As we have established already in previous lessons, the fact that all is vibrations opens up specific modalities that can shift the forms of how life shows up. Vibration is impacted and directed by other vibration. Intention is a palatable force to direct the results of attempting to move vibration in the desired manner. The breath brings the life force, the chi, to the energetic bodies to allow them to function in alignment with their design. The breath is the foundation for making sound through the voice. Conscious use and manipulation of the voice to shift held frequencies and contribute to getting to and stay in balance is formidable tool to embrace flowing with life.

One such tool is toning. Building on the idea established in the previous lesson that vowels carry power, toning invites us to consciously work those vowels in sustained ways to significantly break up body blockages to move one towards a healthy state. Toning uses the voice to free up one’s energetic history and move systematically to a clear expression of the unique I AM that each of us is.

For thousands of years, cultures that many consider uncivilized, have been using natural techniques to shift the moment into alignment with their intention. They have used sound to clear emotions, impact dis-eased conditions, bring vitality, and even move the form from one expression to another.

Perhaps you have heard how often one or a group was responsible for sounding the emotional life of the tribe. They would keen to express the grief of the whole for a lost one. They would make sound to heal diseased conditions in cooperation with the shamanic practitioners. These soundings kept the tribe healthy and current so they could live more in harmony with their natural environment.

Civilization has had a different path. Medical practices were always about intervention and getting rid of the diagnosed part, completely bypassing the bigger picture of repressed energy held in the body. In a more expansive view of health one sees that energy follows events. When that energy is allowed to express by moving out of the boy, health is maintained. When it is interrupted, the energy is stored, typically in and around chakra centers. Western medicine is not too versed on the energy bodies and historically gives little credence to chakra systems. Thus, the use of sound has often been the realm of branded charlatans or witch doctors. Ignorance creates prejudice and judgment.

Recent alternative healing modalities have surfaced that are borrowing heavily on the past and from other more “primitive” cultures to reestablish a growing relationship with nature and the greater frequencies of life. Toning is one tool that has been rediscovered and adapted to fit the times. In this lesson we explore what it is and offer several different approaches to its use.

Spend time around a newborn. Typically, from the moment they incarnate into the Earth plane, they make sound. Their moments are an ongoing soundtrack of expression and exploration. The human body is a remarkable design that is self cleansing when allowed to function unimpeded. Moments happen, a response follows. When allowed, the energetic response clears itself out through movement and sound.

To understand, there are natural responses to life’s moments with sound, even in the adult population. Consider the hammer on the finger response. Sound wells up from the source of the discontent. Immediate, loud, packed with emotion, it rises and expresses. And then the organism moves on, cleared of the energy that was all consuming for the instant before. Interrupt this and the foundation for future dis-ease is laid.

More and more the energy backs up, prevented from expression and release by familial and cultural rules and responses until it either all comes out in a fury or creates a condition that demands attention. The call for attention is the call to get clear…remember, that is the natural design. The deep need is to release the unexpressed to return to balance.

Enter toning. This simple and beautiful modality calls upon the voice to express. That’s all. When permission is given and action is taken to initiate the movement, the sound moves and expresses in a unique and thorough way, leaving the person cleared of the old. In other words, toning is letting the body speak. It cleans out the rubbish and puts the house back in order. It is physics in action.

Unlike so many medical interventions that are directed to impact the body, toning works from the inside out, raising the vibration to a higher, more balanced frequency, without invasion, drugging, compromising, or destroying. It is only about release.

1. Create a safe space where you can make sound at different volumes.
2. Get comfortable. Stand up if possible.
3. Become aware of the feet and connect with the Earth feeling the energy move up through you
4. Begin to make a deep groaning sound that moves from in your body. Feel it in vibrating your body.
5. Allow your body to move and sway as it desires. Surrender and allow.
6. Let the groans move up in pitch. Let the sound do and become what it wants. Support the expression.
7. Let your body groan as long as it wants. Give permission for the buried memories and energies to release and express through the sound of your voice. If it moves into statements let it.
8. Keep the mind out of it. No judgment. No directing. Let it be visceral and organic.
9. The voice will likely rise like a siren, then drop, then rise again. Allow these cycles.
10. When the body has released all it is ready and willing to you will likely sigh, involuntarily.
11. Toning is most effective when you let the body be free, let the voice be free, let health emerge.   Do not strain or stress. Be flowing and loose.
12. When you feel complete put some frequency of intention, a thought, a color, a shape, a word, back into your body. Fill up the cleansed space with higher frequency vibrations.
13. Do this often. Each time the body wisdom guides the process. Your life force does the work, bringing you back to a closer expression of the true you. You are the willing recipient of the lightness, the clarity, the deep peace. `
14. You may want to vary the phonemes as you tone: ah, oh, oo, ee. As you sustain blend them one after another. This will allow different parts of your physical being to get triggered and release.
15. Start your day and end your day with this sound wash, if possible. Be grateful…

Additional Info

Use the vowel sounds and put h or k in front of them. This will stimulate your glandular system. They cause a strong vibration close to the pituitary area.  Sound the sequence Hi-Ho-Hu-Ha-Hi for five minutes and note the results.

Ah stimulates the upper lungs. Oh stimulates the lower lungs. Om stimulates the heart. Eh stimulates the sex glands. Ee stimulates the pineal and pituitary glands. Eh-He-Ah is soothing and relaxing. Rahm sounded from the solar plexus releases a sense of authority and power.

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