Magic at work!
Continuing on from my last blog post…
After listening to the ancient Shamanic singing bowl and it healing my headache back in November 2022, I continued listening to it and other singing bowls online. Their sounds soothed me, lulling me into a meditative state or sometimes I’d be sent off into the land of nod.
Sound healing seemed to be drawing me to it, almost like it was beckoning me and calling me by name!
I knew I needed to get some ancient Tibetan singing bowls and be able to do it for myself, work with their healing energy to help with my healing. But I felt both pulled towards and pushed away from the magical ancient shamanic singing bowl, having a fear that it held too powerful an energy for me, plus it was very expensive. Instead, I found some other ancient Tibetan bowls on a different website – that were cheaper – and treated myself to them for Christmas. I was sent a range of mallets with the bowls and these helped me get started on my singing bowl journey.
6 months on… and the ancient shamanic was still for sale, had it been waiting for me?
I still loved listening to it, often feeling cocooned inside its sound, and decided that I now felt ready to work with it and its healing energy. When it arrived though, I thought I’d made an expensive mistake as I found it difficult to play and unable to connect with it properly. Tapping its rim with a soft mallet I could get a beautiful sound, but found it very heavy to hold and too large at 10 inches to play around its rim.
Did it just needed time to settle in and get to know my energy? Or perhaps I needed to further develop my bowl playing skills?
Thankfully, I persevered with it and towards the end of 2023 it began to sing for me and share its magic, and now after further practise during 2024, I feel comfortable and at ease working with it.
As my skills develop I seem better able to adapt to playing with a range of different sized singing bowls, not just the mid weight medium sized 6-7″ bowls which I preferred when I began, now I’m also able to play some of the larger/heavier and smaller/lighter ones too.
It may sound strange, but I think a special connection takes place when I work together with singing bowls. When I’m playing them, a symbiosis / an exchange of energy happens and my energy helps the bowl come alive, awakening its magic and enabling it to share its healing sound vibrations.
I’ve shared a short video of its sound…
A bit more about singing bowls:
The sound of each singing bowl is on the musical scale from C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G, G#, A, A#, B (sometimes its listed as C, C#, D, Eb, E, F, F#, G, Ab, A, Bb, B) each believed to correspond with our bodies chakras; C=root chakra, D=sacral chakra, E=solar plexus chakra, F=heart chakra, G=throat chakra, A=3rd eye chakra and B=crown chakra
A bit more about this antique singing bowl:
Sound: Its C#3 136hz when struck with a padded mallet, but this alternates between C3-C#3 135-139 Hz and changes to G#4 404-411 Hz for rim play using both suede and wooden mallets.
C is the root or base chakra, which helps with grounding and healing the physical body, working particularly with lower spine problems, such as sciatica, as well as problems with our legs, feet and immune system.
According to my online research into healing frequencies, 136hz is a special sound, known as the ‘earth frequency’. Listening to this sound frequency is believed to help promote emotional, physical and spiritual healing. Calming our nervous system, relaxing the body and releasing stress. It encourages a meditative state, supporting our focus, concentration, balance and grounding us.
A very magical bowl!
This ancient singing bowl has a beautiful golden colour, very little decoration, only a faint line running around the rim on the inside of the bowl and 2 lines around the outside of the rim. It has a small button lingam and a shallow shape that was sometimes used by shamans for divining, rituals and ceremonies, alongside sound therapy.
I’ll continue with more about my sound healing journey in my next blog post…
Thank you for being part of my journey, wishing you sparkles and hugs my lovelies, Rowena xx
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