February 11, 2011
"In Spring, breathe
xu for clear eyes and so wood can aid you liver.
In summer, reach for he, so that heart and fire can be at peace.
In fall, breathe si to stabilize and gather metal, keeping the lungs
moist.
For the kidneys, next, breathe chui and see you inner water calm.
the Triple Heater needs your xi to expel all heat and troubles.
In all four seasons take long breaths, so spleen can process food.
And, of course, avoid exhaling noisily, not letting even your ears hear it.
The practice is most excellent and will help preserve your divine elixir."
- Master Sun Simiao (581-682 CE)
From Xiuzhen shishu (Ten Books on Cultivating
Perfection), Song Dynasty
Translated by Livia Kohn, "Chinese Healing Exercises," p. 135
Introduction
Bibliography, Links,
Resources
Six Daoist Healing Sounds
Acupressure Points and Meridians in Self-Massage
Animal Frolics Qigong: Bibliography, Links,
Lessons, Resources, Quotations, History
Breathing Techniques
in Qigong and Taijiquan
Chinese Qigong. Edited by Dr. Zhang Enqin. Shanghai
University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 1990.
Cloud Hands Website:
Qigong and Taijiquan
The
Complete Book of Chinese Health and Healing. By Daniel Reid.
Random House,
1994. Index, appendices, 484 pages. ISBN: 0877739293. The
Six Syllable Secret is discussed in detail, with illustrations, on pp. 218-235. VSCL.
Correspondences and Alchemical Associations of the Animals of the Five Animal
Frolics Qigong
"Effect of Practicing Health Qigong-Liu Zi Jue on Brain Electrical Power Spectra
for Old and Middle-aged People"; By Tu Ren-Shun. Xiyuan Hospital of
China, Academy of T.C.M. (Beijing 100091)
"The Experimental Research of the Effect of Health Qigong-Liu Zi Jue Exercise on
the Human Lung Function"; By Yu Ping, Zhu Ying-Qi, Shen Zhong-Yuan;Shanghai.
Qigong Institute (Shanghai 200032)
The Five Animals do the Six Healing
Sounds. By Michael Winn. Healing Tao Home Study Video, 2004.
Qigong Fundamentals 1. 1 DVD. Instruction in the Inner Smile, Ocean
Breathing, 6 Healing Sounds, and Five Animals. Also Qigong Fundamentals 1
includes lectures by Michael Winn on six audio CDs. VSCL.
Green Paths in the Valley Blog
Green Way Research.
Red Bluff, California.
Healing Sounds - MP3
sound files
Healing Sounds: The Power of Harmonics.
By Jonathan Goldman.
The Inner Smile and the Six Healing Sounds. Mantak Chia.
Liu Zi Jue: Six Sounds Approach to Qigong Breathing Exercises (Chinese Health
Qigong). Complied by the Chinese Health Qigong Association. Beijing, China,
Foreign Languages Press, 2007. 79 pages, includes an instructional DVD.
VSCL.
Meridians and Accupressure Points in Self-Massage
Qigong
Empowerment: A Guide to Medical, Taoist, Buddhist, and Wushu Energy
Cultivation. By Liang, Shou-Yu and Wu, Wen-Ching. Edited by
Denise Breiter-Wu.
Rhode Island, Way of the Dragon Publishing, 1997. Index, glossary,
348 pages. ISBN: 1889659029.
Qigong for Staying Young: A Simple
20-Minute Workout to Cultivate Your Vital Energy. By Shoshanna Katzman.
New York, Avery, Penguin, 2003. Index, resources, 274 pages. ISBN:
1583331735. VSCL. The healing sounds are discuussed on pp. 25-30,
93-105.
Relaxation (Sung,
Song),
Effortless Action, and
Qigong Links,
bibliography, quotes, and notes.
By Mike Garofalo.
Ripening Peaches:
Daoist Studies and Practices. Taoist scriptures, bibliography,
Quanzhen Daoism, Neidan, gardening, tea, history, qigong/daoyin, readings, etc.
Six Healing Movements of Qigong. Master Gin Foon Mark. YMAA,
2001.
Six Healing Sounds.
Master Jesse Tsao, San Diego. UTube Video, 5:59 minutes. Very clear
audion of Master Tsao making the Six Sounds.
Six Healing
Sounds Mantak Chia's Website.
The Six Healing Sounds: Chinese Mantras for Purifying the Body, Mind and Soul.
By John Voigt. Qi: The Journal of Traditional Eastern Health and
Fitness, Volume 20, No. 4, Winter 2010-2011, pp. 26-33.
Six Healing Sounds Qigong.
By Michael Winn. Includes instruction on Inner Smile and Five Animal
Frolics. Audio CDs, DVDs, books. VSCL.
The Six Healing Sounds: Taoist
Techniques for Balancing Chi. By Mantak Chia. Rochester, Vermont. Destiny Books, 2009.
Index, 85 pages.
ISBN: 9781594771569. Includes a 40 minute audio CD. VSCL.
Statements of Fact in Traditional Chinese Medicine. By Bob Flaws.
Blue Poppy, Press, 2007.
Subject Index to the
Cloud Hands Website
Taoist Qigong for Health and Vitality: A Complete Program of Movement,
Meditation and Healing Sounds. By Hon, Sat Chuen. Boston, Shambhala, 2003. 208
pages. ISBN: 1590300688. VSCL.
VSCL: Valley Spirit Center
Library, Red Bluff, California.
Walking Meditation:
Bibliography, Links, Quotes, Notes, Instructions. By Mike Garofalo.
The Way
of Qigong: The Art and Science of Chinese Energy Healing. By Kenneth
S. Cohen.
Foreword by Larry Dossey. New York Ballantine Books, 1997. Index,
notes, appendices,
427 pages. ISBN: 0345421094. One of my favorite books:
comprehensive,
informative, practical, and scientific. VSCL.
Ways of Walking: Poems,
Quotes, Sayings, Bibliography, Links, Lessons, Resources
The Web
That Has No Weaver: Understanding Chinese Medicine. By Ted J.
Kaptchuk,
O.M.D.. Chicago, McGraw Hill Contemporary Books, 2nd Edition, 2000.
Index, bibliography,
appendices, notes, 500 pages. Foreward by Margaret Caudill, M.D., and by
Andrew
Weil, M.D. ISBN:
0809228408. An excellent introduction to traditional
Chinese medicine and modern research on the topic. VSCL.
Six Daoist Healing
Sounds
Notes, Research, Practices
Hsü Xu 噓
Wood Liver Spring
Sounds Like:
" Shhhhh " as in " Shush "
Pronounced as " Shoo ", with the lips pursed, but softened by the umlaut over the vowel. - Daniel Reid
I recommend doing some research on the subject using the good books and instructional DVDs recommended above.
Helps With:
To aid the liver and for clear eyesight. - Sun Simiao (581-682 CE)
Spring Months: Quotes, Poems, Sayings, Lore
He Her 呵
Fire Heart Summer
Sounds Like:
" Hawwwwwwww " - Mantak Chia
He is pronounced as 'her' but without the final 'r', with mouth open, tip of tongue pressed against lower teeth, and syllable aspirating in the top of the throat on exhalation.) - Daniel Reid
" Huhrrr " - Shoshanna Katzman
"Huh"
I recommend doing some research on the subject using the good books and instructional DVDs recommended above.
Helps With:
For aid to the heart and peaceful state of mind and body. - Sun Simiao (581-682 CE)
Helps the heart and small intestine. - Daniel Reid
"The Heart Sound:
The heart sound transforms the emotional energy inside the heart into love, joy
and happiness.
Position: Sit on the edge of your chair with feet shoulder length apart. Place
hands palms-up on your thighs. Raise your hands palms-up over your head and
interlock your fingers.
Lean slightly to the right. Look up.
Heart sound: With the mouth wide open, exhale a deep breath slowly and produce
the sound "HAWWWWWWWW."
Visualization: Return your hands to the palms-up position on your lap and smile
to your heart. Imagine a red light shining upon and inside your heart,
surrounding it. Concentrate on feeling the virtue (power) of love, joy and/or
happiness. Know that the red light is burning away and transmuting any hatred
emotion or self-pity into the virtue emotions.
Repeat two more times (a total of three), including the hands position and
visualization."
- Mantak Chia,
Six Healing
Sounds
"Start in a relaxed Horse stance. Bring your hands
slightly forward so that he palms are facing each other at thigh level.
Focus attention on the point between the eyebrows [Upper Tan Tian] and on the
point midway between the nipples [Middle Dan Tian], in order to open up these
vital energy centers, then shift attention to the centers of the palms and the
tips of the little fingers. Commence inhalation and, as you begin to raise
your hands up and out to the sides, turn the palms so that they face towards the
back, and extend the little fingers outwards as far as possible to activate the
heart meridian. When your breath is full and the hands reach shoulder
level, commence exhalation through the mouth, aspirating the syllable her
in the top of the throat (He is pronounced as 'her' but without the final
'r', with mouth open, tip of tongue pressed against lower teeth, and syllable
aspirating in the top of the throat on exhalation.), while slowly lowering the
hands back down the sides with little fingers relaxed. Visualize hot Fire
energy streaming up and out of the heart with exhalation. When the breath
is empty and your hands are back down in the front, pause to relax, then begin
the next cycle on the next inhalation."
- Daniel Reid, "The Complete Book of Chinese Health and Healing, 1995,
p.223
Summer Months: Quotes, Poems, Sayings, Lore
Hoo Hu 呼
Earth Spleen Late Summer
Sounds Like:
Pronounced as the word "who", with the lips rounded and the tongue suspended in mid-mouth, as though blowing out a cande. - Daniel Reid
Keep the lips soft and loose, let the tongue float freely in the mouth not touching the inside of the mouth, allow the lips to buzz. "The FU healing sound has three components- the consonant, the vowel, and the wind sound. The consonant is the sound f, and it allows you to release the excessive buildup of heat exhaust in the spleen. The vowel sound of FU is the sound u, and it serves to strengthen the organ. The subvocal wind sound nourishes the organ and is the soud your vibrating lips make when you blow ar through them, such as when you are trying to amke a baby laugh or imitating the sould of a propeller plane in flight." Sat Chuen Hon.
I recommend doing some research on the subject using the good books and instructional DVDs recommended above.
Helps With:
Helps the spleen stomach, and pancreas. - Daniel Reid
Helps with spleen and pancreas. - Stat Chuen Hon
Helps regulate body temperature.
Summer Months: Quotes, Poems, Sayings, Lore
Autumn Months: Quotes, Poems, Sayings, Lore
Si Sss 呬
Metal (Gold) Lungs Autumn
Sounds Like:
" Shhhhh " as in " Shush "
Pronounced as " Shoo ", with the lips pursed, but softened by the umlaut over the vowel. - Daniel Reid
" Sssss "
"Tzzz" Like the first part of "Tzar" - John Voigt
I recommend doing some research on the subject using the good books and instructional DVDs recommended above.
Helps With:
For helping to keep the lungs from
being dry. - Sun Simiao (581-682 CE)
Autumn Months: Quotes, Poems, Sayings, Lore
Lie on your back on a comfortable and flat surface.
Others recommend doing the exercise while seated or standing,
but try it lying on the ground in this version.
Close your eyes.
Relax the entire body. Be comfortable and warm.
The room should be quiet and you should be undisturbed.
The room should be clean, dust free, incense free, and pollution free.
Healthy plants in the room contribute to better air.
Keep your tongue down on the bottom of your mouth.
Extend your lower jaw somewhat.
Either let your arms relax on the floor at your sides, or rest your hands on
your upper chest.
Inhale slowly and deeply through the nose. Relax your abdomen and let it
rise as you inhale.
As you exhale make the "ssss" or "tzzz" or "shhhh" sound.
You should be able to hear and feel this healing sound as you make it.
Vibrate the sound in the throat.
Imagine the buzzing sound descending, vibrating, and buzzing in your chest and
lungs.
Imagine your lungs being energized, purified, strengthened, rejuvenated,
healthier, and healed.
The abdomen falls down as you exhale.
1. Audibly repeat the inhalation and exhalation pattern eight times.
Take your time, go slowly, concentrate, and focus on
energizing the lungs.
2. Silently, inaudibly, with your imagination, repeat the inhalation and
exhalation pattern eight times.
Take your time, go slowly, concentrate, and focus on
energizing the lungs.
3. Audibly repeat the inhalation and exhalation pattern eight times.
This time, as you exhale, imagine and mentally concentrate on
and try to feel the Qi (bodily energy) moving from both big toes
(Liver 1 point Dadun) upward, up through the inside of
the legs (Liver Channel), up into the abdomen, up into
the chest and lungs, then down the inner arms (Lung Channels)
moving to the tips of the middle fingers (Lung 11 point Shaoshang).
4. Silently, inaudibly, with your imagination, repeat the inhalation and
exhalation pattern eight times.
Take your time, go slowly, concentrate, focus on energizing
the lungs.
Imagine your lungs being energized, purified, strengthened, rejuvenated,
healthier and healed.
Relax quietly for a few minutes.
Return to normal, relaxed, and natural breathing. Rest for awhile.
Place your hands gently on you abdomen (right hand over left hand for men, women
the opposite) and move your hands in a circular
manner around your abdomen for 36 circles clockwise,
then 36 circles counterclockwise. Gently massage
your abdomen.
Remain quiet, relaxed, and calm. Meditate.
Chui Chway 吹
Water Kidneys Winter
Sounds Like:
“Chui” means “to blow” like you’d blow on your finger if you got burned. You purse your lips in a circle and blow out silently.
I recommend doing some research on the subject using the good books and instructional DVDs recommended above.
Helps With:
Winter Months: Quotes, Poems, Sayings, Lore
Xi 嘻
All Phases Triple Heater All Seasons
Sounds Like:
" Sheee"
Helps With:
Helps with the whole body, Triple Warmer (San Jiao), circulatory system, nerve system, immune system.
Months of the Year: Quotes, Poems, Sayings, Lore
General Suggestions on the Six Healing Sounds Qigong
“Six Healing Sounds
Qigong uses appropriate sound waves to subtly vibrate our five internal organs (
the liver, heart, spleen, lungs, and kidneys), and the Triple Warmer areas. In
so doing, our internal organs can be mildly stimulated and rejuvenated, and thus
promoting our health. In addition to sound vibrations, body movements are
also used in this Qigong. These movements help open up our “breathing space”.
And if we are trained to become aware of the specific finger tips or toe tips,
we can then easily open up the related meridian lines. In this way, we can feel
an even stronger shifting of the breathing space. Six Healing Sounds
Qigong is an excellent “textbook” for training the coordination between our body
and our breathing. When we are pronouncing a healing sound, we are always
exhaling. The ensuing body movement, no matter in what direction, will be done
while inhaling. This natural coordination between breathing and body movements,
makes the otherwise difficult shifting of breathing space from our fingers
through the whole body and legs, down to the toes (or vice versa), as easy as a
breeze."
- Dr. Bingkun Hu
"In Spring, breathe
xu for clear eyes and so wood can aid you liver.
In summer, reach for he, so that heart and fire can be at peace.
In fall, breathe si to stabilize and gather metal, keeping the lungs
moist.
For the kidneys, next, breathe chui and see you inner water calm.
the Triple Heater needs your xi to expel all heat and troubles.
In all four seasons take long breaths, so spleen can process food.
And, of course, avoid exhaling noisily, not letting even your ears hear it.
The practice is most excellent and will help preserve your divine elixir."
- Master Sun Simiao (581-682 CE)
From Xiuzhen shishu (Ten Books on Cultivating
Perfection), Song Dynasty
Translated by Livia Kohn, "Chinese Healing Exercises," p. 135
"The Term Liu Zi Jue first appears in a book called On Caring for the
Health of the Mind and Prolonging the Life Span written by Tao Hongjing of
the
Southern and Northern Dynasties (420 - 589). A leading figure of the
Maoshan School of Taoism, Tao was renowned for his profound knowledge of
Traditional Chinese Medicine. "One has only one way for inhalation but
six for exhalation" he writes in the book. Zou Pu'an of the
Song
Dynasty (960 - 1279) was a major contributor in terms of theroy and practice
to the transmission of the exercise through his book The Supreme Knack for
Health Preservation - Six-Character Approach to Breathing Exercises.
No body movements accompanied the Liu Zi Jue exercises until the
Ming
Dynasty (1386 - 1644) when Hu Wenhuan and Gao Lian wrote books on the
subject. For instance they both included in their books the summary of Liu Zi
Jue for despelling diseases and prolonging the life span, which combines
controlled breathing with physical exercises. There are a number of
schools of exercises which incorporate elements of Liu Zi Jue, including
Yi Jin Jing,
Ba Gua
Zhang and Da Yan Gong, but the sounds are uses as an aid to physical
exercises in these dynamic Qigong which is different from Liu Zi Jue. An
authoritative work on the subject is Ma Litang's Liu Zi Jue Health and
Fitness Exercises for clinical application. The theoretical basis of
the Liu Zi Jue exercises is in line with the ancient theories intrinsic to
Traditional Chinese Medicine of the Five Elements and the Five Solid
Viscera. They tend to be on common ground on such issues as mouth forms and
pronunciation methods, and the direction of body movements and mind follow the
inner circulation law of the meridians."
- Liu Zi Jue - Wikipedia
"One should take air in through the nose and let
it out slowly through the mouth ... There is one way of drawing breath in and
six ways of expelling breath out. The sex ways of expelling breath are
represented by the syllables hsü, her, hoo, sss, chway, shee. The
six ways of exhalation can cure illness: to expel heat, one uses chway;
to expel cold one uses hoo; to relieve tension, use shee; to release
anger, use her; to dispel malaise, use hsü, and to regain equilibrium,
use sss."
- Tao Hung-jing, (456-536 CE), Physician
From the book "The Maintenance and Extension of Life"
Quoted by Daniel Reid, "The Complete Book of Chinese Health and
Healing," p. 219.
"Sound therapy is a very ancient method of healing. Tibetan monks, for
example, have used a method of “overtone chanting” for thousands of years for
treating illness. The theory is that since everything in the universe is in a
constant state of vibration, including the human body, even the smallest change
in frequency can affect the internal organs. Modern sound therapists
consider there is a natural resonance or “note” that is “right” for each part of
the human body, and for each individual, so by directing specific sound waves to
specific areas they can affect the frequency at which that part is vibrating and
thereby restore it to balance and therefore health.
Sound therapy may utilize special machines that transmit “healing
vibrations” (the British pioneer Peter Guy Manners has developed a system known
as Cymatics that claims to do this). But more usually it involves direct
application of the voice, music, or a variety of tonal sounds and sometimes a
combination of all three. The work of voice teachers such as Chris James
in Australia and Jill Purce in Britain has been influential in showing many
people how to discover and use their natural voice through the use of sound
tones. In the United States, musician Jonathan Goldman has developed the
therapeutic use of music through instruments such as the drum, didjeridoo, and
flute. Specifically directed sounds can be used in the treatment of a
variety of disorders and have been particularly effective with mentally and
physically handicapped children and adults."
-
Journey to Health: Sound Theraphy
"Almost all ancient cultures understood how sound and vibration
affects us mentally, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. The great
scientists of antiquity were also master musicians. According to Steven Ian
MacIntosh in his book, The Harmonic Lyre Sacred Sound of Universal Unity,
“The primary focus of the Pythagorean schools was the use of music and
vibration in the healing arts…they used musical harmony as a way of bypassing
the intellect and directly affecting one’s emotional well being.” The most
powerful and accessible instruments for sound healing is the human voice. In
Mayan mythology, for example, it is said that the first real men were given life
by the soul power of their voice. Toning, which is the process of
vocalizing a single, open-vowel sound repeatedly, helps you restore balance,
release emotional blocks, and open energy flow. “Bypassing language entirely,
toning allows us to express the heart and soul directly, quieting the
over-active left brain,” Joy Gardner-Gordon says in her book, The Healing
Voice. Our energy centers, known as chakras, resonate to different
tones. For example, based on Gardner-Gordon’s toning method described in The
Healing Voice, repeating the tone “Ahhh” helps balance the heart chakra and
helps release blocked emotions. When working with sound, intention is perhaps
even more important than the actual sound being projected. By projecting sound
and conscious intent, sound healers can help restore resonance in the body and
energetic field. Sound Healing maestro Jonathan Goldman explains in his book
Healing Sounds: The Power of Harmonics that sound is a carrier of
consciousness. “Depending upon where an individual’s awareness is placed when he
creates a certain sound, the sound will carry information on that state to the
person receiving it.”
-
Swimming in a Sea of Sacred Sound
"The heart is associated with the
negative emotions of arrogance and hate and the positive virtues of kindness and
love. Recent scientific research shows that feelings of love and appreciation
strongly influence the heart's rhythm and its relationship to the body's
physiological systems. The lungs are associated with the negative emotions
of sadness and depression, and the positive virtues of courage and
righteousness. Emotional depression is often recognized by a physical depression
and collapse of the chest and lungs. The kidneys are associated with the
negative emotion of fear and the positive emotions of gentleness and kindness.
Fear is closely related to the activity of the adrenal glands that lie on top of
the kidneys. The adrenal glands secret adrenalin and noradrenalin when
stimulated by the body's fight-or-flight response. The liver is associated
with the negative emotion of anger and the positive emotions of generosity and
forgiveness. Physiologically, the liver is important for storing and rapidly
releasing glucose into the blood. The energy of anger requires the rapid
availability of metabolic energy stores in the body. The stomach/spleen
are associated with the negative emotions of worry and anxiety and the positive
emotions of fairness and openness. Most people will be familiar with the
"butterflies" and "knots" in the stomach related to worry, apparently related to
a network of network of neurons and neurotransmitters in the sheaths of tissue
lining the digestive system, known as the enteric nervous system."
-
Inner Smile and Six Healing Sounds
"Scientific research shows that these primordial rhythmic sound
vibrations do have a direct effect on brain activity. Steady beats at 4-7 cycles
per second generate theta brain wave states associated with ecstatic trance. In
the theta state, beta (or waking) mind activity is lowered, inducing heightened
awareness. We become spirit sensitive; receptive, intuitive, present and
centered in our heart's intelligence. The trance state can be likened to a
waking dream. Inner visions may reveal themselves. Self-realizations and deep
insights may surface. Or, we may simply feel a renewed lightness of spirit,
clarity, and joy."
- Liquid Bloom, The Shaman's Eye, CD
"Yangxing Yanming lu 養性延命錄. Attributed to Tao Hingjing 陶弘景 (456-536).
This is a collection of instructions for healthy living, food, and breathing
exercises for meditative healing, gymnastics and sexual therapy. The respiratory
techniques including liuqi jue, 六氣訣, or “the oral transmission of the six
type of (therapeutic) breaths” was introduced in this work, which follows the
sound of the words xu 噓, he 呵, xi 呬, chui 吹, hu
呼, xi 嘻, each sound has a therapeutic effect associated with one of the
five inner organs."
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