March 15th 1998
"LISTENING TO THE WAVES" PART 2
Flower Essences described in Gurudas' book:
Centuary Agave for extensive stress from hearing or memory loss and strengthening of the inner ear canal, Californian Poppy for middle ear problems affecting the balance, Mallow for loss of hearing in older age.
Australian Flower Essences: Kangoroo Paw can help unaware, insensitive or clumsy people to increase their sensitivity, Bush Gardenia improves aural awareness and increases interest in other people and the will to listen to them attentively.
Gems and their essences:
Picture Agate, Copper, Diamond, Gold, Kunzite, Silver, Amber. Ruby. Platinum, Onyx and Rhodonite are all stones that help with hearing and ear problems.
Rhodonite was used in Lemuria to develop our language. At first it helped people to produce mantras which later became the basis for developing words and sentences.Rhodonite essence can strengthen the inner ear and the bone tissue, it eases ear inflammations.
In his book "life energy" John Diamond describes how every meridian in the body is linked to a particular organ and related to a specific negative emotion. The kidney meridian rules the kidmey, eyes and ears and is related to sexual indecision versus sexual security.
Thus people who are not sure about their choice of partner might unbalance their kidney meridian and weaken their kidneys, eyes and ears.
Thorwald Detlevsen in his book about diseases and their underlying emotions relates the faculty of hearing to being passive and obedient. He thinks that hearing problems usually develop in children when they do not want to hear or in old age when we become more rigid and inflexible. Questions such as "When do I want to listen or not?" and "To whom do I want to listen?" should be raised and "Are the poles eccentricity and humbleness in balance?"
Polish clairvoyant Lilla Bek in her book "To the light" writes about differnt chakras. The throat chakra is related to the ears. When people began to use the left side of their brains they slowly lost the faculty to see auras, nature spirits and to hear nature's subtle musical sounds such as the music of the stars and the sounds of plants, trees and flowers.
Some sounds can bring our ears up and back. In early times, we could manipulate our psyche through the movement of our ears but today there is hardly anybody left who can move their ears at all.
In his book "Healing Sounds, the power of harmonics" Jonathan Goldman writes that our way of listening and our consciousness can be changed by listening to harmonics. He describes hearing as an active experinece.
Alfred Tomatis, French physician, distinguishes between sounds that tire the listener and those that charge the listener. He found that sounds that contain high frequency harmonics {particularly those found in gregorian chants) are very beneficial to listen to.
After the Second Vatican Council, the abbot of a Benedictine monastery felt that the everyday chanting of the monks was not serving any particular purpose. Thus he asked them to stop it. After a while the monks became tired and depressed. The monks were then following a vegetarian diet. A doctor was consulted who put them on a meat and potatoe diet which only made them much worse. When Dr. Tomatis was called and he asked them to go back to their chanting and immediately they recovered again.
Dr. Tomatis explains that the sound of chanting is not produced in our mouth but in the bones. "It is all the bones of the body singing and it is like a vibrator exciting the walls of the church which also sing"
Dr Tomatis only needs four hours of sleep per night. By listening to sounds which are rich in high harmonics he charges himself with energy.
Nowadays more and more people are suffering from hearing a constant high pitched noise. (Tinnitis) Stimulating acupressure points can help in the beginning to ease these symptoms. The addupressure points are situated on the inner end of every eyebrow, on top, middle and bottom of the beginnig line of the ears and all along the outer earlobe and ear. Press for about 1 to 3 minutes, then release the pressure.
In the passage about spiritual healing on the head I have described how you can draw spirals out of both ears with the inbreath and hold them with the outbreath. Then you can draw a second time and imagine that you are throwing the end of the spiral into the sea. That can have an effect of deep relief and relaxation.
More next week.
The next "Energy in Balance" workshop will start on Monday May 11th from 7-9 pm and it will run for 7 consecutive mondays. The cost is £60 for the lot, concessions are £40. More information on 0171-735 4513.