526. Crystal Bowls: Sound Therapy for Mindfulness and Meditation

Mike Parsons

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Using Sound to Facilitate Rest

This is something I use to help other people, generally, when I was using them more, back then. I have not got a big enough office here to have the seven big bowls that we have, the coloured ones, there is not enough room. So I have just got one smaller one that I occasionally use if I want to help someone focus, or in meditation. If you engage the sound, it can bring you into a place where you are at rest. So I do use it that way occasionally, but I have never really used it particularly for myself. It depends entirely really on what people need.

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Intention Carried Through Sound

So I could use it to release a healing frequency. Again, it is my intention. When I play the sound, the sound carries my intention. If my intention is for you to experience peace or rest or joy or love or healing, then my intention is carried. And if you receive that intention and agree with it, and come into agreement for whatever it is I am releasing, then that begins to engage and touch you. You can use it in meditation just to focus your thinking and your mind on the sound, or you can use breathing techniques alongside it or independently of it, just to actually get your mind focused.

A lot of people struggle getting their mind to stop going round and round and round and thinking of things all the time. When it comes to meditation, you are fixing your thoughts on God to engage with God, and if there are lots of other thoughts going around, it can make it really quite difficult. So sometimes breaking the thought patterns that we have with a sound, so that we focus our thoughts on the sound, or even with breathing, slowly breathing in and breathing out very deeply and very slowly, can just get our mind off our thinking. Some people’s minds are like washing machines that just go round and round. They just cannot turn it off. They cannot come to a place of rest.

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Helping Focus and Engagement

Sometimes people need something to distract them and to focus their thinking so that meditation becomes easier for them and engaging God becomes easier. I have used it in lots of different ways, and I have used it in activations. It is not as easy in an activation when you are on the other end of a computer and a microphone. Sometimes you do not feel quite the same as what I am feeling if I am playing it in the room, but my intention is the same. Sometimes it can be quite distorted when you are trying to record it, which is not always the best.

I have used it in groups of people to focus a healing intention so that they would receive healing. When I first started using the bowls, we had a group of people who were interested to try them out, and we just practised intention. We went around the room and each person would play the bowl. I showed how to do it, and then I encouraged each person to focus their intention on a word and then play the bowl and release the word through the bowl. The rest of us would just receive what word they released.

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Different Responses to Sound

It really was quite amazing. One person got every single word spot on. Others got the impression of the word. So if the word was peace, some people would feel calm, some would feel different words describing a peaceful rest, or other words they felt the intention in a way that they related to with a particular word. Some would say tranquil, others would say restful, but most people got it. So then we started to use that in helping people, releasing those sounds over people.

But some people might find it helpful and some people might find it distracting. The first time I played it to someone, one person said, “That is really piercing,” because it was hitting against something in their mind, so it felt quite uncomfortable. Another person said, “Wow, that is amazing.” Not everyone experiences the sound or the frequency or the intention in the same way. Sometimes it made the recordings quite difficult to hear what was going on, so I do not do it that often now in recordings.

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511. From Selfishness to Generosity

Mike Parsons

If you are believing for something, you cannot be negative about it or double-minded. You need to live in the reality that you have already received it. Jesus said to pray believing that you have received, and you will receive.

Of course, this can easily drift into selfishness. Bigger house, bigger car, better job, more of this and more of that. The real question is why we want something. Is it simply for ourselves, or is it so that it can be a blessing? God wants to bless us so that we can bless others. There is always a receiving so that we can give.

Some approaches to manifesting reality are rooted in self-centredness. The principles may appear to work, but they do not bring joy or fulfilment. People can have more possessions and still be no happier. Materialism cannot meet a spiritual need. At best, it offers a temporary fix. God is not opposed to blessing us, but the purpose of blessing is always relational and outward-facing.

Everything operates at a frequency. Matter, thoughts, intentions, desires, all of it carries energy. When you intentionally release a desire aligned with God’s heart and purpose, that intention carries a frequency. It can connect with another person who is aligned in spirit.

This is something I experienced personally. When God spoke to me about having another relationship, it was not even on my radar. I was content living on my own and thought I did not need the complexity of relationship. When God challenged me, I initially questioned it. But then I realised my thinking had been centred on my own contentment rather than on being a blessing to someone else.

If I am loved unconditionally by God and I do not share that love, then I am actually withholding something that was never meant to be kept to myself. My thinking shifted. The question then became how this could even happen, since I had not dated since I was sixteen, which was many decades earlier.

When I asked God how this would work, He reminded me that I already knew how to connect. That meant I had to act. I chose to release my intention, carrying the frequency of a desire to love someone, to bless someone and to make them happy. That intention connected with someone whose spirit was open to receiving love.

I am not saying there is only one possible person, but I did find the right person for me. When we eventually met, I knew in my spirit that this was the person I had connected with through intention and desire. I did not explain that on the first meeting, of course. That would not have gone down well. But within minutes, we were talking about deep things. There was an ease and depth that was unusual.

I engaged her at a spiritual level, even though she did not initially know that was what was happening. She felt it. She sensed a level of connection she had not experienced before. What I was doing was simply mirroring what God had done with me.

God had drawn me into first love, into my origin and identity in Him. That restoration opened the door for me to love another in the same way. I never believed God could restore my ability to experience first love. I thought that part of me had been lost through pain and disappointment earlier in life. I had closed down emotionally to protect myself.

God brought healing. Then He restored my capacity for first love. I fell in love, but I fell in love after choosing to love. That was the difference. I did not start with physical attraction or emotional intensity. I engaged first in the spirit.

When we met again, we sat by a lake and talked for hours. Time disappeared. I could see into her heart, the hurt, the caution, the pain from past experiences. In that moment, I knew I had a choice. I could choose to love her unconditionally and create a safe environment for her to heal and open again.

That is what God does with us. He chooses to love us. I chose to love her. I gave her time and space, creating safety rather than pressure. As I engaged her spirit with mine, she gradually opened. I fell in love, and with that came the emotions of first love, but without the immaturity, fear or hormonal confusion of adolescence. It was purer.

God restored my ability to love fully. I opened the garden of my heart and shared who I really was. She felt it, even before she understood it. At one point she said, “You are getting under my skin in a good way. What are you doing?” I explained that I was engaging her spirit, something she had never experienced before.

What had died in a previous relationship was awakened again. I discovered who I truly was. Romantic, expressive, affirming, generous, desiring to bless and serve. I realised those qualities had always been part of me, but they had been buried.

This restoration began with a simple question: how do I connect with the right person? The answer was intention. I released desire, purpose and frequency, and I trusted that connection would happen.

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