Healing Tones

“Color and sound are not only the language by which one communicates with external life but also the language by which one communicates with the inner life… That inner part is also sound, that inner part is light; and when one realizes this, one knows that language which is the language of heaven….” — Hazrat Inayat Khan

I DON’T KNOW WHENCE COMES this compulsion I have to write and blog. Much of my blogging lately seems utterly irrelevant to what’s happening in the world. People are being marginalized in the political and corporate arenas, and battered by war and extreme weather, millions driven from their homes, their towns laid waste by cyclones and bombing waves, leaving nothing to return to. The ugly fact is, the people, of all ages, are expendable in the vengeful passion to destroy the perpetrators of evil. They stand helpless against the forces of Nature as well. War in the Middle East and Ukraine dominates the National News. War was never a path to peace.

These things are well covered by others, and I have nothing to offer into the mix that would lighten the burden of the victims. To those of us who are witness to these atrocities, what I can say is hold it all in compassion. Go within and find the radiant and stable center from which to offer love into the world and to the planet. Love is what the world needs now, and we are here in this time to offer it unconditionally.

RATIONALE FOR “GOING WITHIN“

ONE PURPOSE FOR “GOING WITHIN” is to come back out with a more vivid awareness of being holy and whole in one’s sense of self; of divine identity. Attunement, with or without employing sound, can facilitate this inward meditative posture and outward sanctified presence and expression. Of course, one may ask who it is that is “going in” and where is “in”? Whoever is “going in” is not one’s true Self but rather the outer human self, what is often referred to as one’s “ego.” The word ego is a Latin word for “I”. Ego sum means I am.

It seems there is nowhere to “go” but only a place to be in order to find one’s inner peace and sanctity. That place is referred to as the “secret place of the Most High” in Psalm 91. “He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.” That’s were one’s true Self dwells and abides. I love that word. Simply abide at peace and be holy. Be still and know that I am God incarnate, a Creator Being. But that’s another consideration for another time and another post. It’s actually the topic of my book SACRED ANATOMY.

Let me share with you an excerpt from my other book ATTUNEMENT WITH SACRED SOUND that speaks to this rationale. I feel it will help us understand and appreciate the purpose at all of Attunement facilitated by Sacred Sound as a carrier wave for intention and consciousness; a carrier wave for Spirit.

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RATIONALE

Why is it important to balance the energy fields of our bodies, specifically those of our endocrine and chakra centers? When we consider what these energy centers do to assist us in our day to day function as human beings in a social context that requires intelligent and compassionate interaction between one another and with our environment, it becomes obvious that we need to have accurate feedback and appropriate response to what we perceive is going on around us in any moment if we are to have intelligent and compassionate response and behavior.

From the standpoint of the feedback function of the chakras, for example, it is important that these spinning wheels of energy that bring us information about our environment – which, by the way, includes our physical bodies and what’s going on in them – be balanced and clear of static.  It is also important that they be open and spinning widely enough so as to gather all the information coming into our fields. If they are spinning in a wobbly or constricted manner, then they are not capable of accurately conveying important information to us.

The chakras feed information to us through our central nervous system. These spinning wheels of energy are grounded in the spinal cord through which they download their information to Central Command in the brain via the spinal cord and nerve circuitry. The receptor for this information is the hypothalamus, which lies at the base of the brain and acts as a mediator between the brain and the endocrine system. Its more immediate connection to the endocrine system is via the pituitary gland, which is suspended from the hypothalamus and rests securely and well protected in the sella tursica of the sphenoid bone that forms the floor of the cranium.

The function of the pituitary gland is to receive signals from the hypothalamus and then to produce and send hormone precursors to the other endocrine glands that trigger the production of hormones based on the need in meeting the environmental stressors with appropriate response, thereby enabling appropriate hormonal and physiological function in the body, as well as appropriate physical action on the part of the individual. If the information coming in through the chakras is not accurate, or doesn’t get through to the hypothalamus, then appropriate hormone response in the body and intelligent action in one’s environment will not be forthcoming. One will not be in position to act creatively but will rather react based on usual and customary learned behavior. Body chemistry will likewise be thrown off balance due to inappropriate hormonal response, or a lack thereof.

Now, there is an interdependent relationship between the endocrine system and the chakras, just as there is an interdependent relationship between the individual and his or her environment. One affects the other. What goes out energetically, for instance, through the endocrine glands affects the energy patterns of the chakras based on the law of pure physics that states for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.  What I send out energetically through my expression, which is enabled and empowered largely by my endocrine glands through which spirit operates, will bounce off my environment and return to me for appropriate handling.  All energy seeks its origin for right healing and recycling.

For example, if I express anger through my emotions or harbor resentment, that angry energy –- besides dissipating the connecting substance between spirit and form — between me and my body— will alter and may even shatter the energy fields of my chakras, making them incapable of accurately receiving and conveying information back to me about the actual conditions around me. My actions, then, cannot be other than irrational and inappropriate. If, on the other hand, I do not react in anger and stop harboring resentment, but rather withhold judgment and maintain a calm emotional and mental inner state, then my chakras will reflect that calmness and be available to me for accurate perception and reception of information coming to me from my environment. I will then be in position to respond appropriately and act intelligently toward people and events in my world.

If I have been stressed out by interactions with impinging environmental stressors and have acted or reacted inappropriately, shattering my energy fields with incoherent and erratic energy, it is not a sign of weakness but rather of wisdom and strength to seek outside help in bringing harmony and balance back to my endocrine and chakra centers. This is the purpose of such spiritual practices and modalities as attunement, sound healing, meditation, tapping (EFT), deep breathing and other such aids in creating a peaceful and harmonious atmosphere in one’s heart, mind, and energy field. 

In the way of prevention and maintenance, one can trust the radiation of love through one’s spiritual expression to act as a shield against incoming erratic and disturbing energies. This is all based, of course, on the ancient knowledge and wisdom of maintaining a balance between the yin and yang, masculine and feminine energies. It starts with unconditional love and acceptance of myself and others and of conditions the way they are. 

The Psalmist expresses it in terms of the Lord being one’s “shield and buckler.”  The Lord is one’s inner Divine Self, whose radiance in expression through the outer human self establishes a hedge of protection around the body temple, through which nothing can enter that defiles, works an abomination or makes a lie, in the words of St. John in his Book of Revelation (21:27). These are tried and true words that resonate with the attunement practitioner’s motto: “Let love radiate without concern for results.” This does not say or imply “without results.” Love expressed in any and all of its forms and qualities never fails to produce results, one of which is protection from harm.

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I hope you have found peace and understanding in this post. As the Christmas Season is upon us — a time in which we celebrate once again the incarnation of the Lord of Love in the infant Jesus — I wish for you joy and peace now and throughout the New Year. Until my next post,

Be love. Be loved.

Anthony

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