Ways to Use Sound and Its Principles for Healing

There are several ways to use sound, and the various principles of sound, to aid the healing process for yourself and others. Consider the following ideas, and add any additional ideas of your own.

1. Create an atmosphere. Background music that

is soft and relaxing allows a person to become more

receptive to healing energies from an outside

source, and gives greater freedom to interior energy

sources to be more active and effective.

2. When giving a spiritual healing treatment to yourself

or another person, let there be a sense of

rhythm in your consciousness. Poetry and

music have cadence or meter. Fixing a

cadence in your mind somehow adds to the

forceful rhythm of the healing energies that pass

through you

For a moment, feel your own pulse. Count it aloud, 1-2-3-4, 1-2-3-4. Then change the cadence and count 1-2-3, 1-2-3. You may notice that the 1-2-3 count (equivalent to "three quarter time" in music) creates a better sense of "flow". I suggest a 1-2-3 cadence (think of the Triune God) as the best rhythm for healing.

3. Visualize sound waves. For a moment, mentally

visualize an ocean wave approaching the shore.

Count 1-2-3 as it does so. Then as the next

wave arrives, count 1-2-3 again. It is often helpful

to visualize healing energies approaching you (or

proceeding from you to another person) in rhythmic

waves.

4. Put music in your mind. Letting your mind dwell

often on the kind of music which you feel is

conducive to healing, sets up an inner receptivity

to rhythm and harmony, requisites for healing

relationships between you and the higher

dimensions---and with any person to whom you

directing healing.

5. Listen with your whole body. Our auditory system

isn't your sole "hearing" mechanism. Every atom

of your being "hears" within its own vibratory core.

You listen with the entire surface of your body and

with all the interior elements as well.

Lie down. Become totally relaxed and quiet. Listen to your favorite music. Then let your consciousness drift downward from your head center and slowly pass through your entire body. Listen for a moment in turn with your heart, your solar plexus, your legs. Then with your whole body. Note how your hearing seems expanded to include a greater range and quality of tone. Try to have this same sense of completeness and oneness when engaging in any spiritual healing activity.

6. Resonate. Feel within yourself a harmonious

vibrational response to the music you're hearing.

Does your entire body take on the feeling

characteristics of that music? If so, you're

resonating with it.

Next, try to resonate with the non-audible sound of divine healing energy. Do this for a moment before directing healing to yourself or another.