Miracles occur naturally as expressions of love. The real miracle is the love that inspires them. In this sense everything that comes from love is a miracle. (From A Course in Miracles)
THE POWER OF VOICE AND BREATH
AS A TONE SETTER I will share something by Deborah Statnekov from her precious little book Travelling the Sacred Sound Current.
SOUND ~ THE CREATOR GOD
In the beginning was the wind. With its whirl, it created the gjatams,
The primordial forms and the prime base of the world.
This wind sounded; thus it was the sound which formed matter.
The pounding of these first gjatams brought forth further forms which,
by virtue of their sounds, in turn created new shapes.
That is by no means a tale from days long passed.
It is still that way. The sound brings forth all forms and all beings.
The sound is that through which we live.
(Old Lama in Tibet, as told to Alexandra David-Neel
From Moenche und Strauchritter)
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SOUNDING THE TONE
From the ancient Vedic tradition comes the term “Nada Brahma” which means “Sound —The Creator God”. Common to creation stories of all cultures is the theme that the Creator manifested the world through sound. Indeed, we are all creators, and we are constantly projecting through our thoughts, the words we speak, and the tone of our voice, frequencies that may be either harmonious or chaotic, beneficial or destructive. Our voice is our most powerful instrument of creation and we must use it wisely if we are to become conscious co-creators in alignment with the highest good for all.
When asked to comment on how it was that the Hindu musician, Tansen was able to light candles by his singing of the Dipak Raga, Hazrat Inayat Khan replied, “It is told that Tansen, the great singer, performed wonders by singing. Tansen was a Yogi. He was a singer, but the Yogi of singing. He had mastered sound, and therefore the sound of his voice became living, and by his making the voice live, everything that he wanted happened. Very few in this world know to what extent phenomena can be produced by the power of the voice. If there is any real trace of miracle, of phenomena, of wonder, it is the voice. Our voice has tremendous generative powers; it is our natural, God-given tool for creation. When we tone with our voice, we are bringing forth the creative music of our Soul.
Sound waves travel simultaneously in all directions from their source. When you generate sacred sound through your voice with a healing intention, you become a transmitting station broadcasting frequencies that travel around the world and throughout space. This is how our earth will be returned to harmony. We are only beginning to tap into the tremendous generating power of sound. As we learn to harness this power and use it with highest intention, we will alter and raise both our personal and world consciousness.
What the initiate is learning to do is to make sounds consciously,
and thus produce a studied and desired result;
to utter words, and be fully aware of the consequence on all planes;
and to create forms and direct energy through sacred sounds,
and thus further the ends of evolution.
(From Initiation, Human and Solar by Alice A. Bailey)
BREATH IS SOUND
In The Silence a Tone is sounded. It goes forth at first as a pulse, then as a beat. The beat becomes a wave, and the wave a breath, the first-form of sound. The breath becomes sound, and sound becomes the Tone that sets creation in motion. The Tone is made audible and visible in a myriad of forms throughout creation.
The world of form arises out of silence and returns to silence. Does a massive oak tree make any noises while growing or decomposing? Does a blade of grass? Does your body make any sounds growing and repairing itself and processing the foods you eat? (Well, perhaps a little noise.) But generally your body’s functions take place in silence. All things grow, atom by atom, molecule by molecule, in absolute silence…that is, to our ears. Their music cannot be heard by us.
LANGUAGE AND THOUGHT ~ MATRIX OF CREATION
In one of his authoritative teachings, Uranda describes a process of manifesting the perfect and whole design of life in the physical body during attunement. When all the vibrational factors are in place, he instructs, at the right moment one may speak the creative command: “Return to the Divine Design.”
What those vibrational factors are relate, in part, to the consciousness of the one speaking the creative command, as well as to the willingness on the part of the recipient to “be made whole.” It also relates to the energetic patterns developing during the healing session. The command may be spoken at just the right moment when those patterns are clear and spiritual substance begins to rise up and touch the transforming substance of love. Love’s command is “Be thou made whole.”
There is an incident recorded in the Gospel of Mark in the New Testament of the Bible when the master Jesus spoke a command to a deaf man’s ears and restored his hearing. Note the sequence of events and the technique he used to gain the man’s response and draw forth his faith. Jesus didn’t need the technique, but the deaf man did in order to draw him out of his disbelief that he would ever hear and speak clearly again and to engender faith and hope in his heart and mind that Jesus could indeed make him whole again.
And they brought unto him one that was deaf and had an impediment in his speech; and they beseeched him to put his hand upon him. And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue; And looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith to him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain. And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it. (Mark 7: 32)
There is much in this passage for healers to think on. Meditating on it could open doors of understanding in the heart. One huge lesson is that technique is largely for the benefit of the client. The healer is simply an adept who works with the “subtle substance of the soul,” to borrow a phrase from B.J. Palmer’s philosophy of Chiropractic, to open the hearts of the sick and lame to the Source of healing within themselves. We are magicians – priests and priestesses, if you will. Our techniques, although an essential element in the healing session, are mere ritual and ceremony. Even Jesus told those whom he healed “Thy faith hath made thee whole.” One can see that humility is an essential quality in the healer’s mind and heart. The Master’s instruction to “tell no man” was more about keeping the healing process contained without dissipating the substance of response than about his concern for the repercussions of his actions in the hostile politico-religious environment of his time.
Prayer is fruitless unless it is backed by a belief that what one is praying for is already given and simply needs to be received with praise and thanksgiving to the Giver. The words of the Lord’s Prayer have been repeated countless times: “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven,” and yet the beauty and harmony of heaven is not reflected in the earth of our physical bodies, nor in the world as it now is. We yet suffer disease, turmoil and death, none of which is the will of the Father in heaven for his crowning creation. For the power of God to move through us to heal the sick, there needs to be a point of focus in the healer through which the radiation of Love can move out and an open-hearted response in the one being offered healing.
BE A FOCUS OF LOVE ~ LET LOVE COMMAND
To speak these words – the words of Uranda or those of the Lord’s Prayer – so as to make manifest the beauty and harmony of the Divine Design in the physical world, one must speak them from a place of assurance. To speak them from a place of assurance one must at least be oriented and at best actually be in the place of origin in Source consciously. In other words, one must be correctly identified with Love. One must know this without wavering or doubt, and because it is one’s experience. In this statement is contained the essence of the cornerstone of this book.
To a great degree, the power of words depends upon the depth from which the words arise. Depth depends upon who is speaking: the outer ego self or the inner authentic Self. If who is speaking the words is the outer ego self, then the words will carry only the finite power of the ego self. Spoken by the inner authentic Self, the words will carry the infinite and omnipotent power of Source.
So it all hinges on how illuminated the individual is who speaks the words. Illumination comes from Source, from the light of divine being within. Our words have power, but it is not just what we say. It is also how we feel, and that is based entirely on who we are when we speak, what spirit is focused and moving in our hearts, how we express it, and the intention behind the words. The intention must be worthy of the words. It must be to offer the greatest possible blessing.
Jonathan Goldman defines intention as “the energy underlying the sound—it is the consciousness we have when making and projecting a sound. Intent is the energy of our thoughts, feelings, emotions and visualizations—the energy of our consciousness that travels on the sound and is perceived energetically by the person receiving (hearing) the sound.”
There are at least two factors, then, that determine the power our words carry and their effectiveness in conveying Love’s command “Be thou made whole.” The first relates to the intention and the place in consciousness from which one speaks Love’s command. That place, as we saw in chapter six in our consideration of cell-replication, is the “Imaginal Realm” where the original image of form is created in the heaven of consciousness – not to be confused with the mental capacity of imagination. Our intention is rightly to allow the perfect image in heaven to manifest on earth. “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”
The second relates to the willingness on the part of the recipient to be made whole, to be wholly who and what one truly is, and the faith and belief at a deep level that one can indeed be made whole. In other words, a willingness to assume the divine incarnate spirit as one’s true identity and to be a consistent expression of love in one’s living, along with an acceptance of the responsibility for one’s physical body and its state at all times. Only on this basis is anyone “made whole” – and being made whole entails much more than simply having one’s illness “cured,” even by prayer that effects a “miracle.”
To be made whole, one must be fully present with body, mind and heart in one place and with one accord. One’s mind cannot be wandering around chasing after thoughts, and one’s heart cannot be dwelling in the past or the future. Alignment of these three capacities of body, mind and heart is essential for the power of God to move through us in a radiant current of love to bring about healing in the physical body, which has no choice but to be fully present in the moment.
The primary requirement, then, is to be identified with love. First one learns to focus a current of love in one’s consciousness with mind and heart fully present with the body in the moment. Then one assumes that focus of love as one’s true identity, saying with assurance, “I Am a focus of love. I AM THAT.” Then the words that I speak carry the power and authority to accomplish my intent: “Return to the Divine Design.”
In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, Wayne Dyer spoke to the Art of Manifestation:
We have to be able to say: “I will attract into my life what I am, not what I want.” And I am capable of attracting all things that the Source is capable of attracting. So, you get what you are rather than what you want. . . . In the Tao Te Ching it’s called our “Original Nature.” Lao Tsu taught that our Original Nature” is reverence for all of life, gentleness, kindles and service toward others.
EXPERIENTIAL:
1. Listen in the Silence
2. Breathe into the Silence
3. Empty out all that you think you are, giving thanks in all things
4. Blow from out of the Silence into your world (Aw)
5. Sound the tone that you hear in the Silence
6. Speak the Command of Love: Let there be Light
7. Assert your truth: “I AM THAT I AM”
Blessings of the Season.
Anthony ~ tpal70@gmail.com
CREDITS: Article was excerpted from my book ATTUNEMENT WITH SACRED SOUND. Cymatics image by John Stuart Reid, CymaScope.com
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