The Chakras and Sound - a modern miscommunication
Many people come to me asking for a specific note to treat a specific chakra with the understanding that this note will impact that chakra. There is no evidence to suggest that the note of a bowl corresponds to a Chakra. The notation system is a modern Western creation.
Lets break this down logically:
The initial creation of the western scale can be traced back to around 1000 AD by Italian music theorist and pedagogue of High medieval music, Guido of Arezzo. A Benedictine monk, he is regarded as the inventor, or by some, developer, of the modern staff notation that had a massive influence on the development of Western musical notation.
The Chakras are a complex and ancient energy system that originated in India. They were first mentioned in the Vedas, ancient sacred texts of spiritual knowledge dating from 1500 to 1000 BC.
”Over the past hundred years, the concept of the chakras, or subtle energy centers within the body, has seized the Western imagination more than virtually any other teaching from the Yoga tradition. Yet, as with most other concepts deriving from Sanskrit sources, the West (barring a handful of scholars) has almost totally failed to come to grips with what the chakra-concept meant in its original context and how one is supposed to practice with them.” Christopher Wallace
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So my question is, how can this system of energy centres in the body related to a musical scale that was established in Europe around 1000 AD?
This is a topic that goes deep but to keep with the subject of this post allow me to very briefly elaborate on how i use this system in my work.
It is the Its less about the exact note relating to a chakra and more about the frequency of the bowl and its impact on that chakra centre in the body.
The note of D, for example, is more often than not a balanced tone usually a medium frequency and therefore great for balance whereas a bowl with lower frequency is good for grounding and calming. Science! People tend to think the note of the bowl will be related to the exact chakra but that really doesn’t make sense and is lacking substance.
All notes can be used in a variety of ways. What’s most important is your own resonance with a note and frequency and understanding what that frequency can offer to all the body and energetic centres.
