Welcome to chant/mantra/intentional song of the week. You have been called here to learn an ancient technique of calming the spirit and focusing the mind and setting in motion an intention to manifest. For thousands of years, ancient civilizations, nomadic cultures, “uncivilized societies”, bands of gypsies, and individual beings have practiced the art of chanting and using mantra. Over the course of a year you are going to learn a host of them from a variety of traditions.
The human voice is one of our prime tools for energetic clearing and also making manifest our intentions. Wow! Really? A double edged sword that cuts and is magnetic. The more I enter the world of our true design on all levels the more appreciation and wonder I carry for the creative source that made it. An impeccable design built for life and that parallels Nature's own design. When humanity starts to wake up to the sheer majesty and scope of how much the Earth is in cahoots with us, then we shall see thriving...for all. Yes, the Earth and all her elements and cycles and expressions directly mirror the inner state of humanity. Too much for you? Well, let it sit and incubate for a while. We are designed to wake up...and this, my dear one, is the time of awakening...of claiming the voice and using it to align with the majesty and flow of life in all her forms.
You have to be suspect of all this effort to keep the voice silent. From the first ssshhh, to the first shut up, to the order in the courtroom, to being sent to the principle, to the importance of silent meditation, to the warnings of children should be seen and not heard. The voice is the crucible of manifestation and the place where life is seeded by each of us. Is yours silent? Do you cower in the face of authority swallowing the unspoken, the deeply felt, the trauma, the unspeakable woundings...society hopes you do.
That's why singing was made...a back door way to express. Unfortunately, the content of most songs only serves to perpetuate the messages of limitation about living as a human, about we are hopeless without another, how we are to love and be loved...we could list a bunch. Rather than do that you have been called to the very place where it is entirely plausible to get your voice back...to get your life back.
For thousands of years the human voice has been harnessed to serve the higher vibration, to divert the mind, and intentionally call forth higher frequency living, interconnected, and transcendent. Chants, mantras and now, intentional songs, each a purposeful tool involving the voice, phonemes, a melody of varying pitch, a cadence, and an audible expression. These three have similarities many, and they have differences, as well.
When you get a new tune each week on Monday, you are invited to immerse your self into it. You are given a recording and some historical information regarding purpose. Your opportunity is to sing them...a lot...over and over. Pay attention to how they serve your vibration and impact the forms of your moments of living. Each week a new one appears below. You can copy the MP3 to your player if you would like. You will have 52 by the time the journey concludes. Sing them you must. Make them a part of your vocabulary. They will come to mind when the circumstances call for them. Your own inner wisdom will do the bidding. Get out of the way and sing them fully. If there is movement that pushes through, then allow it. Each is an experience. Take the ride...
In this cycle of 52 you shall be given a cycle of chant, mantra, sung mantra, and repetitive intentional song. I have included a variety of cultural chants, Sanskrit mantras, both spoken and sung, and chantsongs I have created for events I have been called to do.
I invite you to be open to the fullness of the experience and celebrate with gratitude the power of the journey you shall take over this next 52 weeks. Say goodbye to the way it has been. For you are headed into an adventure that will surely shift your vibration and lead you home to the Higher Self that has been calling....
