This is a way of using music as a sound healing tool.
It is simple, fast, and very effective, so please read on…
The sound you use for this exercise will be captured by the outer ear. It will then be funnelled into the middle ear where it will vibrate some very small bones. These bones amplify the sound and pass it on to the inner ear. This part of the ear is called the cochlea, and it is lined with small hairs which are all tuned to a different frequency. So the sound locates the hairs that match its frequency, making them vibrate, and the cochlea then coverts the mechanical energy of all the vibrations into electrical energy which it is then transmitted it to the brain.
It’s completely astonishing, and you can use this explanation to enhance your sonic experience by imagining the sound from your piece of music is doing all this.
Sonic Massage Exercise
- Choose the piece of music you want to work with, making sure it is a piece you really like to listen to, and set your intention. This will ensure that, when you hear the sound, it has the desired effect.
- Lay down, settle into a comfortable position, and take a moment to prepare to focus on the music you have chosen.
- Then all you have to do is listen to it, imagining the sound waves moving through your ears as described above.
- And then imagine all those little electrical impulses are waves of sonic energy, moving through your ears into your head, flooding it with relaxing warmth.
- And, as you continue to listen, feel your head relaxing, your brow softening, your jaw letting go of tension and allow yourself to start breathing in time with the music. Allow yourself to become the music.
- And, with each deep, relaxing breath, be aware of the way the sound is starting to vibrate, gently massaging your neck, shoulders, arms. Then, with a nothing more than a focused thought, direct it down to all thirty-three vertebrae in your spine.
- After a while, breathe all the energy your piece of music is generating into the lower half of your body. Start by filling your pelvis and let it spread out, eventually flowing down your legs to your thighs, knees, calves and ankles.
- Then, direct all the relaxing pulses of sonic energy to the soles of your feet and let them vibrate back up through your body.
- Lastly, leave your body behind and just focus on the music. Surrender to the beat and tone and the flow of the notes becoming fully aware of the way the music is filling your head. It will feel as if the sonic energy from the sound is flooding into your mind, clearing it of everything. Every thought. Every feeling. And it will leave you feeling calm and unbelievably relaxed.
- Continue for as long as you want to, but when you are finished make sure you come fully back into your body, and ground firmly as your awareness narrows back to your surroundings.
Hope you enjoy doing it!
Bright Blessings!
Gailx