Honoring the Healing Process in our Lives and in Haiti
By Norma Gentile
I believe that singing, chanting, healing and praying are words for the exact same function. We are creator beings, responsible for our bodies, our emotions, our thoughts and minds. What we give our attention to grows by virtue of the energy directed to it. Adding the conscious and intentional use of the primordial creation tool, sound, is the ultimate means of expressing ourselves as creators and as creation in this dimension. However it is the power of unconditional love, which gives intimate knowledge of the union of all life, through which the tools of creation can be used. Without this nothing lasts. And it is love which allows each of us to move according to our own journey. Whatever that might be!
"...a person often sighs and moans upon hearing some melody, recalling the nature of the celestial harmony." — Hildegard of Bingen
As a child, and again as an adult, I experience the Cosmic Symphony. It plays as I sleep, full of chords and melodies so natural, so beautiful and yet so impossible to grasp that upon awakening I can barely remember them. As a child I assumed that writing music was easy. One simply learned how to write these sounds down in musical notation. I couldn't wait to learn to read and write music onto paper. After six years of training in music at a university, I understood the art of musical notation. Then I had to recoup the innocence to again hear the Symphonies play within me.
"A tone lies at the foundation of everything in the physical world" — Rudolph Steiner
And so here is where the healing process of Sound Shamanism comes in. As I share hands-off healing sessions I have learned to sit quietly and feel the pulsations of energy between my hands and the client's body. Once the field is established, I also hear tones in the room and moving through the body of the person I am working with. With practice, most people can learn to do this. It has more to do with one's heart than one's ears.
Rather than audibly making these tones, I ask their healing guides which tone reflects the vibration of what their body and soul wants. I find the symphony drops away, a single tone steps forward. I focus on that tone, and over a few minutes time it changes. The guides usually point me to another place on the body to work on, or give me some channeled information to share about a current life situation.
For me the most powerful healing comes not by telling someone what to do, or by removing an energy from their space, but by asking questions. As I ask someone's body how it wants to be supported by their soul, they sigh. I see energies begin to loosen up from their physical form, and I ask the energies if they want to move onto their next step of learning. This allows them to know that they are safe. And it completes any agreements the client might have with the energies to care for them, perhaps on behalf of someone else.
As I move from organ to organ or chakra to chakra and ask someone's body what it wants and how their soul wants to embrace and lovingly support their body new possibilities open. Previously unseen future potentials move into view. Not because I or the client forced change. But because the vibration of their body and energy field more closely reflects the natural connection that was chosen by their soul and body for this moment, in this reality.
This doesn't always make immediate sense. Most of the time people notice a deep stillness, a clarity in their thoughts, their bodies and the space around them after a healing session. What I love about teaching this process is that I am sharing an incredibly gentle way to help people shift themselves into their own healing process, and the practitioner need not strain or engage with the energies that are being released.
And so to apply the idea of asking questions directly out into our world. Rather than simply resonating with the grief coming out of Haiti, what if we honored that there is some consciousness that can use the situation to bring about a profound change and honor the journey of the souls of those involved in the situation?
Here are a few questions that have occurred to me to ask when I see the television flashing images from Haiti:
How is it that the land itself within the country known as Haiti wants to feel? How grateful I am that this beautiful island has sustained so many people for so long. How much ease and comfort, joy and enjoyment can the bodies of those living in Haiti receive from this land?
I wonder how the relationship between the land, the people, and the journeys of all those souls within Haiti might want to adjust themselves now, to reflect not just the tragedy of the earthquake, but to reflect the incredible possibilities that are opening up as a result of this massive earth change?
Skilled workers, money, supplies and all sorts of attention are being lavished upon the poorest of countries here in the west. And I do mean to use the word "lavish". What if the aid coming into Haiti now was not thought of as a temporary solution to desperation, but the beginning of a new relationship where the beloved souls of Haiti are treated as deeply respected, honored and even royal persons? What quality of food would you feed such a guest? What quality of clothing would you offer them to replace their own?
If we were to add up all of the financial aid and attention Haiti has received over the past decades, would it come anywhere near to the total energy, money and resources it is has received since the earthquake, and is about to receive? No. So let us consider the quality of energy underlying and contained within the donations of money, services and goods being offered to Haiti. If that underlying quality is one of desperation, then the vibration of victim-hood is being offered to Haiti along with these donations.
But what if one sees this process as gifts being lavished upon the most royal of persons among us? These gifts then would be given out of the calmness and gentleness of Spirit. And these same gifts would be imbued with that same calmness and gentleness of Spirit.
And so I share with you that CDBaby.com will be gifting a portion of the money from all CD and mp3 sales to Haiti from now until Feb 7th. If you have been meaning to purchase one of my four albums for yourself or a friend, you can do so now and also offer a gift to those in Haiti. Go here to order now www.cdbaby.com/Search/Tm9ybWEgR2VudGlsZQ%3d%3d/0 or go to www.cdbaby.com and search under my name, Norma Gentile. For those who have followed my monthly sound healings, you might also enjoy the albums of my friends who have joined me, the singer and harpist Ruth Cunningham www.cdbaby.com/Search/UnV0aCBDdW5uaW5naGFt/0 and the Native American flute player Bradford Smith www.cdbaby.com/Search/QnJhZGZvcmQgU21pdGg%3d/0
My love, respect, and blessings to all. May the gentleness of Spirit be the wind within your Heart.
Norma
Haitian Sustainable Development Foundation
www.sustainablehaiti.org
Norma's new Meditation CD / mp3 Healing from the Bottom Up focuses on the role that the lower dimensions play in balancing, rejuvenating, and healing our bodies. This series of healing meditations can be downloaded for free from iTunes (under Norma's name in the podcast section) or ordered as a CD from her website, www.healingchants.com
Copyright 2009 Norma Gentile. www.healingchants.com
A Sound Healing By Norma Gentile
The Fork in the Path by Norma Gentile
A live concert sung by Norma Gentile with Tibetan Singing Bowls and Harmonic Overtone Chant
Meditation Chants of Hildegard von Bingen.
About Norma Gentile
Norma Gentile, sound shaman, is a natural intuitive and channel for Mary, Archangel Michael and the Hathors. She maintains a private healing practice, offering sessions in English and Spanish, as well as singing healing concerts and teaching workshops. Her CD of live sound healings, Songs of Spirit, is available in the Maat Shop. To see and hear her sound healings, articles and podcasts at her website www.healingchants.com.
Norma's CD Songs of Spirit, is available in the Ma'at Shop.
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