Music is Healing

During times of great emotion one can identify a song that will bring some sense of solace to them. Turn on a different song and one can get hyped up, angry, sad and so forth.

The question of the impact of those songs is something like the chicken and the egg... Which came first? 

Did the feeling become attached to the song via  a persons heart? or did the original artist impress emotion onto the song that transcends and is inferred by the listener?

Through my studies I have found some of the answers through Plato's Republic, working within the music industry, but none have been more enlightening than the information shed by the eastern philosophy of Chakras.

The Chakras is short are the seven centers of light said to be placed on a human being. Starting at the "base" where the sexual organs reside, moving up to the belly known as the "sacral." Then moving higher to the heart chakra, followed by the throat, "third-eye" and "crown" chakra. 

The philosophy of chakras is based in deep Hindu and Buddhist theology, but there are some that would say they date further back to roots due to Jainism. Relating this conclusion to its phonetic relationship to the written language Sanskrit. The translation of Chakra to be Wheel or light... or Wheel of Light. 

The theory is that at each light center there is a body part that works in conjunction with the endocrine system. The endocrine system then secretes different stimuli to the body and brain that are connected with the spiritual energy that one may take in or give off. These wheels of light, all different colors, together create what has popularly known as an Aura. 

So if someone is consumed by hate or malice, it could create a chakra-inbalance that would display a negative aura or energy of a person so to speak.

So how does this relate to music?

Well think of your body as a radio antenna that picks up different waves, kind of like the eye computes waves of light. See our eyes operate on a very narrow band of frequencies, these are known as the Visual Spectrum of Light. However there are many frequencies that are not scene by 

the eye. 

These are things like radio-waves, microwaves, x-rays and more. The eyes is only one receiver of those waves, in this theory.

Music much like light travels in waves...

Check out this video by Black Dot the writer of Hip-hop Decoded giving a simple lecture about the theory and how it relates to Hip-hop.

Consider this... through-out religion there is always an aspect of music, chanting, singing, and other musical influence. 

It was also said in the Christian religion that Lucifer was the father of music.

More food for thought, think about the fact that music is one of the universal languages practiced by all tribal-societies. Drums always used before war, around agricultural seasons and other natural phenomenon. 

Black Dot makes the argument that music is a complete expression of self and vibrancy of the spirit. He makes the argument that due to the nature of the music in today's music all of the beats flutter at a low frequency that hits the root and sacral chakras. 

These chakras are said to be the rulers of sexual energy and materialist need. He continues to claim that the "overseers" of the music industry wish to control the masses by sexual perversion and material need for wealth through the music itself.

One particular case to look at is 2pac. If we were to label him as a representation of a chakra it would most certainly be the heart chakra....Peep what Shock G said about him.

 

2pac appealed to the heart and feeling of general people in need. 

Something I found quite interesting was a parallel between something Jesus said and a Eastern Philosphy like Chakras... In Eastern philosophy there is a saying to have balance in Mind, Body and Spirit.

In his very last moments before his disciples, prior going up to the Mount Olive to pray,  

In Luke 21:34 Jesus gives this advice to his disciples about the end times... “Be careful, or your hearts will be weighed down with dissipation, drunkenness and the anxieties of life, and that day will close on you suddenly like a trap.

One of the meanings of dissipated means to be concerned with frivolous affairs. Which i would attribute to the mind. Keeping the mind busy with things of no real relevance, like soap operas, games, reality tv and so forth. 

Drunkeness is obviously a physical action. To become drunken in anything takes a physical action.

When I hear the anxieties of life, I think oh how much the weight of bills, lifestyle take a toll of the spirit. 

Either by coincidence, via God, or study of Eastern philosophy. jesus was saying keep balance in mind, body and spirit. 

Music is definitely a tool that hits the spirit and the mind. If we do not value the level of healing or destruction music can play in our lives it can be easy to become dissipated in the pursuit of rims, cars and other shiny objects.

Music like Mozart can take your mind to a very serene place. it is very important that we feed our mind and ears with music that is edifying to the spirit in order to maintain a balance as we are increasingly becoming bombarded with violent, materialized, militarized music.