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Play Your Body Song 

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Play Your Body Song
An Inner-world Exploration

In Qi Gong, there is a lovely practice called cupping. You cup your hands and “cup” your body in light taps along your meridians.  Up your arms, down your legs, on your torso.  It’s a lovely way to wake your body up from its night’s rest and get your circulation going.

I also use drumming as a vibrational healing practice.  I drum whatever rhythmical patterns come from within me.

It happens to be an interesting pairing – play rhythms on your body with the palms of your hands in order to stimulate the circulation and the meridians.

If you play your Body Song right before you step into the shower you will find that your bare body has different sounds in different places, which is a fun discovery all in itself.  Using your body as the drum, play some rhythms and enjoy the sound and the sensations. Remember to also swing your arms so you can tap on the organs closer to your back. 

I call this my Body Song because it offers rhythmic patterns to my ears and gets my body all primed for the day. 

Will you play your Body Song today?

Deeper Song Affirmation

I play my Body Song every day. 

Deeper Song Process

  • Using your slightly cupped hands, begin to beat a gentle rhythm up and down one arm.  Do the same to the other arm. 
  • With this same slightly cupped palm, move over your legs and torso. 
  • Swing your arms so you reach your back and give it a tap.
  • Experiment with rhythms and length of time and notice how alert and energetic you become. 
  • Repeat as many times each day as you wish.  (Perhaps not right before bed!)

To Sing a Deeper Song, Consider:

The Intentional OM HUM  

The Light Vibration of One 

The Pillar of Light Process

Energy Cannot Be Destroyed – Only Re-Purposed 

Raise Your Vibration With Serenity

Raise Your Vibration Through Visioning

Raise Your Vibration and Change the World. 

I help transformational thinkers raise their personal vibration so that we, collectively, can raise the consciousness of our planet.

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The Pillar of Light Process

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The Pillar of Light Process
An Inner-world Exploration

The Pillar of Light Process creates an experience of focused power coming from your own hands.  It began with an energy experience I had in a Qi Gong class and has evolved from my intuition and inner guidance. 

It began with the image of the Tree of Life  

The Tree of Life reminds us of our roots deep in the lower world, our branches touching the upper world and we, in our body suits, expressing those gifts in the middle world.  We stand as a connector to all three worlds. 

The final result is that you see and feel and experience yourself as a Pillar of Light radiating positive energy out into the world. It is very powerful for balancing both your physical and vibrational body. 

The Pillar of Light Process

Become the Tree of Life

Standing, sitting or lying down, feel yourself become a tree standing solidly in the middle world with your roots deep in the ground and your branches touching the sky. Point one hand down toward to the Lower World. Raise the other hand up toward the Upper World. Feel yourself in your body suit standing firmly in the Middle World.

Gather in the energy

Begin to draw energy from the Lower World up into the hand that is pointing down. It will have a color.  Simply let it reveal itself. 

From your raised hand, begin to draw energy down from the Upper World.  It, too, will have a color.  It can be any color that shows up.  The two colors can be the same or different.  Don’t try to put a meaning to it, just notice it.  Pull color up through the downward facing hand.  Pull color down through the hand reaching up. 

Absorb the color for healing

Feel the colors moving in your body, moving within to heal and balance and release and restore. Let your imagination take the light into all parts of your body and your inner world. 

When you are ready, bring your hands up so the palms are facing about four inches apart

Here is both the magic and the proof.  When you bring your hands together with palms facing about four inches apart, you will feel the heat, the expression of the vibrant energy you are now focusing.  Just notice and be amazed. 

Bring the energy into your chakras. Affirm your intentions

  • Turn the palms of your hands toward your face and experience the warmth of the energy coming to you. 
  • Crown chakra – Bring your hands to the tops of your head with the palms facing downward over your crown chakra. Offer an affirmation like “I expand my connection with my higher self.’ 
  • Third eye chakra – With palms facing about four inches from the third eye, say “I see clearly within and within”. 
  • Throat chakra – With palms facing the third eye, say “I speak wisely within and without”. 
  • Heart chakra – With palms facing the heart, say “I love deeply, within and without.”
  • Solar plexus – With palms facing your navel, say  “I act with mindfulness, within and without.”
  • Sexual chakra – With palms facing your reproductive organs, say “I care for my body, within and without.”
  • Root chakra – With palms pointing toward your root chakra, say “I stand wisely in my illumined service.”

You can change the affirmations and make them your own, but do hold your palms facing your body in order to send energy to each chakra. 

Heal Yourself 

Spend time now, focusing the healing energy from your hands into any part of your body that needs healing.  Spend as much time as you wish. Your intentions will focus the energy’s direction and usage.  It can clear, release, strengthen – whatever is needed.  And you can also just send the energy to “whatever is causing…”

Add sound

Sound is a very powerful healer so begin to hum with the intention to send the vibration to the places upon which you are focusing the energy from your hands.  Experiment with pitch. You can experiment with sounds, but the humming is like singing yourself a healing lullaby.   

Raise Your Vibration and Feel Yourself Radiating Light

When you’re ready for closure, place your hands on your heart and allow the healing and restorative energy to flow inward. When you feel full, allow your vibration to radiate out until you feel yourself as a golden light, radiating out positive vibrations. Feel that light move out from you – into your physical space, out into nature, out to the planet, out into space. Feel yourself as a Pillar of Light radiating wholeness. 

For that is what you are. 

Make the Pillar of Light process your own

Experiment with this idea. Change the affirmations if you like. Make it your own. For a closure, my original intention was to send this energy to the world by opening my palms.  But when I did that I realized that I really liked how it was feeling when my palms were focused on me.  My powerful “compromise” was to turn one hand out to offer it to the world and keep the other on my heart.  What happened was totally unexpected. I felt healing energy coming in from the world through the extended open palm, and at the same time, I became aware that my whole body was vibrating wholeness out into the world. 

Closure

To conclude the Pillar of Light process, I bring my palms together about four inches apat and blow between them to send the wholing energy out into the world and to conclude the experience. 

Make it your own

I do this process every morning as part of my spiritual practice. Sitting in a chair looking out at nature.  I could add it to my morning Qi Gong practice.  And I always do it in bed before going to sleep. If I were to add to this, I might hum into each chakra.  

You can certainly choose any affirmation you like for each chakra.  I made this process up and have experimented with it for a while before sharing it. The core concept is to gather energy from above and below into your hands and use it to heal and whole yourself – to raise your own vibration and send it out to raise the vibration of the world.

Deeper Song Affirmation

I work with the Pillar of Light process and add it to my spiritual practice.

Deeper Song process

  • Do the Pillar of Light process the way it is described for a few days.  
  • Then experiment and adapt. 
  • Keep on radiating out light!!!!

To Sing a Deeper Song Consider:

When I See Myself As Light

Build a Launching Pad for Your Inner work 

Another Part of You-The Unseen World 

How to Interpret the Messages from Within 

Energy Cannot Be Destroyed – Only Re-Purposed

Raise Your Vibration and Change the World. 

I help transformational thinkers raise their personal vibration so that we, collectively, can raise the consciousness of our planet.

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How to Use Sound for Self-Healing

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How to Use Sound for Self-Healing

There are many ways we use sound – to heal, to communicate, to locate. Sound is a powerful tool for healing and wholing. 

Our innate inner vibration is one of wholeness.  Sound reminds us and connects us with that universal vibration.

Bringing rhythm or sound into a meditation, shamanic journey or ceremony moves us from our mental chatter into our serene inner vibration.  It opens the doors to our innermost realms and invites us to come exploring.  

Find your inner vibration of wholeness

Our minds fill our life with chatter – beliefs that may need to be changed, fears we may need to overcome, reactions and responses that jar our lives. Our body suit’s thoughts, beliefs and word choices come from the limitations of our human mind.  

When we seek to heal and balance, we’re actually tuning in to our innate vibration of wholeness. A powerful way to connect with our inner wholeness is through sound. Sound speaks of harmony and connection and oneness. It opens the doors to the inner realm and invites us to come exploring. You do that simply by listening to sound. 

The purpose of any healing/balancing session is to remember 

When we seek to heal and balance, we are providing the opportunity to remember and re-identify with our inner light, our inner being. 

Remember that you, we, are, all simply One Energy, One Light Energy, One Radiant Energy. When you set out to rebalance yourself or others, you’re putting light into the places that need healing. You’re using sound vibration to focus the energy of wholeness.

Begin with the wholing vibration of the breath

The fastest, easiest way to direct healing vibration is through your breath.  Take a deep breath.  Then let it go in a very slow, measured manner.  That simple step immediately relaxes and centers you.  Take another breath and create a vowel sound with the exhale.  See how that feels to you. 

Balancing breath work can be done anytime, anywhere.  When you’re rushing between tasks, take a moment to add some deep, slow, conscious breaths in order to change your inner rhythm. To calm down even further, hold the inhaled breath for a count of seven or so.  Then  s l o w l y  exhale. 

A simple breath can immediately relax and center you.

Expand the vibration of your voice

When you add your voice to your exhaled breath, use some syllable like “aum” (“ohm”). Experiment with tones, the vowel sounds of a,e,i,o,u…  Notice where they resonate in your body.  Use those sounds to direct the energy of your wholing breath.  

I have evolved my own power song that consists of only three tones with three different syllables. I sing it every day. Let your personal power song evolve and sing it to center and prepare yourself for meditation.

Use your breath to intone ohms to open and close your day.  Let that vibration move through your body and out into the invisible worlds, paving the way, open the doors, announcing your willingness to participate.  The sound you use is one of alignment.

Add a bit of rhythm

Rhythm adds a powerful dimension.  I took two bamboo pieces from a broken wind chime and I have a wonderful clacker sound that I use in my daily meditation work. You can make a rattle by putting popcorn in a spice jar or a paper cup. Look around you at what can create sound. Two spoons can create a rhythm, slapping your palms on a pillow or a table or your knee creates sound. Two acorns from your yard may make an intriguing sound. Explore your environment to discover what sounds already exist there and see what calls to you.   

Rhythm is like our heartbeat. Don’t structure it, let it emerge.  Your inner rhythm is waiting to share itself with you. 

I have discovered a pattern of six beats that send me immediately to my deepest self.  Six beats and I yawn and feel a deep connection to my inner world.  

As you begin to acquire sound instruments and bring them into your spiritual practice, take your time in getting to know them. Develop your own sound healing session. We are energy.  We are vibration. The sound that resonates, that calls to you, is the sound you should choose to use.  

Develop a melody  

You don’t have to be a singer to add a melody.  

In my daily ceremonial work, I drum and sing songs to the four directions.  I made up those songs over time. My words. My melody. I simply let them evolve.

I have a shamanic friend who whistles. Her power song is a whistled melody. 

Hum, sing, whistle, speak in rhythm. Make up your own songs as they call to you.

Allow your whole body to experience the sounds. Chant, sing, hum, dance, use rhythm and melody as catalysts for movement that stimulates your entire being. Move as slowly or as rapidly as the music invites you to do. 

Pick your sound-maker

Bring sound healing gently into your life.  I’m into sound healing and keep exploring new vibrations. I’ve discovered that I like the lasting resonance of chimes or bells and use a hand bell to begin my meditations. I drum every day. I have several rattles but use my Third Eye Rattle to bless the directions and move through my chakras each day.  I have added an ocarina to my healing sounds as I continue to explore the power of sound healing.

Here’s most of my sound collection.  See what calls to you.

The traditional way to begin a shamanic journey is with rhythm –  drumming and rattles.  It helps to move you into a state of receptivity.

RHYTHM

  • Djembe Drum Bongo Congo –  Wooden African Hand Drum – SIZE 16″ I use this small drum to drum down the sun each day.  It’s very portable. This video shows you how to play a much bigger djembe than the one I have.  See if drumming calls to you as a musical and/or ceremonial expression! 
  • Third Eye Rattle skin rattle filled with crystals. It is made by a shaman trained in rattle making who blessed it with ceremony while making it. I use this to bless my day, heal my chakras and in any ceremony I perform.
  • Conch shell rattle I’ve had for years.   Rattles are made from shells, goods, skin, ceramic. Find a sound that calls to you.
  • Original clay palm size rattle made for me by my shamanic practice partner. Sorry, she’s not in business yet. 
  • Rainstick  The sound of rain coming down. Powerful and soothing. I also have a long three-foot rain stick I got years ago.  It has an awesome sound. I use this as I would water in healing, to clear out and release and heal.

BELLS

  • Tibetan Hand Bell  Meditation & Prayer Bells / Dorje / Vajra – Medium I use this to begin each journey and to bless my day and even my computer so that it sends out good energy.
  • Cymbal  These make a long resonating tone.  I use them to bless my home and the surrounding area. 
  • Tibetan Singing Bowl – comes in many sizes. This is palm-sized.   A love its resonance that goes on and on.  Great to begin a meditation or to bring the day to a healing close.
  • Energy chime I’ve had a single energy chime for years but they also come in groups. Woodstock is the best chime maker. I strike it to announce to the unseen world that I am now in service for the day. 
  • Fairy Bells refers to small hanging bells. Mine are very old. They are part of my blessing for the world each day.
  • Woodstock xylophone. I’ve had one for years and there is a new version of it. Woodstock also has great wind chimes
  • Tuning Fork 432 mg.   I use my mallet from my energy gong on this and focus it on my chakras.
  • Wind Chimes. These come in many materials. and are a lovely connection to the flow of nature.

MELODY

  • Ocarina  I’ve had pendant ocarina on a necklace for years. I just got this:”Fores I’ve had pendant ocarina on a necklace for years. I just got this:”Forest Whisper” 12 Hole Ocarina Classic Straw-fire Masterpiece Collectible,alto C
  • Shulong Drum  rrecently ordered.  It has the sound of Tibetan Bowls and plays melodies. I don’t have this yet but I have heard one and am intrigued.
  • Your Voice.  Whether you hum, chant, sing, whistle, use your body to create healing sound.  Just listen and let it guide you.

If you’re starting with nothing, find something to rattle, something to drum and a bell/chime of some sort.  Explore the sounds they offer and find the type of sound-maker that calls to you. And don’t forget your voice as a powerful sound instrument.  Bring sound into your daily practice in some form

If you’re starting with nothing, find something to rattle, something to drum and a bell/chime of some sort.  Explore the sounds they offer and find the type of sound-maker that calls to you. And don’t forget your voice as a powerful sound instrument.  Bring sound into your daily practice in some form.

Talk to your sound healing helper

You can begin your sound healing practice with anything that makes a sound. Choose what calls to you.  Add them one at a time and experiment to see how they feel and where they resonate in your body.

When you find a sound that calls to you, meditate with the sound-maker you have and ask how it would like to serve at this particular time in your life/practice.  In what way is it to be used?  To what purpose?  Talk to your chosen sound object.  It’ll talk back to you.

Put sound healing to work

In your sound healing you’re focusing the sound of wholeness, of oneness, and whatever is around it will come into gradual alignment with that vibration. 

Notice, too, where the vibration resonates in your own body. Make a sound with one of your sound healing choices and feel what part of your body responds. Notice how your chakra system responses to each sound. Sounds talk to you when you listen.

Use sound to honor the elements

Use sound to create a blessing. The songs I sing to the directions are about the qualities I see in those elements.  For me Fire (East) is about passion and creativity, Earth (South) unfolding and coming with nature, Water (West) deep listening and Air (North) is about spirituality, and, for me, creativity.  Explore the elements and define their meanings for yourself. 

Use sound to bless the world

I stroke my fairy bells and shake my conch shell rattle and ask the tree messenger outside my window to send my blessings to the earth from tree to tree throughout the world. 

Use sound to begin meditation or a shamanic journey

The traditional way to begin a journey is through drumming or rattling.  The sound changes your brain waves into a more receptive state. I happen to channel my journeys right into my computer (I just tune in and type) and I use my Tibetan Handbell to center and focus myself, allowing the vibration to resonate all through me. 

Use sound to bless the past, present and future

Because my Tibetan Bowl is small, I make a fist and set the bowl on the circle made by my thumb and first finger.  Then I take the wooden ringer and gently place it against the side and begin to circle the rim. The sound builds and when I stop stroking it, the lovely vibration continues. I do this three times with the intention of healing the past, the present and the future.  Create whatever message calls to you. 

Use sound to release

I have a three-foot long rainstick I got years ago. And probably because it has the sound of water, I use that sound to rinse out and release whatever I no longer need.  Again, I seem to do it three times, release, restore, revive. It’s your ceremony, follow your intuition. 

Use sound to balance your body

The 432 mg tuning fork is said to be the frequency of the universe. I only have one tuning fork, and I use the wooden mallet from my energy gong to strike it although the instructions are to tap it with the base of the hand.  It has a lasting resonance and I stroke the energy field of my body with it. 

Use sound to balance your chakras

I use my third eye rattle to rattle a sound pattern to each of my chakras.  I happen to use the same rhythm for each but I’m certain if I explore, each chakra will ask for a different rhythm.  Talk to your sound instrument of choice and let it guide you. 

Follow your intuition

As you organically heal and balance you’ll be drawn to different vibrations.  Notice and honor those times you are to change the form of your sound healing/wholing.  Let your intuition guide you to the next sound instrument you are to use or the change in rhythm you are to explore next. 

Use sound throughout your day

One of the most powerful gifts of sound is the invitation to simply listen.  Stop right now and listen.  Listen to the silence.  Listen to nature. 

Use your sound healing instruments as they call to you.  I use most of mine to begin my day.  I use some to end the day.  Sound is a powerful balancer and healer and would be a powerful addition to your life. 

Use sound to deepen your mindfulness. When you sit in silence, for meditation or mindfulness, use your breath to chant ohms.  Let that vibration move through all of you and out into the invisible world, paving the way, open the doors, announcing your willingness to participate.

Use sound to release. As you listen to a sound fade away, let go of limiting beliefs, old habits and old patterns that no longer serve.  Feel them disappear as the sound fades.

Use sound as closure. Drum down the setting sun to close the day.  Pick a sound to celebrate the moon.  Or the sun.  Or life.  Use sound to deepen your own vibration. 

Make this evening ceremony one of releasing – of releasing limiting beliefs, old habits that no longer serve, old patterns.

For ending my day I like to see my personal ceremony as three parts: 1) Release, as in let go and clear out all that no longer serves you. 2) Repair or restore what needs fixing and 3) Replenish, accept the flow of wholing light energy to fill you and bring you into balance.

This can be as simple as three focusing breaths, it can be a song of intention you sing, it can be done with the sound instrument of your choice.  The intention is simply to release, repair and replenish.

Listen to nature. The vibrations of nature speak of harmony and connection and oneness. Sit in nature and listen to the richness and variety of the sound of our wonderful earth home. Let those sounds heal and balance you. 

Become aware of sound throughout your day.

Your need for certain tones will change

As balance occurs, you may be drawn to different forms of sound healing. Your skill at one instrument or another may be a factor. Rhythm instruments resonate with me.  I’m not as skilled on wind instruments, but I think they’re lovely. And the ongoing vibration of chimes is very balancing. As you experiment with sound, notice which form touches your soul and work more with that. Keep experimenting with what you use and how you use it.

Absorb the resonating healing power of sound

Sound sends a message to your body suit – get in harmony, you guys! Blend your voices, make this composition richer and deeper and let its vibration touch more hearts.  

Remember you, it, we, are all simply one energy, light energy, radiant energy.  So in that respect, you are putting light into a person’s body, a balance of light that’s created by vibration. When our cells, our bodies, beings are aligned with Source, we experience our wholeness, our oneness, our nothingness

Allow the power of sound to resonate with your spiritual heart and feel the blessing from the All That Is. Feel loved.  Feel appreciated. Let it stroke you and cover you like a warm protective cloak. Sound is the vibration of Source. 

To Sing a Deeper Song, consider:

Unleash the power of your Sacred Garden

Do Things from the Soul 

How Effective Is Your Spiritual Practice? 

Follow Your Personal Drumbeat

Discover Your Spiritual Heart 

How Your Spiritual Life Changes You

The Art of Wholing – A Gift

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Wholing

There are major and often troubling changes taking place in our world. They are so vast, so all-encompassing, that it’s easy to feel helpless and afraid. I felt that way until I went exploring and found ways I can take charge of my life experience. I share them with you in a free booklet — The Art of Wholing.

Our natural state is wholeness. That means we are whole. Our bodies are whole. Our lives are whole. Our world is whole. Although it sure doesn’t look and feel like that sometimes. So what can we do to immerse ourselves in our natural wholeness? What do we need to learn to do?

This free booklet, The Art of Wholing, shows you a way to connect more deeply with your innate wholeness. It helps to bring your awareness of that natural wholeness into your daily life to heal yourself, to send out focused energy to balance and heal situations, to be a powerful participant in the well-being of our world.

Wholing is done though energy. Focused energy. Used daily. The Art of Wholing shows you how.

This powerful booklet contains a special gift — the Star of Conscious Change — a simple process you can explore that brings you to a deeper recognition of your oneness with All-That-Is and the wholeness that’s inherent there.

Once you access that point of recognized connection, you can direct energy to heal and whole yourself and to heal and whole others.

Focusing individual energy is powerful, and it’s available to everyone.

As I work daily with the Star of Conscious Change, my own 84-year-old body is no longer folded over; it’s gradually standing straighter and aligning itself. Subtle inner changes are also occurring that make me more focused, confident, creative and inspirationally productive.

Energy work heals and balances. It replenishes and restores. We are pure energy and we can each do energy work.

Begin today to bring the world back to wholeness. Begin today to restore your body to its natural state of wholeness.

Here is A Gift for your Deeper Song
THE ART OF WHOLING

Wholing

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This FREE GIFT is part of a series of booklets that will take us both on an adventure — an exploration of subtle concepts that resonate but need to be explored in order to understand and apply. As I look for direction and answers, I invite you to go on this journey with me as we find new ways to use our Creative Consciousness for Change.