At this time, the 4-stringed, pear-shaped Pipa was a popular folk instrument in China, used since the Song dynasty in ceremonies, songs, and dances In 1842, Britain took control of Hong Kong Island after winning the First Opium War against the Qing Dynasty. The first official mention of "Music Therapy" in writing came in 1789 from an article called "Music Psychically Considered" From 1719 to 1748 in India, under the last Mughal emperor Muhammad Shah, the mixing of Hindu and Persian dancing, music techniques, and instrumentation enriched Indian musical traditions
In the 2nd century bce, the Silk Road formed, connecting the musical and cultural traditions of China, India, and other parts of southeast Asia to Europe, Africa, and the Middle East In Ancient Greece, philosophers explored the relationship between mathematics, music, and philosophy, believing it to have direct effects on different moods In 1500 BCE, Egyptian medical papyri were written that mention the influence that music has on the human body Cave paintings were made in various parts of the world depicting music and dance 35,000 years ago, bone flutes were left in a cave in modern-day Germany. An Incomplete History of Sound Healing for Today We will keep updating it, so if there are events we can add. This is by no means an all-encompassing list, but it’s a good introduction for context to understanding the healing traditions we’ll be investigating in the next few months. Given the nature of our human perception of time, we can only show you a timeline of the past, not the future, but please enjoy some of this history of sound healing. So that is the where, but what about the when?
( Phee Mod Phee Meng of Lampang, Thailand Photo source here)
In this series of blog posts, we will focus on some of the rich spiritual traditions in sound healing all across Earth, like the Phee Mod Meng in Thailand, and the Maori and Taonga pūoro, as two examples. We hope these writings will stimulate your brain in an intellectual manner, but also allow your mind to access your spiritual information as well. Don't go back to the past bring it to present to use it. If you do, allow it to flow into the present. Being more informed and adding some of that knowledge to what we are doing today will help strengthen your practice.Īlong the way, while reading these posts, you might even have remembrances or inklings of your sound or healing work from past lives. It's valuable to reflect on how these ancient practices and understandings have carried over into what we call "sound healing" today, how they exist on their own, and how they have intermingled with European classical and liturgical music. (New Age note: If you want to go back further, you can add Atlantean and Lemurian traditions too!)
We draw from thousands of years of Asian, African, Greek, Egyptian, Indian, and many other lesser-known spiritual traditions from around the world. We all get jazzed up about all the appreciation that Sound Therapy and Healing is receiving now in our modern world, but as healers and therapists, we can all appreciate that our modern soup du jour of sound healing is built on a savory, complex broth of historical methods, traditions, and instrumentation. More just folded into and sharing space with Nuada Drakala.Home Gongs Unlimited Super Blog Traditions and Spirituality in Sound Healing: Introductionīy Max Holmquist JPart 1: Welcome Friends and Fellow Healers!
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