Barefoot Doctor - Tao of Positive Noise: How to use the fabled Taoist healing sounds for full health and magnificence

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How to use the fabled Taoist Healing sounds for full health and magnificence

Copyright Barefoot Doctor, aka Stephen Russell 2017

Published by Wayward Publications Ltd. , Edinburgh

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ISBN 978-1-912062-40-9 in ePub format

ISBN 978-1-912062-41-6 in mobi format

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Introduction

Noise is one of the greatest factors contributing to unhealthy stress, yet rather than shy away from the poison we run to it like lemmings over a cliff overloud music in bars, no thought of old-school sound-dampeners (carpets, red flocked velvet walls etc.) in restaurants and everyone shouts into the clatter, machines, engines, planes and choppers flying over, TVs on, mp3s playing and all that accompanied or vice versa by constant self-generated prefrontal lobe head-noise the tumult of whirring thoughts playing like an abrasive backdrop to it all.

Yet noise in the sense of any aural signal as opposed to silence can be hugely positive. Watch a cat purring. They do this to vibrate their flesh, blood vessels, organs and energy channels, because they know instinctively that vibration relaxes and relaxation enables optimal blood and energy flow, which is precisely what confers health.

Ancient Taoist sages were like cats in this way. With their advanced cosmological knowledge, they were fully aware the universe is built on a massive sound-wave approximately 30 light years across, giving off a sound 50 octaves below human hearing.

This sound is what the Indian yogis call the OM. This is the sound alluded to at the start of Genesis, the Western creation myth, God spoke and said let there be light, or In the beginning was the word, as in first came sound then light.

So the very building block of existence in human hands, becomes both the poison when the sound clashes, and the medicine when it harmonizes. Like life itself, it kills you in the end.

Meantime to extend life and make it as healthy, hence pleasurable as possible until that happens, the healing sounds practiced daily contribute greatly to the cause.

There are six of them one for the lungs, one for the kidneys, one for the liver, one for the heart, one for the spleen, and one for the overall energy sphere you inhabit.

The deeper and more resonantly you can tone them the better again think of a cat purring its the vibration youre after.

While performing each, picture the sound moving from your back outwards directly towards the organ, and adopt a friendly demeanor towards your organs treat them like friends with personalities. This helps transmit warmth and support to them.

Daily practice is the key here. Intermittent practice doesnt permit the cumulative effect required.

Structurally speaking you as a person are comprised of various strata.

Theres the surface self, lost in the trance of the world, lost in the story of life youve concocted, held in thrall to the identity youve created for yourself, and referenced and to varying degrees at the mercy of external conditions.

This is what Freud termed the ego. Ego is not a bad thing in itself as many mistakenly believe when they advise you to lose your ego.

You could no more operate in the world without an ego, without a story, than you could without a body.

The ego needs to be completed and healed, not vanquished or banished.

The less complete and integrated, the more you kid yourself by use of selective awareness that youre fine when youre not Freud called these lies we tell ourselves ego defenses and its these we need to overcome through self-integration.

Then theres the profound self, the consciousness organized around the rear- and mid-brain Freud called the subconscious. This is the eternal aspect of you, the witness-bearer experiencing your existence unfolding from the depths of your being.

The Taoists call this aspect of you your immortal spirit body.

The immortal spirit body is co-spatial with the physical yet exists in a different more expanded dimension. When the constructed self or ego is aligned with the immortal self, physical health is yours. The physical conforms.

But when youve lost the alignment, which alas most have, the stress-generated distortions of the ego adversely affect the immortal self it runs away from you and that leaves you wide open to all sorts of internal and hence, by extension, external disruption.

There are many ways to skin this cat to align the physical mainframe the body and all its systems with the immortal aspect of self.

Healing sounds are just one of them. But a vital one to know, they are.

Perfect for recuperation after illness, shock or loss, when physical energy and stamina is low, because all you have to do is tone the sounds. You can also combine these with movements to help move the energy and blood to the relevant parts, and there are a few sets of these movements.

In this wee book, Im presenting the sounds along with just one set of these moves.

Shortly coming too, an audio support to show the sounds in sonic form.

Not that its necessary if you concentrate and practice.

It takes time to develop resonance and get the sounds vibrating in the appropriate regions of the body. But once you have that sorted, you do notice a palpable uplift of health and stamina, positivity and will-to-live peculiar to the healing sounds practice.

These are however best combined with daily practice of qigong, martial arts and meditation, and if with serious issues, acupuncture or acupressure.

If in doubt, consult a medical practitioner.

However, if in that much doubt youd seriously consider wasting a doctors time like that, it indicates deficiency of kidney energy. And youll find the remedy to that along with all other issues in this book.

Enjoy the sounds, enjoy the effect, enjoy the practice. Because enjoying each and every moment here is the whole point of human existence and when youre enjoying it, your energy flows far better and health improves.

The sounds will increase your enjoyment of being alive and connect you psycho-sonically to a whole lineage of ingenious Taoists who practiced these daily, stretching back into the mists of time.

And now the book

The idea of Taoism

The idea of Taoism is to train you to access and identify with the eternal universal aspect of consciousness rather than the localized transient human experience and to be able to embody and maintain the intensified cognitive awareness this confers on a permanent basis, while simultaneously fully engaged in and with the human experience, thus able to maintain a transpersonal perspective in the midst of the marketplace of human life.

This bestows the practitioner with huge advantage, the fruits of which they must be mindful to share freely with others, for only through such generosity does the gift continue to grow.

Taoism proffers a plethora of methods to attain to this masterful state, all of which work synergistically so that practice in one method bolsters the effect of practice in another method and so on. Hence the more Taoist methods practiced the more exponentially faster the master develops their skill. In deftly negotiating the human experience and arriving at the other end in one piece ready to cross the great divide with a smile rather than look of terror on their face.