Sound and Emotion

Sound and Emotion
Have you ever noticed how intimately sound and emotion are
connected? Have you ever hurt yourself without saying
'ouch!' or something like it? Have you noticed how well one
of the infamous 'four letter words' accompanies anger,
frustration or rage? Celebrating just isn't the same
without a yippee! Or hooray! And what about an 'oooooo'
when pleasantly surprised, or a scream when terrified?
Laughter is accompanied by all kinds of emotions, even
attempts to cover up emotions. Have you ever burst into
spontaneous song (or humming) when absolutely thrilled or
excited?

Emotions move us. If you look at the word like this,
e-motion, notice that most of word is motion. Emotion needs
to move through us. But this isn't always the case.
Sometimes emotions are repressed and get stuck in our
bodies.

So let's take a look at the biology of emotions. Candace
Pert's work gives us a clear picture of how emotions work
and move in the body. In her book, "Molecules of Emotion"
she states:

"The point I am making is that your brain is extremely well
integrated with the rest of your body at a molecular level,
so much so that the term mobile brain is an apt description
of the psychosomatic network through which intelligent
information travels from one system to another. Every one
of the zones, or systems, of the network ' the neural, the
hormonal, the gastrointestinal, and the immune ' is set up
to communicate with one another, via peptides and
messenger-specific peptide receptors. Every second, a
massive information exchange is occurring in your body.
Imagine each of these messenger systems possessing a
specific tone, humming a signature tune, rising and
falling, waxing and waning, binding and unbinding, and if
we could hear this body music with our ears, then the sum
of these sounds would be the music that we call the
emotions. As we have seen, the neuropeptides and their
receptors are the substrates of the emotions, and they are
in constant communication with the immune system, the
mechanism through which health and disease are create. My
Research has shown me that when emotions are expressed '
which is to say that the biochemicals that are the
substrate of emotion are flowing freely ' all systems are
united and made whole. When emotions are repressed, denied,
not allowed to be whatever they may be, our network
pathways get blocked, stopping the flow of the vital
feel-good, unifying chemicals that run both our biology and
our behavior. This, I believe, is the state of unhealed
feeling we want so desperately to escape from. My research
has shown me that the body can and must be healed through
the mind, and the mind can and must be healed through the
body. Your body is your subconscious mind and you can't
heal it by talk alone."

We are all familiar with the adrenaline (a peptide) charge
we experience with certain situations, especially if we
perceive them as threatening. As we repeat the story of
this experience to ourselves (over and over) and to anybody
else who will listen, we continue to experience the charge.
The body does not know the difference between the real
experience and the imagined one. Not only that, Ms. Pert's
research also shows that maintaining a barrage of emotional
(peptide) charge in the body can alter the peptide
receptors. That means not only that this emotional charge
becomes addictive, returning the receptors to their normal
state can be challenging. The movie, "What the Bleep do we
Know," has an enlightening animation of how this happens.

So we end up with our thoughts creating emotional blocks,
stuck patterns and possibly disease. If you get to the
stage where you decide to create a change, there is good
news. Although most of this information network works at an
unconscious level, we can enter it consciously at will. And
it will respond. Sound, particularly your voice, and sound
with visualization work at the level of mind, body and
emotion simultaneously. The "story" never needs to enter
the picture.

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The combination of Sharon Carne's expertise in music and
sound, spiritual transformation and her inner guidance has
led Sharon to her soul work. In her workshops people learn
how to dissolve stress and experience how sound heals. Her
CDs offer support for those who are removing negativity and
old patterns of thought and behavior from their lives.
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