michelle bramber here welcomes a positive energy and lightning television for the evolving soul on this show my guest is nearby movie spiritual singer songwriter nearby has a distinctly versatile and powerfully expressive voice with a soulful quality as you'll hear her music carries listeners on a profound meditative journey take a deep breath and relax as positive energy starts right now so i'm start by telling us how you got started in the work that you're doing well i was pursuing a career as a singer songwriter for many years before coming to this practice of cure time and we call it a practice because it really is a spiritual practice and i think everybody is looking for something to make them feel whole and complete in their lives and unfortunately most of us are looking outside of ourselves for that and very fortunate few of us have a realize sation that it's really within us that whatever we're looking for if we can't find it outside we have to look within yeah i've been blessed to just you know we're always being guided and i feel like i've been guided to this type of music and and it's really made my life to so much better and it joy what a wonderful path definitely so as for like many others through your own self reflection own self discovery you found this unique way of connecting yourself and the divine and something  you just said i need to do with this more and more yeah yeah you know synchronicities happen and you somebody gives you an album or you meet somebody and you learn about it and once you start doing it i know very few people who've gotten turned on securitized that just didn't get addicted to it because it is so uplifting and it is a practice of mindfulness it you know brings you into a center and a place of st  had to just i was like what is this it was just such a beautiful moment yes yes so what a blessing that is to be able to bring that out into the world when you describe your music sometimes you know finding words probably are a little challenging so are there any other words or ways that you used to describe your music and your time i usually describe it as east meets west because it is bringing eastern philosophy and the mantra of into more from western context and that in that way i feel like my music is a bridge for people in the west to get exposed to this type of music because it makes it very accessible to them they hear it there's catchy grooves you want to move your body you know some of it is just very soulful i was very heavily influenced by songwriters like joni mitchell and rickie lee jones joan baez any to franco and you know all that kind of has filtered through into what i bring to this music i love how it's all coming together there is that there are bridges strong bridges now so that something in it for everyone for and i was like what is this and i just got hooked i love to educate people about this and expose you know this this type of music and you're talking to people so say a little bit more about something what is devotional chanting what does  it mean you're devoted in the chant what does that mean and what is sacred chant and what is montra and what is your talk a little bit more about sort of the the nature of that well it's a song prayer you know it is a form of prayer  most of the time but not exclusively the chants are two different names of god and that not always sometimes we're just chanting something as simple as peace and so is just the repetition of that and often it's done as a call and response where there is a leader who is singing the montra and then we sing it back the participants sing at that and it's this beautiful exchange and people close their eyes and just let it build like it starts off soft and it builds in intensity sometimes it gets fast and then at the end it just kind of all you know it's just a really beautiful it's a beautiful back to and again more and more people are coming to it and there's a reason for that but it's all about developing qualities within ourselves all that you know we want to make ourselves better we want to make the world and this is like one of the most ancient sacred languages there is it dates back four thousand years or so and these sages would meditate in caves in india and they were you know practicing strict posture and purifying themselves and making themselves channels for this information to come through this divine inspiration for the month of you know our channels from the divine and the sages brought them to ordinary people so we could all you know touch the divine and i think it makes it easier for people it doesn't require intellect right the vibration the frequency of sanskrit itself the meaning is wrapped into the sound of the act as it sounds so more so much more profound than we could ever put words to the meanings of these words especially like the seed montrose we talk about them we right away we have to minimize them and yes exactly you know it's just it's just more deep than we could even imagine and it has a healing nature to it as well power and healing just from just from listening even though you are afraid to participate  practice most of the time we don't go to tremendously deep into the meaning some friends of mine said all these chants they all mean god you know and just keep it simple because  sometimes we can get lost and when we try thinking too much about it the point is that we want to get beyond thought and just immerse ourselves in the sound in the experience and the meditation of it so you know i usually self i bow to the inner self i honor that which i am capable of becoming which is the highest version of ourselves not the ego self that's petty misconceptions around these chants and around sanskrit that it's very dogmatic or it's very tied into hinduism or something like that is that right but it's not it is universal messages berkeley spirituality and group always tells us that you know to be a yogi you can be any religion you can be jewish and be a yogi you can be a christian and being a yogi it doesn't mean you've renounced any religion you're just enhancing it so what does it mean to be a yogi then you abuse me one one who follows some spiritual path one who seeks to be in the well specifically the path of yoga and there are many teachings in yoga some of which are  nonviolence selfless service really just trying to be the best that you can be to be a positive influence on the world for yourself and for others so it was that intention mostly yeah  it goes back to intention util so now you also do healing work using sound and i'm not surprised that became a natural extension out of your singing and right yes so  were attracted to crystal ball so talk a little bit about your healing work and tell people what sound healing is well before anything existed pretty much i think all the religion say that there was sound the christians say first there was the word so we start from sound vibration that's like the basis of everything and so when i do this work with the singing bowls we all know that  quartz crystal is a transmitter they use it in computers watches like all these things that transmits energy so we have these crystals quartz crystal singing bowls and these this one is infused with blue alene most of my goals now actually all of them are infused with different gemstones that enhance different shocker as the tones match different shock rows so we have the mont letting out a pronounced my son's growth properly we have our intention we have the power of the monstre we're chanting into the crystal singing bowl as we're playing it in the sound bite creation is carrying that out and it's just magnifying so you know using the crystal to magnify the intention and the sound and the month and so you see that in groups to  one on one with people as well i've been to can't use i think well yes i've been doing it in group mainly i'm just about to begin starting to do some one on one work with people and i had resisted it for a while because i felt like if i'm calling myself a sound to earlier like i better heal this person like in that it's just like can i really do that and good friends of mine and colleagues said it's not about healing the other person it's about creating the pressure on ourselves and the notion that we can fix someone or that they even need to be fixed in the right and wrong with them that's the first thing for us to kind of release within ourselves and then just not underestimate the power of just holding the you can feel it in the room and right away you know i just feel your mind just go settle in the vibration is just so penetrating especially if you're experiencing it live the may not get quite the same effect when you're hearing it's you know prerecorded but i mean it's there it's but just you know try and make ourselves a clear channel and you know get our ego out of the way and be really present and and pray always before i work with sounds with any other people i always ask that god just kind of give them what they need and that site to be some kind of a channel for that and because again our little ego loves to jump in there and take all the credit or need something out of it or need elevation outside of ourselves so you know this whole so many people are doing healing work in the world it doesn't mean that they still are human they are we are human so i know there is lots of everybody took up the practice what would that look like well i love the analogy of like a little pebble each and every one of us were like this little pebble and if we throw it in this vast still water  and you see the ripples kind of going outward and you know they go farther and farther then we can even really see and so when we do these practices we are that pebble in throwing yourself into the ocean of vibration and it really makes you very self aware of what energy you are putting out there because it's not just a positive energy like if we get mad or we say something to be very aware of you know how we are affecting the world around us and if we can find through these practices peace and eklund then middy you know when that negative energy comes out it maybe we can just kind of like you know kind of and give it love anticipated before it's kind of continues out so we have beautiful again intention and way of being mindful of how we are who we are in the world that we can't hide from the universe we're in  yes even if we're all one we're all one to one vibration and it's a great analogy of the pebble in the pond even the tiniest pebble always makes a ripple you know so with our thoughts and our actions and our emotions and even more quiet even more silent we're creating gratian yes so positive or negative i don't like positive or negative it's not really that but there's a quality to our vibration and the ripple that we're sending out to the world so you do a lot of traveling  musician and it's really manifest and i've been working hard towards creating that in my life and through positive visualization by experience little stuff like i did this trip a few years ago where i went to bali and i played my commitment to myself with i'm going to play music in public every day while i'm there and i did and i met some amazing people and i had to step positive experience but that was like the people have just been coming out of the woodwork to support and play with me and to make this tour happen so that's why i had to really feel like i'm in the flow i'm in alignment you know we're doing what you're really meant to do you're in sync and doors just fly open yes right and people welcome you in that way and they want to support you yeah i mean obviously i found just the best people are around this kind of work it goes to speak to the work it supported and very lucky people or homes and i'm in the wrong business oh well you know back when i was doing the singer songwriter thang i was playing in bars to people who weren't even paying attention and then they're just coming home with negative money don't they bro tell rooms and it's just like it's a completely different experience doing this sacred music beautiful i really acknowledge you for the work that you do when you're in the world and putting yourself out there so destroyer known as the destroyer but i see him more as a transformer he takes away from us all that is standing in the way from us being the best person we can be like that highest self so  oh oh wrapping up another in lighting show it's comforting to me to know there are so many amazing people ready peace and hope to the world and you can be one of them thank you for watching remember to