Did you know the sigh is a healing sound? Do you realize you usually make that sound when you are feeling overwhelmed and intuitively you seek to release emotional stagnation/stress and induce release/relaxation? Sounds have been used for a variety of purposes for millennia. Mankind has used sounds to create/effect different mental states. For different forms of emotional expression we have used sounds for a variety of reasons among them empowerment and worship, wonder and sadness, pleasure and pain, anger and healing.
It is the sounds of healing that we are discussing today or specifically the six basic healing sounds used in traditional qi-gong. used for treating muscular injuries and what the Chinese call the five yin and five yang organs or the heart, lungs, liver, kidneys, spleen, the stomach, large and small intestine, and the gall and urinary bladder. The sounds all affect the sympathetic and Para-sympathetic nervous systems to some degree. Specific situations will release different emotional sounds because, according to traditional Chinese medicine practitioners, the emotions are stored as tone resonances in the different chambers of the five yin organs .
Under the guidance of a certified instructor, the traditional preparation is completed and the contraindications are taught, the sounds are then used to vibrate the organs and dispel the concentrations of “old emotions”; old grief in the lungs, past anxiety in the heart , old fears in the kidneys, old worries in the spleen and anger in the liver. In some cases, these emotions are stored in the cavities around the various organs. If left to themselves these emotions over time gradually solidify and poison the body/mind systems and create various chronic health challenges.
After regular use of the toning therapy with the sounds the cavities of these particular channels will be purged and cleansed of stagnant or pathogenic Qi (life-force). Because these sounds have been documented use for over a thousand years, it has proven itself for emotional purging and as an effective healthcare exercise and was synthesized at a time when there were no forms psychiatric intervention. This form of therapeutic qi-gong therapy should never replace modern counseling techniques but should complement them. For more information, please contact the Vero Beach Qi-gong society.
