The Concept of Resonance

Dear Harmonic Self,

The basic principle of healing with sound is the concept of resonance (the vibratory frequency of an object.) The entire Universe is in a state of vibration. This includes us human beings. Every organ, cell, bone, tissue and liquid of the body, and also the electromagnetic fields which surround the body (our aura), has a healthy vibratory frequency. If we are not resonating with some part of ourselves or of our surroundings, we become dissonant and therefore unhealthy. Our naturally healthy frequency becomes a frequency that vibrates without harmony, creating illness.

Through the use of sound, and particularly our own voice, we can project the correct resonant frequency toward and into, any unhealthy part of ourselves, thus returning it to its normal frequency, and resulting in healing. This occurs through sympathetic resonance when one vibrating object influences another vibrating, or even stationary, object, causing changes in its vibratory rate. An extreme, and destructive, example is a singer causing glass to shatter.

Therefore, if we wish to effect a change within ourselves or our environment, on either the physical or non-physical plane, we identify the sound that corresponds to what we are observing as needing to change, and direct the sound at the part in question. Fortunately, we don't have to overthink this as we have the HU, which contains all sounds. Thus there is immense value in chanting both for our spiritual and physical wellbeing.

Sound has the capacity to change form at the physical and at the non-physical (spiritual) levels. And also on all these levels simultaneously. Our focus is to learn how to use sound to establish (or re-establish) a healthy vibration in all parts of our body and to also improve and raise the vibration in the environment in which we live and work. In this way we may positively influence ourselves, our friends, and the planet into moving into a higher consciousness and a healthier physical form.

Humming creates an immediate healing effect on our whole body. It's one of the fastest, most effective de-stressors we can use. And it’s free and portable. Humming slows down our breathing rate, which automatically slows our heart rate and calms our brain waves. The moment we begin to hum, we are giving ourself a sonic massage, inside and out, and our brain starts releasing happiness-producing endorphins.

In music, a fundamental tone is struck and from that emerges a series of overtones that we can say are unstruck. At this point we enter the deeply esoteric - the connection between the harmonic overtones (the unstruck melodies) and the dimensions of consciousness. The fundamental frequency is the starting point, followed by the vibration of finer frequencies that are called overtones and that are above that fundamental frequency. They're involved in how we hear the fundamental frequency because they constitute the tone color or timbre.

A gong, for example, can emit a wide spectrum of these overtones, perhaps one hundred of them. The overtones that are most clearly audible are the lower ones because they have the greatest amplitude. As our mind quiets and as we become more fully aware of these overtones, we are able to perceive the weaker overtones. As we listen, in a more fine tuned way, there is more presence in our awareness, and we start to let go of the lower levels of thinking, the so-called "monkey-mind" that creates our habitual reality when we are not directing it.

This is why spiritual practice is important, to assist us disconnect from the consensual reality—what our minds agree is "real"—and go into the transcendental reality which connects us to to God and the Traveler. It's a different realm of reality that we awaken to, and we can use sound to attune and enter that realm.

The mind quiets down when we are having an experience with finer and higher overtones. As we go higher, we're more able to notice the very high and subtle overtones that are non-existent to the untrained ear, and that are masked by the louder, lower overtones. As we become aware of the finer and finer overtones, it's like we are going through an alchemical transformation.

The real alchemy isn't about the literal changing of heavy metals into gold, but it's about using spiritual practice to sculpt the self, to fine-tune our human awareness and consciousness so that it becomes more refined and more subtle.

Inherent to transcendence and spirituality, is us becoming more present, aware, resonant, and therefore more empathetic, loving and kind. We become aware of what's always been here, but weren't aware of - both a world within a world, and a world outside our world - and we go beyond the mundane and reach into the higher realms Spirit.

The overtones guide us to a more refined listening and attunement to the Sound Current of God. They also guide us to our heart, to a calm that can be accessed at any time when we attune to our inner note, our inner music which plays harmoniously and continuously within our being.