I am listening to a 7.83hz Earth Resonance - Theta Binaural Schumann Frequency on You Tube using high quality SONY Earphones and have been doing this off and on ever since i discovered this Resonance being made excisable. I cannot really tell if it helps or how much it helps to alter my state of mental activities, however I keep telling myself, if you are able to keep doing what you have been doing in your daily life thus far it might be helping in some small ways. Personally i believe in the principle behind this whole idea of vibrational frequencies of sound having some form of effect upon my physical mental state although I am no scientist. I feel it more intuitively that the continuous resonance of specific sound waves measured accordingly to certain decibels that is closely calculated would act as a mover of my neuro - physical body to a certain state of equilibrium which helps to enhance the function of my mind as a whole; I know this makes very little sense but this is as close as I can explain how I feel about it. If nothing else it helps to arrest my thought formations from drifting aimlessly and i can remain better focused and perform my task more fluidly like I am doing now, writing this thoughts down. This is the scientific form of chanting that aligns all the cells into functioning as a complete whole flowing with the waves of sound. Sometimes i would get a migraine headache when I wake up in the morning from it but how can I tell if this is the cause and not the fact that i stayed up most of the night writing and staring into the bright screen of the computer.
Scientists say that the Universe emits a sound wave continuously like the sound of AUM or Ommm in out space and that the sun too emits a vibration or sound audible to the space probes and that these sounds have an effect in some way to the condition of space itself. I don't know if I make any sense here but I feel that it is all connected albeit the sound of Om being chanted by individuals or a group and the sound of the universe emits. The closest i came to experiencing the vibrational sound of Om was in a vivid dream I had many years ago and I have written this in the Blog I am positive. I dreamt that i was doing a pilgrimage in India and was walking across a large field ahead of a long line of pilgrims all chanting OM! The sound was vibrating from the center of my chest like a motor and if I turn up the volume of this video I am listening to way up loud it would feel the same. The sound vibrates and permeates my entire being connecting and enveloping everything as in the case of my dream, everyone. I felt very intense energy from it like it was coming from a generator within me.
"Sound vibrates and cells too vibrate. The waves from the sound of the measured rhythmic tone trigger the cells. Every cell has a DNA and it programs whatever we put in." - The Spiritual Mind. by Sallina Ismail.
Almost every night or rather very early in the morning like between One am till 5am I would play the verses from the Quran loud enough that it does not disturb my children sleeping. I just runed off the video I was listening when I turned on this resonance video to work on making this entry into the Blog. Sometimes I would fall asleep while the Quran is being read next to my head while in bed, this is not hard to do as the recitation of the verses are most soothing and melodious when read by fluent readers. Again what good does it do? God only knows but i feel allot better waking up and would often have far out pleasant dreams. I would like to believe that the Quranic verses would ambos word for word into my brain if not into every cell in my body. This phenomena more than anything else to me is where science and spirituality merge into one, something that a 'Way seeking Mind' would conjure in the effort o maximize its ability to touch the True Reality of existence itself if not being in the presence of the Devine in us. It is in silence that God talks to us and the closest to silence that the mind can experience is the continuous vibrational resonance running through our mental faculty that drowns all else.
The unique thing about listening to this fine tuned resonance as a form of meditative tool is the fact that it involves no imagery of any kind. There is no evoking of any image of god or deity or even any philosophical narrative where the mind can take a hold of or cling on to. It is like sitting in a huge factory where the hum of the machinery is the only sound floating in the air and it envelops one's being like a cocoon inside out. This is the closest one comes to the sound of silence where the chattering mind becomes subdued into complete cessation. When listened in a meditative state like sitting Zazen, one can experience the energy and power generated by sound in its purest form. To get taste of this I would turn the volume up and down or sometimes completely off and then feel the presence of being centered in a vacuum of formlessness.
My experience with the power of sound most acutely was when I was sitting in the same room with my late wife who was getting ready to deliver our son. This happened at the Davis medical Center in San Francisco where Karim was born. The doctor had left the heart machine on loud and I was able to sit and listen to the rise and fall my son's breathing on the speaker and it sounded like a pack of wild horses galloping from a slow trot and gradually to a loud racing of hoofs and then it dies off to an almost complete silence; my wife would often be asleep when this was happening.
Another similar experience i had was when my daughter was born and a few minutes later I had her laying on my chest and I could hear her heartbeat rising and falling and this time I realized that it was being influenced by the Hospital air conditioner as it runs on and off on the thermostat or something.
Alan Watts in one of his books pointed out the fact that we become oblivious to the sound around us when it is continuous like the refrigerator in the kitchen until the thermostat kicks in or out and brings the sound to a halt or starts the motor running again. This is how our mind works when there is a pause in between thoughts we realize that we were thinking and when we take a deep breath or sneeze or even fart, our thoughts is interrupted and we find the silence in between. It is this pause or silence that meditation seeks to prolong as much as possible.
WallahuAlam! Only God knows.
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