators and sound wave machines to help people get their bodies vibrating back at their optimum rates. You could try that approach, but it may be very expensive and not readily available where you live. What next?

The easiest, best, most enjoyable solution is… MUSIC. Technically, music is no more than a series of notes or tones arranged in a mathematically precise and aesthetically pleasing pattern. Tones are just some of the dozens of sounds traveling through the air, water, or even solid objects at any one time. Whether we hear them or not, these tones resonate through us constantly.

If you want to change the resonating frequency of your body, listening to or making music is very powerful. Listening to the soothing tones of chant, Native American flute, harp or even synthesized strings is a great way to get the body resonating back to its proper, natural state.

Sit quietly in a comfortable chair and really listen to some calming music. Try melodies that are simple, arrangements that are uncomplicated. Listen to each instrument and FEEL its impact on your physical body. This experience is enhanced if you wear padded headphones that actually cover the whole ear, because then you get the full effect of all of the frequencies in the music. Also, it blocks out other audible sounds that could be creating discordance. Close your eyes. Keep out all sensory input except for this music.

Each tune has a different range of frequencies, different melodies, and they will give you different physical responses. Allow your body to respond to the frequencies. Close your eyes and breathe deeply. Pay attention to how your physical body changes. Immediately it will be more relaxed. There will be a difference in your blood pressure, your heart rate, your breathing.

Once your body is calm and resonating at a more balanced frequency, you will be amazed at how different things look. Things that might have been bothering you, people that might have annoyed you – they just won’t matter as much. You have so much more freedom to think your own thoughts, unencumbered by extra input. You will be able to feel your true feelings. They won’t be governed by energy over which you have no control.

Another excellent way to actually calm down the physical body is to listen to a pure beat. Any repetitive sound such as a metronome, a heartbeat or constant, even drumming, has a regulating effect on the biological functioning of the human body. Go to a music store and get an old fashioned wooden metronome. Set it on “largo,” about 40 beats per minute. This slow, soothing rhythm has a hypnotic effect. After ten minutes or so, you will find yourself in a very relaxed state. Even the ticking of an old-fashioned grandfather type clock can have the effect of regulating your body.

Whenever you’re feeling over-stimulated or irritated, stop. Analyze what’s bothering you. You’ll be amazed at how often it is a sound – music, machinery, perhaps voices. If you can’t eliminate the noise or get away from it, at least you will recognize that it is noise that’s making you feel stressed or upset, and not some unknown element.

You can also counteract noise overload by humming. If you have to travel on a subway or bus, or even in your car, or if you work in a factory with loud machinery, you can help your body resonate at its optimum rate by humming. You don’t have to hum loud enough for anyone else to hear, just loud enough to feel it in your own body. As you hum, you will find yourself making tones that make your body feel more comfortable, and the noise from which you cannot escape will not bother you as much. Try it. You’ll like it!

We know now that every individual body and every thing is being bombarded by sound and noise. Consider the dissonance created by the overwhelming number of frequencies penetrating everyone on Earth. Nothing is in tune with anything else!

Is it any wonder that there is so much anger, mistrust and fear? How are you supposed to relate to and communicate with each other under these sound stresses? What if we could somehow balance and synchronize ourselves with each other and the planet? It makes perfect sense that communication would be much easier, and we would all feel much healthier and more peaceful.

Barbara Marx Hubbard is a futurist who believes that we could all benefit by humming a certain note. She believes that D flat is the note that most closely matches the resonating frequency of the earth. She feels if enough people were to hum or otherwise create this tone together, it would counteract the discordant frequencies racing around the planet, and raise the consciousness of Mother Earth and the people inhabiting her.

Did You Know You Can Tune Your Body? 

Like adjusting a piano, your body can be tuned to achieve optimal physical balance. Tapping two BioSonic tuning forks will instantaneously alter your body’s biochemistry and bring your nervous system, muscle tone and organs into harmonic balance. In seconds … your body enters a deep state of relaxation. Feeling centered, your mind will be at peace…

Experience states of deep relaxation in seconds, reduce stress instantaneously, increase blood flow, enhance immune response, fully integrate body & mind, and transcend to higher levels of consciousness by using tuning forks. BioSonic’s precision-tested tuning forks are easy to learn, simple to use and the healing benefits are miraculous. Learn more about healing with tuning forks at BioSonics now.

About the author

The above is an excerpt from The Healing Sound of Music by Kate Mucci and Richard Mucci. Kate and Richard entertained for nearly five years at the Excalibur Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, but left in 1999 to pursue their work with music healing. They now do healing music workshops and concerts, and conduct sound and music healing sessions throughout southern Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Southern California. Kate and Richard can be reached by email at cwynd@aol.com, or you can visit their website at www.crosswynd. com.

New York City has also begun to oppose the bombardment of noise. Its Department of Environmental Protection has a Quality of Life Hotline. 70% of the calls received concern noise. Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has established a Council on the Environment. There is a citywide group (with a somewhat unfortunate acronym) called Friends Against Noisy New York. On April 25th, there were observances of International Noise Awareness Day. The mayor also established Operation Silent Night, a citywide quality of life initiative to combat loud and excessive noise in New York City.

It’s not that the state of New York is less tolerant than the rest of us. It’s that they’ve realized something a lot of communities don’t know yet.

We all know that we’re exposed to more excessive noise today than at any other time in history. Modern life can seem like an ongoing struggle to rise above the din. Home life fills our ears with barking dogs, air conditioning units, televisions, boom boxes and the kitchen vent-a-hood. When we leave the house or office, we yell to be heard over construction projects, car alarms, traffic and other people’s music. The list goes on and on. The US Census Bureau has reported that noise is Americans’ top complaint about their neighborhoods and their main reason for wanting to move.

What New Yorkers have found and the rest of us need to know is that noise pollution is more than just annoying; It can be dangerous. One Rochester police officer explains that when blasting music in neighborhoods goes unchecked, it indicates that respect is not required.

”This type of environment is friendly to other, more serious types of crimes,” he says. That’s why police officers and neighborhood residents have decided to crack down on excessive noise in their community. Police and concerned citizens have been walking the streets together, knocking on the doors of noisy neighbors and warning them about possible fines and legal action.

Noise is not only a health issue for communities, but also for individuals. Research has shown dramatic physiological effects from exposure to excessive noise. In addition to its damage to the ears, Dr. Luther Terry, former U.S. Surgeon General identifies a host of other negative health effects due to noise. A partial list includes cardiovascular constriction, elevated blood pressure, increased heart rate, more labored breathing, measurable changes in skin resistance and skeletal-muscle tension, digestive system changes, glandular activity that alters the chemical content of blood and urine, vestibular effects, balance sense effect and changes in brain chemistry. It bears repeating that this is just a partial list. Terry details the negative effect of noise on fetal development, as well.

The Surgeon General echoes the voices of many health professionals. Researchers have found that after extended exposure to high noise such as aircraft flyovers or workplace noise, blood pressure rises as much as 30%. Increasing the negative impact is the fact that blood pressure stays at that elevated level for a significant period after the exposure ends. So if you’re close enough to a landing plane that your blood pressure rises, it stays up and affects your body long after the airplane noise is gone.

You don’t have to live near an airport to be affected by traffic. Even noise that we might consider moderate has its effect. A German study found that those living on busy streets were 20% more likely to have a heart attack than those living on a quiet one.

Studies have also linked learning problems to noise. It affects the ability of children to learn to speak, to read, and to acquire knowledge in schools. These effects have been documented near airports, train tracks and major roadways. The inability to hear and understand all that a teacher is saying can translate to poor grades and could even lead to a higher dropout rate in schools.

Moreover, noise pollution has impact on the behavior of both children and adults. One study looked at how passers-by responded to a person in need in the presence of noise. While a noisy lawn mower roared nearby, a woman with a broken arm dropped some books and tried to pick them up. No one stopped to help her. When the lawnmower was turned off and the scene repeated, several people stopped to help her retrieve her books.

With all that being said, it’s no wonder that Americans have more problems with sleeping, concentrating and dealing with stress in our noise-polluted environment. Fortunately, there is more to sound than the negative effects of noise. The opposite of noise is music. The ability of music to repair and encourage health and harmony is as powerful as noise’s ability to destroy them. So powerful, in fact, that there is an entire field called music therapy.

The full benefits of music therapy are still being studied, but we know of quite a few already. Studies in mental health, for example, have shown that music therapy is effective in relieving anxiety and stress, promoting relaxation and treating depression. Music therapy allows people with emotional problems to explore feelings, make positive changes in mood, practice problem solving, and resolve conflicts. It has been used successfully by mental health institutions during group therapy sessions.

The healing effects of music therapy are not limited to mental health. They have been observed in hospitalized patients with burns, heart disease, diabetes and cancer. As a complement to rehabilitation care, music therapy seems to strengthen communication and physical coordination skills, as it improves the physical and mental functioning of those with neurological disabilities or developmental disorders. Those with learning, speech and hearing problems may also find music therapy helpful.

Music therapy reduces the need for medication during childbirth and complements the use of anesthesia during surgery and dental work, especially when children undergo medical and surgical procedures. It is useful in newborn care of premature infants. Aside from these acute situations, music therapy helps ease chronic pain.

Music therapy can also improve the quality of life of terminally ill patients and enhance the well-being of the elderly, including those suffering from Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. It has been used to complement the treatment of AIDS, stroke, Parkinson’s and cancer. At the same time, music therapy is useful in the support of the families and caregivers of such patients.

Most of the reviews published on the subject have been published by the American Music Therapy Association. The broad applications of this tool warrant more formal reviews. We still don’t know just how many conditions could be helped by music therapy. Still, changes are that you could enhance your mental and physical health with music therapy.

If you consult a music therapist for a particular condition, the therapist will first talk to you about your symptoms and needs. In addition, the therapist will assess your emotional well-being, physical health, social functioning, communication abilities and cognitive skills. Using this information, your therapist will design an appropriate treatment plan that would probably include playing and listening to music, analyzing lyrics, composing songs, improvising and/or using rhythmic movement.

During your regular sessions, the therapist may participate in these activities with you or simply guide you. You may also be encouraged to talk about the images or feelings that are evoked by the music. You and your therapist will select the music used for your therapy according to your needs and tastes. You can choose any kind of music, from classical or new age to jazz or rock. You do not need previous musical experience nor any musical ability to benefit from music therapy.

Some music therapy is conducted in a group setting. You might perform music with others who have the same condition as you, or you may just interact and relax with others as music plays in the background. If you are in the hospital for surgery or to give birth, your music therapy might simply entail listening to your favorite songs to help you relax and reduce pain.

As you may have guessed by now, the presence of a professional is not always required in music therapy, though you may need help in getting started. Westerners are only beginning to use music as medicine, though it has long been used successfully in Asia, Africa, Europe and South America. To encourage you to create your own music therapy sessions, I will share with you the basics of my own brand of music therapy. Take what you like and leave the rest.

When I practice music therapy, especially for relaxation, the first thing I do is to find a calming environment, where I won’t be disturbed or interrupted. Next, I light incense or a scented candle, as I find that aromatherapy helps to calm my body.

Next, I choose the music, which becomes easier the more you learn about your body’s response to different kinds of music. I then sit on the floor, in an upright position with my legs crossed. I breathe deeply, inhaling and exhaling very slowly through my nose.

As the music plays, I listen intently to the instruments as if the players were right there in the room playing to me. Often I position myself directly in front of the speaker, so I can feel the vibrations as well as hear the music being played. Some people use headphones. This is fine, but I recommend you feel the sound coming into your body, and not just into your head.

Visualize the sound waves coming from the speakers and going through you. Not only should you position yourself physically to catch the sound energy in your body, but you should also focus your mind. Focus on where you want the healing vibrations to go. Listen as you visualize the sound waves beaming through your body and replenishing your cells, tissues, and internal organs.

As you practice music therapy you will develop the method that works best for you. Once you know how your body responds to certain instruments, timbres, and musical styles, you can design sessions in the sequence you find most beneficial to you.

Ideally, you practice music therapy for at least 30 minutes to an hour per day, although even a 20-minute daily session would yield positive results. It can take 10 minutes just for your mind to unwind, so I recommend 30-40 minute sessions.

Those are the basics. As you can gather from all of the above, music therapy can be as involved or as simple as the situation warrants. The main thing is just to get started. In this world of noise pollution, practicing music therapy may well be the way to start your own peaceful revolution!

References:

American Academy of Audiology (Consumer guides)

World Council on Hearing Health (In the news)

Friends Against Noisy New York (2005 Newsletter) National Campaign for Hearing Health

About the author

Sam Pasco is founder and director of http://www.InnerHealingMusic.com. He is also a Practitioner of music therapy, as well as a Composer and Performer who has performed at some of the largest health and wellness expos in the US. He frequently leads workshops on the vast benefits of music as therapy.

To understand what an energy field is we must first clarify the concept of wholes. The branch of modern science dedicated to understanding wholes is called General Systems. Within the general systems paradigm there are wholes and greater wholes that contain those wholes. For example, a school can be a whole school which is contained within the whole of a community which is contained within the whole of a county which is contained within the whole of a state, and so on.

Cymatics is a general systems study of sound developed by the late Dr. Hans Jenny, M.D. of Basel Switzerland. Dr. Jenny performed his Cymatic experiments by putting substances such as sand, fluid, and powder on a metal plate. The plate was then attached to an oscillator, a device that produces vibrations. (They are also called vibrators. A massage vibrator is a simple oscillator.)

The oscillator is controlled by a frequency generator capable of producing thousands of different vibrations or sounds. By turning a dial on the frequency generator Dr. Jenny could cause the plate to vibrate the sand or fluid on it at different frequencies.

Dr. Jenny found that when he turned the dial of the frequency generator he could instantly change the vibrations moving through the plate. He could then observe the effects of different vibrations on different substances. When Dr. Jenny watched the sand or other substances on the metal plate organize into different patterns he could also hear the sound produced by the oscillator. If he were to lightly touch the plate he could feel the vibration in his fingertips.

Dr. Jenny immediately observed three fundamental principles at work in the vibratory field on the plate. He wrote, “Since the various aspects of these phenomena are due to vibration, we are confronted with a spectrum which reveals a patterned, figurative formation at one pole and kinetic-dynamic processes at the other, the whole being generated and sustained by its essential periodicity.”

What Dr. Jenny is saying is that one can hear the sound as a wave; he calls this the pole of kinetic-dynamic process. One can see the geometric pattern the sound creates in the plate; he calls this the pole of “patterned-figurative formation”. And if Dr. Jenny were to touch the plate and feel the plate vibration he would call this the generating pole of “essential periodicity”.

Sound waves create invisible fields called energy fields as well as organize forms.

If you were in the lab with Dr. Jenny you would hear the wave as a sound and see the pattern created by the wave. If you put your finger on the plate you could feel it vibrating. If you messed up the pattern with your finger it would go back to the original pattern. If you turned off the frequency generator and messed up the pattern it would stay messed up. If you turned the frequency generator on with the same sound then the pattern would return.

Cymatic sound patterns help us visualize the behaviors of energy fields. When a new tone is introduced, we can see a Cymatic pattern instantly change, which is a metaphor for a new energy field. Now it is important to understand the basic principle of energy medicine: Our life patterns can change on a fundamental level if a new tone is introduced into our life.

Environments are wholes that help us understand the dynamics of an energy field in health care. Imagine you are living in a city environment.

You have lived in that environment so long that you do not even notice the dirt, exhaust fumes, and smog�they are part of the whole.

iving in this environment you suffer from a runny nose and watery eyes and take many different natural and medical remedies. They help you get through the day and if you stop taking them your symptoms always come back. One day you decide to take a vacation and go to the desert. After the first week of desert living you notice that your lungs are clear and you can breathe through your nose without taking medication. After the second week you notice that you are thinking differently and that your emotional responses to situations have changed.

Energy Medicine practitioners would say that “the field” has changed. There is an invisible tone, much like the sounds in a Cymatics experiment that is creating the new environment. This tone acts much like an “energy field tuning fork” that tunes you to the new environment. When this happens your physical, emotional, and mental patterns change to match the resonance and pattern of the new tone.

Energy Medicine practitioners observe physical, emotional, and mental patterns to arrive at an understanding of the energy field that causes those patterns. The practitioner then works an array of natural modalities to educate and build their client�s strength and their ability to be flexible enough to alter fields.

Music and tuning forks are best understood in the Energy Medicine paradigm. The ability to understand, evaluate, and work with energy fields is fundamental to using music and tuning forks for healing and well-being. BioSonic tuning forks work with specific physical, emotional, and mental symptoms and have a proven biochemical effect on our energy fields. They are an exciting adjunct modality that can be used in all areas of the healing arts.

“…The spacetime view of healing and disease tells us that a vital part of the goal of every therapist is to help the client toward a reordering of his world view. We must help him realize that he is a process in spacetime, not an isolated entity who is fragmented from the world of the healthy and who is adrift in flowing time, moving slowly toward extermination. To the extent that we accomplish this task, we are healers.”(1)

For the new healers, the accomplishment of this task is through consciousness. In traditional medicine the focus of health care is on the physical body. Consciousness is no longer accepted.

“Everything is alive. There is nothing in principle, therefore, preventing the use of consciousness as a primary form of therapeutic intervention at all levels of matter – from the subatomic particles through molecules, cells, tissues, organ systems, etc.”(2)

The assumption of this article is that new music is opening the doors to a new way of being – that the experience of listening to new music can alter our world view and change our consciousness and thereby transmute our physical. And furthermore, that this transmutation is necessary for our next step in evolution, as well as living completely in our current reality.

Defining new music is elusive because the listener is the music. When the listener is “in self” and willing to go everywhere, without hesitation, totally involves and multi-dimensional without regard to any preconceived form (including his physical body) then it would be fair to say that all music is new music.

New music by way of the composer, composition, and performance challenges the listener to maintain his sense of self while being involved in a nonlinear multi-dimensional event.

New music is teaching and preparing us for a universe described by Einstein as “an aggregate of non-simultaneous and only partially overlapping transformational events.” John Cage expresses it this way in his Experimental Music Doctrine:

“Urgent, unique, uninformed about history and theory, beyond the imagination, central to a sphere without surface, becoming is unimpeded energetically broadcast. There is no escape from its action. It does not exist as one of a series of discrete steps, but as a transmission in all directions from the field’s center. It is inextricably synchronous with all other sounds, not-sound, which latter, received by other sets that the ear, operate in the same manner.”(3)

Entering new music with our ears – listening – we seek harmony. Not harmony in the tonal sense, but harmony in the original meaning of the word, “to fit together.” We learn to let ourselves fit with and resonate with the sounds. Dissonance means not fitting. Dissonance is an inability to be flexible. It is the root of all disease. The physicist David Bohm speaks of health as the essence of nonobstructed, indivisible, flowing movement of the self’s internal harmony transcribed into the external world. When the internal and external are at odds with each other – dissonant – the result is disease or a break in harmony. In tonal music the appreciator sought the fundamental in the music as a metaphor of spiritual unity, the ending of a journey. In new music one seeks the fundamental in one’s self; the return to the fundamental is anywhere, anytime, and any direction, because the fundamental is everywhere and here.

“Location and times – what is it in me that meets them all, whenever and wherever, and makes me at home? (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass)

“Wherever we are, whatever we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating. The sound of a truck at fifty miles per hour. Static between the stations. Rain.”(4)

This is perhaps the most challenging aspect of new music, that the listener must not only appreciate the sound but give him or herself to the sound. John Cage says that sound:

“…does not view itself as thought, as ought, as needed another sound for its elucidation, as etc.; it has no time for any consideration – it is occupied with the performance of its characteristics: before it has died away it must have made perfectly exact its frequency, its loudness, its length, its overtone structure, the precise morphology of these and of itself.”(5)

Webster’s defines healing as “to make sound” It might be more accurate if we were to say “to become sound.”

Look around! We live in the age of the “nuclear concert,” the sound of which will instantly transmute us into light. Are we prepared to listen?’ I am using nuclear weapons as a very real metaphor for the challenge that faces each of us. This challenge is not so much to do away with the nuclear weapons but to transform ourselves to a level of being equivalent to the power of nuclear reality. Our current form, both physical and mental, is inadequate to understand or even cope with the awesomeness around us. We have to incubate a new form, perhaps a formless reforming form. For new music composers, structuring the formless is the challenge of our time. To create a disappearing structure which captivates the mind to witness beyond itself; to be with the unknown, to merge with the unknown, to become the unknown. We must be willing to face our own death in order to live in a new way.

Along the same lines, Stockhausen has said that he is writing music, not for the apocalypse, but for the post-apocalypse, for the time of reintegration when people would have to be picking up the pieces. Speaking of his composition “Hymmen” as a physical-psychic therapy he talks of catastrophes to come and their relationship to increased consciousness. He sees his music as being on the other side of death, on the other side of these coming catastrophes.

“Well, I hear it this way. You see, becoming conscious is already being on the other side. You see clearly where we are up to and then death isn’t frightening any more. Also a collective death is large groups. Because you feel that our destiny is a universal destiny and not only a terrestrial one…” (6)

New healing views matter as consciousness; therefore the assumption that our physical bodies are solid material which eventually decays and dies is no longer valid.

“All matter belongs to the implicate (internal) order where everything is alive. What we call death is an abstractions.”

Healing is not always comfortable. New-music composers have been severely and unjustly criticized by the traditional medical establishment as well as tonal-classicists. David Tame in his book “The Secret Power of Music – The Transformation of Self and Society Through Musical Energy” devotes a whole chapter to criticizing new music composers for their lack of consciousness:

“Would the reader allow me here to offer an opinion? No proof, no scientific discussion about the pros and cons of the conviction if I find myself with – just a simple gut reaction; that there is something distinctly dangerous to the consciousness in such music (new music) as this. Dangerous in perhaps surprisingly tangible and immediate ways. It is as though there exists a chasm within each of these compositions: a dark, yawning crevasse which, if we allow it to , will gladly swallow up whatever portion of our mind we offer it by the directing of our attention towards it.” (8)

Tame is essentially a man unwilling to change, to let go of his form. A man who does not realize that the very music that he dislikes is challenging him to grow – to become a new person. His is uncomfortable with his music, so he therefore assumes that it has a negative effect on individuals and societies. He wants to go back to a time before the bomb, he wants to “melt” listening to Beethoven. He wants to be spared the pain of transformation. He wants to remain unconscious. Is he that different from you and me?

New music is not a passive experience; it is a way of being. In the words of Boulez:

“Nothing is based on the ‘masterpiece,’ on the closed cycle, on passive contemplation, on purely aesthetic enjoyment. Music is a way of being in the world, it becomes an integral part of existence, is inseparably connected with it; it is an ethical category, no longer merely an aesthetic one.”(9)

In summary, new music is bringing forth necessary changes in our self on both physical and mental levels to be able to live harmoniously in our times and in times to come. We need to listen to and be in touch with the music of our times. New-music composers and musicians need to serve in a very in a very humble way. The days of Beethoven-like power are over. We have to work for and campaign for our audiences – not just for ourselves but for our fellow composers and ultimately for the transformation necessary for a leap in evolution.

A new world is only a new mind!

(William Carlos Williams)

LISTEN!

References:

1. Larry Dossy, Space Time and Medicine (Shamabhala Press 1982) p. 75
2. Ibid, p. 29
3. John Cage, Silence (MIT Press, 1971), p. 34
4. Ibid, p. 40
5. Ibid, p. 41
6. Johathan Cott, Stockhause: Conversations with the Composer (Simon and Schuster, 1973) p. 77
7. Larry Dossy, Space Time and Medicine (Shamabhala Press 1982) p. 90
8. David Tame, The Secret Poser of Music – The Transformation of Self and Society Through Musical Energy (Destiny Books, 1984) p. 56
9. Michael Nymann, Experimental Music – Cage and Beyond ( Schirmer Books, 1974), p. 23

Definition

Sound therapy refers to a range of therapies in which sound is used to treat physical and mental conditions. One of these therapies is music therapy , which can involve a person listening to music for conditions such as stress and muscle tension.

Music is one component of this therapy. Others use sound wave vibrations to treat physical and mental conditions. In general, this therapy is based on the theory that all of life vibrates, including people’s bodies. When a person’s healthy resonant frequency is out of balance, physical and emotional health is affected.

Treatment by sound waves is believed to restore that healthy balance to the body. Healing is done by transmitting beneficial sound to the affected area. The healing sound may be produced by a voice or an instrument such as electronic equipment, chanting bowls, or tuning forks.
Origins

Indigenous societies around the world have traditionally used sound in healing ceremonies, including drumming, hand-clapping, singing, dancing, and pulsating. The broad spectrum of sound therapy includes chanting, an activity long connected to healing and religion, and sounds of nature. Different sounds have elicited a variety of emotional responses and altered mental and physical states in people.

For example, the chimes of a church bell pealed during a happy time and tolled slowly to announce a death. The connection between sound and healing was chronicled in 1896 when American physicians discovered that certain music improved thought processes and spurred blood flow. More advances in sound therapy came after World War II. Music therapy began in the 1940s, when it was used as part of rehabilitation treatment for soldiers.

During the 1950s and 1960s, sound wave therapy developed in Europe. British osteopath Peter Manners developed a machine to treat patients with healing vibrations. The machine is placed on the area to be treated and a frequency is set to match the cells of a healthy body. Advocates believe that the treatment makes the body’s cells vibrate at a healthy resonance.

By the 1990s, Manners had developed a computerized system with about 800 frequencies used to treat a range of conditions. Similar therapies are also known by names such as bioresonance and vibrational therapy. This therapy is used to treat conditions such as cancer.

After Manners developed cymatics, two ear specialists in France developed therapies that focus on listening. Dr. Alfred Tomatis’ Tomatis method and Dr. Guy Berard’s auditory integration training involve the patient listening to sounds through headphones. Currently, the Tomatis method is used to treat conditions ranging from learning disabilities to anxiety in both children and adults.

From the 1960s on, interest in alternative medicine and New Age healing has led to a wide variety of sound healing therapies. These range from the ancient practice of chanting and the use of singing bowls to vibro-acoustic furniture. A person sits or lies on a chair or bed and music is directed into the body. Benefits are said to include lowered blood pressure.
Benefits

Sound therapy focuses on balancing energy to treat a condition. Advocates maintain that sound therapy is effective in treating conditions such as stress, anxiety, high blood pressure, depression, and autism. Chanting and, overtone chanting are used in therapy with Alzheimer’s patients. Therapy is said to help with memory function.

Physical conditions treated by sound therapy include pain during labor, muscle and joint pain like arthritis, back pain, sports injuries, soft tissue damage, and cancer.

The Tomatis method is used for conditions including dyslexia, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), Down syndrome, chronic fatigue syndrome , autism, depression, and behavioral problems. The method, also known as listening therapy, is used to help older people with coordination and motor problems. Furthermore, performers take the therapy to refine their skills.
Description

The spectrum of sound therapy is so broad that a person has many choices about the type of treatment and its cost. Some therapies can be done at home; others require a practitioner or therapist to perform the therapy or to provide initial instruction. As of June 2000, most health plans did not cover the cost of any form of sound therapy, including music therapy. However, some sound therapies may be part of integrative treatment for a condition.
Chanting and toning

Chanting and toning are among the complementary therapies offered through the integrative medicine program at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. The program, opened in April 1999, is one example of how the traditional medical community is incorporating alternative therapies into treatment.

People learn to reach a meditative state by producing a “pure” sound such as a drawn-out vowel. The chanting is said to produce a state of well-being in mind and body. The cost of therapy will vary since a person could take a class or workshop or opt for longer therapy. Treatment could involve weekly hour-long sessions over a period of several months.

Toning refers to using the voice to let out pain or stress. Sound healers point out that people do this naturally when they cry out or sigh. In toning therapy, a healer will help the patient learn healing sounds. Overtoning involves the therapist using his or her voice to assess a client’s condition from the feet to the head. The therapist then treats the person by projecting healing sounds or “overtones.”

The recent field of “harmonic astrology” is an example. In astrology the visual relationships between planets in the night sky are called aspects. Harmonic astrology gives each aspect a sonic value based on the musical overtone or harmonic series. Tones in the harmonic series follow the simple numerical sequence of 1/1, 1/2, 2/3, 3/4, 4/5…………n. The relationships between these numbers can be assigned to tones in an auditory modality and planets in a visual-spatial modality. It would be appropriate to refer to the ratios as visual harmonics in the night sky. When the planets move into these ratios special energies are created. The closer these energies are to the source or fundamental tone ie: 1, than the more influential they are.

Lets say Venus and Saturn are within 3 deg. of each other at the time of birth. 3 deg. is the distance astrologers call an orb. An orb is another astro-sonic term for entrainment. It is the the distance at which the two planets will pull each other into a mutual oscillation. This forms the ratio of 1/1. In music this represents a fundamental tone. The fundamental is a generator of overtones and creates a strong resonance. Therefore the qualities of Venus and Saturn are merged into one tone and this tone becomes dynamic in ones life.

If two planets, Jupiter and Mars are 180 degrees apart in the 360 degree circle of the zodiac, they form the visual ratio 180/360 = 1/2. 1/2 is the musical interval of an octave. In astrology the relationship of180 deg. is called an opposition. Viewed from an ancient harmonic perspective the octave was called diapason. Diapason, literally translated, means “through all” or “through the whole”. Viewed from a sonic perspective this relationship takes on a newer and more refreshing meaning than its traditional astrological terminology.

The next ratio 2/3 creates the musical interval of a fifth. Thie fifth traditionally represents the spirit of harmony in music. It is associated with the cosmic relationship of Yin and Yang and Shiva and Shakti. In astrology a planet at 120 deg. divided by a planet at 180 deg. is 120/180 which reduces to the ratio of 2/3. This relationship is called a trine in traditional astrology and represents harmony.

A planet at 90 degrees related to a planet at 120 degrees produces the musical interval of a 4th or 3/4. In traditional astrology this is called a square and is considered a difficult aspect. The relationship between the fifth and fourth is the basis for much of the worlds music. The fifth and fourth work together like yin and yang. I imagine the negative connotation of traditional astrology concerning this aspect is based on its tendencies to be unstable and naturally wanting to seek the fifth. However it must be remembered that the fifth can easily go to the fourth. This makes for some interesting thoughts for astrologers.

Astrologers used to be occupied with observing the night sky. Charts and numbers were a method or notating their observations. One has to watch the planets every night and “feel” how they vibrate and pass through different harmonic relationships. Saturn, Jupiter, Moon, Mars, and Venus are easily observed on a clear night. I enjoy watching them from streets of Manhattan. I may be walking down Fifth Avenue (no pun intended) and look up, something New Yorkers have forgotten. And to my surprise at the end of Fifth avenue I see Jupiter in the night sky. I will stop and absorb Jupiter with my eyes. I hear Jupiter through my visual impressions. I believe my eyes are tuning into the light waves which are than being transposed inside myself to sound waves.

Sometimes when I come to Fifth Avenue and 33rd Street I look to my left and to my surprise I see Mars. I let my visual attention go to Mars. Than I gradually allow my awareness to encompass the feeling of Mars and Jupiter in relationship. Suddenly the concept of harmonic astrology is a real feeling inside of me. I am resonating with the source rather than a lot of lines on a chart. However on cloudy nights I can go back to the charts and get more excited because the lines suddenly take on a new meaning. They now resonate with my experience.

I believe this is what the ancient Chaldeans were able to achieve. Chaldean astronomers are said to have been keeping records on the movements of stars and planets for 490,000 years! Berosus, a Chaldean astronomer responsible for the birth of Greek astrology, settled on the island of Cos and taught there until he was a hundred and sixteen years old. The late first century B.C. Roman writer Vitruvius wrote of Berosus and the Chaldeans, “It must be allowed that we can know what effects the twelve signs, and the sun, moon and five planets, have on the course of human life, from astrology and the calculations of the Chaldeans.”

The Chaldeans did not separate themselves from the heavenly bodies in their observations. They felt the planets through sympatheia. This later lead to the hermetic axiom “as above, so below” which encapsulates the correspondence between the macrocosm and microcosm. Charles Muses believes the “crown jewel of Alexandrian through was the doctrine of the ordered interrelatedness of all things, by the power of what was then termed sympatheia. …..To render this far-reaching thought into our analytic, scientific terms requires the sophisticated concept of holistic systems governed principally by the affinities (or antipathies) generated by resonances (or anti-resonances) in waves of some sort, i.e., in time space periodicities”.

The world view at the peak of Chaldean civilization was a lot different than ours. To say they were primitive or superstitious is a great misunderstanding. Instead of expressing themselves in the calculus of numbers they choose the language of myth and symbols. What is left of their discoveries has been passed on to us through the archetypical symbols of astrology. The direct experience of being with and feeling the stars and planets, the source of so much knowledge, is reawaking today.

To experience Planetary frequencies first hand, check out BioSonic‘s Planetary Tuners.

During the Middle Ages the Catholic church determined what musical tones and intervals were spiritual. New musical sounds were usually introduced through heresy and thought to be the work of the devil. As hard as it is to believe, many people were executed and tortured for playing the “wrong note”.

Go to the piano keyboard and play C and G than play the octave of C and C. If you lived in the Dark Ages you may be on your way to being a music star. Now play C and C followed by C and F#. Uh-oh! You made a fatal mistake. You are now on your way to being burned at the stake or worse. C and F# were considered to be the interval of the devil.

Our life experiences of dissonance vary greatly. A commonly used word for dissonance is stress. Dr. Hans Selye defines stress as adaptation to change. Those that resist change will perceive stress as distress. Those that accept change may experience the same stress as euphoria or U-stress. In other words what is distress for one person may be euphoria for another. This may explain from a scientific perspective why the dissonances of a music composition like Stravinskys Rite of Spring may be terrible for one person and beautiful for another.

The process of a child learning to swing illustrates the principle of dissonance as a necessary component of acquiring a new skill. The child learns to pull on the swing at just the right time through hundreds of misses. Because missed pulls are out of alignment with the desired feeling of swinging they are perceived by the child as frustrating. “How can I learn to swing if I keep pulling and nothing happens!’

Eventually through watching other children, getting hands on help from parents, and achieving many mini successes the child begins to internalize a “right feeling” of swinging. The misses contrasted to the “right feeling” may ironically lead to increasing states of dissonance. When we have no idea of the right way the wrong way is acceptable. When we experience the right way the wrong way seems even more dissonant.

One day something happens, a right movement, an “accident”, or somebody says something that “makes sense” and suddenly the child knows how to swing. They can pull on the swing again and again at just the right moment. From this moment on the child knows how to swing for the rest of their life.

The Nobel Prize winning physics, Dr. Ilya Prigogine discovered the importance of dissonance while investigating chemical systems. He termed his discoveries “order from chaos”. Prigogine proved that for a system to change and go into a higher state of functioning it must first pass through a state of disruption or chaos. The sonic term for chaos is dissonance.

Prigogine points out the crucial role dissonance plays in living systems evolving into higher levels of order or resonance. He discovered that all living systems dissipate more and more energy over time caused by fluctuations or dissonances inherent within the system. As time passes these dissonances increase in intensity causing the system to move further and further from equilibrium. Soon everything begins to wobble. The wobbling increases until all preexisting order within the system shatters causing the system to leap into chaos.

Prigogine terms the precise moment a system goes from order to chaos a bifurcation point. As a system approaches bifurcation it only takes a very small and seemingly inconsequential event to create chaos. From chaos the system reorganizes itself into a new system functioning at a higher-level resonance.

Whether the resonance is a higher or lower level than the original system is determined by what mathematicians call “strange attractors”. Strange attractors can be visualized as seeds of the new order sown during the old order. For example, a child learning to swing builds attractors through mini successes, modeling other children, and positive encouragement. When the old order disintegrates the new order reforms around the vibration of these experiences.

We must learn to listen to and appreciate dissonance in our life. For example, an alarm clock is dissonant for our sleeping self. However for our waking self the alarm clock is a sound we created to remind us to wake up. Oftentimes we forget that our waking self set the alarm. The alarm annoys us. Weget angry. Maybe we throw our alarm clock across the room. When we surrender to the message we awake and remember. “Today I got up early to begin my vacation.” Thank goodness for that alarm or I would have missed my plane.

From a BioSonic perspective the experiences of dissonance are our inner alarm system. When an alarm goes off something is going to change weather we think we are going to like it or not. The more we resist alarms the more the intensity of dissonance increases in our life.

We must learn to appreciate dissonance and actively listen to our inner alarms. The following “dissonance ear training”, is to help us tune into our alarms and wake up. Each volume level is like an alarm clock getting louder and louder. We are free to wake up at any volume.

Dissonance Level 1: “Not Quite Right Feeling”

We recognize a vague feeling of discomfort or inner voice whispers a warning. Often times our body slightly tightens. Sometimes we may perceive a subtle feeling of pulling away. The intensity of the alarm is low enough to easily overlook or dismiss. It is the kind of message that we recognize in hindsight and say “I should have listened,” or “I had a feeling”.

Dissonance Level 2: Minor Problem

We have progressed beyond the not quiet right feeling and can consciously, if only for a moment, identify the source of irritation. A friend or relative doesn’t clean up after themselves in the house and we don’t say anything. It is even uncomfortable for us to do their cleaning, however it is a small problem and the discomfort soon leaves. Often times we will tell ourselves a story: “It is OK, they will be leaving in a few days. He is such a good person it is worth it to do these things for him just to have him here. “Although we may even come to believe our stories, which in psychological terms is the beginning of denial, our bodies always tighten when faced with a minor problem.

Dissonance Level 3: Major Problem

The source of irritation is clear and in our consciousness for long periods of time. It is increasingly difficult to tell ourselves stories. We know something is wrong and that there is a problem. The person went from occasionally throwing something on the floor to everyday leaving papers, tracking in dirt, overstaying their welcome, and playing the stereo late at night. Even our neighbors are complaining.

However it is still possible to somehow put off our problem. We tell ourselves more stories: “If I am nicer, maybe the person will go away. It’s not his or her fault, they had a hard childhood. Maybe their behavior has something to do with me.” At this level of dissonance everyone knows we have a problem except us. When we finally do something about it everyone is relieved. When we keep denying, then the problem goes to a higher level of dissonance.

Dissonance Level 4: Crisis

The dissonance is loud and screeching. We can’t get away from it. Everywhere we go it is with us. Our whole universe seems to be shaking and falling apart. In psychotherapeutic language we are “bottoming out” and there is no place left to go but up. We have to face the dissonance. Many people tell stories of reaching the bottom and finding a new life.

I learned a long time ago not to judge people at the bottom. While working at Bellevue psychiatric hospital I was called as a therapist to a flop house on the Bowery. We were trying to extend our services into the community and help people before they reached hospitalization stage. On this occasion, I walked into a small dirty room that smelled of human waste with cockroaches running from wall to wall. In the room there was a man covered with spit laying on a dirty bed. A priest sitting next to him preparing to give last rites. I was discussed that I should be called to such a place and angry with this man for letting his life depreciate to such a low level.

For some reason I stayed. As the priest gave the last rites, the man on the bed opened his eyes and said “I see Jesus.” Suddenly he began to glow. I actually felt the vibration in the room increase. As I looked at this dying man he suddenly became soft and radiant. I could feel his energy enveloping the room. I felt as though I was blessed and showered with grace.

All of this lasted just a few minutes by the clock and an eternity from my inner time perspective. When he exhaled his last breath, this filthy disgusting drunk had transformed into one of the most important spiritual teachers of my life. He taught me that a crisis can be an opportunity for extraordinary growth and that I should be very humble in my judgments of other people’s life dissonance.

Jacobs Ladder

The ancient story of Jacob’s Ladder illustrates the mythological relationship between dissonance and order. Jacob’s Ladder is an archetypical ladder between heaven and earth. We begin as spiritual beings at the top of the ladder and descend until we become earthly beings at the bottom of the ladder. Our spiritual journey begins when we choose to climb back up the ladder. Each rung upwards represents increasing states of energy and consciousness.

The transitions from one rung to another on Jacob’s ladder are different than a regular ladder. The rungs are in discontinuous steps. This means distance between each rung becomes greater and greater the further we go up the ladder.

Climbing Jacob’s Ladder requires a special climbing skill which is sometimes referred to as quantum leaping. We are at one level of vibration or rung on the ladder then suddenly we are at another. We literally leap from one rung something like excited electrons jumping from one orbit to another and changing the nature of an atom.

The myth of Jacob’s Ladder is very real in our everyday life. The process of moving into different states of energy begins with dissonance. During dissonance our life becomes challenged. The more we deny our challenge the greater our dissonance becomes. There are no solutions on our current rung of the ladder. We must seek change and seek resolutions from a higher perspective.

I have come to believe the man I worked with on the Bowery was on very high rung of the ladder. He resisted the jump to the next rung until the last moment. During his last rights he surrendered to whatever internal dissonance he had been avoiding. He made what appeared to be an inconceivable leap. His gift was to show me that at any moment dissonance may transform into a new and higher state of resonance.

When we listen to these intervals we create an archetypal resonance resulting in a physical and psychic repatterning of our mind, bodies and spirit. This takes place on a physical level within the inner ear by stimulation of the cochlea and semi-circular canals. When we listen to the sound of the tuning forks our nervous system attunes to the pitch in much the same way as when we find a pitch for a choir, or tune a piano.

The vestibular system via the semi-circular canals reproportions our body through a process of cellular memory based on the natural ratios of the tuning forks. During the listening process our physical body will actually reposture itself to hold the proportion and sound correctly.

John Beaulieu discovered BioSonic Repatterning while sitting in an anechoic chamber at New York University. An anechoic chamber is a completely soundproof room resembling a sensory deprivation chamber. After reading about the experiences of the composer-philosopher John Cage he decided to experiment.

John Cage found that he had heard two sounds while in the chamber, one was a high-pitched sound and the other a low-pitched sound. The engineer he was working with informed him that the high sound was his nervous system, and the low sound was his blood circulation. Excited by this discovery John Beaulieu than sat in an anechoic chamber for five hundred hours over a period of two years listening to the sounds of his own body. He began to correlate different states of consciousness with different sounds of his nervous system.

Being a trained musician he noticed that the high-pitched sounds of his nervous system consisted of several sounds in different intervals. Then one day he brought two tuning forks and tapped them. Immediately, he observed that the sound of his nervous system realigned to the sound of the tuning forks.

To understand this process, think of a time when you were in a quiet place or just before going to sleep. During this time you may have heard a high-pitched sound in your head. This is the sound of your nervous system. When you are under stress, this sound gets louder and sometimes can become a ringing in your ears. For most of us this sound is subtle and we only hear it when we focus on it. Tuning into the sound of your nervous system is a meditation.

Find a quiet place, sit or lie down, close your eyes and focus your awareness on the sounds inside your head. Listen for the high sound. When you listen closely you will discover that sound consists of two distinct pitches. These pitches originate from your left and right brain hemispheres. These pitches change in frequency, volume, and pitch depending on your state of consciousness.

The intervals of the Body Tuners and the Solar Harmonic Spectrum create pure sounds and overtones to help you relax and center yourself. Each interval relates to a different state of consciousness and body posture.

You can creatively combine your intervals based of the five element theory of Ether, Air, Fire, Water, Earth to create a sound healing concert. For example, if you want to be more fiery you could work with intervals of C & E or C & A. If you want to be more watery, you could work with the intervals of C & D or C & B.

The tuning forks are tools to help you develop and refine your sonic abilities. Simply tap the tuning forks on your knees, bring them to your ears, and listen to the sound. When you tap the two forks together, the sound created is an interval. As you listen to the two different tones your body will naturally adjust itself and come into balance, making the two sounds into one. You can hum and let your voice resonate with the sound of the interval. This humming creates a sonic anchor which helps you recreate the experience of the tuning forks without having to use them.

With practice you will be able to sonically �think� an interval and your nervous system will respond. When this happens your ears rather than your eyes will dominate your perception. Over a period of time you will naturally begin �seeing� and feeling intervals everywhere in your life. You will be able to know through visual harmonic perception what interval a person is tuned into. Then through bodywork, tuning forks or other modalities you can help a person align themselves to intervals for healing and well being. When they are repatterned to the interval you will feel a resonance in your body similar to that of humming with the tuning forks.

Read more information about BioSonic Repatterning.

The Chart below shows the planets, frequency, color, house and attributes:

Sun – C (126.22 Hz) – Light Green – Leo & 5th house: promotes generosity, opens the heart, stimulates creativity, promotes radiance from within, enhances self-awareness and self-expression, promotes self-confidence, understanding of self-will, assists in finding one’s purpose.

Mercury � D (141.27 Hz)- Blue-Green – Gemini & 3rd house: enhances learning, facilitates teaching, promotes higher communication, opens receptivity to receiving and understanding messages, opens one to knowledge and clear thoughts.

Venus � A (221.23 Hz)- Yellow-Orange – Libra & 2nd & 7th houses: promotes aesthetics and appreciation of beauty, puts one in touch with Goddess energy and sensuality, restores balance, enhances one-on-one relationships, discovery of feminine attributes.

Earth – G (194.18 Hz)- Orange-Red – center of zodiac: deepens our connection and appreciation for Mother Earth (Gaia, Terra), the being that provides for and sustains our very existence. Helps to put us in right relationship with Earth.

This tone works on Earth acupuncture points.

Moon – G#(210.42)- Orange – Cancer & 4th house: promotes appreciation of home & family, supports self-nurturance, opens feeling nature, discovery of deeper unconscious aspects of oneself, enhances intuition.

Mars � D (144.72)- Blue – Aries & 1st house: stimulates new ideas, calls one to action, promotes self expression, encourages new beginnings, creates vitality and vigor, encourages forward movement and self-assertion, discovery of male attributes.

Jupiter – F#(183.58)- Red – Sagittarius & 9th house: encourages expansion and growth, learning from a global point-of-view, welcoming higher energies to come in, encourages travel & discovery, promotes optimism, encourages morals and ethics.

Saturn – D (147.85)- Dark Blue – Capricorn & 10th house: encourages reassessment and self-discipline, deeper connection with crystals & gems, brings spirit into form, encourages structure, and promotes commitment.

Uranus – G#(207.36)- Orange Red – Aquarius & 11th house: stimulates self-discovery and self-expression, enhances community and creativity in-group situations, supports the process of individuation, and promotes detachment and more universal perspective.

Neptune – G# (211.44)- Orange – Pisces & 12 house: deepens our understanding of mysticism, assists in getting in touch with past lives, promotes dreams, imagination and intuition, deepens meditation, encourages transcendence.

Pluto – C# (140.25)- Blue-Green – Scorpio & 8th house: encourages letting go of the old so that renewal and regeneration can occur, supports transformation and transmutation, assists in finding one’s authentic power, deepens understanding of sex.

Learn more about the use of Tuning Forks in Healing at BioSonics.

While most of us give little thought to sound vibration and its effects upon us and our environment, ancient wisdom, and modern sound vibration research shows the tremendous power sound has on causing negative emotions, or damage to our environment, sound can also calm us, and heal us.

Sound is vibration and it travels through water 5 times faster thru air, and since humans are almost 80 percent water, we feel vibrations easily. Every cell in our body has a vibrational frequency, each charkra has it own frequency, each person has their own core vibrational sound ( see vibrational yoga). When our bodies resonate with human made frequencies, it is more difficult to remain balanced and in a natural state of harmonics.

Certain sound vibrations enhance cell function, balance the charkas, and others cause disruption in the harmonic field of the body which can lead to illness. While sound vibrations have been used to increase health, healing and spiritual awakening for thousands of years, our modern world has just begun to realize its transformative effects.

For centuries Tibetan monks have used, chanting, gongs and other instruments to raise their vibratory frequencies. The ancient Yogis, have used the core sound of the soul to harmonize the body and awaken the consciousness of the person.

Culturally, we are only now reawakening to the power of sound vibration, and its power to restore inner balance and connect us deeper with our soul essence. With the uniting of ancient wisdom, and modern scientific studies of sound vibrations. We can finally focus on postive energetic re-patterning with the intention for healing specific aliments.

Energy can be moved, balanced by sound vibration using calibrated tuning forks, shamanic drumming,and vibrational yoga therapy to name a few. Using sound vibrational therapies offers the client benefits such as profound relaxation, increased awareness, a deeper connection to your core essence, lower blood pressure, increased vitality, and immune system support.

Sound vibrations as a healing tool, is a versatile method for maintaining health or to assist in spiritual awakening. By using sound healing, sound therapy, and vibrational yoga one can maintain a balanced healthy life, that is filled with love, joy, and happiness.

Did You Know You Can Tune Your Body?

Like adjusting a piano, your body can be tuned to achieve optimal physical balance. Tapping two BioSonic tuning forks will instantaneously alter your body’s biochemistry and bring your nervous system, muscle tone and organs into harmonic balance. In seconds … your body enters a deep state of relaxation. Feeling centered, your mind will be at peace…

Experience states of deep relaxation in seconds, reduce stress instantaneously, increase blood flow, enhance immune response, fully integrate body & mind, and transcend to higher levels of consciousness by using tuning forks. BioSonic’s precision-tested tuning forks are easy to learn, simple to use and the healing benefits are miraculous. Learn more about healing with tuning forks at BioSonics now.

About the author

Charles Lightwalker is a Metis shaman, author, medical intuitive, and healer. For more information visit the web site: www.thefamilyoflight.com.

by Charles Lightwalker

In 1550 in Pavia, Italy, Girolamo Cardano, a physician, mathematician and astrologer, noticed how sound was being perceived through the skin. In 1553 in Padua, Italy, H. Capivacci, a physician, noticed that this knowledge of sound being perceived through the skin might be used as a diagnostic tool for differentiating between hearing disorders located in the middle ear or in the acoustic nerve.

In 1684, German physician G. C. Schelhammer tried using a common cutlery fork to enhance the experiments that Cardano and Capivacci were working on.

In 1711 in England, Royal trumpeter and luteist, John Shore, created the first tuning fork. At that time, he lovingly and jokingly called it a pitch fork. It was made of steel and had a pitch of A423.5.

In 1800, German physicist E.F.F. Chladni, along with others, constructed a complete musical instrument based on sets of tuning forks.

In 1834, J.H. Scheibler presented a set of 54 tuning forks covering ranges from 220 Hz to 440Hz. Later, in Paris, J. Lissajous constructed a tuning fork with a resonance box. Also in Paris, German physicist K. R. Koening invented a tuning fork which was kept in continuous vibration by a clockwork. In 1863 in Heidelberg, physiologist H. Helmholtz, used sets of electromagnetically powered tuning forks for his experiments on the sensations of tone.

Tuning forks were indispensible instruments for producing defined sinusoidal vibrations and used as a diagnostic tool in otology. The most common system of determining the pitch of all twelve notes in a octave is the Equal temperament. The standard pitch here is A440. As a side note, equal temperament was proposed by Aristoxenus, a pupil of Aristotle, and had been in use in China for some centuries.

Mr. Hipkins, the head piano tuner in 1846, was instructed by Walter Broadwood to instruct his piano tuners in the use of equal temperament. To do this, he used two tuning forks; one for meantone at A433.5 and one for equal temperament at A436.

Even though musicians were among the first people to work with pitch, scientist enjoyed sharing knowledge and use of the tuning fork also. As far back as 583 BC, when the Greek philosopher, Pythagorus, made a device called the monochord and set the pitch to 256Hz.

The Egyptians and Greeks used the monochord to make intricate mathematical calculations. It wasn’t until around 1834 when a group of German physicists was able to use a mechanical stroboscopic device, that they were able to determine that the pitch of the tuning fork was at A440cps (which later was expressed as A440Hz). Even though the pitch of the note “A” in the 17th century varied from 373.3 Hz to 402.0 Hz, on July 27, 1987, the International society of Piano Builders and Technicians unanimously support A=440 Hz. as the international pitch standard for piano manufacturers and for modern piano and orchestral tuning.

About the author:

Charles has studied with shamen and alternative healers for over 26 years. He is a Medical Intuitive, Reiki Master, Ordained minister, Certified religious counselor and Certified Spiritual healer. Check out http://www.thefamilyoflight.net/ for more of his works.

And scientists are discovering that certain deep space sounds are amazingly similar to the sounds of dolphins, Tibetan bowls and human choirs.

Why Is this Important to You?

Because you can use music, song, vibration and words to dramatically affect your own health and the well-being of other people. The impact, potential and mystery of the healing power of sound is demonstrated in the following heart-warming true stories.

Wake Up and Dance, Little Suzy

Do you remember the movie ‘Awakenings’? Based on a true story, the film features the work of neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks with Parkinson’s disease patients. Many of these patients whose bodies had been immobile for decades from the effects of Parkinson’s began groovin’ to the sounds of music. Patients who had not left their wheelchairs for years, got up and began dancing to certain types of music.

After the success of these patients, Sacks, teamed up with the music director from the Institute for Physical and Neurologic Function and has been using music as therapy with miraculous results. According to the music director, patients who can’t walk bound out of their chairs and start dancing as long as the music is present. For people who have motor problems, music acts as a catalyst.”

Potent Prayer Power

When a Buddhist priest prayed for an hour over the polluted water in a lake behind a dam in Japan, the crystalline structure of the water changed from malformed and distorted to one of immense beauty and power. The lake was transformed into a healthy source of pure water. A distinctly visible aura appeared around the water crystals in photographs.

Autistic Man “Flew the Coop”

A music therapy instructor from Yale University tells a breakthrough story about Jerry, a 26-year-old man who wouldn’t speak, whose mental age was between 2 and 8 and who threw extremely self-destructive tantrums. Jerry was so transformed by music therapy that he was able to free himself from his “autistic mold” and create a way to support himself in the world. What’d he do?

Pairing up with a graphic designer, Jerry launches a profitable greeting card company. Jerry writes many of the messages and helps design the cards. Aptly, they name the company “Flew the Coop.”

Trippy Space Sounds

What do the sounds of dolphins, human choirs and Tibetan bowls* have in common? The sounds they make are uncannily similar to tones found in outer space.

While examining the recordings of spacecrafts Voyager I and II at the California Institute for Human Science, scientists discover that sounds produced by the rings of Uranus are virtually identical to those produced by Tibetan bowls. Sounds emitted by the planet Jupiter strongly compare to the high-pitched cries of dolphins. And sounds from the smallest moon of Uranus resemble vocal choirs.

Researchers believe that this similarity is no coincidence. The cosmic vibrations of dolphins, bowls and choirs are currently being used to stimulate alignment and healing at the cellular level.

“Tibetan bowls” are used in The Dream Workshops to assist people to relax plus the bowl’s vibration gently helps “break up” old patterns of behavior that are no longer useful or healthy.

Rockabye Baby

Hospitals report that newborns who are sung or spoken to on a regular basis go home 3-5 days earlier and weigh more than babies who aren’t exposed to specific periods of adult speech or song. 50% of women who listen to music during childbirth don’t need anesthesia.

We are only hearing the first few bars in the symphony of healing that awaits humanity as we open to the dynamic harmonious effects of sound.

bDid You Know You Can Tune Your Body?

Like adjusting a piano, your body can be tuned to achieve optimal physical balance. Tapping two BioSonic tuning forks will instantaneously alter your body’s biochemistry and bring your nervous system, muscle tone and organs into harmonic balance. In seconds … your body enters a deep state of relaxation. Feeling centered, your mind will be at peace…

Experience states of deep relaxation in seconds, reduce stress instantaneously, increase blood flow, enhance immune response, fully integrate body & mind, and transcend to higher levels of consciousness by using tuning forks. BioSonic’s precision-tested tuning forks are easy to learn, simple to use and the healing benefits are miraculous. Learn more about healing with tuning forks at BioSonics now.

About the author

Keith Varnum – For similar inspirational articles, visit The Dream Workshops.

Resonance comes from the Latin verb resonare, meaning to “return to sound”. It means to sound and resound, as in an echo. Usually we think of resonance in terms of objects such as bells which when struck continue to ring or resonate the original sound.

Another type of resonance is called sympathetic resonance. When we strike a tuning fork another tuning fork of the same pitch will begin to vibrate with the first fork. Resonance can be understood as a merging created when energy moves back and forth between two or more bodies.

The opposite of resonance is dissonance. Dissonance happens when energy moves back and forth between two or more bodies without merging into unified pulsation. The pulses beat against on another. Resolution happens when dissonance becomes resonance. Our personal sensations of dissonance, resolution, and resonance in our daily life serve as sonic guides. Learning to listen to, differentiate, and appreciate these sensations in daily life is fundamental to BioSonic RepatterningTM.

When we meet somebody special or do something just right, we experience resonance. The longer lasting and deeper the experience of resonance, the more ecstatic we become. Our language is filled with words that ring with the taste of resonance. “Being in tune” or “we are on the same wave length” describe resonant experiences. Making the connection, being in the groove, or just plain “wow!” are further examples. When something is just right we say “it clicks.”

Imagine that the whole universe; everything we know, including cars, computers, airplanes, houses, buildings, lakes, oceans, continents, our bones, flesh, and nerves is a fountain of dream images generated and sustained by a submerged sound. Further imagine that everything we do and think, whether good or bad, moral or immoral, is an attempt to seek out and merge with that sound. Our goal is to return to the source of the fountain. Although we may identify with the object of value (i.e., a man or woman, a car, etc.), the real attraction is the resonance we experience when in the presence of that person or thing. The experience vibrates us like a tuning fork and becomes a sonic homing buoy confirming our inner journey.

As children our playfulness leads us from one resonate experience to another. Teeter totters, swings, kites grabbing the wind at the right moment, catching or hitting a baseball, riding a bike, skipping a rock, and bonding with a doll or stuffed animal are the abundance of a child’s world. Children soon learn the value of pushing forward of leaning backward on a swing. They will try again and again until they get the “right feeling” of the swing. This is a moment when the thrust of the pump harmonizes exactly with the natural rhythm of the swing. They don’t need classes or intellectual reasons, for their sense of resonance, which they somehow “just know,” become both their guide and goal.

Pretend that you are an ethereal being floating in drifting currents of flight. One day, as days go in light oceans, you begin to hear special sounds. When you float nearer there is a feeling of glowing radiance. There are two sounds and they are beginning to merge. Your light body begins to pulsate. Surrendering to the sounds you enter an ecstatic state of resonance.

When we arrive in our new bodies, we immediately seek resonance. A baby bonds with its mother and father. Watching a newborn baby and mother together is a wonderful experience. Their bodies are like tuning forks that vibrate in unison. I remember the indescribable feeling of the birth of my son. I am in the delivery room surrendering to the rhythm of labor. Push after push I breath in unison with my wife as my son pulsates his way into the world.

In the “new” quantum physics matter is perceived as resonate particles. Particles are created when electrons and protons are accelerated to near the speed of light. Collisions create a burst of energy in which a particle takes form. The energy of the collision keeps resonating or feeding back into itself, like a bell that is struck and continues to ring.

In the universe of particle physics, matter is simultaneously a particle and a wave. Because it is a wave, each particle is also a specific frequency or vibration. Therefore, in the subatomic world the way something vibrates determines what it is. Remember that not every collision creates a particle; only the collisions that resonate create particles. Physicists who explore the sub-atomic world for particles call what they are doing “resonance hunting.”

The physicist Werner Heisenberg borrowed two words from Aristotle – potential and actuality – to describe his experience of the quantum reality. The world “not looked at” was potential. For Heisenberg, the quantum wave was a picture of the unexamined potential of reality. Quantum waves are not existence or actuality, but the tendencies towards existence. The parallels between “musical experience” and the sub atomic reality are remarkably similar. Physicists seem to rely mostly on numbers and instrumentation to “see” and map resonance. An artist relies on his or her senses and intuitions.

Communication is a resonance between two or more people. Cognitive resonance occurs when someone talks about an idea or concept that we agree with. Politicians always speak in generalities to heighten their chances for cognitive resonance with potential voters. Emotionally we speak of affective resonance. It is the source of the terms sympathy, antipathy, empathy, telepathy, and apathy. When we pick up emotional states and feelings from another person, we say we are sympathetic. The person with the feelings is like a tuning fork setting off similar feelings in another person. If the other person is opposed to the feelings, then they resist and become dissonant or without resonance. This is antipathy. Empathy means “into feeling.” It is a state of merging with another. We allow ourselves to resonate with the vibratory field of the other until we are the other.

The ideal is to remain conscious of our self during the empathetic response. Conscious empathy is the foundation of healing arts and the key for understanding another persons experience. When we are empathic, distance as we know it ceases to exist. We are both in the same resonate field. It is therefore possible to experience the other at great distances. This is the telepathic response or feeling response at a distance. Apathy means no feeling. When one is apathetic there is no resonance.

Resonate communication on a spiritual level is called communion. Although health professionals are trained to focus their attention on mental, emotional or physical processes during empathic response with their clients, they often report a special communion between themselves and the other.

Faith healers by pass these levels and focus only on the spiritual. They lay their hands on the body and allow themselves to empathetically resonate wherever spirit leads them. The resulting interaction between the person and healer becomes a divine communion. A resonate “returning to sound” creates a healing response. In this sense, regardless of academic training or analytical understanding, we all must become faith healers for our insights and studies to be effective.

I remember a story told by Elizabeth Kubler Ross. She was in charge of training psychiatrists to counsel dying people. The young doctors knew a lot about the psychodynamics of dying as well as the physical condition of the patients. However, Kubler Ross noticed that when the doctors left the room, the dying person was quite often agitated and upset.

One day she noticed that when the cleaning lady left the patient’s rooms they were at peace with themselves, breathing easier, and more open to talking. She asked the cleaning lady what she was doing. The cleaning lady, who hadn’t even graduated from grade school, said she had experienced a lot of death in her family. She said she just “felt” for the people and would just sit with them a moment while she cleaned up. Kubler Ross realized that her ability to “just sit” and be with a dying person was what the doctors lacked. To the dismay of her colleagues, she made the cleaning lady her assistant instructor.

The experience of empathetic resonance through touching has been given many names by body workers. Dr. John Upledger calls it “melding” and sees it as the prerequisite of all good bodywork. “The idea is to meld the palpating part of your body with the body you are examining. As this melding occurs, the palpating part of your body does what the patient’s body is doing. It becomes synchronized. The objective is to have that part of your body which is examining and palpating a patient do exactly what the patient’s body is doing, and would otherwise be doing even if you weren’t there. ” Milton Tragger uses the term “hook-up.” Dr. Randolph Stone, the founder of Polarity Therapy, called it “tuning into the energy.”

The synchronization of bodies is traditionally called “achieving rapport” in verbal counseling. In Neuro Linguistic Programming it is called “pacing.” Without pacing there can be no communication. The research of Dr. William Condon uses microanalysis of filmed human interaction to reveal precise synchronization of rhythmic body movements between two people interacting. This synchrony is invisible to eye and unconscious to the participants.

Dr. Milton Erickson considered it a necessity to “get into a patients reality.” He would sometimes spend years understanding and piecing together a patient’s view of the world, body movements, and speech patterns. The psychiatrist R. D. Laing illustrates the principle of “getting into a patients reality” in his description of a “Schizophrenic Voyage.” Laing will spend days with a patient, to the point of even living in a closet with them to experience resonance with their reality.

The resonant experience of love is so powerful that we sometimes feel as though we would do anything not to lose it. First there is resonance.

In her eyes I perceive myself as mysterious, unknown, exciting and vibrant. She is the lover that awakens my heart and each throb is a revelation, a vision, and a dream that becomes a remembrance of who I am. She is the embodiment of the sweetest elixir. We drink and meld until the other disappears into the mists and is devoured by the force of union.

The experience is so magnificent that we want it to happen forever. However the moment we try to keep the experience, the feeling is gone. The same person that we fell in love with is suddenly different. It is as though we reached out and put the palm of our hand an a ringing bell in an effort to keep it ringing forever. We are shocked when the quality of the ringing diminishes. To make things worse we grab the bell even tighter and sometimes even hit it to get to ring again. Eventually we give up. We cannot sustain this “grabbing energy.” We say the “life is out of the relationship” or “the thrill is gone.”

During a session, a client described his relationship with his wife as “the ring is gone.” He had done everything to get it back. And it became clear from the tone of his voice that “everything” meant every possible way of grabbing and holding onto her. Resonance, or the ringing bell quality of a relationship is only nourished through surrender. This implies giving up the other in order to have the other. It seems like a paradox. Experienced from sonic consciousness it becomes very real.

Everyone wants resonance. Regardless of our behaviors, relationships, occupations, looks, cultures, lifestyles, and tastes we are listening for resonance. When each experience of resonance we move closer to our source. The closer we come to our source the more we are “beings of sound mind and body.” Resonance is everywhere and always available to us. Everyone has a front row seat in the cosmic concert.

Did You Know You Can Tune Your Body?

Like adjusting a piano, your body can be tuned to achieve optimal physical balance. Tapping two BioSonic tuning forks will instantaneously alter your body’s biochemistry and bring your nervous system, muscle tone and organs into harmonic balance. In seconds … your body enters a deep state of relaxation. Feeling centered, your mind will be at peace…

Experience states of deep relaxation in seconds, reduce stress instantaneously, increase blood flow, enhance immune response, fully integrate body & mind, and transcend to higher levels of consciousness by using tuning forks. BioSonic’s precision-tested tuning forks are easy to learn, simple to use and the healing benefits are miraculous. Learn more about healing with tuning forks at BioSonics now.

As of recent times this force has been termed the Universal Energy Field. We, as human beings are part of this energetic system; having what is know as the Human Energy Field which utilizes various means of receiving, moving, transferring, communicating, and integrating these energetic vibrational frequencies throughout our body.

Our Human Energy Field is comprised of three systems:

1, the major and minor chakras of the body,
2, The subtle energy fields or energy bodies that surround the physical body, and
3, the energy meridians within the physical frequencies to the tissues, organs and other systems throughout the body. Our health and vibrancy is determined by our own individual access to, and assimilation of this Universal Energy Field, the ease of movment with which this energy travels, and overall balance these three systems.

Fortunately, we human beings contain unimaginable intelligence that will strive to the best of it’s ability to keep ourselves healthy as long as we maintain balance within our bodies, and life in general, and this is where my work as an energetic healer comes into play. Everything we come into contact with within our environment affects this system, whether this is from internal toxins such as drugs or particular foods, external forces such as stress, various chemical toxins, or the emotional environments we surround ourselves with, even physical accidents and maladies we have incurred throughout lives are all held within our Human Energy Field.

Every attitude, belief, thought, and emotion we carry within ourselves also affects this field. Unknowingly, we can have blocks and interruptions of various kinds all of which hinder this flow of energy resulting in a much less healthy or vibrant physical state of being. My job as a sound healer, is to work in partnership with my client to unblock these energetic systems, healing, clearing, balancing and transforming all areas of their Human Energy Field, allowing for their own internal intelligence to guide them back to perfect health. This can be accomplished through various means, i.e., techniques or energetic applications such as Crystaline Reiki, Spiritual Healing or other hands on healing modalities, by which I use my own energy field to channel Universal Life Force Energy through myself and my hands providing the necessary energy to my clients.

I can also use other Progressive Healing means, again adding extra energy to your system, with such application as color, stones, crystals, aromatherapy, shamanic healing, vibrational yoga therapy, essential oils. All of these things have their own vibrational signature and our Human Energy Field responds to this energetic input.

As far as what you can expect with a treatment, that is almost impossible to say; I have found that every session is unique and special to the individual. I do believe that Great Spirit is guiding each session and knows what the clients needs at the time of the session for their particular situation. It also depends greatly on the receptivity of the client and their willingness to work with me in releasing the blocks or clearing whatever is standing in the way of the healthy state they desire.

I will say that every person I have treated has had a positive experience experience, anywhere from feeling less stressed and more open, to very profound life changing experiences. Even as I work with individuals repeatedly over time, they will experience each session unique unto itself. This is something that I find absolutely amazing, and to me magical in that I have witness my spirit guides at work and see the results that have taken place.

About the author

Charles Lightwalker is a Metis shaman, author, medical intuitive, and healer. For more information visit the web site: www.thefamilyoflight.com.

Here are a few ways that music therapy might help with conditions such as clinical depression, sadness and low mood.

Depression is a disorder that impacts the brain. Dissimilar levels of neurotransmitters that are responsible for mood changes may cause one neurotransmitter to become more  deficient than another, contributing to a state of sorrow that does not seem to cease.

The type of chemical imbalance you have can decide the treatment for clinical depression, but for some, medication may be just about as uncomfortable as the condition itself.

Music therapy has been employed to help people with assorted sicknesses and mental conditions to manage their anguish and encourage healthy changes in the brain for more favorable results. It’s a Modern field of health care but has shown promise with conditions such as cancers, attention deficit disorder, autism, pain management and yes – clinical depression.

What is it about music that makes it so effective? Well, you’ve heard music. How does it make you feel? Consider the music in films. In horror flicks, the upbeat and foreboding melodies cause your blood pressure to ascend and your heart to race. In love films, the low, dulcet tones may lead to crying. There’s grounds for this.

Music is comprised of notes played in particular ways. These notes may arouse changes in your brainwaves. The way those beats come across might lead to brainwaves reverberating at the same frequency. Following suit with the brainwaves is the heartbeat and breathing functions. When songs feature a accelerated and arousing beat, your pulse rate and breathing are merely that much quicker.

On the flip side, listening to slow movements in music tend to slow down the respiration and bring down the pulse rate. This results in a near relaxation state that’s affected by musical notes.

Depression places you in a particular cognitive state. So can hearing music. Think of a few of your favored songs. What images and feelings do they conjure? By using well-known songs and those that effectuate a relaxed or improved psychological state, you will be able to begin to battle feelings of depression, without prescription medication.

You can look up a trained music therapist or listen to music yourself and acquire your own therapeutic regimen. Music therapy is being shown to bear on blood pressure, hike up immunity, lessen muscle tension and affect the body in terms of reduced stress levels.

Did You Know You Can Tune Your Body?

Like adjusting a piano, your body can be tuned to achieve optimal physical balance. Tapping two BioSonic tuning forks will instantaneously alter your body’s biochemistry and bring your nervous system, muscle tone and organs into harmonic balance. In seconds … your body enters a deep state of relaxation. Feeling centered, your mind will be at peace…

Experience states of deep relaxation in seconds, reduce stress instantaneously, increase blood flow, enhance immune response, fully integrate body & mind, and transcend to higher levels of consciousness by using tuning forks. BioSonic’s precision-tested tuning forks are easy to learn, simple to use and the healing benefits are miraculous. Learn more about healing with tuning forks at BioSonics now.

Music and sound therapies such as using tuning forks may be employed to not just help step-up mood with conditions such as depression; it may likewise fight stress, a contributor to clinical depression. Try it as a tool to manage your condition.

Hospitals around the world use harp music to soothe premature babies and to help those who are dying feel more comfortable. Certain types of music have the ability to make us calm, ease our stress and center us.

Everything that has ever existed has a vibration to it, a specific frequency that is unique to each object. Even we have a vibration that runs through us.

Everything that happens inside our body has it’s own rhythm, cycle and pulse.

When any of these systems becomes imbalanced, it manifests itself as disease, physical problems, emotional problems or mental disorders.

Every cell inside of us has a strong ability to resonate sound, and given the fact that seventy percent of our body is water, we respond very well to sound therapy.

The two systems that are most affected by sound therapy are the Meridian and Chakra systems. When the right sound waves are introduced we become in tune with natural rhythms that work to balance us mind, body and spirit. We sometimes accomplish this without even realizing it. For example, sitting next to a stream and listening to water trickle across the rocks or sitting next to a campfire and listening to the popping sound it makes.

Sound healing is not something that necessarily needs to be performed alone. It is often combined with other therapies such as acupuncture. Unlike acupuncture, there is absolutely no pain or invasiveness to sound therapy. Instruments that might be used during a session are tuning forks, drums, singing bowls, a tibetan bell or a gong.

When tuning forks are used they are placed at specific areas next to the acupuncture needles for maximum benefit. The tuning forks are all specifically calibrated to perform a specific function. For example, a fork might be used to help you relax or to restore balance in your body. Another set of tuning forks is often placed above the patient and these are audible. The sound of them is very relaxing and pleasing to the ears.

Symphonic gonging music in the background makes for a great therapy session and is widely used by professionals. These relaxing sounds help one to reach a deeply relaxed and meditative state with ease.

Sound therapy can be a great option if you are looking to heal yourself without going through surgery or succumbing to the side effects of prescription medicine. Keep in mind that there are still things that modern medicine does really well. Holistic medicine treats the whole person – as well as addressing the cause of illness along with the symptoms. Do not ignore modern science, but integrate modern medicine with holistic therapies to achieve a lasting, balanced state of wellness.

Did You Know You Can Tune Your Body?

Like adjusting a piano, your body can be tuned to achieve optimal physical balance. Tapping two BioSonic tuning forks will instantaneously alter your body’s biochemistry and bring your nervous system, muscle tone and organs into harmonic balance. In seconds … your body enters a deep state of relaxation. Feeling centered, your mind will be at peace…

Experience states of deep relaxation in seconds, reduce stress instantaneously, increase blood flow, enhance immune response, fully integrate body & mind, and transcend to higher levels of consciousness by using tuning forks. BioSonic’s precision-tested tuning forks are easy to learn, simple to use and the healing benefits are miraculous. Learn more about healing with tuning forks at BioSonics now.

1. for the softest sound, tap tuning forks on a hard muscle such as the thigh near the knee or the firmest part of the palm of your hand
2. for a slightly louder sound, tap tuning forks individually or in pairs, or tap on the Tuning Fork Activator
3. for a loud sound, tap gently on your knee cap
4. for the loudest sound, very gently tap two tuning forks against each other or tap a single fork on the edge of a hard surface such as a table. Be careful not to nick them.

Ways to use tuning forks

Tone a single fork or two forks together to create a harmonic and either hold or move above the body or place stem end on:

* any tissue of the body such as bones, organs and muscles
* acupuncture points or meridian energy lines (known as Soundpuncture)
* reflex zones of feet, hands, ears or head
* chakras or transition points between chakras, front or back
* a crystal as you direct the crystal toward the recipient
* any vessel containing flower essences, gem elixers, homeopathics, purified water, or any vibrational remedy
* planetary acupuncture points at various locations on planet Earth
* sweep through the subtle layers of energy field
* stroke meridians
* when toning two forks together, you can use to balance left/right, top/bottom, or front/back of the body
* move through a room to fill a space with a particular frequency
* move all around a person to clear discordant energies and fill their aura with a particular frequency

Article courtesy of http://www.luminanti.com/tuningforks/

Instructions:

Cross the tuning forks on each interval of the mediation. For example if C is held in the left ear and G in the right ear then on the next tap hold C in the right ear and F in the left ear. The crossing pattern continues throughout the meditation. If you want to extend the meditation then cross each interval i.e., C in the left ear and G in the right ear then C in the right ear and G in the left ear.

Meditation #1: General Balance and Wellbeing

5th C G
4th C F
6th C A
5th C G
5th C G

Meditation #2: Motivation

5th C G
3rd C E
6th C A
5th C G
3rd C E

Meditation #3: Creativity

5th C G
7th C B
2nd C D
6th C A
5th C G

Meditation #4: Spiritual Awakening

Unison C128 C128 (or hum low drone tone)
6th C A
6th C A
Octave C C512

Meditation #5: General Element Balancing

Unison C128 C128 (or hum low drone tone)
2nd C D
7th C B
3rd C E
6th C A
4th C F
5th C G
Octave C C512

Meditation #6: Grounding and Earth Balance

Unison C128 C128 (or hum low drone tone)
4th C F
4th C F
Unison C128 C128

Meditation #7: Water Balance

6th C A
7th C B
2nd C D
5th C G

Meditation #8: Fire Balance

3rd C E
6th C A
2nd C G
5th C A

Medtiation #9: Air Balance

5th C G
4th C F
3rd C E
5th C F

Meditation #10: Ether Balance

5th C G
Octave C C512
5th C G
Octave C C512

Basic Element / Interval Relationships

Element Quality / Interval / Color

Ether / C – C512 / Blue
Earth / C & C* / Red
Air / Stimulating and Rising C-G / Blue Green
Air / Calming and Decending C-F / Blue
Fire / Stimulating and Rising C-A / Yellow Orange
Fire / Calming and Descending C-E / Yellow
Water / Stimulating and Rising C-B / Red Orange
Water / Calming and Descending C-D / Orange

* Usually two 128 Ottos or low drone humming.

Pythagorean Music of the Spheres Relationships

Circle of the Zodiac / C – C512

Sun / C – G
Earth / C – F
Moon / C – D
Mercury / D – F
Venus / C – E
Mars / C – A
Jupiter / D – B
Saturn / C – B

Match Letters to make planetary intervals.

Note: Unless indicated all C’s refer to C(256).

What is it about music? Listening to it can turn that frown upside down. Music is made up of strings and strings of notes put together in certain arrangements to produce a melodious sound. That sound can be loud and it can be soft, but it will always evoke a response from you.

Music has long been used in therapy as a way to help people overcome a variety of conditions. You can use music to change your mood or help you to relax after a hard day.

When you hear songs they can conjure up memories from the past. These can be good or bad memories. If they are bad memories, changing your music type can help improve your outlook and put bad memories behind you.

So, how does music help the average person? Our brain operates on a variety of wavelengths. Music can sync those brainwaves with its rhythm. Pretty soon, that soothing beat is going through your head. Your heart rate lowers as does your blood pressure. Your mood, if sour or fearful, may improve.

Classical music is unique. The emotions felt by the composers come out through the instruments playing the notes that they set down on paper. There are no words to interfere with what the music is saying to your brain. Sweet, dulcet tones are matched with deep, resonating tones to demonstrate the highs and lows of life.

When you are stressed, listening to classical music can be as source of stress relief. Soft music can help your entire body slow down and relax. Upbeat tempos can increase your mood, bringing clarity to your mind in the midst of stress.

Have you ever sung a baby to sleep? Classical music such as Brahms’s Lullaby can so relax the mind that it brings on sleep. People who are stressed often have trouble falling asleep and staying asleep. Listening to your iPod full of soft classical tunes may have you drifting on clouds in no time.

Music is portable. You can listen to it anytime that you need a pick-me-up: in your car, while on a run or while in your house while doing housework.

And, classical music works for the young and old alike. Your mind can interpret the sounds that it hears in any number of ways that helps you reach a state of calmness, free of stress. You breathe deeper as you internalize each note.

Music is just one tool that you can use to manage stress in your life. Classical music is a good choice when you want to unwind and be carried off to another place.

The Tuning Forks are applied to the acupuncture and acupressure points to access the Body’s Meridian and Chakra energy systems.

The sound waves of the Forks vibrate and travel deeply into the body along energy pathways, effecting human physiology and reaching places not easily accessed by traditional medicine. Applying the Forks stimulates and balances the body’s physical and subtle energy field to promote healing and inner harmony.

This cosmic tone helps us to shift from fragmented stagnation to an open world and infinite possibilities. It is this recognition, acceptance and participation in our destiny that opens us to a bigger picture.

We enter the world of creative origination, healing, unity and balance. This healing methodology has the power to connect us with the Source of original harmony. It provides access to a deep inner balance by sonically resetting negative cellular patterns.

The work is powerful and profound, it has the capacity to relieve chronic and debilitating illnesses and imbalances of the psyche and soul. Through the Healing system we are able to realign and re-harmonize ourselves with the greater cycles of the universe.

The Effects of Tuning Fork sound Therapy:

The Tuning forks are designed to be used on and above the body. When tapping the tuning forks, they produce a pure musical sound called a interval. As the body listens to the tones it will naturally adjust itself and come into balance.

The actual effect of Tuning Fork Sound Therapy can be verified by a number of methods which include Kinesiology muscle testing procedures to check the status of the organ meridian energy circuits and the Chakras which are directly over the main nerve plexus points in the physical body.

The “energetic” patterns of sound, color, light, toning, and music have the capability to “Tune -up” and balance the energy system, making it more efficient. Pain can be eased, stress reduced and depression lifted.

The Body- personalities become more vibrant and energized. The Mind-becomes clearer, creativity is increased, resulting in a wider perspective and an improved ability to make major decisions. The Emotions become more stable. The Spirit- is more peaceful, greater joy and improved well- being are found in the process.

Tuning Forks Balance and Energize the Chakras.

The Tuning Fork Healing Session:

A person can experience any and all of these in a healing session.

* Raises the Light quotient of your being to a new level
* Raises your Consciousness
* Expands your field of awareness
* Relieves Stress
* Shifts energy
* Balanced
* Brighter and Lighter
* Calm
* Peaceful
* Clearer
* Healed
* Harmony
* Feeling safe
* Joy
* Vitality & Vigor
* Opens the Heart
* Feeling Renewed
* Promotes self-confidence
* Promotes Intuition and imagination
* Promotes Healing and repairs traumas in your energy field
* Enhances Learning ability
* Brings in deeper understanding of healing and Opens up your spiritual awareness
* Feeling the connective with Spirit and God.
* It removes negativity and blocked energy from your auric field and body
* Encourages self-discipline
* Encourages “letting go” of old issues of the past
* Feeling connected to the earth

Tuning Forks can be used with any Healing Modality to enhance profound healing.

Music therapists are often licensed psychologists who have done further study in music therapy. They are trained in other therapy techniques to use with their patients besides music. Music is one way that they communicate with their patients.

Children are often treated with music therapy. Much like art therapy, the reward is in the journey and creation of work, not the end product necessarily.

The old adage used in cartoons that “music calms the savage beast” may not be that far off. When we are dealing with behavioral issues, it can seem like our child has a beast living within them. It has taken over your precious little one and you are at a loss to stop it.

Music is a very powerful tool. Even for someone who is not experiencing behavioral problems, listening to music can evoke a wide range of emotions. Simple rhythms can relax you. Upbeat fast tunes can make you happy and your heart race. Lower notes can inspire fear or danger. In a few simple notes played on various instruments you can unlock what is going on inside of another person.

This is what trained music therapists have been striving to do with disturbed children, with some success. Behavioral issues can be a result of an emotional trauma, physical disability or mental imbalance of some kind. Getting at the heart of the problem is what music therapy is all about.

With music therapy, a child is not simply listening to music but also participating in creating it. Listening is done and responses noted, but there are other components. Children are exposed to live performances, how to create music, and improvisation. Musical selections are also shown with visual images as a way of guiding behavior patterns.

Music seems to work because it is open to interpretation by anyone and everyone. It is a medium that becomes what the person wants it to be. For children, it doesn’t intimidate them. It can help children feel safe enough to talk about their trauma and begin to heal. Therapists can discover underlying problems causing behavioral issues not related to developmental deficiencies.

Only a trained therapist need engage in music therapy. Through examination of their child patient, they can devise a course of treatment using the appropriate musical intervention to bring about the best result. Children can relearn destructive behaviors and live normal lives.

Music therapy is one way that has been found to deal with children suffering from behavioral problems. Through varying levels of musical learning, families and these children are getting the treatment they need.

Balancing Earth with Air (For Clarity of Thought)
Meditation:
a (ah) cham sha

Chant:
a (ah) cham sha ai ba jam jam sa (shaw) tham s (sh) va

Increasing Fire, Reducing Air, and Warming Water (For Digestion)
Meditation:
j tha ra

Chant:
c(ch) da(day) jam ta ta la pha s(ss) na(nay) r na ta na pa
ma jam pha ya

Expanding Ether (For Loss and Grieving)
Meditation for quality space
i e s (ss)

Meditation
e sa e sa m

Chant
ai ai u (uh) c(ch) a (ah)
ai ai u c a
ai ai u c a
na va na va m (om)
i j i j m (om)
e—————-m

Balancing Earth and Fire (For Inner Warmth and Calm)
Meditation
e da e da va sah

Chant
h da na va e sa e sa ta pha nam dha (dhay) sha va
e sha va e sha va pha kam dha sa s va s va

Balancing Earth (For Grounding)
Meditation
e sah va

Chant
h sah e
va sa(shaw) la
sa na
e va e va sa(shaw)
ai sa (shaw) sa (say)
m sha va

Balancing Ether, Fire, and Water (For Creative Dreaming)
Meditation
a (ah) ta ma s (ss)

Chant
s (ss) s (ss) e j
ta dha (dhay) ta dha (dhay) na la
e sha la da bha jam jham
s (ss) s (ss) pa ya la ya la
m (om) nam (am) ra tha

Balancing Water and Fire (For Balanced Sexuality)
Mediation
j na (nay) ba

Chant
r da ma da ma da ma
e ta la ta la ta la ta la
pa sa jham da(day) ya da(day) ya
s(ss) pa s(ss) pa s(ss) pa
u(uh) ma la sa(say) pa
e ta e ta la ra s(ss) dah
m(om)————

Balancing Fire with Air (For Motivation and Healing Ulcerations)
Meditation
au kam da (day)

Chant
da dha (dhay) s (sh)
da dah s
cham cham cham
h ta r tham
h ta r jam
h ta r nam pa
sa pa va e tham da

Balancing Air and Water (Spritiual Awakening)
Meditation
o tham ya

Chant
i kam cham jam tam la
e bha i cham va
ta cham jam tam ma
u kam s ya ya gham cam

Balancing Air (To Slow Down Rapid Thinking & Reduction of Joint Pain)
Meditation
h gam jham

Chant
e jham e jham na
e tam jam gham
ajham e jham pa

ai sa va kam
e nam sa jham

e jham ejham s(sh)

Balancing Earth (For Shock)
Meditation
ai na va

Chant
e sa(say) va
cham la va
o dha e sa(shaw) ma la
s(sh) sa(say) pa cham sah va
sa (shaw) va sa (shaw) v

Medical research now validates immense physiological benefits from chanting: lowered blood pressure, stabilized heart rate, improved circulation and the production of endorphins, which are the body’s natural painkillers and mood enhancers. Music, too, is wonderfully therapeutic and employed in a wide range of applications today, including the treatment of Alzheimer’s, sleep disorders and autism. The therapeutic use of music is a tradition that can be traced back to Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine. Medical science also validates the benefits of meditation in supporting healing processes that are preventive as well as curative.

Now, when you take the tremendous appeal of yoga and the growing millions of practitioners across America, and you combine all these approaches (chanting + therapeutic music + meditation + yoga), you get The Yoga of Sound, (New World Library, May 2006), a holistic and evolutionary approach that addresses several unhealthy conditions of modern living and offers a “sound solution” to its problems.

Yoga is a term that points to an ideal state in which the physical, psychological, and spiritual dimensions of health come together. Many are the paths toward that end, and each is a “type” of yoga. Nada Yoga is the historically documented tradition of using sound as a yoga practice to awaken energy and consciousness in an individual. While this might have sounded esoteric at one time, we are fast realizing today that health is not simply the absence of disease, but a vibrancy that encompasses the full person: energy and consciousness are both vital to waking up our cellular brains.

To cope with the stresses of life, a large number of people use chemical stimulants, antidepressants, alcohol, caffeine, and the like. These solutions come at a price to our health, with side effects that range from accumulated acidity in the body to chemical dependency and mood swings. Now imagine a pharmacy selling miracle drugs that millions of people have been using for thousands of years with no side effects. Imagine that these fantastic mood enhancers transform negative emotions into a positive force, efficiently release accumulated toxic energy stored in the body, provide a sense of mental spaciousness, effectively calm nerves in stressful situations, and rapidly replenish energy supply when the body is tired. Mantras can do this and more.

Mantras do more than help us cope with stress; they make us come alive. Unlike chemical stimulants, these spiritual organics are not passively imbibed or ingested, but are actively employed and personally digested in the fire of our soul’s yearning for a connectedness to the deep pulse of life itself. Even just listening to these spiritual pharmaceuticals can make us feel younger because they connect us to our source. Most importantly, they are not addictive. We can choose how much and how strongly we want to use them at a given time, depending on our circumstances.

What are these strange sounds, and how do we trust them? My argument is that if we can trust the chemical ingredients listed on the packaging of prescription drugs, then mantras are safer to use, and perhaps easier to pronounce! Each year in the United States, billions of doses of tranquilizers, muscle relaxants, antidepressants and painkillers are prescribed, while hundreds of billions of dollars are lost by American industry from stress related absenteeism, preventable illnesses and the abuse of prescription drugs. Is this our solution to vibrant health?

To trust mantras, we may consider that they come from the very same culture that gave us Yoga, Ayurveda (the world’s oldest medical system), and our numeric system, including the discovery of the zero, which in the world of mathematics is akin to the discovery of fire. While some may argue that mantras come from an alien culture, we must bear in mind that mantras are constructed utilizing the Sanskrit language, which, most interestingly, is a source language for both Latin as well as Greek, from which most European languages are derived. In fact, linguists agree that Sanskrit is perhaps the closest living language we have to Proto-Indo-European , the mother of all European languages.

Add to that current medical research that reveals a network of acupuncture- like meridians that originate in the palate and are stimulated by inflections in speech. Sanskrit’s extraordinary phonetic range promises a tremendous power to influence our physical as well as spiritual immunity. The therapeutic powers of mantra may well prove to be as valuable to integrative medicine as mathematics are to science.

To get a “taste” of mantra, try “Om Shaanthi,” the mantra for peace, when you feel anxious or disturbed. When your energy is low, or fear creeps in, try “Om Shuckthi,” the mantra for power and energy. Place your tongue tip between your teeth for the “thi” in both cases.

If you are ready for more, read The Yoga of Sound: Tapping the Hidden Power in Chant and Music. It explains the spiritual technology of mantra and its wide scope of therapeutic applications, which address many conditions of modern living that stand in the way of vibrant health.

About the author:

The above article is based on the book The Yoga of Sound: Tapping the Hidden Power in Chant and Music, New World Library, May 2006. Russill Paul serves on the faculty of The University of Creation Spirituality / Naropa Institute West. He is a world-renowned musician who blends Indian and contemporary music in his recordings and performances.

Your body is not designed to deal well with ridiculous amounts of chemicals you are exposed to or the myriad types of synthetic substances that you are ingesting. Diseases are finding ways around medical science and becoming more prevalent than ever. Many people are starting to get involved in holistic treatments and choosing to stay away from some of the standard medical practices and ‘modern conveniences’ of today’s world.

Sound therapy is something that is being used by more and more people every day, and it something that can help you tune up your greatest resource – your body. It is believed that sound frequencies have the ability to transform our bodies and attack disease at all levels. There are many different frequencies of sound, each of which has the ability to bring about positive and negative changes.

Some of the things that sound waves can change are: vitality, emotions, circulation and increased energy levels. Sound therapy is a way to heal your mind, body and spirit without introducing unnatural substances or invasive surgery into your life.

Two things keep matter organized and they are waveforms and frequencies. If two guitars are tuned exactly the same way and a string on one of them is pinged then the same string on the other guitar will vibrate, as well. This process is known as resonance and it is a completely natural process.

Resonance is a very important principle because it constantly affects us and everything around us. Resonance has the ability to heal us through the use of frequencies. When the right frequency is introduced the energy field that flows through and around us is reset to the way it is supposed to be and we experience harmony. To put this into relative terms think about when someone near you is really happy. It seems to be contagious because many times you become happy, as well. This is because your energy field has crossed the path of theirs and picked up the positive vibrations from it.

Every cell that is inside of us is part of a musical ensemble. Imagine yourself as the conductor of this orchestra with your main job being to keep everything in harmony. When a cell falls out of harmony your job is to bring it back into harmony rather than expelling it out of the orchestra. This is because every cell is vital to your well being and feeling great really has to do with how well you orchestrate your body.

Studies have shown that there is a direct correlation between frequencies and the atomic weight of elements. For example, if the musical note C in lower than normal, when you speak or sing, there is a good chance that the levels of zinc are also low. So if you feel like you are low on zinc you could eat food that is high in it and listen to some music, or sounds, that has the note C in it and your body will absorb it much better.

Did You Know You Can Tune Your Body?

Like adjusting a piano, your body can be tuned to achieve optimal physical balance. Tapping two BioSonic tuning forks will instantaneously alter your body’s biochemistry and bring your nervous system, muscle tone and organs into harmonic balance. In seconds … your body enters a deep state of relaxation. Feeling centered, your mind will be at peace…

Experience states of deep relaxation in seconds, reduce stress instantaneously, increase blood flow, enhance immune response, fully integrate body & mind, and transcend to higher levels of consciousness by using tuning forks. BioSonic’s precision-tested tuning forks are easy to learn, simple to use and the healing benefits are miraculous. Learn more about healing with tuning forks at BioSonics now.

The tuning fork then creates a high-pressure area beside the tine. When the tuning fork tine moves inward, the tine expands and creates a low-pressure area next to itself. High pressure segments of the tuning fork are considered compressions and low pressure segments of the tuning fork are known as rarefactions.

While the tuning fork vibrates, a fluctuation of high and low pressure areas are produced. These segmented areas then move through the surrounding air and transport one sound wave from one location to another.

The theory behind tuning forks and harmonic healing is that emitted sound waves premote self-healing, deep relaxation and restore mind and body balance. Tuning, or harmonic healing sessions are also said to reduce stress, muscular tension, spasms and pain. Claims of increased blood flow and circulation by freeing constriction of specific organs are also products of tuning fork therapy.

Tuning sessions are also known to transcend individuals to higher levels of consciousness and enable one to access deep, spiritual insights.

Who uses Tuning Forks?

Precision-tested tuning forks are easy to learn, simple to use and the healing benefits are miraculous.

Everyday people and practitioners in the Healing Arts are using tuning forks to positively alter the body�s biochemistry. Sound enhances the healing effects of all energy therapy practices.

People who use tuning forks are often involved with:

* Polarity therapy
* Reiki
* Massage
* Sports rehabilitation
* Yoga
* Hypnosis
* Psychotherapy
* Meditation

And anyone interested in alternative healing modalities and pain management.

Why are so many people using Tuning Forks?

* Provides instantaneous, deep state of relaxation
* Improves mental clarity and brain functioning
* Increases your level of physical energy and mental concentration
* Relieves stress by drawing your body into a centered space
* Develops and refines your sonic abilities
* Enhances massage, acupressure, dreamwork and meditation
* Brings your nervous system into balance
* Integrates left and right brain thought patterns

Specially tuned to sacred proportions, you sit inside the space bringing two different sounds together making them one�and you feel unified, at peace, re-igniting the passion and power deep inside you. When you tap the tuning forks, you awaken the life energy of your cells and start them puffing, creating a centered, happy feeling inside.

How Tuning Forks Are Used

Tuning forks were originally used to tune musical instruments because they emanate perfect sine wave sound patterns that allow you to fine-tune instruments to the proper pitch.

When you strike a tuning fork however, you’ll notice how it causes the air around the fork to vibrate, sending out very strong vibrating impulses through the air. Because of this, they have been adopted by healers who use them to increase the amount of energy on parts of the body they are trying to heal.

All you do is strike a fork and place it near any body part you wish to heal. They are also used in energetic healing, for example, by putting them in the vicinity of the different charkas or energy centers located along the spine.

These energy centers also just happen to be where the nerve centers are found along the spine that send impulses to the different organs, so by energizing these areas, you stimulate the organs into greater health-giving activity.

The flow and movement of the Chinese martial art Tai Chi Chaun are far more important than learning how to defeat an opponent. Tai Chi Master Ching Man Ching, perhaps the greatest martial artist of the 20th century was also a mater poet, calligrapher, painter, and doctor.

A massage with a sense of flow and rhythm becomes a special “work of art”. Without these qualities massage is a mechanical preprogrammed event.

I call this type of massage the health club rub. A doctor with a sense of timing and resonance in his voice brings a healing “bedside manor”. Without sensitivity a doctor speaks with the quality of hospital food; processed and thrown together without sensitivity to color, taste, and smell.

A sense of personal artistry creates a necessary foundation for a scientist to do their work. Albert Einstein discovered the theory of relativity while playing his violin. Playing music led him into creative understandings of the universe which he than translated into numbers. He carried his violin with him wherever he went.

Scientists without a sense of artistry are technicians who know what will happen if they press a button. How they press the button, the process of being present to press the button, and their relationship to their environment while they press the button are unimportant.

The nourishment of artistic qualities in athletics is important. Amy Alcott of the Ladies Professional Golf Association refers to herself as an artist when she plays golf. She talks about her training in music and painting as a necessary preparation for appreciating the subtleties of choices to be made during a round of golf. For her playing golf is like painting a picture.

As artists we are responsible for the quality and flow of our personal life. I have always had a metasense of my life as a work of art.

Beyond my daily chores, hurts, pains and joys I am always creating dreams, intrigues, and journeys. As long as I have this awareness I can enjoy life and remain healthy. When I loose track of the creativity and art in my life I sense myself as sleep walking through a cold, mechanized, and uncaring world.

Journeying beyond our personality we discover multi-directional multi-dimensional energy swirls, whirlpools, dips, slides, rises, drifting and flowing; returning, pushing, and simultaneously pulling us into a gateway of pulsating space bounded by sensitive thoughts.

Full of floating emotions expanding outwards through permeable layers of visions bursting into reds, oranges, yellows, greens, blues, indigos and violets that swirl, slide, dip, rise, flow into multi directional multi dimensional movements that softly bring us back to our personality and whisper: Remember the art and joy of being alive.

In the book “The Mozart Effect”, by Don Campbell, it stated that music can create an enzyme in the saliva which can boost the immune system. Hans Jenny, a Swiss doctor describes how sound and vibration interacts with matter. Jenny shows how intricate geometric figures are formed by sound. He has created vibrations in crystals with electrical impulses and transmitted the vibrations to a medium such as a string. Jenny also produced oscillating figures in liquids, the forms and shapes that can be created by sound can be varied simply by changing the pitch, the harmonics of the tone, and the material that is vibrating. A low Om produces concentric circles with a dot at their center, a high EEE creates many circles with wobbly edges. These forms are changed when different tones are sounded.

Light and sound are part of each other, their frequencies intertwine in order to uplift and carry information to our subtle bodies. When using sound and color in our working on our bodies, you bring about a rearrangement of the molecular structure creating an opening for information to flow in. Because the skeletal form holds sensibility to frequencies, information is stored in our bones. One can, through sound, access the information held deep within our skeletal memories. Sound is a tool for transformation: it can penetrate any substance, move molecules, and rearrange realities.

Sound and color carry a certain frequency that the body recognizes. The body is keyed to respond to acceptability of the frequency. Color coded tuning forks can be used to direct a certain vibrational frequency into an area of the body. When the tuning forks are placed on a blocked area along a meridian line on the body it creates an opening for the natural flow of energy to continue. Sound brings about states of emotional feelings. When the sound penetrates areas within your meridians it connects ti the feelings and in turn allows you to bring in information behind the blockages or illness. These blockages can create havoc in all areas: the physical, emotional, and mental bodies.

Healing is about you coming to a state of willingness, and co-creates with Great Spirit in order to connect the mistakes within the consciousness, and all levels of the body. When sound and light enters the body, it uplifts and raises our conscious awareness. As a child of God we come into this world perfect and complete just the way we are. Humans however drop down into a belief system, which causes imperfection within all levels of the emotional, mental, and physical bodies. Studies have shown that certain vibrations particularly coming from music can influence our over all sense of health.

About the author

Charles Lightwalker is a Metis shaman, author, medical intuitive, and healer. For more information visit the web site: www.thefamilyoflight.com.