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    Seed Sounds for Tuning the Chakras: Vowels, Consonants, and Syllables for Spiritual Transformation
    Seed Sounds for Tuning the Chakras: Vowels, Consonants, and Syllables for Spiritual Transformation
    Seed Sounds for Tuning the Chakras: Vowels, Consonants, and Syllables for Spiritual Transformation
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    Seed Sounds for Tuning the Chakras: Vowels, Consonants, and Syllables for Spiritual Transformation

    By James D'Angelo

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    A practical guide to vocally resonating your energetic and psychological centers to balance the emotions, purify the soul, and dissipate negative states

    • Explores the intimate connections between specific sounds and syllables, the 7 chakras, and their corresponding psychological traits

    • Provides toning exercises using these seed sounds to re-tune and purify the chakras, leading to spiritual transformation and wholeness as energetic blockages and negative states are dissipated

    • Includes 66 minutes of audio tracks to guide you through each exercise and the toning of each chakra’s sounds

    Using the Sacred Alphabet--the universal sounds of all languages--sound-healing teacher James D’Angelo explores the intimate connections between vowel, consonant, and syllable combinations, each of the 7 chakras, and their corresponding psychological traits. He explains, for example, how the vowel sound “uh” connects to the root chakra and is found in such words as “support” and “trust,” words deeply linked to the emotional character of this chakra. Revealing the voice as the master instrument for transformation--attested by the spiritual traditions that use chanting as an aid to enlightenment--he provides an extensive selection of vocal exercises to re-tune and purify each chakra and dissipate any related negative states as well as exercises that incorporate multiple chakras for general well-being. The accompanying 66-minutes of audio tracks guide you through each exercise and the proper toning of each chakra’s sounds.

    In uniting these sacred seed sounds with their corresponding chakras and psychologies, the author shows how you can enhance the power of these syllables and purposefully harness them for healing, states of deep meditation, and spiritual development. By bringing you closer to the voice of the Absolute, your own voice can be the conduit to the blissful union the soul so deeply desires.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherInner Traditions/Bear & Company
    Release dateAug 22, 2012
    ISBN9781620550021
    Seed Sounds for Tuning the Chakras: Vowels, Consonants, and Syllables for Spiritual Transformation
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    James D'Angelo

    James D'Angelo, Ph.D. is an American musician, composer, educator, and workshop leader based in the United Kingdom. Since 1992 he has developed and led therapeutic sound and movement workshops in Great Britain, Europe, and the United States, and he is considered an authority on sound healing therapies.

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      Seed Sounds for Tuning the Chakras - James D'Angelo

      Dedicated to the memory of His Holiness Shantanand Saraswati (1913–1997), formerly the Shankaracharya of North India (1953–1980), from whom I received spiritual knowledge that has subtly contributed to the writing of this book.

      Somewhere deep inside there is a sound that is mine alone, and I struggle daily to hear it and tune my life to it.

      RACHEL NAOMI REMEN,

      MY GRANDFATHER’S BLESSINGS

      SEED SOUNDS FOR TUNING THE CHAKRAS

      "As sound pioneer, concert musician, music philosopher, and conduit of the perennial wisdom, James D’Angelo is a refreshingly original communicator. Ever since I first heard him, 25 years ago, enchant his audience with a thoroughly engaging presentation of sound healing, I realized that here is a man who walks his talk. James’s passionate, humble, humorous, and scholarly dedication to the transforming art of sound and voice is celebrated on every page of Seed Sounds for Tuning the Chakras. It’s a spiritual adventure with your voice, with an inventive range of vocal exercises— accessible for everyone—that are both playful and profound. I encourage all my voice students and friends dedicated to the evolution of consciousness through sound to discover the healing properties of Seed Sounds for Tuning the Chakras."

      CHLOE GOODCHILD, FOUNDER OF THE NAKED VOICEFOUNDATION AND TRAINING PROGRAM AND AUTHOR OF THE NAKED VOICE

      "James D’Angelo has created an intriguing journey into the realm of using self-created sounds for healing and transformation. Well written and finely researched, this book features unique material on the creative sources of sound, as well as exercises and recorded examples on how to apply this information. Seed Sounds for Tuning the Chakras is a fine addition to the library of anyone interested in this fascinating subject."

      JONATHAN GOLDMAN, AUTHOR OF CHAKRA FREQUENCIES AND HEALING SOUNDS AND DIRECTOR OF THE SOUND HEALERS ASSOCIATION

      "James D’Angelo’s Seed Sounds for Tuning the Chakras is an excellent resource for exploring fundamental methodology of using voice for toning exercises and chakra attunements. James’s manner of explaining the background and method of working with the chakras is a pleasing mix of traditional wisdom and contemporary insight. His introduction includes an exceptional, concise treatise on the nature of human existence and an endearing exploration into the interrelationship between sound and matter, name and form, across traditions. His wordplay while naming chakra characteristics is insightful and articulate. His accompanying audio tracks adequately demonstrate the many vowel, consonant, breath, and seed sounds he utilizes in his many explanations and exercises."

      ZACCIAH BLACKBURN, PH.D., DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER OF LIGHT INSTITUTE OF SOUND HEALING AND SHAMANIC STUDIES AND DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION AT THE INTERNATIONAL SOUND HEALING NETWORK

      Acknowledgments

      My thanks to Georgina D’Angelo for all her help in proofreading and editing of this book. Thanks also to those who have inspired me by their work in the holistic healing field: Don Campbell, Michael Deason-Barrow, Christopher Gibbs, Jonathan Goldman, Gabriele Gschwendtner, Chloe Goodchild, Susan Hale, Andrew Hodges, Reuben Kay, Margaret Koolman, Fabien Maman, Solveig McIntosh, Dale Pond, and Frank Perry.

      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction. The Spiritual Path

      Chapter 1. Creation as Vibration

      Chapter 2. The Nature of the Chakras

      Chapter 3. The Psychology of the Chakras as Related to Vowels and Consonants

      Chapter 4. The Root Chakra

      Chapter 5. The Sacral Chakra

      Chapter 6. The Solar Plexus Chakra

      Chapter 7. The Heart Chakra

      Chapter 8. The Throat Chakra

      Chapter 9. The Brow Chakra

      Chapter 10. The Crown Chakra

      Chapter 11. All Chakras and the Consonant M

      Chapter 12. Toning Practices for the Chakras

      Appendix I. Preliminary Exercises for the Voice

      Appendix II. Discovering Your Fundamental Tone

      Appendix III. Using a Musical Scale for Toning

      Appendix IV. Vowel/Consonant Combinations for Two Chakras

      Appendix V. Symbolic Shapes of the Alphabet

      Endnotes

      Recommended Reading

      Audio Tracks Directory

      Index

      INTRODUCTION

      The Spiritual Path

      We are all on the spiritual path. It does not matter whether this truth is an awareness in our consciousness or lies hidden deep within our subconscious. Whatever the activity of humanity, at its root it is linked to the one universal consciousness that we have called God, the Absolute,*1 Creator, Supreme Being, Brahman, Allah, and many other names. We cannot conceive of our ultimate beginnings that spawned intelligent life. All of the major spiritual traditions acknowledge a progenitor being/force that desired to create material worlds, from subatomic particles to humanity, to the largest galaxies, all imbued with a substance that is an infinitely powerful aspect of itself. In Hinduism this essence in individuals is described as the atman, the all-knowing pure and blissful Self.

      What is the nature of this Creation? With the exception of ourselves, all expresses order and harmony, and Creation is unfolding as intended.*2 Even events considered to be disastrous, such as earthquakes and erupting volcanoes, are part of that order and harmony. They are the Earth’s way of renewing and cleansing itself. The aspect of Creation that has not attained this harmony is our psychology, the life of the soul. The Absolute did not establish a world of human perfection in which our mind states and our overall health would not go astray. Rather, it took on the role of a cosmic dramatist by not programming sentient beings, but giving them the choice of remembering that their knowing union with the Absolute is the source of harmony, peace, and bliss. This is the primary paradox, and paradox is part of the spiritual path. It is paradoxical because the Absolute would know that humanity would forget its existence, but give us the means of finding the way back. This is the greatest drama there is.

      Each of us is endowed with a soul, the center point of which, according to Hindu theology, lies between the heart and the throat. It is our inner organ that determines to what extent we are reflecting our divine essence or, conversely, acting as a separate, independent creature with its own power to do as it pleases. The purer its nature, the more the soul can guide us into a state of unconditional happiness where the heart is fully open and the mind quiet. It is a condition without cause and the most healing state we can achieve. It is as though we have tuned into a different frequency, a much finer vibration of another dimension.

      Any distortions in the soul’s frequencies are the result of all the experiences it has accumulated in its journey through many lives. The identification with the material world with its myriad events and conflicting emotions becomes ever greater, functioning almost as a prison. Yet the soul’s underlying desire is to have conscious reunification with the Absolute. It is summarized in the dictum, "In this world but not of this world." Herein lies another paradox.

      So each of us is a noncorporeal soul dwelling temporarily in a physical body with all its senses. The soul’s frequencies are distorted, literally out of tune, because it has lost its way due to the domination of the senses and the discursive mind. These disturbances, which need to be healed, are first experienced in our psychology, and this has consequences at both the physical and spiritual levels. Whatever path we choose to return to the source of our being, it is ultimately about the healing of the soul. Healing is the operative word as opposed to curing. Healing—to make whole—is directed toward the finer aspects of our nature and alters our psychology for the better. This often carries over into the physical body. The pathway toward this healing is usually threefold: Receiving spiritual knowledge from self-realized teachers, whether through the spoken or written word; living that knowledge that has imprinted itself on our consciousness; and establishing practices and rituals that awaken and purify our soul life.

      The purpose of this book is to provide one of these ritual pathways via awakening and resonating to the innate vibratory powers of vowels, consonants, and seed syllables for transformation and healing. By investing them with meaning we can then consciously use them to re-tune and purify

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