Being Well: The Journey of Healing Through Sound

We all seek connection; something that gives meaning and a sense of safety in the world. Feeling isolated and untethered can create anxiety, depression, lead us to mistakenly attach to things outside of ourselves like other people, possessions, food, addictive substances etc- hoping to fill the void within us.  

All the while, everything we need is already within us. But most of us need help in accessing that abundance and stepping into our power and manifesting the relationship with the world we desire.  

Fortunately, there are tools to help us. Through the beauty of their harmonic sounds and the vibrational patterns they emit, the Tibetan sacred sound instruments (singing bowls, gantas, dorjes's and tingshas) help to reawaken within us dormant energies and realign us with the cellular memory of our wholeness. Through brainwave entrainment that creates a synchronization of our heartbeat, brainwaves and respiratory rate, we can release into a relaxed and meditative state so deep, that the body/mind/spirit recalibrates itself.  

Sometimes this happens with the initial sound healing session. Sometimes it takes several sessions because we learn by repetition, and we are learning to align with deeply effective vibrational patterns in a new way- the sound way. 

Healing is a movement from disharmony to harmony, from duality to non-duality or Divine Awareness. The journey of healing then is a spiritual awakening with consequences on our physical well being. As we awaken, our perspective shifts. As our perspective shifts, our vibration shifts. As our vibration shifts, our cellular make up shifts. The shifts can not occur as separate entities- they affect the whole of who we are and extend infinitely. 

Healing is a process where we are released from an ego centered finite perspective of ourselves in the world and move into our essence where our vibratory energy is connected with the universe. Once we remember and feel that connection, we feel supported by the universe, as in fact we always are, and can begin to manifest our life in a ways that reflects our hearts desires. 

If you are interested in healing with sound energy, please contact me.

Diane Mandle, 237 Cereus St, Encinitas, CA 92024, 760-944-3441, 

www.soundenergyhealing.com  and www.tibetanbowlschool.com 

soundenergyhealing@gmail.com

Three Ways to Make Your Sound Healing Practice More Effective

Diane Mandle Singing Tibetan Bowls

Over the past ten years I have observed students and practitioners alike with their Tibetan bowls. Whether you have one bowl or many, there are several things you can do to maximize the effectiveness of sound healing.

1. Pay attention to the Direction you are singing the bowl in. Clockwise will help either release and ground tension/ energy OR expand & strengthen it depending on the INTENTION you bring to the gesture. Counter–clockwise will help to re-awaken the energy and /or nourish a weak area.

2. Use Rhythm and Pace as you play. Slow and spaced out striking of a bowl will create a calming effect. Faster will energize. You can strike a bowl once and let the sound dissipate or several times in succession to create more energy and an enlivening atmosphere. If you have three bowls play with rhythm &pace to create different textures and see how they affect the environment.

3. Consider how when you add volume to the two practices above; that changes the energetic outcome as well. Start slow and very quiet. Try building slow and low to slow and louder. Then practice slow and low to faster and louder. Using these three methods will give you a whole new range of textures to work with as you explore the world of sound healing. My home study course, Ancient Sounds for a New Age, offers more tips and a structured approach to working with the Sacred Sound Instruments.  

Diáne Mandle is founder of the Tibetan Bowl Sound Healing School and Sound Energy Healing, providing resources, services, events, and training in the use of the Tibetan Sacred Sound instruments. 

Diane Mandle for the Tibetan Bowl School and SoundEnergyHealing.com offers Introductory workshops twice each year to teach students how to use the Tibetan singing bowls, gantas and tingshas ( sacred sound instruments) for energy healing, meditation and to be sound healing practitioners. These are some student testimonials.

 Diane Mandle  of the Tibetan Bowl School and SoundEnergyHealing.com demonstrates how two bowls that are not in harmony find one another. This is a basic principal of healing- that all discord is in search of harmony. The Tibetan singing bowls work to create healing thought creating alignment between our bodies and the sound healing frequencies of the bowls.

Look at what is above his head. It looks like a bowl, doesn't it. We have so many choices as to where to place our minds. None are wrong, really. But each has an outcome. We can train ourselves to choose the thoughts that produce the most effective outcome: Peace, Well being.  When you meditate with Tibetan singing bowls, your brainwaves will join with the frequency of the healing sound of the bowls.. These bowls have been created with healing frequencies that lift body, mind and spirit to its fullest potential.  Why not choose that?

Contentment

A few nights ago I went to hear Sogyal Ripoche speak. He is a well known Tibetan Buddhist teacher who wrote the Tibetan Book of Living and Dieing. The lecture was about controlling the mind and was fascinating and simple at the same time. That seems to be true of many Buddhist teachings..He said that to transform the mind we had to understand its true nature.. Well- what the heck is that?? It is a mind free from grasping, endless thoughts, emotions and stories; those things that create Samsara where we are lost in the projections of the mind.

The true nature of the mind, he said, is Nirvana- the mind turned inward; a state of non-distraction. The absence of "I" within actions taken.

In thinking about this I realized that this is exactly the state of mind I speak of to my Tibetan bowl sound healing students when I describe "Presencing". Presencing is the ability to be with a client with no agenda, with full attention towards them. Most of us can relate to the notion of "holding the space", for something. The true nature of the mind then must be like holding the space for oneself. Just being present to what is without attachment, projection, or stories. This state of non distraction can also be described as meditation-- active or passive. Either way it is a good place to be.

Diane Mandle on Blog Talk Radio

Please join Diane Mandle on a Blog Talk Radio interview with Dr Karen Vizer. Diane discusses sound healing with tibetan bowls, it's healing properties, value in meditation and deep relaxation and more. Tune in to:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/dr_karen_vizer/2010/11/23/the-dr-karen-show-with-diane-mandle-certified-tibetan-bowl-teacher-and-healerbowl

We Are What We Believe

Really, it is so simple to change a circumstance. We need to change our attitude and thoughts about it. That is not to say it is easy. Changing our thoughts from habitual to chosen is something we have the opportunity to practice over and over throughout our lifetime. Every challenging situation, every person we have trouble with, every circumstance we experience as negative is such an opportunity. One way to think about this is to recognize that any relationship is really a reflection of the part of you that shows up in that relationship. This includes our relationship with ourselves. This morning a quote from Beliefnet came across my desk and seemed reflect this issue.

"Whatever attitudes we habitually use toward ourselves, we will use on others, and whatever attitutes we habitually use on others, we will use on ourselves. This situation is comparable to serving food to ourselves and to other people from the same bowl. Everyone ends up eating the same thing-we must examine carefully what we are dishing out. "
-Bhante Heneopla GUnaratana- Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness"

Fortunately, we have support: Positive people, books and activities that help to shift our thinking patterns from rote to chosen train us. Sound healing sessions and meditations with the Tibetan Singing Bowls are effective in helping us to become conscious of our belief systems and actions, and to reawaken us to our true essence, which is always compassionate and loving. This is their purpose, to transform consciousness and create healing.

New Sound Energy Healing Video Channel

Check out my new YouTube Channel and stay tuned for regular additions to Sound Energy Healing. I will be posting more videos on how to use the Tibetan singing bowls for personal development and healing. Also, some quality videos from my colleagues will be posted there.
http://www.youtube.com/user/soundenergyhealing

Sound Healing and Cancer

If you have cancer or know someone who does, tune into this teleclass which will discuss how Tibetan bowl sound healing can be used with cancer clients on Monday March 1, 6pm Pacific time. The subject is so rich it will probably involve more than one session. I have been working with cancer patients for about 6 years now and sound healing is so effective in the healing journey. Want to join in? Register online at http://www.tibetanbowlschool.com/regist.shtml Scroll down the page until you see the Teleclass section. Register by Feb 26.

New Theraputic Tibetan Bowl Meditation CD

Finally, I got this done just before leaving on my month long journey to Europe ( in another post) I wanted to make a cd that would help my clients to continue the healing work we did in private sessions as well as for those who cannot get a private. The idea was to create an atmosphere that would put the listner into a deep meditative state and to stregthen specific aspects of themselves. I wanted to make the spoken part of the cd totally positive and inspiring to the spirit and say those words in a context of sacred sound that would take hold in the subconscious. So here it is.

Being Well: The Journey. Guided meditations by Diáne Mandle w/Tibetan Bowls, Gongs & Sacred Sound Instruments. Each 15-20 minute recording within this series is designed to reawaken and strengthen as specific area of consciousness that can help the listener access wholeness.(Opening the Heart, Becoming Whole, Inner Healer ) The instruments are played with patterns of sacred geometry and tones that best support the issue) To order go to www.soundenergyhealing.com/productsforwellbeing.html.

Toning with a Master

May 4th, 6pm PST Sound Healing Teleclass- The topic this month is Toning. My special guest presenter is Internationally known Overtone Master Wayne Perry. I started working with Waynes overtone tapes years ago and still feel that they are the best. Why? Because they break down the syllables, textures and areas of the mouth, throat etc where different overtones occur. His work is the most accessible I have found and lots of fun to work with. Wayne will present an simple overview of overtoning and one aspect of it that very much relates to the singing bowls. Then he will answer your questions.

Wayne has asked that questions be sent to him prior to the teleclass so please email yours to me at diane@soundenergyhealing.com. To register go to: www.tibetanbowlschool.com/regist.shtml. $20. You will receive the call in numbers by email after you register. Registration deadline is May 1.

New Tibetan Bowl Video at Cancer Center

Tibetan Bowl School Advanced Class

The first Advanced 1 workshop of our Tibetan Bowl School took place in September. Students are serious about learning advanced skills that will make them not just adequate practitioners, but GREAT practitioners. You all know that my soap box is about the plethora of untrained sound healers who rely on intuition alone. No one would hire a massage therapist, a craniosacral therapist or a reflexologist who just relied on intuition. Intuition is great but it is not enough. Students that come out of this program will be well trained in the the Buddhist tradition that accompanies the instruments- so they use them correctly , understand elemental energy lines, how to co-create intensly effective visualizations for clients and how to work with the symbology of illness. They will have the highest quality hand hammered ancient instruments to work with as well. Want to get involved? Check us at at http://www.tibetanbowlschool.com

Re-Aligning with the Fundamental

Healing is simple, but not easy. Being in resonance with 'What Is' is being in harmony with nature. This includes being in resonance even with things we dislike. When resonance is established through intentionally opening to it, we may experience the Fundamental vibration of the Universe ( AUM- the vibration of Universal Perfection). We can neither chase nor force it; we can only receive it and in doing so, discover what it is.

Healing is not separating from a hindrance, it is opening fully to it, embracing, accepting and honoring it. Through the act of opening, the Fundamental is revealed. It is in the vibration of the Fundamental that the miracle of Spontaneous Healing can occur; when we awaken to how everything is interrelated; how even illness, car crashes and the worst news is an agent of healing. A challenge can illuminate our blind spots- our areas of vulnerability NOT to destroy us but to awaken us to those areas of ourselves so we may become whole. That we do by giving attention to and strengthening that part of ourselves. Healing is a spiritual awakening that impacts on our physical body and the whole of our lives. It is a transformation of consciousness.

For most of us there is so much resistance to opening to distress that we need tools, ambassadors to help us. Tibetan bowls, meditation, chanting and toning are just some of the wonderful tools available to help us cease interrupting the pattern of the Fundamental which exists in all things and reopen to the fullness that is our birthright.