The Miracle of Sound

Sound is an is an amazing thing .It's all around us,always, constantly feeding into us, vibrating us down to the deepest cellular level as we are entrained by it.Sometimes there are qualities of sound which can “grate” against us and can lead our systems down an inharmonious path.
Imagine living near where the planes take off from an airport or the jackhammer on a busy city street being used by the men in hardhats.How to live with that daily! Yes, we humans can be very adaptable creatures, but how far can the human system adapt to the point where that system rebels by breaking down and gives us the migraine, the tense hunched shoulders, or the bloodshot eyes from lack of sleep.
It’s amazing the range of what sound can effect. Now given the other side of things, the beautiful sound of green grass “singing” after a rainfall,or the deep-throated sound of the Tuva throat singers vibrating and jostling our chakras as we listen to them.What a range and polarity!
In the endless dialogue of daily and nightly sound, right down to our cellular level we are being molded and shape-shiflted for better or for worse ,in sickness or in health. That marriage between us and the vibrations which we take in, steers us in many directions.
I’m thinking that maybe all matter is really a sound which “congeals” and takes a form, which can seem more solid or more invisible as according to how high or low it’s vibratory “song” is. That also says to me that nothing is ever motionless no matter how slow the vibration or how low the song sung.
The stone has it’s quiet low song as much as the bird has it’s own as it sings on the branch of the tree.I think that our Native elders had it right when they taught that all things in this world have a life and a being, the stone,the tree and the wind. Think of how much richer our lives would be if we recognized our bretherin in this way.Would some of us be as lonely as we say we are now if we were to forge a relationship with the stone or the tree and recognize them as sentient beings, hearing our every footstep,sigh or joyous laughter? Why they might have some great wisdom to impart to us in maybe our most difficult of times.
Sound does transport us to other dimensions and states of being. I know when I tone a sound like “OM”, it travels to my first chakra ,through my legs and into the earth, feeling grounded and realizing the true liberation of being in the moment. For me the “AHH” sound opens my heart space creating a warm feeling radiating outwards..
So let us truly find our song inside ,the medicine we need to tone, sing or speak ourselves to a greater awareness and greater communication with each other and the worlds around us