The power of sound
Monday, July 30, 2012 at 11:28AM Music offers a range or vibrations. What you listen to is not always what you hear. You may underestimate the power of sound to uplift, renew and restore, and also to effect your flow.
Notice music effects your mood, sense of health and well-being. Notice certain kinds of music appeal based on your thoughts and emotions. If you feel sad, do you listen to music to wallow or do you reach for sounds that enable you to feel better? If you feel under the weather, or wish to shift focus after a hard day, do you instinctively tune the radio to a specific station? Reflect on genres of music that trigger a range of emotions. What attracts and alienates you? Notice what closes you off, evokes hard feelings. What soothes the soul is soft, peaceful, harmonious. Notice whether you tune in your thoughts and words to the frequency of well-being or talk your way out of it. You are not your words but may come to believe them.
As you act to raise your vibration, you also sharpen senses and open to higher awareness. Everything has a vibration even if your ears do not register. Know the range of sounds you think you listen to is not the only kind of sounds you hear. Vibrations penetrate consciously and unconsciously. All sound arises in and vanishes into silence. This quiet vibration is the loudest sound many people claim not to hear. Notice what apparent lack of sound feels like. Under which conditions or where do you sense unconditional love, balance, or acceptance?
As an energy transmitter, you relay vibrations as a form of communication. The nature of your vibration affects the clarity of your vision, senses and the depth of your imagination. Each vibration has an impact on allowing or resisting harmony of body mind and spirit. Have confidence to inquire beyond all notions. Feelings are more intimate than thought. Reflect on what happens as you feel the sound and silent vibration of Tibetan Singing Bowls.
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Sound travels from an Origin Point just as souls do. Therefore, each soul is a sound that comes from Source. However, if one aligns with source, a soul becomes audibly invisible since the sound has been reabsorbed by its creator... the source. One finds peace and quiet at the center of all things.
People often listen to music that grabs their attention. The music then is like a persistent noise that has a message to its listener referring often back in time to a place and situation or encounter that has locked one into a repeating groove in a record. When one identifies this feeling or source of the mood, then the noise returns to music where harmony is restored.
Life together sings a song with One voice.
Sound has no power on its own. The power comes from its source. And Yet Sound Contains Source since it has no starting or ending point.
Music may be considered noise until one actually sees the conductor orchestrate its grand symphony of instruments.
To go deeper is to sense vibrations are actually a bio-language that speaks directly to our cells. This is a language spoken by the body and the cosmos. Vibration speaks in a way that is identical to how the body unfolds itself from the source of our divine origins. Feel how the resonance of Tibetan singing bowls awaken something dormant within.
My husband was trained in piano; he loves music (or the television) at all times. It’s, ahem, something I’m continually trying to manage for myself, finding that body-soul-hearing-place I need for my own balance.
I can recall so clearly, anytime I want, two very different moments when I was a very young girl that, in retrospect, I see as being so profound that they are touch points, reminders to me about what works for me. In each instance, I was unaware I was seeking some form of escape back into my connection with God. I was just pulled to them.
The first was when I dropped to my stomach on the floor with my chin in my hands and my face mere inches from the speaker on the hi-fi, listening to Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition.” I was riveted, completely captivated. I felt the music in my blood, my bones . . . (To this day, that dramatic piece has incredible influence on me. Stops me in my tracks.)
The other, and far more potent, moment was when a giant fir tree beckoned to me as I walked home from school. I scampered under its sweeping branches and sat in a miniature wonderland of moss and tiny violets and white Jack-in-the-Pulpits and I breathed the moist scents and the incredibly gentle peace… And after what had to have been 30 minutes or more, I had to tear myself away. I felt a mixture of deep sadness for leaving, a longing to return as quickly as I could, and an incredible cleanliness of spirit. What a juxtaposition. Interesting that deep meditation achieves the same effect. I find it much easier, though, to find a tree . . .
And if everything is energy, then everything is singing, is making music, and is being felt within us in a way we mightn’t know. And so though I mightn’t be regularly choosing to include music in my life, I am STILL surrounded it. [smile]
PS: The only time I heard Tibetan Singing Bowls, tears from nowhere started pouring from me. I was sobbing uncontrollably, and I was helpless to stop! It was one of the most cleansing and cathartic experiences I've ever had. It was unbelievable!
Of course, no one of us hears 100 percent clearly all the time, even when things are going well. If we did, we wouldn't be here.
This is why to receive encouragement to look deeper is so valuable, encouragement such as you've pointed out in your post with phrases like "the loudest sound many people claim not to hear." Knowingly or not, we are all continually seeking an inner connection that enables us to remember we are all music, part of *the* music.
Thanks. xoxo
Cheers Hilary