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Dedicated to helping you achieve a higher state of consciousness we are sharing our knowledge and experiences. Spiritual transformation that arrives at emotional wellness has a knowledge component. Mountain Rose Music has gathered knowledge and experience through group healing sessions, training and intentful spiritual growth.
Choose any of the links below to begin or continue your quest for a higher state of consciousness. Please send us your comments or add to increase the extent of knowledge we share so many can have an opportunity for a higher state of consciousness.
- What is Sound Healing?
- Toning Circle
- What is Toning?
- How Will Toning Affect Me?
- Can Healing Sound Cure Illness?
- The Throat Chakra
What is Sound Healing?
Healing has to do with bringing balance to the body, mind and spirit. It is important to understand that there is a difference between healing and curing. Healing brings balance to a person even if it does not cure a disease. Also, the physical body is naturally equipped for healing.
Meditating inside the Transmutation
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Sound is one of the most powerful ways of creating balance. It works holistically at physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels.
At the physical level, music and sound has well-documented effects on the body. Much of this response is based on the rhythm or the beat of the sound. Your heart will match the beat of the music, even if you aren’t consciously listening to it. You just have to be within range of the sound. When you affect the heart, you also affect your rate of breathing and brain waves. When you listen to sounds that induce the relaxation response, (ie. a slower heartbeat, breathing rate and creating more brain waves within the alpha range) your immune system is enhanced. This allows the body to heal itself more efficiently.
At the emotional level, sound can be helpful in releasing emotional blocks that are stuck in the body. Most massage therapists are familiar with this kind of emotional release when working on the muscles. Sound can also do this. One of the most effective ways is to ask your body what the sound of this blocked energy is. Then use your own voice to vocalize the sound of this block to release it.
At the mental level, technology has been developed to create CDs and sounds that can stimulate very specific brain wave responses in the brain. These in turn, affect the body. Also, the mind loves patterns. It can be distracted and calmed by repeated patterns or excited by music that keeps changing the patterns.
At the spiritual level, sound brings balance to the energetic connections between spirit and the mind, body and emotions. Chanting is one way to do this. Another way is to use your voice to affect the frequencies in the energy bodies. Also, there are many tools that create sounds that assist in spiritual growth.
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Lake Louise Toning Circle
Toning Circle
The purpose of a toning circle is to provide a way for people to get together to use sound to assist others and the earth in healing. Each participant in the toning group also benefits from the healing sound. Everyone must be welcome to attend.
During the toning, each member of the group follows his or her own intuition in creating the sounds they feel will support the healing needed. The vocal sounds we make are usually based on vowel sounds. Singing crystal and Tibetan bowls and a variety of healing sound tools are good for people to use to support the toning.
Mountain Rose Music meets twice a month for toning circles. See our Calendar for times and places.
Healing requests can be to or mailed to Sharon Carne, Mountain Rose Music, P.O. Box 68217, Crowfoot RPO, Calgary, AB T3G 3N8.
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What is Toning?
Vocal Toning is the natural healing voice of the body. It comes from the body rather than the mind. We make these sounds all the time. We just don’t call it toning. A sigh is one of the body’s natural ways to release negative energy or pent up emotion it no longer wants to hang on to. A sigh is more socially acceptable in Western society than moans and groans for example, which are often discouraged. These are all natural healing sounds of the body to help bring it back into tune.
It has recently been discovered that a cat purrs as much to heal itself (or it’s owner) as it does when it enjoys attention. If you have ever held a cat when it is purring you know how much the purring vibrates its body and yours while you hold it. The sound of your voice does the same with your body.
Another natural sound we use is aahhhhh. “Aahhh, isn’t that cute.” “Aahhh what a beautiful sight or feeling.” All these aahhhs tune and tone your heart. Aahhh is a heart sound.
When we express a sound in a singing voice, we put more energy behind the sound. This energy is focused by our conscious intent. It is my belief that sound, especially our own sound, is a carrier wave for consciousness.
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The following quotes are from the book “Toning” by Laurel Elizabeth Keyes and provide some interesting information about the body and sound.
“The purpose of all toning is to restore the vibratory pattern of the body to its perfect electro-magnetic field, so that it will function in harmony with itself. . . (p. 10)”
“We create with words and sound. Almost all our actions and reactions result from words. It is generally accepted that we cannot think without words, or symbols, and that our thinking is limited to them. Words are tools. It is important to have a good selection at our command.”
“Beneath these words are the vibrations of the tone upon which they travel. Tone is the underlying force operating in our lives. To understand this, enhances our ability to create what we wish and to give form and substance to the ideas in our minds.
Sound is the meeting place of the abstract and manifested idea… (p.10)”
“Sonic oscillation, when applied to the human body, will effect a micromassage of tissues and cells which effect a balance and improve blood circulation, metabolism, and the pulsing of the nervous system and endocrine glands.” All Union Research Institute, USSR. (p. 99)”
“Experimentation indicates that human beings, as all objects, are radiating sound waves, therefore their fields are sonic fields. Each individual has his own different pattern, or collection of tones just as each individual has a unique shape. We can see from this that harmony is the secret of perfect health. Within the human body any deviation from this harmony would result in ill health. This harmony of sound will only exist within the body providing that each molecule within the body plays its part in the whole. In any deviation, if the molecule is moved or displaced in any way, the general theme of the body’s harmonics will be upset. We can easily see that each organ will have its own sonic (or sound) field.” Dr. Peter Guy Manners. (p. 99-100)”
One thing that carries every frequency of your body is your voice. To learn more refer to my article, “Tuning your Body with Your Voice” for how your voice can be used to bring harmony to your body.
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How Will Toning Affect Me?
Toning is the natural voice of the body. As you allow your body to express sound without interference from the mind (and this is a journey in itself) your body knows instinctively what sounds will bring you into balance. This can happen quickly or over a period of time. Toning is a way of bringing everything into tune.
Jonathan Goldman in his book “Healing Sound” refers to the body as an orchestra. If one violinist begins to play the wrong notes, the whole orchestra sounds out of tune. You can surgically eliminate this violinist and the rest of the orchestra will again play in tune. What if you just give this one violinist the correct notes to play? Wouldn’t this bring the orchestra back into tune?
As a form of meditation toning also can create the same physical benefits of meditation;
- Reduction of stress,
- calm the mind,
- lower the blood pressure,
- improve concentration,
- help fight disease,
- help in healing,
- enhance the immune system,
- decrease muscle tension,
- learn to let go of things that bother you,
- improve your ability to control thoughts.
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Can Healing Sound Cure Illness?
There is a difference between curing illness and healing the underlying cause. Common sense and awareness is also necessary here. If you are injured in an accident, go to the hospital or your doctor.
Sometimes, easing the symptoms of an illness can allow a person the opportunity to find the underlying cause of the illness. Each situation is going to be different and we have the advantage (or disadvantage) of many different choices in treatment. Know your body. Even better, know yourself, physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually.
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The Throat Chakra
I have noticed in teaching my workshops how many people are beginning to open their throat chakra and deal with some of the issues and opportunities for spiritual growth it presents. The throat chakra represents how we communicate our truth, our integrity, our will and will-power, how we make our choices and their consequences, even understanding the consequences of our thoughts and beliefs. It is also the home of some of our greatest fears and the place of surrender from personal will to divine will. Because it is the home of surrender, it is also the home of control. It’s quite a mouthful, isn’t it?
One of the things I like about Carolyn Myss’ book, “The Anatomy of the Spirit,” is how she relates the issues and qualities of each chakra to how our community of human beings is evolving. Even in the midst of the chaos surrounding us right now, have you noticed how many people have been opening their hearts and becoming more compassionate? Remember the outpouring of compassion for the victims of the tragedy of the Tsunami a few years ago? Many of us have been opening our hearts and humanity as a whole is beginning to open its heart chakra. As more of us begin to open our throat chakra we affect the next step of our evolution as a group.
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