To often we are our harshest critics. Our bodies, our hair our eye color may not be what we want them to be so we judge them as unattractive. We often do the same thing with our voices.  Think about the last time you heard a recording of your voice, even your own answer machine, or maybe a Karaoke machine. Does it sound like you ? Do you like what you hear ? Well be careful your voice holds powerful vibrations and it need not always be a pleasant sound to bring about a positive vibration.

I have been teaching toning now for several years now and have some wonderful healing experiences brought about with the vibration of voice. I have also listen to others talk about the angelic soounds of toning and healing. How harmonious these groups have sounded, being certain to OM in, or tone out just the right note. I  don't want to put a damper on the wonderful sounds some people have taken away from these groups, however, the wonderful sounds may not be part of the healing process. 

Let me share a story with you, one I am not very proud of.  In one of the first toning gatherings I every attended, I stopped toning because it sounded angelic, but I am a high soprano with a trained voice. The tones I carried that day brought others along with me and lifted them to great heights. That was when I stopped toning. Why, you might ask. Because the tones were not of spirit but rather of ego. It felt good to have everyone in the room try to follow the high notes.  Notes that for most of them were well out of reach and causing stress not meditation. Notes that were right for me but most likely were not right for them. When the group took its first break, I asked the woman sitting next to me why she was not toning, not a single sound had come out of her mouth so far.  She looked at me kindly and said she couldn't tone it would sound awful and that the sound so far had been so wonderful. SLAP, it hit me hard and fast, this teacher had just learned a valuable lesson. When the group resumed I did not tone. I stood behind the woman who had not toned - I whispered in her ear, I asked her to try, with great reluctance she did, and indeed the sounds were dreadful. The sounds she made climbed so high that the screech of it hurt your ears. Some of the others in the group covered their ears, she only toned louder, now swept away in the vibration her eyes closed and her heart charka now open tears began to run down her cheeks, she began to shake and then laugh as the tones went from high pitched shrills to lower gentler tones.  Healing has begun to manifest, she began to breathe deeper and her face was filled with peace. 

The message of this article, make joyful noise. No one said it had to be beautiful noise. The tones  you emote need to be honest expressions of your emotional release. Fear, pain, emotional dis-ease are deeply rooted. Why shouldent the healing come from a deep place. Bless the angelic sounds when they come in spirit and celebrate the less than beautiful sounds when they are needed. It is often in what we think to be the less beautiful sound that travel the angels of healing.

Keep Breathing, Keep toning, Keep healing !