Internal Harmony and Healing Tone

Do you ever feel like your body, mind, and emotions are like an out-of-tune orchestra in need of organizing? Perhaps you need a composer who can collect all the valuable information from feelings, thoughts, and sensations so that clear cohesive pieces of inviting, healing tones can be produced, bringing harmony to your body, mind, and soul. 

It’s like trying earnestly to play music with an out-of-tune instrument

The composer is your consciousness − a coordinator of memories from the past inviting clear tones of understanding into your present-moment experiences. These experiences are remembered by your body of emotions and nervous system, but your mind has no clear memory of them. These memories arrive through sensations to interrupt the harmony. It’s like trying earnestly to play music with an out-of-tune instrument. 

Your body can be out of time and out of tune. You can know what you know and still not feel what you know. When you try to move forward and forget things without tuning into the body, it leads to disharmony, exhaustion, frustration, changes in temperament, and possibly a feeling of hopelessness. 

When we tune in our nervous system we tune into the meaning of the noise within the music of our lives. We then sing a song of freedom − from our body, from our bones, and from our soul. The mind, heart, and emotions feel a tone of harmony as the energy from the calls of past activation cycles and triggers is given a voice. “A felt release” can bring a breath of ease to the body as a whole. 

We can learn to feel what we feel, how we feel when we feel it without it throwing us off center or out-of-tune and time for too long. We might drop a note every now and again but the music of our body can play a re-harmonizing tune. We may have experienced what it feels like to be entirely at peace in our gut, heart, and head and recognize it as a state of alignment or “harmony.”  

When we can learn how to tolerate just enough tension

The tension that arises within the body and between these organs is an authentic advisor and a significant part of who we are − as whole living, breathing, and feeling human beings. When we can learn how to tolerate just enough tension, a release will follow. When this tension is coordinated with a “Feeling Tone of Healing,” it provides a release and relaxes the soul. 

Our nervous system is guiding this intelligent “felt sense of a tone of healing” from deep within us. Our nervous system is always listening, sensing, and searching for safe feeling tones. They naturally reside within us and allow us to be “empathic” toward others too.  

Following trauma and chronic stress, the nervous system may be out of tune and time with its present environment. Our nervous system does not know how to tell time, but it knows how to alarm us about what it perceives as danger, based on old experiences. It does not receive automatic updates of when a threat is long past. It can continue informing our brain, perceptions, thoughts, and behaviors from a place of old, directing and influencing our current interpretations of people, places, and situations. 

Our conscious awareness, refined attunement skills, and intentional self-regulating actions can provide welcome updates to this highly influential and sometimes overpowering autonomic nervous system.    

What Is Coherence? 

Coherence is a meaningful and profoundly necessary union of mind and body sensations as well as somatic, emotional, energy, and spiritual experiences. This union invites an internal state of harmony (all parts singing off the same sheet coordinated by conscious awareness) supporting present-moment awareness and self-regulation. Healing and recovery are optimal when we are in a state of coherence. Nervous system regulation supports a state of coherence which leads to: 

• increased connection, clarity, and inner alignment 
• increased creativity and improved vital energy flow 
• improved intuition, deep inner knowing, and somatic awareness
• improved emotional agility and stress resilience 
• increased inner peace, joy, harmony 
• improved sleep quality 

Feeling at the mercy of our sensory system without a coordinating composer is debilitating to a person recovering from chronic and traumatic stress. It can lead to anxiety, depression, and insomnia. It can further propel emotional dysregulation, feelings of hopelessness, and a lack of self-worth. 

Our body and the language of our nervous system are instrumental in raising consciousness. It can become our wise advisor and help us attune to this instrument we live life through and align our inner and outer worlds. 

Tuning into the healing tones within us helps to tone down the stress-activating trigger responses. Feeling safe helps us make our way through what feels overwhelming.

 

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