Sound / Vibration Healing
About the Pythagoreans
The Pythagoreans evolved their philosophy from the science of numbers and numerical relationships. Pythagoras was one of the initial researchers into the science of sound in the western world. He demonstrated the mathematical basis of acoustic phenomena, and it is believed that he gave us the diatonic scale.
Pythagoras is said to have revealed the musical and numerical nature of our universe within a figure known as the Tetraktys, whose structure reveals the intervals of the octave and its divisions.
This information was utilized to create what the Pythagoreans called "musical medicine", which were songs accompanied by an ancient Grecian instrument known as the lyre.
The lyre was considered to be the mystical symbol representing the human constitution. The body of the lyre represented our physical form. The strings represented our nerves or nervous system. The musician himself represented the spirit. The Pythagoreans were known for their abilities to cure many physical, psychological and spiritual ailments through the use of this special music.
The Pythagorean Tuning Forks and BioSonic Repatterning
BioSonic Repatterning with Pythagorean tuning forks, developed by John Beaulieu, N.D., Ph.D., is a natural method of healing using tuning forks based on the sonic ratios inherent in nature. When we tap the tuning forks, we produce pure musical intervals based on precise mathematical proportions known as the Pythagorean tunings. When we listen to these intervals we create an archetypal resonance resulting in a physical and psychic repatterning of our mind, body and spirit. This takes place on a physical level within the inner ear by stimulation of the cochlea and semi-circular canals. When we listen to the sound of the tuning forks our nervous system attunes to the pitch in much the same way as when we find a pitch for a choir, or tune a piano. The vestivular system via the semi-circular canals reproportions our body through a process of cellular memory based on the natural ratios of the tuning forks. During the listening process our physical body will actually reposture itself to hold the proportion and sound correctly.
To understand this process remember a time when you were in a quiet place or just before going to sleep. During this time you may have heard a high pitched sound in your head. This is the sound of your nervous system. When you are under stress this sound gets louder and sometimes can become a ringing in your ears. For most of us this sound is subtle and we only hear it when we focus on it. Tuning into the sound of your nervous system is a meditation:
Find a quiet place, sit or lay down, close your eyes and focus your awareness on the sounds inside your head. Listen for the high sound.
When you listen closely you will discover that sound consists of two distinct pitches. These pitches originate from your left and right brain hemispheres. These pitches change in frequency, volume and pitch depending on your state of consciousness.
The intervals of the Solar Harmonic Spectrum tuning forks create pure sounds and overtones to help you relax and center yourself. Each interval relates to a different state of consciousness and body posture. for example, if you want to be more fiery you could work with the intervals of C & E or C & A. If you want to be more watery, you could work with the intervals of C & D or C & B. You can creatively combine your intervals based on the five element theory of Ether, Air, Fire, Water and Earth to create a sound healing concert. More is explained in Dr. Beaulieu's book: Music and Sound in the Healing Arts.
The tuning forks are tools to help you develop and refine your sonic abilities. Simply tap the tuning forks gently on a semi-hard surface like a stack of paper or book, bring them to your ears and listen to the sound. When you tap two or more forks together, the sound created is an interval. As you listen to the two different tones your body will naturally adjust itself and come into balance, making the two sounds into one. You can hum and let your voice resonate with the sound of the interval. This humming creates a sonic anchor.
With practice you will be able to sonically "think" and interval and your nervous system will respond. When this happens your ears rather than your eyes will dominate your perception. over a period of time you will naturally begin "seeing" and feeling intervals everywhere in your life. You will be able to know through visual harmonic perception what interval a person is tuned into. Then you can help others align themselves. When they are repatterned to the interval you will feel a resonance in your body similar to that of humming with the tuning forks.
John Beaulieu, N.D., Ph.D.
©1996, John Beaulieu, All rights reserved.
BioSonic RepatterningTM is a branch of Energy Medicine that uses music and
sound modalities ie: tuning forks, voice energetics, toning, mantras and
chanting,
music listening, and improvisation for healing. BioSonic
Repatterning also uses the creative art "Elixer" modalities of dance
and
movement, color and light,
crystals and gems, flower essences, and dowsing.
The principles of BioSonics are used to interface with and enhance cranial
sacral balancing, communication and counseling, dream work, relationships,
nutrition, and consciousness exploration.
BioSonic means LifeSound, and BioSonic Repatterning is the process of tuning
into and aligning our natural rhythms with our LifeSound. All life, from a
BioSonic perspective, is vibrational. The fundamental organizing and
sustaining factor of our being is Sound, with a capital S. Our fundamental
Sound of life has been referred to by many names; Our Fundamental Tone, Our
Sound, Our Soul, The Great Tide, and Our Ultrasonic Core.
Our fundamental Sound, like a vibrating string, divides again and again
creating many harmonics. The natural rhythms and structure of our body are
harmonics of our fundamental Sound. Through tuning into and listening to our
body rhythms i.e.: respiratory rhythms, craniosacral rhythms, cardiac
rhythms, and organ rhythms, we can access their source in a similar way a
dancer moves through different musical rhythms to their underlying beat.
The journey from a harmonic life rhythm to our fundamental Sound is a process
of unwinding through different vibrational states of dissonance and
resonance. These states manifest to the practitioner as a series of images,
thoughts, emotions, tissue responses and physical sensations. The guiding
principle is a felt body sense of body resonance, stillness, and dissonance.
Our life can be conceptualized as a non-linear multi-dimensional journey of
simultaneous destination. Our bodies and minds are bundles of energy
flowing, leaping, falling, and rising into different states of vibration. Up
and down, backwards and forwards, higher and lower, faster and slower, are
agreed upon reference points between travelers. They have no other value.
Developing a "sonic" understanding of the relationship between our
inner self
and external events at any possible reference is the goal of BioSonic
Repatterning. When that understanding leads to an experience of resonance
between internal and external realities than all reference points are
transcended.
The main teaching of BioSonic Repatterning is based our ability to be still
and listen with awareness. Listening is seen as a multi-sensory process
involving our whole being. Through aware listening we can gather information
and access the need for different BioSonic healing interventions. For
example a man may say to his wife, "Do you want to go to the movies
tonight."
From a BioSonic perspective we are interested in the man's body movement,
pitch, volume, and speed of his voice, and the felt sense of pulsation
surrounding the communication. The content becomes secondary to the
vibrational environment. The area of BioSonics which deals with the sonic and
rhythmic aspects of inter and intra personal communication is called voice
energetics.
Another important area of BioSonic Repatterning is understanding our posture
as a Sacred Geometric readout of our harmonic patterns and Fundamental Sound.
"Seeing" our body as Sound allows us to tune into different
intervals and
their effect, through tuning forks, on body structure. When our body
structure comes into alignment with the five star pattern via tuning forks
and/or bodywork alignment, the result is increased life energy through deep
resonance.
A third area of BioSonic Repatterning is sound and consciousness exploration
through the integration of New Music and Healing. Through the use of
different vocal/toning sounds,
tuning fork, and music we seek to challenge
and expand ourselves. Every sound is energy and has the capacity, when used
in the right way, to become healing. A dandelion is a weed in some yards, a
blood cleanser to herbalists, and food for a great salad to others. Sounds
can be dissonant and ugly to one person and at the same time beautiful and
healing to another.
In summary BioSonic Repatterning looks for the Sound and Silence giving rise
to all of creation. Everything is included; all sounds. Through aware
listening we enter into a sound and begin our spiral journey to its source:
silence. Being with and embodying silence we discover the unknowable and the
unperceivable; still point: the source of all healing. Listen.
New Music, New Sound
by John Beaulieu, N.D., Ph.D., Article is from his book "Music and Sound in the Healing Arts."
The healing arts, like the musical arts, are undergoing a revolution. Just as there is a new music, there is a new healing. Speaking of the new healing, Dr. Larry Dossey states:
"...The spacetime view of healing and disease tells us that a vital part of the goal of every therapist is to help the client toward a reordering of his world view. We must help him realize that he is a process in spacetime, not an isolated entity who is fragmented from the world of the healthy and who is adrift in flowing time, moving slowly toward extermination. To the extent that we accomplish this task, we are healers."(1)
For the new healers, the accomplishment of this task is through consciousness. In traditional medicine the focus of health care is on the physical body. Consciousness is no longer accepted.
"Everything is alive. There is nothing in principle, therefore, preventing the use of consciousness as a primary form of therapeutic intervention at all levels of matter - from the subatomic particles through molecules, cells, tissues, organ systems, etc."(2)
The assumption of this article is that new music is opening the doors to a new way of being - that the experience of listening to new music can alter our world view and change our consciousness and thereby transmute our physical .... And furthermore, that this transmutation is necessary for our next step in evolution, as well as living completely in our current reality.
Defining new music is elusive because the listener is the music. When the listener is "in self" and willing to go everywhere, without hesitation, totally involves and multi-dimensional without regard to any preconceived form (including his physical body) then it would be fair to say that all music is new music.
New music by way of the composer, composition, and performance challenges the listener to maintain his sense of self while being involved in a nonlinear multi-dimensional event.
New music is teaching and preparing us for a universe described by Einstein as "an aggregate of non-simultaneous and only partially overlapping transformational events." John Cage expresses it this way in his Experimental Music Doctrine:
"Urgent, unique, uninformed about history and theory, beyond the imagination, central to a sphere without surface, becoming is unimpeded energetically broadcast. There is no escape from its action. It does not exist as one of a series of discrete steps, but as a transmission in all directions from the field's center. It is inextricably synchronous with all other sounds, not-sound, which latter, received by other sets that the ear, operate in the same manner."(3)
Entering new music with our ears - listening - we seek harmony. Not harmony in the tonal sense, but harmony in the original meaning of the word, "to fit together." We learn to let ourselves fit with and resonate with the sounds. Dissonance means not fitting. Dissonance is an inability to be flexible. It is the root of all disease. The physicist David Bohm speaks of health as the essence of nonobstructed, indivisible, flowing movement of the self's internal harmony transcribed into the external world. When the internal and external are at odds with each other - dissonant - the result is disease or a break in harmony. In tonal music the appreciator sought the fundamental in the music as a metaphor of spiritual unity, the ending of a journey. In new music one seeks the fundamental in one's self; the return to the fundamental is anywhere, anytime, and any direction, because the fundamental is everywhere and here.
"Location and times - what is it in me that meets them all, whenever and wherever, and makes me at home? (Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass)
"Wherever we are, whatever we hear is mostly noise. When we ignore it, it disturbs us. When we listen to it, we find it fascinating. The sound of a truck at fifty miles per hour. Static between the stations. Rain."(4)
This is perhaps the most challenging aspect of new music, that the listener must not only appreciate the sound but give him or herself to the sound. John Cage says that sound:
"...does not view itself as thought, as ought, as needed another sound for its elucidation, as etc.; it has no time for any consideration - it is occupied with the performance of its characteristics: before it has died away it must have made perfectly exact its frequency, its loudness, its length, its overtone structure, the precise morphology of these and of itself."(5)
Webster's defines healing as "to make sound" It might be more accurate if we were to say "to become sound."
Look around! We live in the age of the "nuclear concert," the sound of which will instantly transmute us into light. Are we prepared to listen?' I am using nuclear weapons as a very real metaphor for the challenge that faces each of us. This challenge is not so much to do away with the nuclear weapons but to transform ourselves to a level of being equivalent to the power of nuclear reality. Our current form, both physical and mental, is inadequate to understand or even cope with the awesomeness around us. We have to incubate a new form, perhaps a formless reforming form. For new music composers, structuring the formless is the challenge of our time. To create a disappearing structure which captivates the mind to witness beyond itself; to be with the unknown, to merge with the unknown, to become the unknown. We must be willing to face our own death in order to live in a new way.
Along the same lines, Stockhausen has said that he is writing music, not for the apocalypse, but for the post-apocalypse, for the time of reintegration when people would have to be picking up the pieces. Speaking of his composition "Hymmen" as a physical-psychic therapy he talks of catastrophes to come and their relationship to increased consciousness. He sees his music as being on the other side of death, on the other side of these coming catastrophes.
"Well, I hear it this way. You see, becoming conscious is already being on the other side. You see clearly where we are up to and then death isn't frightening any more. Also a collective death is large groups. Because you feel that our destiny is a universal destiny and not only a terrestrial one..." (6)
New healing views matter as consciousness; therefore the assumption that our physical bodies are solid material which eventually decays and dies is no longer valid.
"All matter belongs to the implicate (internal) order where everything is alive. What we call death is an abstractions."
Healing is not always comfortable. New-music composers have been severely and unjustly criticized by the traditional medical establishment as well as tonal-classicists. David Tame in his book "The Secret Power of Music - The Transformation of Self and Society Through Musical Energy" devotes a whole chapter to criticizing new music composers for their lack of consciousness:
"Would the reader allow me here to offer an opinion? No proof, no scientific discussion about the pros and cons of the conviction if I find myself with - just a simple gut reaction; that there is something distinctly dangerous to the consciousness in such music (new music) as this. Dangerous in perhaps surprisingly tangible and immediate ways. It is as though there exists a chasm within each of these compositions: a dark, yawning crevasse which, if we allow it to , will gladly swallow up whatever portion of our mind we offer it by the directing of our attention towards it." (8)
Tame is essentially a man unwilling to change, to let go of his form. A man who does not realize that the very music that he dislikes is challenging him to grow - to become a new person. His is uncomfortable with his music, so he therefore assumes that it has a negative effect on individuals and societies. He wants to go back to a time before the bomb, he wants to "melt" listening to Beethoven. He wants to be spared the pain of transformation. He wants to remain unconscious. Is he that different from you and me?
New music is not a passive experience; it is a way of being. In the words of Boulez:
"Nothing is based on the 'masterpiece,' on the closed cycle, on passive contemplation, on purely aesthetic enjoyment. Music is a way of being in the world, it becomes an integral part of existence, is inseparably connected with it; it is an ethical category, no longer merely an aesthetic one."(9)
In summary, new music is bringing forth necessary changes in our self on both physical and mental levels to be able to live harmoniously in our times and in times to come. We need to listen to and be in touch with the music of our times. New-music composers and musicians need to serve in a very in a very humble way. The days of Beethoven-like power are over. We have to work for and campaign for our audiences - not just for ourselves but for our fellow composers and ultimately for the transformation necessary for a leap in evolution.
A new world is only a new mind!
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