The Voice

 The design is impeccable, a working masterpiece of form and function. The larynx and voice box are incredible, providing the sound source for the health and well being and manifestation capacity of the being. This voice can be used to clear energetic debris within the body itself. It can be used to express the unexpressible wounds simply by sounding. It can communicate thoughts, ideas, beliefs, and feelings. It can send marching orders to the Cosmos to make manifest the intention. It can entertain and accompany  and inspire and inform. To do all of this, it must be used.


To many have been silenced by external command or threat and their voice is an echo of itself, used only for the bare essentials. This is truly one of the greatest injustices. If you have been silenced by any means, except a physical compromise, then you must make a stand in this moment and reactivate the sound that is born in you. Make your sound…shout to the heavens…release all the unspoken words in a glorious cacophony of form busting sound waves.


Yes, make your sounds, speak your words, recite your poems, tell your stories, sing your songs…do it all and reconnect with the inborn substance that launches you into the world. Never be afraid to speak your truth outwardly, even if it is only to the wind. The unspoken cannot ever be silenced and stored in tissue again. Speak out before you sleep all that was unsaid through the course of your day. Sigh a lot. Hum a lot. Play with the mouth and make sounds like you did when you were exploring the mechanism as an infant. Make your voice orchestrate the moments of your day. Talk to the trees and the animals and send loving words to all who cross your path. Hold nothing back. Doing so will activate a deep, deep element of your true power.


Become familiar with your voice. Speak from the throat and notice how strident and clear it can be, projecting to the back of the theater. Let your sound move into the cranium and notice how the nasal qualities tickle the crown and vibrate the pineal and pituitary glands. Move the voice down the back of your throat and let it drop into the body to give it the warmth and substance of you life lived. Combine all three resonance chambers to give your voice the quality the speaks you. Play with this until you find your true voice. Make funny voices and engage them in conversation. Create characters that are identifiable by their voice. Apply accents and have fun. Play with vowels and consonants, extending the vowels to bring out the emotional substance of you. Let the consonants act like gates to your expression. Emphasize. Re-explore how they are made in your mouth. Play with the mouth and tongue and placement to discover the harmonics that can be produced by you. Discern how the harmonics can impact your whole being and bring you into higher vibrational realms with your feet firmly planted on this glorious earth. Mimic life with your voice…make the wind and the waves and the rustling of leaves. Become a bird and communicate with those who fly into your space. Ask for help. Give compliments. Inform. Invite. Tell your current feelings. Ask questions. Engage in conversations as different characters. Invite others to play with you. Laugh long and hard and do a bunch of different variations. Notice how each impacts you. Send your voice to an area in your body that is calling through pain or discomfort. Ask the pain what it has to say and then let it speak. Reach back to the wounds and dig up the words cowering in the shadows of be quiet…take them by the hand and lead them to the edge of the canyon and let them say what must be said. Over and over until it all is said. And then compliment one another out loud because you just like to hear the sound of this magnificent voice. You get the picture….and do enjoy it!


Sounding

We easily get caught up in drawing cultural lines in the sand, choosing to fit in at any cost, leaving parts of our full selves strewn along the highway to now. When were you told to be quiet? When  did your soundtrack to life get locked in the room of conformity? When did you agree to be just a pretty face? To hell with all of those prisons! You are here to be heard and life is listening…al;ways. It needs your sound. Your voice must be heard to merge with all of the others to initiate the grand human symphony that is just so damn long overdue.


It’s not the words unspoken so much as it is the sound. The utterings and the oscillating calls are the foundational juice of all language, no matter how controlled it is. When you were new to this life, over and over, you would experience something for the first time. You would drink it in with all your senses. Your voice would wash over and through it seeking a conversation of sound waves that only you could decipher. And then it was given a name… there went the power, there went the experience, there went the juicy love affair. On to the next discovery only to be eventually put in your place. And now, after all these years…what is left to discover. Welllllll….how about you. That sound that is from the very vibration of life from the heartbeat of the center of the cosmos herself must come through you again. Make the sound…. Take a breath and then let the sound just fall out…delivered by magic. Turn on the faucet and let them fly out of your holiness. Sound your self into the fullness of the moment. Make this sound and then that one. Sustain them and them contain them with staccato utterances. Vary the pitch and see what they do. Notice where the pitches activate your body. Create a sound relationship with your physical and find the pitches that will nuzzle up to that body part and soothe it into remembering health.


Become the sound machine. Bless the world with your voice. Acknowledge everything out there with a sound. Give it the temporary identity of heart felt witness and then pause to hear the response. Listen closely and then respond back. Create the conversation that only the both of you understand. Just make sound. Sound away all the energies held, the deep dark rooms within you that were told to shut up or there would be consequences. Vary the volume, the duration, the pitch. Let them oscillate like the foothills and then let them become the jagged peaks of the newborn mountains, moving in wide swaths of pitch euphoria. Learn what this thing can do, this voice.  Sound off…one, two…three, four!!


Communication and Expression

We all have something to say…always have. To often we do not have those who will listen. We are all too busy, too overwhelmed to really show up for one another for any length of time. It is not a personal slight but more just the way we have been forced to accommodate the forms that never spoke to us. When did you vote to give up your rights? Things just happen. And thank God that there is always a big picture.


Communication is a funny thing. Some times its forced upon us with a tone that bites and pushes against our personal whole body tympanic membrane, causing intense discomfort that was probably ignored. Sometimes it is soft and sweet and lifts us up into arms that tell us everything will be all right…no matter what. And, of course, there are all those variations in between. The nuances, the flavor…


Communication is expression in motion, sent outward to make some kind of connection with another…to deliver information, to deliver support, to deliver feeling. It is paced and breathes much like the participants. It is theoretically a process of giving and taking, or giving and receiving…a beautiful dance that leads itself…if the participants are in that framework of mind. Or it is a battle, a series of statements of personal truth or command peppered with interruptions. Artillery barrages across the no man’s land of understanding. Nothing is really shared for there is just a sound dumping onto the other. It is a tennis match of volleys with little substance for little is really heard. Instead, energy is built, and resentments are birthed. Neither party feels heard, but they are often in the orgasmic aftermath of delivering the personal goods, thinking that they have achieved something. This kind of behavior comes from too many times not being listened to, feeling heard. The  desire to be heard pushes so many into perpetual filibusters any time the opportunity arises. A throat chakra contained explodes outward in a messy way when given the chance…for awhile.


We communicate to be heard. From a confident foundation of relationship with the voice and a willingness to express and to listen, we can then move towards effectively communicating. Ideally, both parties listen to one another, and, rather than rehearsing what he is going to say, responds to what is actually being said. Reflective listening leaves the recipient feeling heard which will increase the likelihood of you getting the same. It is even a good idea to ask your receivers if they are in a space to hear you.You might have a personal agenda and want the other to do something specific. Checking with them first will avert frustrating experiences. Often the recipient is not in a space to hear you like you want. This would be good to know up front. Then a future time could be set aside, if possible, to re-engage.


Communication also requires that we be sensitive to our audience. Selecting words and topics to share can be a useful strategy to open up trusting doors that will lead to deeper sharings. Being honest and speaking our truth is the desire in communicating…not everyone is able to hear that. The beauty of communication is that you cans et up an artificial situation to share your authentic information even if there is no one hearing it. This will serve to move the energy underneath the sharing of it is coming from a wounded place.


Mantra, Chant, and Intentional Song

Using the voice to speak mantra, sing chant, and affirm the intentional song are sure ways to empower the throat chakra and influence the forms of your life.


Characteristics of Mantras (Sanskrit for “that which protects and purifies the mind”)


Spoken Mantras

Om Gum Ganapata Yea Namaha
(Beseech Ganesh to clear obstacles to intention)

Hung vajra peh
(By the power of will, through the spoken word, I invoke the thunderbolt of my Mind. Capable of clearing any space of negativity, physical, emotional, or spiritual. To clear the Earth’s layer of consciousness of negative energy)

San san jo liu  bah yow woo
(Chinese Healing mantra)

Om Apadamapa

Om Apadamapa Hataram Dataram Sarva Sampadam
Loka Bhi Ramam Shri Ramam  Bhuyo Bhuyo Namaya ham

(A most powerful Hindu healing mantra)


Sung Mantras

Shanti Prashanti Sarva Krodha Upasha manti Swaha
(To clear the vibration of anger)

Shanti Prashanti Sarva Bhaya Upasha manti Swaha
(To clear the vibration of fear)

Namo kwan shi yin pusah  (F)

(Infuses the consciousness envelope surrounding the Earth with dynamic compassion which manifests as Grace and Mercy)

Adi Shakti, Adi Shakti, Adi Shakti Namo Namo. (Em D…)Sarab Shakti, Sarab Shakti, Sarab Shakti Namo Namo.
Pritham Bhagvati, Pritham Bhagvati, Pritham Bhagvati,
Namo Namo
Kundalini Maataa Shakti, Maataa Shakti, Namo Namo.
Namo namo namo namo namo namo namo namo...

(First force of all creation, to You I bow.  Divine force, everywhere, to You I bow. Creative force, primal force, to You I bow.  Rising up, Divine Mother, to You I bow.)

Om Vajra Satwwa Hung
Calls upon Vajrapani to send a cleansing white beam into the top of one’s head, clearing ot negative thoughts and mental habits.


Characteristics of Chants


Chants

Apache Power Chant  (Em) Native American

Hinamaya hinamaya hinamay Chee Chi Yo (2X)
Hinamay chee chi yo  hinna may chee chi yo (2x)
Hinna hinna hey ya  hinna hinna hey yo (2x)


Gopala  (C)  Hindu
Gopala Gopala Devakinandana Gopala (2x)
Devakinandana Gopala Devakinandana Gopala
Hindu chant to celebrate the blessed child Krishna and his exuberance for life)


Gate Gate (D) Buddhist
Gate gate paragate
Parasam gate
Bodhi Svaha
(Gone. Gone. Gone beyond. Gone beyond the Beyond. Hail to the one who awakens)


Om Mane Padme Hum (D)  Tibetan Buddhist
Om mane padme hum
(All hail the jewel in the lotus)


Bismillah (Am) Islamic
Bismillah Bismillah er-Rachman Er Rahim
We begin in the name of Allah
(In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate
praise be to Allah, Lord of all worlds)


Atlantean Chant
Ah le oh oo Fa ro
(Clears body meridians and calls upon Nature Spirits for support)


Characteristics of Intentional Songs


Life Is Good (D)
I give a little Love give a little Light
It comes back round I feel all right
Ah, Life is Good, Ah, Life is Good
 ©1991. Mark Stanton Welch. All Rights Reserved.


So Connected (G)
You and I are so connected
Heart to heart a golden thread
Through it we can feel Love, Love, Love
Through it we unite as One
 ©1992. Mark Stanton Welch. All Rights Reserved.


I Do What Gives Me Life (Cm)
I do what gives me life
I do what gives me life
I do what gives me life
Hey, ee, yay
In this moment I am given
In situations called to me
I now choose the path of living
I now choose what sets me free
 ©1994. Mark Stanton Welch. All Rights Reserved.


The power of intentional song, chant, and mantra is profound. The music brings the intention into the cells and helps to clear old energetic debris.


Language

Language was formed to facilitate common and consistent communication  between people. There are many world languages, yet all are based on a common set of phonemes, seed sounds, that are tied to the human vocal mechanism’s capacity to form them. Of course, there are variations in each language but there are more commonalities. There are also compromises made in each, adjustments made to fit the nature and capacity and preferences and politics and beliefs of the native people.


In English, as well as other languages, the foundation is the combination of vowels and consonants to form specific words. Common meaning is then applied to each word so there is a consistency in communication. Typically, one hears language spoken first, then learns to make certain basic sounds. These sounds are then combined into words. A vocabulary starts and is built over time. Vowels are the sounds that carry emotion. They are the energetic foundation of words. The consonants are the fence posts that contain the vowels. Much can be discerned about the culture through looking at its language. For example, English , though a language much of the world knows is a rather restrictive, inconsistent language influenced by the world. The English people are rather rigid and unemotional. Thus the language uses short sounded vowels fenced in by consonants. It has little emotion unless inflection is used by the speaker. On the other hand, Latin languages, especially Mediterranean ones, extend the vowels and de emphasize the consonants. It is an emotional and organic language that speaks of passion. Think Italian, French…


The way you speak is a parroting, typically, of the family and culture you were raised in. Personal adaptations are made to give your own language a flavor of expression. Often it is a combination of multiple influences that add to its character and will reflect the current inner state of the speaker. Language ought to be living and flowing. It needs to be felt. Not all languages do this. Learn to use your language creatively by varying pacing and inflection, choosing different emphasis, extending vowels and softening consonants, even adopting the flavor of an accent. In a world that looks for commonality at the expense of individuality, you may be considered a rebel for awhile. The rest of humanity will catch up and discover the beauty of vocal expression as a tool for enjoyable communication.


Learning other languages makes the world a more inhabitable place. It also exercise the brain in powerful ways that can expand you r mind and intellect.


A new language is revealing itself from the spiritual realms. Light Language, called by some as speaking in tongues, is a direct channeling of spirit through your Higher Self via your vocal mechanism. The impact is sound based though it often reveals celestial languages born in the angelic realms and in planetary cultures and ascended beings.. It simply is a matter of opening to it, allowing sound to speak through you. Anything goes. It has character and moves quickly from one form to the next. Doing this for five minutes leaves one in an open, somewhat altered state. Perhaps we are preparing ourselves for the upcoming Oneness where barriers and separation are left behind.


The Silence

Waves pulse in a start and a stop, over and over the pause between allows both integration and inspiration. Wave forms oscillate above and below the 0 axis over and over, the zero point the place of infinite silence. Breath comes in in preparation for sounding, speaking, singing and then after a brief pause in silence expresses outward in a burst of energy that has a specific duration. At the end of the duration there is the silence.


The silence is as important as the sound.The audible cosmos is not an incessant cacophony, a constant barrage of waves that assault the senses. It is, rather a beautiful dance that relies as much on the expressed as the unexpressed, the audible as the inaudible, the sound as the silence to manufacture the form of the now.


We need the silence to allow the incubation of the next expression. In this plane of duality the silence is one of the extremes, the theoretical absence of sound. Mostly it is just a resting point where the potential gathers for the next expression. Silence allows the integration of the word, the phrase, the sound, the song, the music, the Light, the thought…


We crave the silence though many are afraid of it. Too much has been repressed by too many for too long. At that point of the nothing the unexpressed moves to express. Most do not want that experience so they turn away from the silence and fill their moments with sound of any kind, the TV, music, the radio, the fan, the water fountain, the sound machine, the waves,  incessant thoughts, self talk….on and on.


It is time to step out of the onslaught of distraction and allow the inner debris to ooze and flow and flood out of you to bring you once again back to the warmth and loving arms of the silence. For in this place, you shall meet you once again, free of the stamp of the past, the signature of the energetic memory held tightly, free of all that you have run from. There you are with open arms in the sweet, sweet silence…


Do not hesitate for a moment…go there


Manifestation via Spoken Word Intention

In the soup of the vibrating plasma the cosmos oscillates from one form into the next in a delightful dance orchestrated by the intentions set forth by the inhabitants. We each manifest our desires. In a complete and knowable process manifestation takes place as born in your intention, expression, action, and receptivity. The vision is seeded in the will center Solar plexus as the pure wisdom enters the back of it, replete with all the intellect needs to fabricate the whim, the design. The design moves to the third eye via the heart, the throat and the pituitary. At the throat intersection between front and back the intentions is seeded with celestial perspective to raise the frequency of the intention. At the pituitary the vision is received and held against the prism of our highest purpose, reflecting also our current state of self value. The latter can impact the nature of the form that is attracted to the launched intention. The vision itself is launched via the third eye projection, refined in the chambers of the pituitary, infused with the energy that has risen from the plexus through the heart and throat. If simultaneously spoken while sending out through the third, the impact is amplified significantly.


The spoken word is the energetic command for energies to respond magnetically to create the forms necessary to make manifest the intention. One must pay attention to the nuances that follow and make adjustments as they arrive in order to direct the manifestation into actualization. Reframing the intention as it moves with the forms showing up keeps the energy moving and adjusting to create the refined product.


Thinking is not as powerful as verbal expression when it comes to manifestation. It has no visceral energy and can thus be an amorphous cloud that gives mixed signals to the energies gathering to align.


Putting all of the pieces into action can almost assure the result to be in alignment with the intention, expanded into oh so much more by the always higher perspective of the Cosmic. It is a beautiful cooperative process that feeds itself when it is tended and utilized. So…do that and start forming your intentional life more easily…


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