Ambience
Ambient sound is all around us. The word ambient is derived from the Latin ambire – to go around. In English, it means all encompassing, existing or present on all sides. We move through it in our daily lives, sleep with it in our dreams, there is not a place on planet Earth that is absolutely quiet. The music of life fills the spaces that move beyond what our conscious mind can hear. Ambient sound is all around us, and until we actually stop and focus our attention on it, it moves silently under our awareness radar.
Our brain only processes a miniscule amount of noise, what we choose to hear and that which is needed to survive. Stop what you are doing right now, how much can you hear? The neighbors garage door shutting, an airplane or two overhead, a faraway dog greeting a passer by? That level of low ambient sound is obvious, available to anyone who turns their ear into it.
A more insidious noise level, one that even if we turn our focus to it we cannot hear, is the sound of electronics in the home, electricity running through cables outside or under our feet, and sound vibrations from space which pelt us daily. In order for us as humans on a noise polluted planet to thrive, we must filter what we hear, tucking away what may be useful later, and completely disregarding that which our brain deems as trivial. This uses a lot of physical energy, diverting the energy we could be using to keep our body at optimal health away.
Ambient sound has been proven by scientific research to be a major factor in stress related illnesses. Chronic levels of noise drains the body’s immune system by keeping the Fight/Flight/Flee response on high alert. A car alarm creates a distress response in your body without your conscious awareness, dumping acidic adrenalin into your bloodstream. Pedestrians having a heated debate, which you in some way attach to for the briefest of moments, causes your emotions to create stress chemicals as if you were in the conversation. The sound of sirens triggers memories of a car accident, returning familiar neurochemicals in your brain to free float throughout your body. We can’t help it; it is simply what we are programmed to do.
Ten million people have some form of hearing loss due to “toxic noise” in the workplace. The Mayo Clinic has discovered a link between low level noise and Alzheimer’s disease. There are many people who cannot sleep unless their television is on in their bedroom, bringing sleep deprivation. Until we advance as a civilization to dampen the noise, our only other option is to live on the moon!
Is it no wonder the quiet stillness of meditation unnerves some people? The utter unfamiliarity of soundlessness wholly overwhelms the unpracticed mind. Bodies, used to having a level of high alert homeostasis, are addicted to the chemicals. Like addicts, our bodies seek to reestablish the disabling imbalance, running to our adrenal dealers for the next fix. The Law of Attraction brings the needed chaos, and the cycle is reinforced. The only cure for noise obsession is retraining your body mind and emotions to crave the silence. The very best method for this is meditation.
A friend, who was a heavy smoker, quit smoking in a way I’d never heard of before. She didn’t buy patches, pills, or gum. Acupuncture and hypnosis were beyond her scope of acceptance. For one week, she smoked normally, writing the exact time when her craving for a cigarette began, and when she smoked. The following week, when her craving appeared, she purposefully waited 2 minutes before she smoked. With each cigarette, she waited. The following week, she added 5 minutes, the week after that another 5 minutes, and every week adding that little 5 minute increment. Eventually, since there are only so many hours in a day, and only so many of those hours we spend awake (can’t smoke when you are asleep!), she cut her cigarette use, whittling it down to nothing.
Using this same principle, we can maneuver our homeostatic point (the place where we feel most comfortable in our body, for good or dysfunction) up a few notches every time we sit in meditative practice. Getting a nice fit on a cushion for a 5 minute sit is a beginning. If that is the only thing you can do for a week or a month, so be it. Add a minute here and there, working your way up to a comfortable time. Allow your mind to befriend the silence, let peace creep up on it slowly. Practicing your “shut ups” gives more control over the “monkey mind,” and through the Law of Attraction, serenity will be what you experience more of in your daily life.
In the stillness, behind the ambient noise, past the ticker tape thought parade, is our one true self. Connecting to this place where spirit dwells, even for the briefest of moments, brings a healing that can only be found within. Once our inner voice is recognized, accepted and internalized, an even more profound inner hearing occurs. This voice is one of source connection, hearing soul to soul from the creative spark that enlivens every cell in you. It is here that inner wisdom is given, received and integrated for a life changed.
In this shifting time, nearing the end of one age, gearing up for the birth of the next, an incredible point of contact between our awareness and source has been emerging in those who are conscious to hear. The Language of Light, the brilliant flash that gives instantaneous understanding, is beaming into consciousness. All light carries information, of frequency and vibration, which has the power to change what it contacts. The sun can trigger the chemicals of melatonin in the skin to release so pigment becomes darker, fiber optic cables carry light codes through hair thin wires for clear communication, our pineal gland must have light for our wake/sleep cycles to function properly. Light is not on option for humans, it is a life source full of information.
The Light Language, though not directly translatable, downloads knowing from source in such a direct way that we know but can’t explain in words how we know what we know. Connecting into this form of direct contact is as simple as raising your personal vibration to be in resonance with the frequency of light. The best way to raise any vibration is to merge with it, reside within it for awhile, and the most useful tool is meditation.
Meditation To Raise Your Vibration and Receive the Language Of Light
– Sit comfortably, legs crossed, uncrossed, on a zafu cushion or in a chair.
– Breathe into your lungs, bring your belly button to your spine.
– Breathe deeper into your belly, allow it to balloon with air, then bring your belly button back to your spine.
– One more time, deeply feel your breathe as it enters into your body, filling every nook. Then, easily release it completely, feeling the air move through your body.
– Imagine yourself in a pure white bubble, so white it is almost blinding, so full of love that you are completely comfortable within it.
– Ask this white light to remove all lower vibrational energy within your fields. As it does, it glows even brighter.
– Sit within this bubble until you feel you have cleaned all that you can do at this time.
– Allow the bubble to drop down into Mother Earth to be recycled. Watch it move, pulling all the no longer needed energy with it.
– Intend to receive the Language of Light, sit quietly in peace to allow the energy frequency to merge with yours.
– Breathe. Come fully back to awareness.
You may need to repeat the meditation many times before you are in harmonic resonance with the Light Language. The key is never to force; always simply allow.
In this world Free Will reigns supreme. You can chose to be controlled by your environment, creating a disease process which lessens life quality. Or, you can choose to control your internal environment, creating a space for regenerative healing and receive one of the most beautiful gifts of the shifting energies. The choice, as always, is yours.
