Music & Energy

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In the beginning of the 80ies I labelled my work as "Music & Energy" as I had begun a long study of the human energy fields with our teacher Bob Moore. This title has kept its actuality for me over all these decades.

 

Both music and energy are basically invisible. To understand the subtle effects of one upon the other is therefor a study of the invisible. We need to aquire tools and a discipline of work that guarantee us a scientific approach not based on ego. By scientific I mean a combination of western and eastern understanding of science, not just intellect.

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As a composer and musician I cannot help but feel that rhythm, melody, any repetitive series of chords have the tendency to trap our mind. I therefor avoid them most of the time.

 

80 % of what we can do with sound and music depends on our state of consciousness including the one of the listener and receiver. The other 20% include technique, energies of the moment and the quality of the instrument used. The key remaining our consciousness. No need to buy expensive intruments if our consciousness is not developped. That is why in my teaching I concentrate on development.

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The longer I work with music and energy the more I can see that both can be done so much deeper and with lasting effects when we team up with the 'specialists' of the invisible dimension. This can only be done successfully if we have reduced our ego and are in an attitude of service and compassion. See my recent book on the 'Origins of Inspiration'.

 

As a musician I have been researching for more than 30 years now into the effects of certain types of souns and music. It is mainly about awareness of how sound can guide us to little explored areas of our body or our consciousness. This research into the effects of sound on our energy fields remains though subordinate, in my experience, to the understanding of the deeper causes behind illness and other disharmonious states. That is why the real indepth work on inner transformation always has a great priority in my courses. It is this real transformation that sets free our natural intuition and compassion - our real guides in all healing work, with or without sounds.

 

There are three ways of doing this:  1)  music therapy - as a dialogue between people with sound / 2) sound healing - as a treatment combined with a conscious work on our energy fields / 3) self development through sound either through listening to specific sounds or by singing or playing, again combined with directing awareness and using energy transformation exercises.

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The subtle and lasting effects of sound depend on, as I see it, 5 FACTORS:  

• The quality of the sound source (e.g. the music instrument)

• The musical elements used (e.g. rhythm, loudness, scale, mode, tuning system, etc.)

• The receptivity of the receiver

• The energies present in this time and space

• The level of consciousness the musician is working with

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All these factors are based on the level of consciousness of the musician. That is why we need to start to understand how to raise their level of consciousness above all.

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Using the five elements gives us a means to understand how sound and our subtle energy fields interlink. It gives us the possibility to know what to do when for instance someone is lacking 'earth' in their music or 'space'. Listening to someone play or sing gives us a direct insight into their make up. Self development through sound is particularly interesting as it can lead us all the way through joy into extasy, meaning a direct communion with the Divine.

 

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