The award winning, best selling album that balances your chakras.

Jonathan Goldman
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CHAKRA CHANTS

HOW TO USE CHAKRA CHANTS

This recording was created to resonate and align the energy centers of the body known as the chakras. The sounds on CHAKRA CHANTS are designed to create balance in the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies. Sound affects not only our ears (and our brain), but also our physical and our subtle bodies. Because of this, there are a number of different ways in which CHAKRA CHANTS may be used.

CHAKRA CHANTS may be used as a self-healing and meditation tool. The sounds on this recording assist in inducing not only chakra balancing, but also expanded states of awareness. It is helpful, though not necessary, to focus your attention on the related chakra as the chant for that center begins. Listening and meditating in this manner will assist in the chakra resonance experience and in sonic journeying.

Second, CHAKRA CHANTS may be used as a sonic environment for creating balance and alignment during subtle energy work and body work. Along with resonating the chakras, the sounds on this recording will help induce deep relaxation for all listening to it. Playing CHAKRA CHANTS will assist in the healing experience, creating balance for all within the listening area.

Third, CHAKRA CHANTS may be used as a tool for you to actively create sound with and learn how to resonate your chakras with your own sounds. These liner notes describe in detail the sounds that are used and how you may create a co-active experience with them in order to create greater balance and alignment within yourself.

Finally, CHAKRA CHANTS may be used as listening music which will help create an enjoying and relaxing feeling for yourself. While these sounds may help enhance balance and alignment, this awareness can be secondary to the experience of pure listening pleasure.
These liner notes are fairly extensive, containing much information on the chakras and the specific sounds that were used on CHAKRA CHANTS. Also included is a guided visualization which may be used for enhancing the CHAKRA CHANTS experience.

It has long been a vision of mine to see this recording come into being and to create a sound experience in which various methods of resonating the chakras would be utilized. It was my intent to ultimately create a recording that could be used to assist personal and planetary healing, for meditational and inner journeying, as a teaching tool and for pure listening enjoyment. I trust that CHAKRA CHANTS fulfills all of these uses.

THE CHAKRAS

CHAKRA CHANTS has been in contemplation from me for almost twenty years. In 1980 I first began my study of the uses of sound and music as therapeutic and healing modalities. My initial investigation into the area was the relationship between sound and the chakras. The word chakra is a Sanskrit term meaning “wheel”, for chakras are seen as spinning wheels of light by those with the ability to see subtle energy.

The chakras are found in many traditions, including Hindu and Tibetan. Many esoteric and occult “Mystery School” describe these energy centers. While the chakras have been incorporated in many spiritual practices, their existence seems to be based, not upon religion, but upon awareness of energy. There is even scientific instrumentation which is beginning to record and validate them.

There are seven main chakras. These chakras are transduction points-- places where subtle energy from other planes begins to become more dense. The energy from the chakras densifies more as it comes into the body. It becomes the acupuncture points and meridians and finally, transduces its energy into the physical body. Imbalances in the physical body can be detected through the chakras. Frequently, healers who work with subtle energy can detect imbalances before they manifest in the physical body by feeling imbalances in the chakras. By balancing the chakras, imbalances in the physical body will often disappear.

There is a feedback loop occurring with the energy of the chakras. The physical body interfaces with this energy and vice versa. Frequently, an imbalance in a chakra will manifest later in the physical body. It is possible, such as through a traumatic injury, for both the physical body and the chakras to be simultaneously imbalanced. Healing of the physical occurs much more rapidly when the subtle anatomy--particularly the chakras--are aligned after physical injury. Frequency shifting through resonating the chakras allows us to help create balance and alignment within ourselves.

There are seven main chakras, seven spinning balls of energy which are located centrally in the front and the posterior of the body. The following is a brief description of the chakras:

The first or “base” chakra located at the bottom of the trunk is involved with the physical process of elimination and the organs which work with that function. It is the chakra associated with the energy of survival. This chakra is also associated with grounding to the physical plane.

The second or sacral chakra, located about three inches below your navel. This is associated with sexual energy, the reproductive organs and with much of the life force. The sexual energy is a divine energy utilized in the spiritual practice of tantra.

The third or navel chakra is located at the navel and a little above. It’s energy is associated with digestion and the digestive organs. It is also associated with power and mastery of self.

The fourth or heart chakra is located in the center of the chest between the nipples. On the physical, it works with the lungs and the heart. On the emotional, it works with the energy of compassion and love.

The fifth or throat chakra is located at the throat, at the base of the neck. It is a chakra that is associated with the process of communication; speech and hearing. The ears are associated with this chakra, as is, of course, the vocal apparatus.

The sixth or brow chakra is located in the center of the forehead above the eyes. Often called “The Third Eye”, it is associated with imagination and psychic abilities. Mental activity and brain function are also associated with this chakra.

The seventh or crown chakra, is located at the top of the head. It is associated with the induction of spiritual energy into the body. It is said to control every aspect of the body and mind and is associated with full enlightenment and union with God. This chakra is normally not fully open in most humans, though pictures of saints and other spiritual beings with “halos” are depictions of activated crown chakras.

These are the seven main chakras found in the various traditions. These seven chakras are the focus of the sonic resonances on CHAKRA CHANTS. In my study of the relationship between sound and chakras are many different systems of sound that worked to resonate, balance and align the chakras.

CHAKRA SOUNDS

CHAKRA CHANTS utilizes several of these different systems of using sound to balance the chakras. To begin, I utilize a system of sacred vowel sounds that I have taught for many years and seems to be highly effective in balancing the chakras. The Sacred Vowel are considered sacred in many different traditions and Mystery Schools throughout the planet, including ancient Egyptians, Hebrew, Islamic , Tibetan, Japanese and Native American. There are a number of different systems of Sacred Vowels to balance the chakras. I have utilized a system that came to me many years ago and that I have shared effectively with thousands of people.

I next added the Bija Mantras, the Sanskrit letters from the Vedic traditions, which by themselves are said to balance and align the chakras. There are silent Bijas and spoken Bijas. These are the spoken Bijas which are chanted aloud in order to resonate the chakras. As with all systems of using sound, there are variations. Such is the case with the Bija Mantras. I wish to thank Dr. Deepak Chopra for the specific system of Bija Mantras utilized on this recording.

Each chakras in the Vedic tradition is also associated with a particular element. These sounds have been included when applicable to create a sonic environment for the CHAKRA SOUNDS. Also included in this sonic environment are sounds from the Shabd Yoga, the science of the Audible Sound Current. These sounds are considered to be Divine Emanations of the Creator. Sometimes the Vedic sounds were the same as the Shabd sounds. At times, they were not. Despite any difference of these two schools, their sounds combined well together to enhance CHAKRA CHANTS.

For the fundamental frequency (or keynote) to use for each chakra. I have chosen a diatonic major scale, starting on the note C. This is one of the most popular systems utilized to resonate the chakras. It is, as I have said, merely a system. Nevertheless, in the context of this recording, it works.

Of particular note is that the fundamental frequencies used for this system are harmonically related--that is the notes are the natural result of the geometric vibrations of a given string (brought within a single octave). The tuning is different than that of a keyboard. The notes created are based upon the harmonics created from the fundamental notes of the note C which vibrates at 256 cycles per second (and then having the harmonics transposed down so that the fit within the octave of that C note). 256 hz. is a harmonic of 1 cycle a second. Many believe this keynote to be in natural resonance with many of the frequencies of the Earth.

INTENT

In my books HEALING SOUNDS and SHIFTING FREQUENCIES, I discuss the importance of intent in the sound experience. A formula I present is: “Frequency + Intent = Healing”. “Intent” is the energy behind the sound (the “Frequency”) and may be a real key as to the effects of sound--particularly vocally created sound. I believe awareness of intent will help enhance the sound healing experience and frequency shifting effect.

During the recording of these various sounds, I invoked in the energies of Shamael, the Angel of Sacred Sound and Saraswati, Hindu and Tibetan Goddess of Science and Sound--music and medicine. Next, I focused my intention on the particular chakra that was to be activated during the sounding. The intention, therefore, for the resonance of these chakras was very specific. While making the sound, I focused my attention on the chakra, feeling the energy vibrating in that area. I focused my intention so that the energy could be recorded onto the recording. Any additional singers or players on CHAKRA CHANTS also did the same.

In addition to all of these sounds on CHAKRA CHANTS are simple improvisational melodies for the chakras. On occasion, I brought in some friends to tone these sounds with me. They come from no specific system, but were intuited at the time of the recording.

When recording CHAKRA CHANTS, the various sounds were specifically pulsed in order to help fascilitate slow and meditative breathing. These rhythms are in cycles of 8, pulsed at approximately 64 beats per minute. These pulsed sounds contribute to the psycho-acoustic effects, as do the the selections of frequencies on this recording which assist in entraining body and brain to relaxing patterns.

The following is the system that I utilized for the CHAKRA CHANTS:

lst CHAKRA - Root - Muladhara

Keynote: C
Frequency: 256 hz..
Vowel: Uh
Bija: Lam
Element: Earth
Shabd Sound: Thunder
Instrument: Drum
Energy: Grounding

2nd CHAKRA - Sacral - Svadisthana

Keynote: D
Frequency: 288 hz
Vowel: Ooo
Bija: Vam
Element: Water
Shabd Sound: Ocean
Instrument: brass
Energy: Life Energy, Sexual

3rd CHAKRA - Navel - Manipura

Keynote: E
Vowel: Oh
Frequency: 320 hz.
Bija: Ram
Element: Fire
Shabd Sound: Roaring Fire
Element: Fire
Instrument: Horn --Sax
Energy: Power

4th CHAKRA - Heart - Anahata

Keynote: F
Frequency: 341. 3 hz.
Vowel: Ah
Bija: Yam
Element: Air
Shabd Sound: Wind
Instrument: Violin
Energy: Compassion, Love

5th CHAKRA - Throat - Vishuddhi

Keynote: G
Frequency: 384 hz.
Vowel: Eye
Bija: Ham
Element: Ether
Shabd Sound: Crickets
Instrument: Flute
Energy: Communication, Creation

6th CHAKRA - 3rd Eye - Ajna

Keynote: A
Frequency: 426.7 hz.
Vowel: Aye
Bija: Sham
Element: All
Shabd Sound: Twinkling Bells
Instrument: crystal bowls
Energy: Insight, Wisdom
7th CHAKRA - Crown - Sahasrara

Keynote: B
Frequency: 480 hz.
Vowel : Eeee
Bija: Om
Element: All
Shabd Sound: Om
Instrument: Human Voice
Energy: Transcendence

GUIDED VISUALIZATION

The following visualization may be utilized if you would like to chant along with THIS recording to resonate your own chakras. It is my belief that active participation in the sound experience can only enhance your experience of sound. In HEALING SOUNDS, I offer the formula: “Vocalization + Visualization = Manifestation. It is an ancient secret from the Mystery Schools, found in the major spiritual and magical traditions. By adding visualization to the sound, the effect of the sound becomes more profound.

Each of the CHAKRA CHANTS utilizes a different Sacred Vowel, Bija Mantra, Tonal Center and Elemental Sound to create resonance and balance. The psycho-acoustic sounds on CHAKRA CHANTS also enhances altered states of consciousness. This can make it easy to forget which chakra is being resonated. In order to facilitate more conscious awareness of this journey through the chakras, a Tibetan bell will ring at the beginning of each new chakra. The bell will ring for the appropriate number of times for that chakra. For example, there will be one bell ring for the first chakra and seven bell rings for the seventh chakra. When you hear the bell, it may be helpful to bring your attention to that chakra.

In this visualization, I am adding a simple system of color that may be visualized along with the sounds of the chakras. There are many other systems of color have also been utilized to work with the chakras. If other colors are preferred or come to you to work with, I suggest that you do so. Please also note that while visualization works well for some people, it is rather difficult for others. If this is the case, you might simply work with the sounds without attempting to force a color into your consciousness. You might be surprised at the results.

Whenever you work with sound, make the sound in a gentle and relaxed voice. Do not strain yourself. Remember bigger is not better, nor is louder necessarily more powerful. You will be amazed a how little effort is required to create a sound that can shift your frequencies. Choose either the Sacred Vowel or the Bija Mantras to work with at first. Either one or the other. After you have successfully worked with either the Vowels or the Mantras, you may try to combine the two.

Begin by focusing your attention on the first or root chakra, located between the anus and the genitals. Visualize this chakra as a spinning balls of energy. It’s color is red. The energy associated with this chakra is that of survival and grounding to the physical plane. To sound this chakra, in order to balance it, make the very deepest “Uh” sound (as in the word “cup”) that you can and focus your intention on this area. A Bija Mantra that resonates this area is “Lam”.

Now focus your attention on the second or sacral chakra, located about three inches below your navel. This chakras associated with sexual energy and with much of the life force. Visualize this chakra as a spinning ball of energy. It’s color is orange. To sound this chakra, make a higher pitched “Oo” sound (as in the word “you”) while you are focusing your intention on this area. A Bija Mantra which resonates this chakra is “Vam”.

Now, focus your attention on the third or navel chakra, located at the navel and a little above. Also called the solar plexus chakra, It is physically associated with the digestive process. This chakra’s energy is also associated with power and self mastery. Visualize this chakra as a spinning ball of energy. It’s color is yellow. To sound this chakra, make a higher pitched “Oh” sound (as in the word “go”) while focusing intention on this area. A Bija Mantra to resonate this chakra is “Ram”.

Now focus your attention on the fourth or heart chakra, located in the center of the chest between the nipples. On the physical, it works with the lungs and the heart. On the emotional, it works with the energy of compassion and love. Visualize this chakra as a spinning ball of energy. It’s color is green.To sound this chakra, make a higher pitched “Ah” sound (as in the word “ma”) while focusing your intention on this area. A Bija Mantra for this chakra is “Yam”.

Now, focus your attention on the fifth or throat chakra located at the throat, at the base of the neck. It is a chakra that is associated with communication. Visualize this chakra as a spinning ball of energy. It’s color is blue . Speech and hearing are associated with this chakra. To sound this chakra, make a higher pitched “Eye” sound (as in the word “I”) while focusing your intention on it. A Bija Mantra to resonate this chakra is “Ham”.

Now focus your attention on the sixth or brow chakra, located in the center of the forehead above the eyes. This chakra is often called “The Third Eye”. It is associated with imagination and psychic abilities. Visualize this chakra as a spinning ball of energy. It’s color is indigo. To sound the Third Eye, make a higher pitched “Aye” sound (as in the word “say”) while focusing your intention on this area. A Bija Mantra for this chakra is “Sham”.

Finally, focus your attention on the seventh chakra or crown chakra, located at the top of the head. It is associated with the induction of spiritual energy into the body. Visualize this chakra as a spinning ball of energy. It’s color is purple. To sound the Crown, make the highest pitched “Eeee” sound (as in the word “me”) that you can make, while focusing your intention on this area. A Bija Mantra for this chakra is “Om”.

Through learning to work with your own sounds using the CHAKRA SOUNDS you can take an active part in the frequency shifting experiences. Once you have balanced and aligned your chakras through sacred sound, it is important to sit quietly and receive. Silence is an essential part of the sound healing phenomenon. Honor it. Respect it. And work with it. Frequently, it is in the time of silence when the greatest changes and frequency shifts occur. THE CHAKRA CHANTS runs for approximately an hour. If possible, after that give yourself additional time for silent meditation, feeling the totality of clear white light pouring into you.

CHAKRA CHANTS was initially created as a tool for frequency shifting in order to create balance. I have found that it is a powerful tool for self-transformation and healing. If utilized for this purpose, if possible, listen to it in a place where you will not be disturbed by others. However as a gentle balance, CHAKRA CHANTS works nicely as a sonic background in rooms or even offices and may be used in such places.

This recording is dedicated to all the beings of light, love and sound who have assisted in making THE CHAKRA CHANTS a reality.

OVERTONES

Within any given note is a complete spectrum of sound. All instruments and the human voice have this quality. The additional sounds we are talking about are called “overtones” or “harmonics”. They are geometric multiples of the first note, called the fundamental. For example, a fundamental note of 256 hz. when sounded, generates overtones that vibrate twice as fast as the fundamental, three times as fast, four times as fast, five times as fast and so on. The resulting overtones vibrate at 512 hz., 768 hz., 1,024 hz. and 1,280 hz. These are just the first five overtones. They continue to multiply, conceptually unto infinity.

Overtones, in many ways, represent the “color” of sound. It is the different stressed overtones in instruments which cause them to be recognizable as a violin or a saxophone or whatever. The same is true of the human voice. While overtones are present whenever a note is sung, it is possible to learn to bring out the various overtones of a sound using specific vocal techniques so that these overtones are particularly audible and noticeable. It is a bit like taking a prism and holding it into the light so that the different colors of the spectrum become visible. These vocal harmonics can be quite striking to listen to. Sometimes they sound like a ghost voice or a flute or a bagpipe, sometime they sound like a bell, a whistle or a buzzing sound. Vocal harmonics can be quite transformational to produce and mysterious to hear. A well trained overtone singer can produce the first 16 overtones quite audibly.

Several different traditions have learned to consciously manipulate vocal sounds so that overtones are noticeably audible above the fundamental. In Tibet, certain monks have gained the ability to create a very “Deep Voice” or “Growl Tone” while generating specific overtones. In Mongolia and Tuva, a different form of creating vocal harmonics, called “Hoomi”, has been developed. Many of the ancient “Mystery Schools”, in Egypt and other places, most probably utilized vocal harmonics as part of their spiritual and transformative practice. Today, there is a reemergence of vocal harmonics used as an artistic form and/or spiritual practice. The creation of these vocal harmonics differs slightly from those of Tibet and other Eastern places in that these newer techniques to produce vocal harmonics are easy to learn and do not require much vocal constraint.

Overtoning, a specific sound healing technique described in HEALING SOUNDS has now become generically used to describe the conscious creation of overtones during singing. Throughout this recording you will hear various notes and sounds that are produced solely through the human voice. The various Sacred Vowels utilized for chakra resonance in this recording have a particular relationship to the overtone series. Singing the vowels in this order creates an ascending series of harmonics. Many of the specific Bija Mantras, as well, led to the creation of specific harmonics during their chanting. In addition, during many of the improvisational sections in the different pieces, you will sometimes hear both a normal voice as well as a special voice to produces harmonics. We trust these sounds will enhance the CHAKRA CHANT experience for you.

Jonathan Goldman

Jonathan Goldman is a musician, author and teacher. An authority on sound healing and pioneer in the field of harmonics, he is the author of HEALING SOUNDS (Element Books) and SHIFTING FREQUENCIES (Light Technology). He is director of the Sound Healers Association and president of Spirit Music in Boulder, Colorado. Jonathan presents Healing Sounds Seminars throughout the United States and Europe. His recordings include: Dolphin Dreams, Gateways: Men’s Drumming and Chanting, Angel of Sound, Hermetic Harmonics , Song of Saraswati, Trance Tara

For information on Jonathan’s workshops, Spirit Music recordings and other pertinent material, contact him at P.O. Box 2240, Boulder, CO 80306. Tele: (800) 246-9764. Fax: (303) 443-6023. email: soundheals@aol.com. web: www.healingsounds.com.

Cover: CHAKRA CHANTS by Donald Beaman. Donald is a mystic teacher and visionary artist whose works include the TAROT OF SAQQARA. The cover displays a person illuminated through sound meditation being enveloped by the Shri Yantra, the visual representation of the “Om”. All ratios and proportions of this painting are based upon the harmonic principles of the Lambdoma Diagram. The cover by itself, or with CHAKRA CHANTS may be used as an energy balancing tool.

Jonathan Goldman is a musician, author and teacher. An authority on sound healing and pioneer in the field of harmonics, he is the author of HEALING SOUNDS (Element Books) and SHIFTING FREQUENCIES (Light Technology) and TANTRA OF SOUND (Hampton Roads). He is director of the Sound Healers Association and president of Spirit Music in Boulder, Colorado. Jonathan presents Healing Sounds Seminars throughout the United States and Europe. His recordings include: Dolphin Dreams, Gateways: Men’s Drumming and Chanting, Angel of Sound, Hermetic Harmonics , Song of Saraswati, Trance Tara, Chakra Chants and many more..

For information on Jonathan’s workshops, Spirit Music recordings and other pertinent material, contact him at P.O. Box 2240, Boulder, CO 80306. Tele: (800) 246-9764. Fax: (303) 443-6023. email: info@healingsounds.com. web: www.healingsounds.com.

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