Refer to my earlier article on Mantra which is one form of sound therapy, let’s  turn next to a very useful sound therapy cum qigong method which is called The Healing Sounds.

You might ask why and how sound can heal the illness of a person.

Illness in this case is not the external type but rather the  internal sickness which is developed through “stuffing and accumulating of negative emotions”. Do understand that thoughts and emotions are just energy. Some of us are taught to suppress/pent up our feelings and emotions for the pure sake of politeness, dignity, productivity or survival. If this suppression is taken too far and we hold back and “choke” our emotions, the energy of the emotions will remain inside the body. These negative energies continue to condense, coagulate and harden to form energy blockages. These blockages restrict energy flow which can then cause illness.

Furthermore, some of us might also accumulate chi/qi blockages from past traumatic memory/experiences during the past and our childhoods that are so physically and emotionally painful that we can barely recall them if at all. Again over a period this old energy will condense and form an energy blockage.

The Chinese believe that the aforesaid  energy blockages created by emotions tend to cluster and connect with the five yin organs. They understand that certain types of emotional energy are attach to specific organs namely:

  • fears clings to the kidneys
  • anger to the liver
  • overexcitement and anxiety grip the heart
  • worry lies in the spleen
  • grief in the lungs.

Hence, the Healing sound were devised to cleanse the negative emotional energy from the organs and reestablish their energetic vitality.

How is this done? By directing one’s awareness and making the appropriate sound, the organ is vibrated, thereby shaking loose the extraneous negative chi.

Still not convinced? Think then about singing which releases and express emotion and vibrates the lower torso where most of the organs are located.

The Healing Sound is merely a more systematic, distilled and specific way to purge emotional energy.

Next article : Kidney Healing Sound