Mastering Healing
by Wayne Perry
All pain and disease is a result of a lack of vibrational harmony in the body. This results in vibrational dissonance. This dissonance may manifest on any, or all levels in the body - physical, emotional, mental, etc.
The chief characteristic of this dissonance is resistance. And what we resist persists.
This resistance causes us to see our bodies, the circumstances of our lives, our environment, our relationships, and the world, from the perspective of being at the effect of these conditions and our perception of reality, rather than seeing ourselves at the cause and the source of our reality.
Mastering healing involves going to the source and core of our awareness so that with complete self-honesty and clarity of intention, we may first identify areas of resistance within ourselves. Then without self-judgment, consciously choose resonance instead of resistance, thereby, taking more empowered action and responsibility for our life, health and happiness. This practice also brings the issues that we then transmute and release from resistance to a higher and healthier, resonant vibration.
Now, in order for this healing process to sustain, build and integrate into our bodies' full awareness, it is vitally important to understand the power of commitment and its relationship to intention and love.
Commitment to our values, ideals, beliefs, principles, spiritual practices, God and self creates the foundation on which not only our character, but our vibrational health and awareness is built.
Commitment to our word and to the people in our lives (all of whom mirror every issue that needs healing within us) extends and expands the limitless healing potential of our relationships with others and ourselves.
This intention to commitment then brings the quality of love within these relationships to the optimal harmony and healing experience.
In summary, our life, love, relationships and healing will be successful in direct proportion to the agreements and commitments that we make and keep with ourselves and others; and according to the level and clarity of our intention.
Point of Light
Autumn 1999 Issue
by Sven Hosford
Wayne Perry's voice is a sharp yet comforting baritone. Attention-getting, but rich with knowledge and experience. "My work is designed to educate and empower people to some of the simple techniques and universal principles at work in a person's overall health: physically, emotionally, mentally and spiritually."
His clients have minor and major physical problems, also mental and emotional concerns, like stress and anxiety. His voice explains, "I show people simple ways to use their own body - which is a vibrational vessel, basically; it's literally made of sound frequency and vibration - and use toning, breathwork, vocal harmonics and audio tapes to reach their goals as far as healing and empowerment." His clients are young people, old people, animals, even birds.
It's amazing that his powerful, mellifluous voice can speak with such quick enthusiasm on the subject of the healing power of sound. "Everything is frequency and vibration in the body, so any condition can be treated with sound. It's easier in the long run to do preventative work with sound; the techniques work on all levels at once."
You may have met Wayne. He's been at all the major health and wellness shows in Pittsburgh and Cleveland in the last 5 years, doing seminars on using the voice as a healing tool, doing sound diagnosis and selling his tapes and CDs. He has the quiet flamboyance of a rock star (in fact, he used to sing professionally) with his longish hair and colorful clothes. But its his voice that grabs and focuses your attention on his message.
That voice is what he uses as a tool for analysis of the physical body. "The voice is my primary diagnostic tool. It's the easiest, most non-invasive, not to mention cheapest, way to diagnose another person's condition." He uses his own voice in a sort of auditory dowsing technique where he tones into various parts of the body, hearing and sensing which notes are absorbed or sound out of tune. Aound always goes where it's needed," he explained. Research has demonstrated that certain organs or systems resonate, in general within certain tonal ranges. With his own voice he can detect conditions or problems by hearing where dissonance occurs.
He doesn't rely just on his own perception, however, but combines intuition and scientific tools to chart a clients voice. "I also use a chromatic tuner and a microphone. I have the person speak into it answering specific questions designed to move the brain waves to bring out the optimal frequency of the body. These questions are designed to bring about certain emotional responses and mental responses, such as asking about your family or giving you a challenging math problem. This allows me to get the full range of notes that you use while speaking." This range is another clue. An absence of a note or a preponderance of a note may indicate trouble in a physical part of the
body.
"The voice accurately reflects the brainwave patterns. Brainwave patterns reflect all activity of the physical body. Research has shown that a frequency missing in the brainwave (missing in the physical body) will also be missing in the speaking voice. Combine that with knowledge that certain notes/frequencies relate to certain parts of the body. Voice analysis shows which notes are in a speaking voice. The normal speaking voice reflects a pattern of brainwaves. The body has thousands of individual notes, but the 12-note scale establishes a grid-point foundation of charting the voice."
He also uses muscle testing and dowsing rods, depending on condition and client, and gets a feel for how much the client's constitution responds to sound. this thorough diagnosis gives indications of current health patterns as well as past and possible future health problems.
How is this possible? How is it that something as simple as sound can be used as a healing tool? Wayne explains, "The body is made of vibration. It's 70 percent water, and only 30 percent solid and we know there is no such thing as solid. Teeth and bones vibrate at a slower rate; muscles, skin and connective tissue vibrates at a higher rate, and fluids vibrate at even higher rate. The body is just energy vibrating at different rates and frequencies. Now contemplate the fact that thoughts and feelings are things as well. They're simply vibrating at very very high frequencies."
"On the physical level, each person has a unique matrix of frequencies and tones, their own signature sound frequency if you will. Systems, organs, tissues, all vibrating at different rates creating a unique sound. Wveryone is kind of like a walking symphony orchestra. It's in identifying which frequencies are dissonant, or out of balance or weak or diffused and causing imbalance - that's what sound healing is all about."
"Any physical disease can be traced to dormant or dissonant frequency. if you look at cancer cells under a microscope, they are disordered and scattered and diffused. Healthy cells are moving harmonically with a sense of balance and ease."
He got started on this path, of course, because of his own history of painful episodes with kidney stones. Surgery was recommended. He chose to explore holistic methods,even though he was not yet familiar with any of them, but found the holistic healers, like his doctors, widely disagreed over causes and treatments. He got some refief from supplements, but didn't find a cure.
Then he started doing sound work. Using a tone generator, and experiment with his voice, he discovered that he used excessive amounts of E, F and F# in his speaking voice (F relates to kidneys, of course). The next time he got a stone he used breathing, visualization, and his voice, and passed the stone in 8
hours instead of the usual 6 to 8 weeks.
He was hooked. With more toning over a longer period of time, he went on to fix a painful knee, TMJ, and allergies. He also noticed a balancing of his emotions, deeper meditations and a deepening of his spiritual work.
"Edgar Cayce was quoted in the 30's or 40's as saying sound would be the medicine of the future. Well the future is now."
Today after diagnosing a client, Wayne may tone with his own voice into chakras, or have the client do the toning. This treatment supports a balancing of a lack or abundance of a certain frequency or note. During a healing session, he may have the client do breathwork or focus on a color. Each color has a corresponding sound frequency, and enhances the vibration. For longer term care, he recommends that the client do their own toning and breathwork, supported with audio tapes, and trusting their own intuition. In fact he is adamant about trusting your own higher self. "Be open to new things, listen to what your doctor or chiropractor has to say, or what any other type of new age healer has to say for that matter, but always trust your own intuition."
Sounds like the voice of reason.
Let the Sound Begin:
An Interview with Sound Healer, Wayne Perry
by Judith and William Munns
Judith begins: When I was twelve, I was asked to entertain patients in a mental hospital. I was amazed to see how easily and dramatically my music affected those troubled people. After a moment or two, their interest was caught, and I discovered that I could influence their emotions. The roomful of fidgety and distracted people soon become calm and peaceful. As I watched their unguarded expressions from the stage, the music I chose to play made them smile, dance in their seats or frown and fidget.
Since those long-ago experiences, my interest in the vibration we call sound has grown, so it was with a sense of anticipation and discovery that I attended a recent three-day sound healing workshop with Wayne Perry, an acknowledged leader in the field.
Beginning the workshop in an observer mode which soon became wholehearted participation, I listened as Perry's voice became every instrument in a symphony and then, as if that was not enough, became the entire choir. He is living proof that the human voice is the ultimate instrument and that vocal harmonics can produce the sound of whistling wind as well as deep and resonant bass strings, to say nothing of flying cosmic angels! After his latest workshop in Seattle, my husband William and I met with Wayne Perry, and took the welcome opportunity to chat with him about his sound healing mission.
William: I understand that you were once a Chicago Jazz singer. How did your career move into healing and toning?
Wayne: It was my interest in metaphysics which led to my LA radio show, and more recently to my own cable TV show called Heartouch, and then the universe decided that it was time for a virtual sound therapy revolution!
Judith: During our weekend intensive, Wayne, I was fascinated with your ability to create overtones as well as your ability to teach others to create them. For instance, I would never have believed that I could begin to make sounds anything like the sounds of the famous Tibetan monks! Could you explain what overtoning is and why it is important to healing?
Wayne: I believe that the human voice is the most naturally effective healing sound on the planet. If the eyes are windows to the soul, then the voice is the passage to the heart. This basic understanding has led to an extraordinary revolution in blending ancient vocal healing traditions with modern technological research and unique recording technology. Through my studies of mysticism, world religion, spiritual and Eastern philosophy, I began to see a pattern emerging which helped me integrate and expand musical horizons. Overtoning, or layering related sounds together, creates the sonic resonance that actually helps heal the body; a matrix of vibrations which, with powerful intent, can be used for reconstruction and reorganization of the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual forces.
Since I also believe that all healing is self-healing, I feel that it is necessary to focus full attention on “self” if we are to effectively achieve and maintain good health. I call this musical or sound self-healing process “toning”, or “sonic meditation”.
William: How long have you been working with toning and sonic meditation, Wayne?
Wayne: I’ve been practicing and teaching this powerful, alternative healing modality for several years. It has proven rewarding. Not only has this been an effective healing tool for me and my clients, but this playful "work" is easy to teach, and, in order to be productive, requires absolutely no expertise or experience in music, singing or meditation!
There are five steps or basic ingredients to self-healing which I feel are important to understand and incorporate in order to obtain optimum benefits from the practice of toning.
The first is attention. Simply put, that which you focus your attention on, expands!
Breath is the next component. This life-force energy of the body is a very powerful self-healing tool when used properly. As we put our attention into our breathing, allowing our breath to flow diaphragmatically like we once did as babies, we begin to strengthen, align and balance our energies for optimal health. We also shift into healthier brain wave patterns as we release negative breath patterns such as shallow chest breathing.
Listening is the third component. Consciously breathing into natural sounds and allowing them to resonate within and through our bodies helps us become one with our surroundings. If we begin with pleasant external sounds such as wind, rain, ocean waves, and the chirping of birds, and then draw into, or focus our attention within our bodies, we can become aware of our own various internal sounds, such as breathing, our heartbeat and perhaps even the tempo of our bloodstream.
Visualization is the fourth ingredient. We need to visualize what it is that we would like to heal. What does the pain look like? Is it sharp, dull, heavy, twisted? Does it lend itself to a form that we can visualize or verbalize? Once we visualize our pain, problem or imbalance, we can begin to re-pattern its form in consciousness; actually visualize the perfect end result!
Loving intention is the fifth component. This is what holds the other four together, making the whole process effective! The vibration of love is the purest essence of who and what we are, and it can be experienced as pure sound and light. Our intention is the focused energy that brings the results of our efforts into manifested form.
As we develop our ability to focus attention on our breathing, listening and visualizing, we begin to expand in consciousness, and we prepare every level to experience tremendously powerful dimensions of sound, light and love that literally coexist with the physical body.
Judith: Anyone who doubts the effect of vibrational influences on the physical world has never really stopped to think about the interesting vibrations which become visible in liquid in a drinking cup when loud music is played nearby?
Wayne: Exactly! The research of Hans Jenny, for instance, shows the visible form of individual tones or sounds as they enact with organic substances.
Judith: In our own personal research, we are working with sound to balance the activities of the hemispheres of the brain. In the process, we see healing of a variety of ailments and emotional ills from within the real or vibrational level of being. Do you think, Wayne, that the reverse is true? For instance, can illness and imbalance result from discordant sound? It seems to me that it is crucial that we begin to understand how powerful negative input is, so we can become even more deliberate in our use of loving energy with conscious intent. Don't you agree?
Wayne: Exactly! I believe the very experience of life itself is a healing process. We are all healing something. It may be physical, emotional, mental, or psychological. It may be a combination of all. Healing will occur in direct proportion to the level of our intent. I cannot stress enough that loving intention in essential to all healing practices.
William: Could you tell us about your new CD, Tantra Mantra? Weren’t you attempting to develop even more unique healing sounds with this recording?
Wayne: Yes! The idea for Tantra Mantra came about while I was teaching my friend, Kuko, some vocal toning techniques while I was touring in Japan. She was interested in exploring vibrational healing with her voice, and I was interested in expanding my own musical explorations in a duet format. We decided to experiment with infusing tantra energy into the recording process by holding each other closely, with our eyes closed, while allowing our voices to express and channel the natural, uninhibited sounds of our feelings. Our intention was to create a spontaneous and intuitive expression that is hopefully both musically and vibrationally uplifting.
Over the next six months we continued to develop personal and spiritual foundations in our mutual feelings for each other which enabled us to create this recording specifically for the heart and emotions. We feel that Tantra Mantra reflects purest love in an auditory and vibratory musical sense. The title refers to our use of vocal sounds, or toning, to lift energy from the lower chakra centers of the body up to a consciously spiritual
place.
Judith: Are there any musical instruments used in the recording, Wayne? How did those intriguing rhythm and bass sounds happen?
Wayne: There are no electronic tricks or musical instruments other than our two voices played on several tracks. On some I used the lower register of my voice to fashion mantra-like base as a rhythmic foundation to the musical structure. On several tracks I created choral and choir parts with middle- and upper-register toning. From my deepest, inner space, I improvised the chanting sounds. Then I created a pattern of sonic vocal effects and atmospherics, and utilized a variety of vocal toning and overtoning techniques.
The female energy in the recording came from implementing the various octaves and textures of Kuko's beautiful voice, sometimes resonating the lower frequencies of her voice and other times soaring into the higher, more angelic realms of it. Together, we endeavored to wave our voices into a singular sonic tapestry which reflects our deepening heart connection and the higher consciousness we've experienced together. We feel that this will have a similar effect on anyone who listens to it with conscious intent.
William: Besides the creative and spontaneous fun of toning, the therapeutic benefits must be dramatic and remarkable! Just what can we expect as a result of healing with sound?
Wayne: Well, I‘ve witnessed many profound healing experiences associated with toning. Some of the results include stress and tension release, pain reduction, emotional integration, increased energy, improved sense perception, better mental clarity, and more. In short, I believe that anything which needs healing can be healed in this way.
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