Music is Medicine!

I read a quote the other day from composer Gao Yuan saying that the ancient Chinese believed music was so powerful it could heal and harmonise all aspects of a person, including the spirit. He went on to say that they rated it more highly than their traditional medicine. This is seen even now in the fact that the Chinese character for medicine is based on the character for music. In her books on Esoteric subjects, Alice Bailey said that the future of medicine and healing would be with the use of sound. 

I've had many amazing and healing experiences with sound but one interesting situation verified by another person was when I took my healing tuning forks to show my acupuncturist. At the end of the session when I had already had my acupuncture treatment, my lovely therapist decided to try them on me. She noted that my pulses were still quite weak (the pulses are one of the ways an acupuncturist checks a person's chi and general health) - I was very run down at the time. She then started trying out the tuning forks on various trigger points and noted an immediate strengthening of my pulse. Finally she used a Solfeggio tuning fork around the body at the end and my pulse was so much stronger and more balanced. 

Recent scientific studies have shown that singing in choirs increases immunity and wellbeing, which may also be due to the sense of community and our need to be part of a tribe from our ancestral memories in our DNA. I've had 'out of body' experiences just listening to certain music and certain instruments such as the gong and the ancient Peruvian whistling vessels are known to produce so many overtones/harmonics that the regular mind can find no defence and collapses allowing the experience of complete stillness and the higher mind to take over. The whole Cosmos vibrates and people in meditation and near-death experiences report hearing the music of the spheres, the celestial realm. 

Our earth even has her own divine frequency, known as the Schumann resonance. When we are in nature or meditating we more naturally attune to this frequency ourselves. So everything can be seen (or heard) as divine sound & we can use sound to heal and restore us back to divine harmony. It is a shame when people believe that they are not musical. Little do they know that they vibrate and emit sound, just like the rest of the universe. When shown how to fully let go, relax and just play with sound, people who think they are not musical suddenly find themselves playing and singing from their souls. You yourself are music! 

Flowing with the Energy of Life

Only love is the solution! I'm discovering so much about love ~ the energy of life. Things that I've known, but not been able to put fully into practice before. On a very physical level, I've found that when I've had period cramps, my sacral chakra has closed. Each time I visualise opening the chakra up the cramps go away. Literally the pain signifies the energy is not flowing. On a mental or emotional level, when I have experienced tension (which I also feel as physical pain within me) with others recently, again it is because at least one of us has 'closed' a part of ourselves down to the other. In these instances as soon as we open ourselves up to communicating with each other and letting the flow of energy express itself in a loving way, then the pain disperses and solutions become possible. All of life is energy. Eastern principles of yoga, martial arts and traditional medicine practices such as acupuncture work with the flow of life force energy, instead of blocking it. In the West our main form of allopathic medicine and our military thought tend to work on blocking the flow of energy in different situations rather than flowing with it, which can feel violent and which does not provide sustainable longer-term solutions. More and more I am learning to use my body as a guidance system and learning to open my energy to the flow of life. We close our energy through fear (conditioned responses) but what would happen if we learned to open up our energy in all situations? True energy masters can literally turn around dangerous and seemingly life-threatening circumstances, through flowing with the energy and taking it in different directions to those expected. To master energy in this way make take much time and practice, but we can maybe all start with opening up in little subtle ways in situations in which we may have closed down or reacted negatively  previously. As the saying goes, "if you do what you've always done, you'll get what you always got". This statement reflects perfectly the downside of reacting to what life brings us in old, predictable and stagnant ways. Reacting in new, more positive ways can bring us beautiful new experiences. Let's make 2016 a beautiful year by opening up our energy. There is great meaning to the statement 'go with the flow'. This does not necessarily mean taking whatever life throws at us, but instead opening up our energies to flow positively with events and find unexpected outcomes through remaining open and curious, rather than shutting down through fear. Wishing everyone a fantastic year!