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.
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.
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.
477. Transform Your Reality | Harnessing the Power of Intention
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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