WHAT IS SPIRITUAL SOUND HEALING?
This is a synthesis of Spiritual
Healing and Sound Healing by way of Spiritual Sound.
SPIRITUAL HEALING can mean a
number of things. In this context I am referring to a manner of working that
considers the cause of illness to have originated within the soul of the patient
themselves. There is some form of dis-ease within their innermost being. This
most often arises from a degree of inability to adjust to circumstances. Life is
a process of growth and evolution and in the adult these take the form of tests
and the ancients categorised these tests within the context of the four
elements. Of course, there would be little point in being tested with issues
that we are master of - that would be a waste of energy and Life does not take
that path. So we have lessons to learn and many of us have no idea that such
processes are going on let alone how best to work with these energies. Such an
approach inclines towards working upon the inner levels of the soul itself with
the view that restoring harmony or making the correct changes on that plane of
life, will filter through into the outer life. Some forms of spiritual healing
work also with colours - sometimes referred to as mental colour healing (to
distinguish such approaches from that of using physical lights to bring colours
or liquid colours in bottles to focus upon in order to attune to these colour
rays). Other approaches could include working with the chakra system.
I work with
colour rays, the chakras, the healing angels, the spirit healers, and working
upon the inner soul levels - as outlined above.
SOUND HEALING can likewise mean a
number of approaches including the scientific level of sound. Many hospitals use
such sounds to mend certain physical conditions. In fact my dentist has
equipment that uses sound vibrations to clean the teeth. This method of working
utilises sounds that stretch between these mere physical sound vibrations
towards instruments more associated with spiritual activities such as didgeridoos,
bells, the voice, rattles, shakers and gongs. Instruments often associated with
shamans - who also included healing in their practices. Regular musical
instruments would be used in the field of music therapy and then the actual
music played would come into the equation regarding its healing potential and
appropriateness to the patient's needs. There are also systems of working with sound waves
(sine waves) played to the ears via headphones and slightly out of sync in order
to exploit certain acoustical phenomena that in turn alters our brain waves.
I work exclusively with Tibetan
Singing Bowls that I have found to work upon specific chakras plus a single
Tibetan Ting-shag and sometimes a pair (Tibetan meditation cymbals) whilst also incorporating
the above-mentioned acoustical phenomena although not strictly speaking because each bowl
produces far more complex acoustical patterns than would a simple sine-wave.
However, I must add that these are
special, mostly antique, bowls that I use and it is not the case that any
singing bowl, old or new, can be used in this way. Some bowls are simply bowls.
It would not be advisable to purchase such a bowl for this intended use over the
internet - even if described as a chakra bowl (some will ascribe a bowl to a
chakra simply because it produces a tone close to a note on the Western scale
that has been made to correspond to a chakra) - it is a far more intuitive art
than this.
SPIRITUAL SOUND concerns itself
with instruments intentionally created in order to reflect or manifest aspects
of divine sound into this material world. This would include bells or singing
bowls created to assist us in meditation practices. Meditation serves to attune
us to our inner world and the higher realities of life. Sacred sounds or mantras
intoned by the voice is another method. The didgeridoo is a sacred instrument
within its own culture and would not usually be used for profane purposes. We
are simply seeking to distinguish sound (with no extra-musical significance -
projected or otherwise), perhaps we could call it scientific sound, from sacred
sounds that can be, or are traditionally associated, with spiritual realms of
activity. These are sounds that are found to correspond to certain spiritual
states of consciousness e.g. peace, sounds that produce a state of communion
with certain spiritual states as a result of attuning to their sonic vibrations.
Certain sound vibrations can be found to excite one towards war (and these were traditionally
used on the field of battle - e.g. drummers and bagpipes, etc, played in a
certain way) even as angry words can awaken antagonistic reactions in the hearer
and similarly kind gentle words can promote a response that leads to these more
benefic states of being.
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