Six Healing Sounds Meditation

This is an article that a friend sent to me. I found it interesting because it struck a chord with my spiritual nature and provided a deep philosophical insight into the recesses of the human condition. I thought it would be interesting to share and to hear other people's thoughts on it. Here it is:

The Six Healing Sounds is a simple practice in which we release negative emotions that become stored in our internal organs through the stresses of daily life. An excess of such emotions impairs the proper functioning of the organs and leads to illness.

With our focus and attention, we bring in positive emotions to restore the balance, and feel centred, at peace and happiness within. When there is stability within, external forces have much less power to influence us.

The Six Healing Sounds is a practice of the Tao. The Tao is a way of life, based on being in harmonious flow with nature and the universe, developed thousands of years ago. The Tao practices remained in esoteric circles until Master Mantak Chia developed the Universal Tao System and began teaching the practices. The Six Healing Sounds meditation was taught to me by Master Mantak Chia.

In the West, we often tend to focus our attention outwards. We are driven to achieve, to improve our status, and we attempt to change our surroundings to suit us (often by use of force). The outward focus means that we accept things to be true when they are tangible or measurable.

In the East, traditionally the attention is turned inwardly, through meditation. The inner focus brings understanding of how the intangible can give rise to the tangible. After meditating, the ancient Tao masters discovered a world within themselves that is a reflection or a microcosm of the external world.

If the essence of our internal world reflects the outside world, then what would the world be like if change began from within? It’s a question I’ll be exploring for a while, but I have noticed an increase in the frequency of serendipitous events when I meditate regularly.

In turning their attention inwardly, and through years of practice, trial and error and reflection, Tao masters came to understand that each of the major internal organs (heart, spleen, lungs, kidneys, liver) have an associated colour, sound, season, element, positive emotion and negative emotion.

Particular sounds were found to resonate with a specific organ, allowing excess heat and negative emotions to be released through exhalation when making that sound. This is the basis of the simple and powerful practice of the Six Healing Sounds.