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Vocal Toning as a Universal Language
Imagine for a moment the cells that comprise your body. Use your mind's eye to see and sense them, comprising your many bones, organs, muscles, and blood. Each cell has it's own vibration, it's own unique signature. And each system has it's own collective vibration as well. As everything within you vibrates, a symphony of sound is created.
Now imagine that one little cell in your finger suddenly becomes aware. It recognizes itself, it hears the music created by all the other nearby tissues, and then, in a miraculous moment, it sees a heart cell across the gap beyond space and time. It sees that little heart cell, and it is in awe and in love. It listens to the rhythm of the heart cell enraptured. It's still doing it's little finger cell job. But now, it knows that there is more to life than it realized.
Now imagine that the little heart cell feels the love coming from the finger cell and that that love is enough to awaken that heart cell. And across the great divide of time and space, the heart cell witnesses the finger cell. They see each other in a moment...across a crowded body full of cells just doing their jobs. They don't know each others' language. But they begin to play with one another. The finger cell vibrates "ta da" and the heart cell answers "ba dump". Slowly, a conversation develops.
As this communication becomes more musical, more and more cells begin to awaken within this same body. And soon, cells in the toes are making beautiful music with cells in the liver. Then cells in the kidneys compose a delightful melody with cells in the lungs and blood. Soon, the body is an orchestration of awareness and aliveness. There is a communication happening, an exchange, an honoring. What would that feel like? Can you imagine the energy, the excitement, the joy?
We humans are little cells in the much larger system of Humanity. We are even smaller cells in the system of the Earth. But if we can learn to see across time and space and our limited, known existence, we too can see other parts of ourselves for the first time. We too can begin to communicate musically with all that is, enhancing not only our own awareness but making it easier for others to awaken as well.
The practice of toning is an opportunity to communicate across time and space and left brain knowing. It is our chance to send out musical messages, vibrational greetings, to the many, many parts of ourselves of which we are only partly aware...if we are aware at all. But if we are not, toning will make us so. When we tone, we learn to listen and pay attention. And we learn to contribute uniquely, with awareness, to the greater whole. This is a communication beyond words and languages and the division that these create. It is universal.
Now imagine that one little cell in your finger suddenly becomes aware. It recognizes itself, it hears the music created by all the other nearby tissues, and then, in a miraculous moment, it sees a heart cell across the gap beyond space and time. It sees that little heart cell, and it is in awe and in love. It listens to the rhythm of the heart cell enraptured. It's still doing it's little finger cell job. But now, it knows that there is more to life than it realized.
Now imagine that the little heart cell feels the love coming from the finger cell and that that love is enough to awaken that heart cell. And across the great divide of time and space, the heart cell witnesses the finger cell. They see each other in a moment...across a crowded body full of cells just doing their jobs. They don't know each others' language. But they begin to play with one another. The finger cell vibrates "ta da" and the heart cell answers "ba dump". Slowly, a conversation develops.
As this communication becomes more musical, more and more cells begin to awaken within this same body. And soon, cells in the toes are making beautiful music with cells in the liver. Then cells in the kidneys compose a delightful melody with cells in the lungs and blood. Soon, the body is an orchestration of awareness and aliveness. There is a communication happening, an exchange, an honoring. What would that feel like? Can you imagine the energy, the excitement, the joy?
We humans are little cells in the much larger system of Humanity. We are even smaller cells in the system of the Earth. But if we can learn to see across time and space and our limited, known existence, we too can see other parts of ourselves for the first time. We too can begin to communicate musically with all that is, enhancing not only our own awareness but making it easier for others to awaken as well.
The practice of toning is an opportunity to communicate across time and space and left brain knowing. It is our chance to send out musical messages, vibrational greetings, to the many, many parts of ourselves of which we are only partly aware...if we are aware at all. But if we are not, toning will make us so. When we tone, we learn to listen and pay attention. And we learn to contribute uniquely, with awareness, to the greater whole. This is a communication beyond words and languages and the division that these create. It is universal.
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