FYI: Discounted All-Access Pass to Brouhaha!Festival only available until 11:59pm tonight (Wed. 10/22)!
I listened to one of the recordings of Denise’s pre-festival “Opening the Circle” calls yesterday, and holy vibration! She and her guides are doing some serious deep work on those who’ve stepped up to the plate. Expect transformation when you say yes. It’s not for the faint of heart. She’s moving mountains within, clearing the way for money to flow in. Wow. Money is such a loaded topic, each of us carries all sorts of hidden belief “suckers,” parasitic energy sabotaging ease. Time for it to go.
Speaking of holy vibration… This week I nabbed a book as a light read from the library: And Then There Were Nuns, by Jane Christmas. The cover has a funny illustration of 6 nuns from the shoulders down—the usual black habits—wearing a variety of shoes. Mostly sensible, one pair of Birkenstocks, and one pair of high-heeled red shoes. I know. Chick-lit, right?
So I’m reading the book. It’s humorous, but not laugh-out-loud funny like I thought it would be. The protagonist has just been proposed to when she tells him she’s been feeling a strong calling to become a nun. Well. Imagine that response to a proposal! They mutually decide to back off on the engagement, and she goes for a year to check it out. She’s an Anglican, though she spends a few weeks in Catholic churches as well, hanging out with the other nuns, doing as nuns do.
There was a lot of history about the church involved. At one point, I thought “this is getting just a little dry…” I finally looked at the spine of the book and realized it’s non-fiction—a memoir! That’s when I got to laugh-out-loud…
It really is a jewel of a book.
You know I deliver a Reiki Support Program and I believe deeply in the importance of your physical, mental, emotional and spiritual vibration. So there’s one passage from the book I have to share about the unexpected qualities of tonal vibration: otherwise known as Gregorian chants.
“When the Vatican effectively gave the heave-ho to chant, a curious thing happened to the nuns and monks: they became lethargic, and many got sick. The sense of hearing connects and resonates directly to the heart, but when doctors studied the phenomenon of the fatigued nuns and monks, they discovered something remarkable about brains and ears and Gregorian chant: a well-tuned ear takes the sounds we utter and stimulated the brain by charging the cerebral cortex with electrical charges. In other words, vocal sounds act like antioxidants: the higher the frequency, the greater the impact.”
It goes on to explain that different cultures and their languages have a higher count of electrical charges than others. American English 800 to 3,00 hertz, French 1,000 to 2,000 hertz, British English from 2,000 to 12,000 hertz (that’s after Professor Higgins gets done with Eliza Doolittle!) Here’s the kicker: Gregorian chant contains all the frequencies of the voice spectrum—7,000 to 9,000 hertz. No wonder it kept those nuns and monks buzzing along in good form!
Coach’s Challenge: This week, whenever you are in the shower, make like a nun (or a monk) and chant. Go ahead, just pretend you know Latin. Use pig-latin, I don’t care. The point is to use lots of vowels and to chant so your bones buzz. Check it out, and let me know how it makes you feel!
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