JOY AND HAPPINESS – SUFFERING 

 SORROW AND GRIEF #6

Descending from above to below 

AIR (Fifth and Fourth Chakra - Creative Expression and Love)

Incense

The incense offering is the most potent antidote against evil forces and it is important to chant before making the incense offering to release the power of the plant.

Incense can be considered a spiritual shower that creates harmony and dispels dark forces without and also within. We can hum, whistle or chant something simple to release the spirit of the plant for healing.

Sound

Special songs and chants have the power to awaken the dormant and reveal the hidden and stir the energies that heal and glorify. Sound shatters resistances and barriers including those to the mind and heart. It also clears dark forces.

 Sounds (Tibetan gongs, crystal bowls, rattles, drums, a didgeridoo,) chants, songs and music with the right vibration and intention can work miracles.

If you amplify the frequency of sound the structure of matter can change. Sound can levitate, move kidney stones into a better position for treatment, shatter a glass, drill a hole in metal, heat water and kill cancer cells. Sound can heal and Credo Mutwa, a Zulu prophet, believed the right sound could heal almost anything. 

"Ah, music! Sacred tongue of God. I hear Thee calling, and I come!” Confucius

"Music is the easiest method of meditation. 

Whoever can let him/herself dissolve into music 

has no need to seek anything else to dissolve into." Osho

Osho, the fallen guru, who turned to the dark side, was a brilliant teacher who also designed music meditations to dance to which were profound. There is an ashram devoted to his work in India and the music to these meditations can be found online.

God protected the psalmist by surrounding him 

with sounds of deliverance.

The bible is replete with descriptions of the power of music. Sound brought down the walls of Jericho. Trumpets sounded on mount Sinai when Moses received the ten commandments. The Levites were appointed to create music in the temple. Sometimes in battle they were sent out ahead of the warriors singing songs of deliverance. The Lemba the black Jews of Southern Africa migrated down the east coast of Africa with a Sacred Drum to protect them on their travels as did the Arc of the Covenant and sound the Israelites. The harp was used as an instrument of healing. David psalms were originally sang - their music has been lost.

Our brain wiring is highly influenced and wired by the songs we heard as teenagers and until late into our twenties. Music takes different pathways in the brain. Dementia patients come "alive" when these previously wired songs are played to them. Music is used for Parkinson's disease and depression.

Pranayama is the yoga science of using the breath - the element of Air - for meditation. The diaphragm is the main muscle in the body that controls our breath and helps to raise our energy from our survival chakras above the diaphragm into the growth centers above.

FIRE (Third Chakra)

Fire of warmth, of transformation, light of inspiration, be in this flame and burn within.

The Third Chakra is our power center - the way we make our way in the world. Fire can inspire and transform but also destroy, which is often a default for us, the Talking Beings. We need

Fire and Water (also created as steam) to cleanse and purify. The Native American Sweat Lodge is an example where all the Chakras can be aligned. One sits on the earth, water poured on hot rocks creates steam and a cleansing perspiration, aromatic, sacred plants create incense smoldering on hot rocks, chanting, meditation and coherence complete this powerful ritual.

WATER

Waters of wisdom, waters of love, grace of life, be present here, and flow within.

The Growing Beings are of the water element. Sacred plants enhance the vibration of water which has its own resonance, memory and consciousness. When we immerse in a bath primed with their energy we can heal. 80% of our cells are comprised of water and can align with right intention with this resonance. A sacred bath can also be empowered by incense, sound, music, prayer and meditation much like the Sweat Lodge.

COMBINING ALL THE ELEMENTS

We do not always have the advantage of bathing in pristine pools of water but we can make use of water (or even steam if we have access to a sauna) and we can certainly empower bathwater using the elements and the Beings of nature. Emoto and German scientists have confirmed that when you expose water to a high, positive, love vibration the resonance of the water changes. We can create our own healing bath at home. Shower first to cleanse for the ritual. Light a candle, burn incense, play sacred music or sound, place sacred aromatic plants in the water - sage, cedar, lavender, rosemarie. We can align with this high vibration in the bath and heal. Meditate, imagine what you want and breath it in as white light and breath out whatever is getting in the way as thick black smoke. 

Have a sensory, meditative experience with intention. Get out of the bath, dry off, let the water out with the thick black smoke and walk away not looking back. Nature and the elements can be helpful in many creative ways - invent your own rituals with the Beings and the elements in and outside of home.

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                    Fire and Water Meditation