Neuroscience Meets Ancient Practices, Biohacking, Expanded States And Awakening
Ancient practices of transformation and expanded states are woven through our mental, emotional, physical and neurological responses with expanding consciousness and are considered a biohacking method that is no less than transformative.
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The three main areas covered in this blog are the next chapter in how we understand, apply, and transform ourselves with methods that connect us to our hearts and develop compassion and kindness, while lessening mental health concerns including depression and anxiety, building emotional regulation, inner strength and resilience while also deepening and expanding our inner relationship with our own spirituality and inner wisdom. You could even call these methods biohacking or hidden content that is being revealed that are non-invasive, non-pharmaceutical, and empowering, easy to use and effective methods for anti-ageing!
Starting with the Neuroscience
What is the relationship with sound, frequency, and meditation?
The list of meditation’s benefits coincides with the recent neuroscientific discovery that reveal the adult brain is able to deeply transform through meditation which is not limited to the effects in the brain but the emotions and throughout the body (Richard J. Davidson). When meditation is effective there is a change in a person’s brain waves which change from our waking consciousness, an alert state into a relaxed state.
Meditation also now has a long list of research that supports the potent changes from meditation that include mood elevation and stabilization, a calmer outlook on life, lessening of the following including depression and anxiety, pain, major depressive disorders, inflammation related diseases which include heart disease diabetes, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, cancer, dementia, anti-ageing, and even PTSD. (Hui Shen, Meijuan Chen and Donghong Cui).
Like the research with meditation Mona Lisa Chanda and Daniel J. Levitin in their research describe there is a neuroscience of ‘music as medicine’ that has roots that extend deep into human history through healing rituals practiced in pre-industrial, tribal-based societies. In contemporary society, sound and music continue to be used to promote health and well-being in research that correlates to the research of meditation. The benefits to particular sound and music listening include pain management, relaxation, psychotherapy, and personal growth. Specifically for emotional regulation, lessening depression and anxiety, schizophrenia, bi-polar, building resilience, lessening cortisol production and inflammation the underlying causes of heart disease, cancer, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, diabetes, dementia, immune compromised illness. The research shows evidence-based music interventions through peer-reviewed scientific experiments, and how sound and music patterns influence health through the same neurochemical changes that are accessed with meditation that include the four domains of (1) Reward, (2) Motivation, (3) Pleasure, and (4) Stress. These areas occur in correlation with the neurochemical release systems of dopamine and opioids, cortisol and the corticotropin-releasing hormone, and adrenocorticotropic hormone and serotonin and oxytocin. (The Neurochemistry of Music).
Healing, Sound as a Transformative Agent and Meditation have an Ancient Kinship Relationship.
The human relationship with sound is much deeper and more ancient than our relationship with words. Our body, Earth, and the sounds in nature are filled with cycles of rhythms and patterns, the sound and space between the sound like the sound of our heart, our inhale and exhale of our breath, the electromagnetic rhythms of our body as repetitions we rely upon. And these patterns are deeply related to our responses in our neurology and give us our profound connection and knowing which is how we evolved in a world of sound (Nina Kraus and Jessica Slater). What all these sound patterns have in common, as noted by Marlynn Wei, MD, is they manifest not only through hearing but through tactile physical vibrations that transmit through the air as frequencies that are heard with our ears, felt through the sounds, and experienced.
The Future is Here!
While our patterns and inner rhythms are innate to us during Edgar Caycee’s lifetime from (1877 – 1945 ) his predictions include over one thousand references to the use of sound and vibration and frequency as treatments of illnesses and disease in the future and now it is here! Caycee reported, when a system in the body is out of its healthy frequency, it impacts the functioning of the surrounding systems and organs and the entire body. Bringing the different systems into harmony allows the entire body to operate well, which is the absence of disease and illness.
Ancient Responses within our Brain and Body
Applying particular sound and music listening as a practice for specific conditions connects us to our ancient responses within our brain and body listening. As our world culture changes into the next phases of the transformation, sound baths, generalized meditation as accessing different levels of consciousness, emotional regulation and expanding awareness, advancing mental health perspectives and practices beyond diagnosis and pharmaceuticals, and applying the research that shows inflammation and chronic stress as underlying causes of many if not most physical and mental illness. we are in the beginning phases of recognizing and utilizing specific sound and music practices as the next level of our healing advancement.
How do All These Benefits Apply to Different Physical, Emotional, Mental, and Spiritual Development?
A businessperson asked me, How can these practices all work on getting good sleep, depression, anxiety, mood elevation, develop resilience, help with addiction, trauma, and recovery, lessen pain, and contribute to spiritual awakening and transformative experiences? And also help deal with medical appointments and even calming children? How is it possible that listening to specific sounds also contributes to developing our consciousness? All these areas seem so different and too broad of an application for one modality. This is a great question. Here is an example of another simple and easy method that has benefits across the four main areas of our beings including the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual domains. That transforms our emotions, lifts our mood, provides circulation through our body, positively changes our respiration, and helps our cardiovascular system as well as joint lubrication, and our inner spiritual connection. Do you know what it is? It is walking. And the Rest of the Answer is below…
The Qualities of Specific Sound and Musical Listening
When we access these states that simultaneously change brain waves, heart rate and respiration, we are transformed, and they impact all of our systems. Another way of considering this is our normal state of consciousness allows for specific signals and their responses in our body. But when we change to connect to a different frequency through sound listening, which is also a relaxed state and the opposite of the waking state, our frequency change causes different signal responses in the cells, neurons, and emotional systems. These are healing responses, regenerative responses, kindling responses in our hearts, simultaneously releasing the emotional stressors. And beyond this we build a rich inner relationship with our intuition, insight, and calm. Resilience is another area that builds by the physiological responses when we allow ourselves to shift into receptive, expanded healing states.
Translating Neuroplasticity
Collectively, changing our brain waves, heart rate, and respiration consistently over time creates a huge impact within our beings. There is an overall re-regulation that extends into our restorative responses that contributes to our longevity (the anti-ageing mentioned in the beginning) which is a component of neuroplasticity. Neuroplasticity means we are capable of learning and adapting, creating new synaptic responses, when we change our brain wave states. This means we are not stuck in an endless pattern of inherited illness, of behaviors or responses of illness like a cycle that has gone off the rails.
We are capable of advancing from the mental, physical, emotional illness genetic responses to change to advanced responses, called epigenetics, responding above the genetic responses, which progress our development. Using sound and music patterns to access neuroplasticity is an evolutionary response and shows our capacity for expanding consciousness and transformation!
Ancient Kinship Meets Biohacking Time Has Come
The sound patterns that transform consciousness by touching the changes in our neurons are bringing in the future by giving the tools into our own hands through listening. Where are we going collectively with sound baths, yoga, different kinds of meditation, the study of dreams, shamanic practices, near-death experiencers, depression, anxiety, trauma, addictions, the mental health field, spiritual awakening and transformative experiences, using psychedelics for treating different conditions from end of life, and PTSD and developing resolution and a deeper understanding? The overview is we are understanding we cannot exist while staying in one level of consciousness. We are transforming to long-lasting tools for life, which are easy, effective, inexpensive, non-pharmaceutical and non-invasive that cultivate compassion, activate neuroplasticity and anti-ageing, diminish the production of the stress hormone and inflammation which are the power of expanded states for our evolution.
In addition activating the systems that diminishes the stress response and inflammation change the genetic response creating emotional regulation and elevation of mood, resilience, inner strength, lessening pain, deepening inner wisdom, anti-aging and a foundation for spiritual awakening and transformative experiences including the use of psychedelics.. The sound patterns create the foundation for healing all the physical health conditions mentioned above and for mental health, trauma, addiction, and recovery. These are all the qualities of the 3Melete Programs.
Next Level Transformative Methods
But how to apply these next level methods? Combining ancient wisdom with neuroscience and research to give effective methods that move us into healing and health that extend into developing our innate abilities of insight, intuition, creativity, and problem-solving while connecting to our heart-related areas of compassion, kindness, and consideration without disrupting any personal relationships with religion or belief systems.
In addition activating the systems that diminishes the stress response and inflammation change the genetic response creating emotional regulation and elevation of mood, resilience, inner strength, lessening pain, deepening inner wisdom, anti-aging and a foundation for spiritual awakening and transformative experiences including the use of psychedelics.. The sound patterns create the foundation for healing all the physical health conditions mentioned above and for mental health, trauma, addiction, and recovery. These are all the attributes of the 3Melete Programs.
