must say everyone michel grandeur of here welcome to another episode of positive energy we've got enlightening television for your evolving soul on this show i introduce you to marco dulce a and the jupiter gon sounds and vibrations created by the gong induce the listener and to a state of spontaneous meditation and relaxation moving positive life force energy throughout the body this effect promotes vitality healing awakens consciousness for transformation prepare to be bathed with sound as positive energy starts right now ways that is correct to help people so what is sound healing well broadly speaking sound healing is the application of sound waves sound energy to the body to effect a positive change in the mind the body or the  will people say help asking how does it work what do you generally tell them well it works in several ways really multiple levels with the instruments such as gongs and singing bowls they engage the mind and we can think of a sound healing session symbols as a meditation in that they engage the mind and help to put one in a spontaneous meditative state when the mind slows down and the autonomous body slows down the autonomous nervous system so when the mind is calm the blood pressure drops heart rate drops breathing regulates down lower and puts one in to relax they which is conducive to healing that's the other state for the body's wisdom to kick in and do what it was designed to do exactly what stress interrupts all of that so talking about stress that's the key reducing stress is the key to everything there are so many stress related conditions the talk a little bit more specifically about what types of things that sound healing can help address sensually well this manner of sound healing can help address feelings of depression of anger and separation people often feel that they're a connection to pleasant pleasant experience well i mean i've experienced it with you and in other venue as well so i can definitely balance for that what some of the feedback you've gotten i'm most curious about the spiritual level non fact of things so in terms of that what people report well as i said some people feel a sense of expanded consciousness or higher awareness of other people have seen let me back up a little bit what sound healing does we can considered energy medicine  the same way that acupuncture or reiki or jensen jitsu in that they all attempt to address the energy body and flow of energy exactly whether you call it she or pran or goan it's the same thing and it's this idea of removing blockages and restoring the free flow of energy now in acupuncture for example it's much more regulated and targeted you know the meridians are mapped out in a very specific points sound healing is not as targeted rather when you work with a gong or a singing bowls it's a it's overall immersion in the full range of sound that works on the whole body so it's this idea of removing blockages so the spiritual level this removing a blockages can happen on the physical level on the mental or the emotional level on the spiritual level people report greater insights into their lives and their problems some people have had kind of personal opinion ease about where their life is going what they should do on a physical level i've had people report one lady told me she passed a stone after and after a sound healing session so again there's that idea of energy moving yeah so it's that subtle level of things right but but the physical is where it shows up and so i always talk about raise your vibe that's my way of saying that's really essential to the health and well being i'm body and spirit that's one way of putting it yeah because it brings you into a state of optimism vibration and that would be one way of saying raise your vibe you know i think of the energy body and if you are in a bad state or you have a sickness condition i visualize the body as not being as bright as it might be if you could just see your energy body in a state of optimal health you would be bright and luminous all the way around but when you're in a state or disharmony you're not shining as bright as you normally would there you might see places where the feel is darkened or not as bright and what sound healing does is go in and sort of refurbish or reenergize your energy bodies so that those darkened places are now shining brightly again yeah that's a great example of that you know i do reiki as well and means reiki and so it is for the newbie it's hard to sort of describe it but to give them a feeling a felt sense of it is really how people do learn so clearing out those blocks dense area and lighting up and and creating a higher vibration in all of us so is it in your observation becoming more mainstream a little more in demand a little more accepted sound healing in general plus what you do with the gone bad is well gaining in popularity absolutely i got into working with these instruments over twenty years ago and at that time they were very seen it explode since then such that i saw a commercial for the super bowl where somebody was buying a singing bowl and i've been to flea markets and they're selling singing bowls so it's really become it's really has come into the popular consciousness and more people are and interested in it however it's not so much accepted by mainstream science yet yeah so that maybe that's next or maybe not but perhaps but i think it is it's starting to you know various institutions are now offering are the tibetan single this is your beautiful jupiter god and talk a little bit first about the tibetan bowls how long have they been around where did they originate if you could tell us how are they ok well first of all people do call these tibetans bowls but recent research has indicated that they are not actually from tibet got to know they are from the himalayan region so be more accurate to call them himalayan bowls ah so they're more closely associated with  napalm northern india most of the bowls that we use at least in the design in the tradition come from that area but the bowl culture really is spread out over almost the entire asian continent there are bowls that show up in temples in japan  there are bowls that have been adapted to the gamelan orchestra of indonesia and there are bowls that show up in certain thailand and certain temples in thailand so across asia there are some variation of a singing buddhist writings and a friend of mine who travels a lot in tibet and who works with bowls asked alarm a you know what is the history of the bulls in the lama told him the bowls go back to the bone culture and that's  say the bulls go back to more the pre buddhist culture of the himalayas than the buddhism that is there now very interesting personally i think they're much older than that an interesting note is that i was in the louvre in paris museum a few years ago and in the section for ancient egypt there was an exhibit of household items but in that exhibit were some metal bowls that looked exactly like singles same color metal the same same shapes and i have a picture of this on my website or on my facebook page with the caption you know ancient poles are singing bowls in ancient egypt you know i thought be funny to write to the curator and say hey can we try playing these balls but i think they would appreciate me trying to hit their ears those are more museum three thousand year old boys personally i think they go back wave before the himalayan time the bone culture and i believe they may even go back to the pre flood ancient metal legend says that the authentic singing bowls were made from a seven metal consecrated alloy each of the metals corresponding to one of the known planets of the time so i can remember them all there nickel gold there is myth and to many and to this i mean right now pretty good to remember almost all those names so that's the idea i've never melted one down to actually do an analysis but that is the legend behind it now these are antique bowls they're probably hundreds of years old to you know there's not a lot of these instruments to go around many of the bowls you see on the market are of modern manufacture some are fairly good others are not so good there is a wide range of quality there were old one the older ones i acquired my bows from a private collector who had been importing and collecting bowls for twenty years and these the ones that he had that i got he said there was a little extra magic in them which i believe you know there's a certain almost supernatural quality to the vibration and sustain of these instruments maybe they're holding on to the energy of the previous owner perhaps sometime i get that feeling  and the spirit johnny energy invested in the bible itself i believe as well so so can you tell us about the guy that is well well gongs in terms of the history of the gallery did they come from and well the room where they found it originated we think probably china although there's not a lot of record and there's not a lot of antique old instruments around like there are some more antique singles you know there's an old tradition in asia that  you would use metal to go to war with and when the war was over you melted the weapons back down into musical instruments so as not to far be stretched to think that some warrior had a shield and then hid it and got a nice sound out of it so good luck and the local holy man said wow let me borrow your but that's only my conjecture you know a good theory it seems that perhaps perhaps china there are some ancient writings in the yoga tradition about the gon but my personal belief is that in ancient times metal objects with such as these were only really affordable by the wealthy you know any kind of metal objects would have been a luxury item and something that had this much metal and this much craftsmanship would have probably been very rare so in china you know to this day the gongs are thought of not so much as a healing instrument but as a is an instrument of good fortune because if you had gone you were wealthy and early gongs made by this company price the had a chinese character on it that meant good fortune tidally so there's an ancient correlation between gongs and wealth and fortune chances are that you  know as spiritual people and holy men and sharman or the years have adapted very sound technologies to their own pursuits probably some holy man got a hold of a gong and saw its potential and used it but there aren't really any that i know  formal writings from ancient times talking about the use and manufacture of gongs it's you know it's fairly obscure yeah and it is what makes them so special it's like whenever they're in the space that non ever you just want to look at them and ye at everybody wants to touch them thing that's happening how do you help yourself there's something very appealing about the look as an art as a piece of art as well as the the sound that so you know absolutely so when you use these in your group because you offer these bad how does that look to describe that a little bit when people come for a gone bad what can they expect from that obviously you sit and play you don't do the same over and over you sort of very how do you work in the optimum position with their head pointed toward the gong so there will be rows of people filling the room and i sit and play the gong for an hour now it isn't just wandering around the gong for an hour i tried to deliver a consistent experience it's almost impossible to play the exact gong bad for an hour every time because owing to the dynamic nature of the instrument it's not like a piano where you can get the exact same note over and over the gong is more dynamic however i do have a program that i work out it's sort of a composition you might say only in that so that i can deliver a consistent experience to you know the clients every time they come there is some intuition involved just in terms of you know how i work out my sequences and sometimes some new things will happen on the fly that i'll then i'll explore you know in the middle of a gone bad but i strive for consistency and deliver so what were the good combination of both things started tuning in right up subconscious level and you'll have a way you normally everything that you have so that's wonderful so just maybe just tell us briefly how you got started in this well i've been a musician all my life ever since i was a child and i don't know working musician and songwriter bandleader performer it was around one nine hundred ninety five or the early ninety's i guess i had what you might call a spiritual awakening that changed my world quite a bit and at that time i started to think what are the spiritual applications of music and then right around the same time i learned about a single friend of mine had one and i really felt connected to it sort of like i'd been there before and i started to acquire bowls and the more i got the more i was in in fraud with them and obsessed with them so i started recording them and creating new music and i put some c d s out in the what was then called the new age music scene and they were and you're gonna bass or all mostly in new jersey or around new jersey in jersey you know already i go over up sort of have gone with you know i work in or mostly these days in north jersey and also manhattan i go to nyack new york and you know it changes as the venues come and go but mostly in the new jersey new york area i strongly encourage people to come out and check out the gong bath for themselves it's something that you definitely definitely have to experience and i think so so i really appreciate the work that you're doing in the world in the my website to see my schedule coming up i also teach sound healing if anyone is interested in learning how to use the bowls learning how to use the gongs for their own spiritual development or to be sound healers please come see my website at american sound in lightning show i hope you make more time to relax and recharge if you're interested in learning meditation and relaxation techniques reach out to me and michelle grand dot com thank you monday morning flowers in princeton for the beautiful floral arrangement thank you for watching please join me next time on positive energy