SOUND & THE BODY
Ripples of universal vibration
It appears to us that things are solid. We believe in a world of objects, one of those objects being our human body. While conceptually we know that everything is oscillating energy that is in constant flux because science tells us this is so, yet this is not our day to day conscious experience. Things seem static and fixed. I know that if my arm hits a wall then two solid things, my arm and the wall, will hit each other and as a result of the impact my arm is likely going to hurt. We believe what we experience regardless of what the science or anyone tells us. This makes it challenging to experience anything else. How do we come to have a working relationship with the true non-solid nature of reality when our experience is contrary?
Let’s start with vibration. Sound, vibration, and energy are all the same thing to me. In fact everything in the universe is like a grand symphony. Each thing plays a note, whether it is audible to the human hearing range or not. Everyone and everything is making music. I think of the forms, whether they be our bodies or the forms of trees, plants or anything in nature, to be instruments. Instruments that play the sound frequency of an aspect of the universe. It may help to think of the entirety of the universe as one sound. The “all of creation” has one unified sound or note and from that sound it diversifies and creates a symphony. In order for all of its sounds to be expressed it needs forms. You can’t play Beethoven’s symphony no. 5 without an instrument. Also it’s a little bit boring to just have say cellos or just violins in your orchestra, so an infinite diversity of instruments gets created. Each instrument uniquely plays and brings different qualities of the one original sound into expression.
Sound both contains the blueprint for the form and the essence or information to be relayed through the form. When we make a sound say with our voice we are directly sharing information from our vibrational essence and also informing the forms that are in resonance with that sound, helping them maintain their shape. The sounds that we make, audibly or just with our very being (the ones that we likely don’t even know that we make) are what gives the appearance and experience of solidity. If the sound changes then the appearance changes. If you use water as a medium and play different tones in it you will see the shape of the water change dramatically. While water gives the appearance of solid form, it is also fluid so we can more clearly observe how it is affected by frequency. Remember that from a compositional perspective the human body is composed of roughy 60% water. This means that whether or not our eyes are able to directly see it, our body is changing dramatically based on the frequencies it hears.
CHANGING FREQUENCY
Harmony, resonance & dissonance
You have probably heard the hype around raising your frequency, but what does that even mean? You might have dismissed it as spiritual lingo or hogwash, but I want to invite that there is something more “tangible” to it. At different frequencies or speeds, things change form. Ice transitioning to water and into steam is a perfect example. What we call water has the same fundamental essence no matter what its form is, but changing the speed of its vibration will produce different forms. When it is slowed down it gives the more solid appearance of ice, but as it heats up it becomes less solid turning its form into water, and then with higher speeds it becomes steam. Its essence remains, but its forms changes in expression. Remember that our body is a form of a vibration. If we increase or decrease the rate of our frequency we will get changes in the structure of our physical body.
This begs the question as to what is our vibration or sound and how do we increase or decrease it? Our sound is simply who or what we are. It is the awareness or consciousness of existing. This sound can be weighed down or enlightened. What weighs it down? Our perspectives or beliefs about our life. What lightens it? The very same thing. The more bound, fixated, rigid, constricted or limiting we are in how we see life, the more solid and heavy we will experience our body to be. The more unbound, fluid, expansive, and open we see life, the less solid and the more enlightened we will experience our body to be. We could even become so light in our frequency that we could fall right through the floor we stand on or even walk through walls. Not because we have some special ability or because it’s science fiction, but because the molecules in our body are vibrating at a different speed, thus making our physical body less solid.
You may notice that there are sounds you resonate with and sounds you don’t. Music that plays that you love and music that you never want to hear again. The alchemy of your sound with the sounds of the music, or the sounds of other people’s tones that they are constantly emitting whether they are aware of it or not, create harmony or dissonance. Harmony amplifies certain aspects of a frequency providing a more powerful, clearer or richer sound. Dissonance doesn’t change the fundamental frequency of the sound, but leads to a rougher or more jarring heard sense of it. Imagine a body that is organized by a harmonic sound and one that is organized by dissonant sounds. What kinds of expressions would those sounds create inside of a body?
I have witnessed some incredible things such as tumors dissolving in response to chants, people’s rigid spines becoming fluid with motion with just a tone, and chronic muscle patterns relaxing with the expression of an emotional sound. These bodies that we have are not as solid as we believe them to be. Finding the tone, harmony or vibration that lightens our frequency is not always easy, but remember thoughts are sounds, emotions are sounds and sensations are sounds. You can entrain all of those sounds to the sound of your heart, which is the clearest most coherent sound of your essence. The sound of your heart, the beat, the hum, the pulse, when listened to can shift the speed of all the molecules in your physical body to match the frequency speed of your heart. This brings more space between the cells and allows different configurations of your body to exist. As always the heart holds the key or the codes, which are the sounds of it, to living as lighter and lighter versions of you expressed through form.
Dr. Amanda Lalita Love, Network Spinal Chiropractor & Somato-Respiratory Integration, Boulder, CO
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