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

How to Choose a Tibetan Bowl

There are two questions I get all the time. One is 'How do I choose a good bowl" and the other is 'How do I know which bowl is good for a specific chakra' People also call to obtain a bowl with a certain musical note. The answers to these questions are founded in the Eastern philosophy rather than from a Western mindset, because this better reflects the nature of the instruments as they were intended:

Choosing a good bowl requires a few things. Quality: Either an eye and an ear for excellent quality- or knowing and trusting someone who knows the bowls and can help you. Many people sell bowls and most are new and machine made to look old. Many people who sell bowls in shops and on the internet are not very knowledgable.. so ask a lot of questions. When someone says a bowl is old.. in this country old can mean 50 years. That is new by my standards. A real old bowl it will be at least 100 years old and more often hundreds of years old. If the vendor doesn't know the region the bowls were made in, and how the markings help distinguish the type of bowl.. they probably don't know much..Bowls were made in a variety of regions of Tibet and their shape and markings are telling. Some of the bowls have consciousness transformation as their primary intention, and some have physical healing. This can be determined by their shape. There is more about this and photos in my home study course available on my website. A high quality, ancient bowl is an investment. If it is inexpensive and old,then it was probably obtained in a less than honorable manner...A good bowl is an investment and the price can range from $110 for a very small bowl to thousands of $$ for a huge bowl. Get educated on what you will use the bowl for( ie healing, meditations, yoga practice, creativity etc). That will inform what bowls and how many would be most effective. I can help you here.

Tone: The tone of the bowls should linger for quite some time when struck. There should be several layers of tones you can hear that produce overlaying harmonics. When you hear a bowl, listen to your body. If it opens your heart, or moves you deeply in some manner; if you feel tingling all over, or the tone directly impacts one area of your body.. these are all good signs. Bowls were created for consciousness transformation and healing. You should feel their effect on you.

Bowls and Chakras. In the west we work with seven chakras. The Tibetans work with five regions of the body. The bowls were created to bring us back to our experience of the interrelationship of all things.. thus they are not calibrated to work on just one chakra.. Their very nature encompasses our wholeness. In this way they are very different instruments then the western counterparts- tuning forks and crystal bowls. However there are some bowls whose tone and size lend themselves more naturally to certain areas of the body. Lower tones for grounding, largest bowls by the feet, etc. This is too complex to go into in a blog but there is more on this in my home study course. But you must understand that even if you have only ONE bowl, it will impact all of you, and not just one chakra.

Please post your comments or email me at diane110@cox.net. My home study course is available on my site as is a variety of instruments for purchase. I can help you select some by phone or skype. Website

Book Review:The Healing Power of Sound

The Healing Power of Sound by Dr.Mitchel Gaynor is like the sound healers bible. Dr. Gaynor started using sound many years ago when he met a Tibetan monk and was awed by the sound of the instruments and the effect on his body/mind/spirit. The book is an exploration into his personal transformation from traditional medicine to a more holistic approach and the research and work he has done with cancer patients over the years. Although I am an advocate for using the ancient Himalayan singing bowls rather than the modern glass ones, Gaynor uses them both along with toning and visualization for effective and healing treatments for his patients. If you are only going to get one book on sound healing... I would choose this one. For more information, services and products focusing on sound healing visit www.soundenergyhealing.com