Music as Life Force Energy - Louise Montello

Essential Musical Intelligence is your natural ability to use music and sound as self-reflecting, transformational tools to facilitate total health and well-being.

The breath/energy realm provides a link between the denser material body and the more subtle realm of the mind. According to Sufi master Hazrat Inayat Khan, "The breath is the result of a current [which] runs not only through the body, but also through all the planes of man’s existence ….the current of the whole of nature is the real breath………..It is the one breath and yet it is many breaths."

Prana, the vital essence of breath which, in the Sanskrit language means "the very life," is the energy that underlies all activity, both physical and mental. From the perspective of Oriental medicine, the Western medical approach of treating disease solely on the cellular level is superficial. Eastern practitioners believe that true healing takes place at a subtler level – that of the energy body, the vehicle of consciousness and mental events. By understanding and working with breath/energy, you can directly affect both mental and physical states.

The energy body is actually the vibrational framework around which the physical body is formed. Sound is the audible expression of Spirit which enlivens every cell of our bodies and all life on the planet. Kirlian photography shows us that even after a piece of a leaf is cut away and discarded, the energetic structure of the leaf still pulses with life. A person who loses a limb still feels discomfort where the body part once existed. Even though the matter component of the limb is absent, the energetic framework still functions.

© "Theosophical Digest" (1st Quarter 2003) published by Theosophical Publishing House, P.O. Box 270, Wheaton, Illinois 60189-027, USA. (Website: www.theosophy.ph/index.htm). Reprinted with permission.

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