Vibrational medicine

Singing and sound has shaped my life. 

Not unlike how iron filings arrange themselves into intricate patterns when placed on a flat metal plaque while being vibrated with sound-waves. 

This study of wave phenomenon, called Cymatics, was the discovery of German scientist Hans Jenny in the 1930’s and most visually demonstrated the way that sound shapes matter.

We are all being shaped by everything that is vibrating within us and around us and we are all making intricate patterns of our lives whether we mean to or not.

My musical shaping began at a young age singing with my Father in musicals and concerts where he was the feature singer and I sang in the chorus where I felt more comfortable and where I could blend in with other people. 

I was a shy kid and when I was at home and wanted to sing, my shyness led me to the closet to sing with the doors closed.

And when I came out of that closet, I really came out of it.  For the next 20 years or so I would proceed to sing for my bread and butter and travel to various parts of the world singing in concert halls in China, smokey clubs in Finland and the UK, Jazz Kellers in Germany and United States. 

I would become the first White Supreme in history backing up ‘Mary Wilson of the Supremes’ and saw the whole Motown era revisited through backstage eyes. 

I performed a solo in David Foster’s song “Can’t You Feel It” at the 1988 Olympics in Calgary and wrote the World Games theme song 2001. I recorded four albums and wrote three theme songs.

I was shaped by these events and created many intricate patterns within me which I would then spend the next 20 years re-harmonizing and re-turning back to a state of harmony within me from a state of dis-harmony.  

These big events as amazing as they had been had impacted my body and my psyche to the point of exhaustion. They had triggered me back to other impacts in me that I had not yet acknowledged.

My voice had collapsed and so had I and I was at a loss as to how to move forward in my life.

And so I listened and became still.

And a way of healing appeared that was so very simple. I sang one note. One simple note. I felt the ripple of that one note. And then one more. And then a ripple effect of healing energy began to course through my body.

This was shocking and much, much needed. I began to feel myself and my beautiful essence and how it could be touched by just one note.

Over time to my surprise the voice that had been pointed outside of myself for others turned towards me and the healing sound of my own voice began to pour its medicine throughout my body and my being.

I know first hand the healing powers of the voice from the emotional, spiritual and soul levels. I have spent years and years allowing my voice to penetrate and soften me to my core. 

I did not do this because sound and singing brings relief from stress and anxiety, improved concentration and enhanced creativity. 

I did not do this trying to improve my vision or rebalance my brain hemispheres, or increase alpha brainwave activity. 

I did not do this trying to access higher consciousness or move energy through stimulation of the cerebrospinal fluid increasing the kundalini life force. 

All I have been trying to do, is to feel. 

I did this to feel my voice move through my body. I did this to wake me up piece by piece. I did this to feel the beauty of my voice again. I did this to remind me how alive I feel when I sing.

But along the way the other benefits just happened on their own. Feeling was the key to unlock them.

I felt the relief from anxiety and stress. I felt my cerebrospinal fluid moving up my spine. My hemispheres balanced and I felt a deep rest and well-being begin to solidify in me.

As we now know our bodies are composed of mainly water. The naked voice can enter the stillness of this water in you and create a healing ripple affect if you are open to receiving it. 

One drop of a note can bring a deep rest to the body that is profound in its stillness and restorative nature.

To conclude, here is a message from the director of the Association of Sound Healing Nestor Kornblum who says, “through the regular use of sound combined with intention we may begin to vibrate faster at a cellular or molecular level. This what is meant by to raise your frequency.

The higher rate of vibration creates larger spaces between the cells, making us less dense, and preventing negative or intrusive energies from sticking to us easily.

In the 1930’s the medium Edgar Cayce predicted that sound would be the medicine of the future. That future is now. So let’s all raise our vibration to harmonize with the energies of this New Millennium!”