Sound is a wave that somehow manages to carry along with it – conscious intent.
My experience of this happened in a totally unexpected way. It started innocently with an exercise in managing stage fright with a few adult classical guitar students and myself. Stage fright usually stems from the critical voice of the mind. In order to silence or distract this part of the mind, the exercise simply consisted of concentrating on a colour while performing the piece of music. We found that this worked pretty well in silencing the critical voice of the mind.
So I arranged for small informal performances in coffee shops and art galleries where we could all practice this technique of imagining a colour while performing.
What I didn’t expect was that people would get the colour.
I’ll never forget what a woman said to me following one of my full recital performances during this time. I would choose one piece on the program to practice imagining the colour. She came up to me afterwards, pointed to that same piece on the program and said, “Sharon, this piece was so beautiful. It made me imagine I was sitting by the ocean. The colour of the water was so blue.”
I was flabbergasted! What is it about sound that makes it a carrier wave for thought and/or intention?
My curiosity was ignited. Off I went to the library and the bookstore and attended workshops and trainings. That journey started about 20 years ago.
What I learned is that sound is indeed a powerful carrier wave for thought and intention. It can create a powerful effect. And it does it whether we are aware of it or not.
The following words woke me up in the middle of the night many years ago before I was to guide a group of people through a toning exercise at a trade fair in BC.
They filled my mind until I got up and wrote them down. They have touched many hearts since then.
Sound is the energy of creation.
We are given the energy of creation itself – our voice.
And we are given the power of creation – our thought and intention.
Every one of us has this gift.
At the beginning of our earliest civilizations, language was considered sacred, because when we speak,
we send into the world the energy of creation itself.
We have forgotten this.
Language is still sacred.
What has changed is how we create with it.
We cannot stop being creators.
We can only choose to create consciously or unconsciously.
Making the shift to considering everything that you think and say as sacred is quite a journey into deep levels of your mind and behaviour. It makes me think twice before speaking and creates a whole new level of integrity in relationships and interactions with others.
The Spirit within sound is us. Are we ready for this?