must say everyone michel granbury here welcome to another episode of positive energy we've got enlightening television for your evolving so the gong is one of the oldest and most powerful transformational and therapeutic instruments it has long been used in sacred rituals and ceremony to complement and accentuate prayer and meditation  calming energizing and healing affects gangs are currently used during yoga classes and group sound immersions as vibrational therapy my guest lois harrison harmonic sound therapist is here to introduce us to the sacred instrument and educate us on the power of sound vibration stay right where you are because positive energy starts right now oh lois harrison is in the house welcome and thank you for being on positive energy thank you michel it is a pleasure to be here so you are as harmonic sound practitioner tell us what that is it is someone who utilizes the use ally's the sound the overtones the vibrations to permeate people to help them release stress and to heal themselves so you mentioned vibration tell us a little more about vibration and you say everything alive vibrates yes yes i think about it when when something is dead it's still yeah still it's still so soon as you have a thought a movement it creates it creates students there's life there's breath there's a heartbeat it creates a movement that's vibration doesn't have to be heard it can be felt everything moves everything five everything moves that he is stagnant now no if you've got it you have to look down at the electron the the nucular it's all moving so relate that to some of the beautiful objects you brought with you today the beautiful instruments i want to call them your friends my for my tone with your friends the big three you communicate with you let's start with the gong let's talk about these beautiful guy that are here watt what about these guns what is healing how are they healing why are they so parable what is their nature well the gongs are probably the most powerful of vibration out there and there's a variety of sizes there's a variety of shapes but the gongs are known as idio phones which means they're an instrument that there is no resistance so when you hit it to have sound the vibration all fully comes off of it there's not something that dampens it and you've got the gong you've got a bowl shaped gong and you've got a bell shaped gong and they're all the thing thing but the gong because of its size and the nature of it it's the most powerful of the vibrations and it will the vibrations of the gong will fill up the room it'll fill up your body it'll go into every cell and it has the power to totally dissolve time space and matter you will know how the gong our been used in history in the past and how are they used now well gong started with the bronze age but even if you go back to the stone age there's rocks that ring when you hit it we have in pennsylvania not far from here ringing rock state park you can go with a hammer and hit them and you'll get different harmonics and so the gong zur made of bronze and so it really started the bronze age and it's a communicator so because because of the volume of their sound it can travel distances so people used to use them instead of a drum in places to send messages across a distance across a distance it was used in ceremonies to ring in the beginning of a ceremony it help people to transition when they when they passed away so it's been used in many many different ways yeah so now it's vibrational therapy yes or rediscovering yes now the power of sound and in so many different venues in so many different ways so tell us about that well if you think about it stress stress causes and what do they say anywhere from seventy five up to ninety five percent of all illnesses and stress isn't just an emotional stress it can be physical chemical or emotional but when somebody is under stress the cell walls of your body contract and shut down and so nothing goes in and the toxins don't go out so the beauty of the gongs are there are a tranquilizer that you don't have to take because when the vibration of the gong permeates you it changes your brain waves into a deep state of relaxation and that's really where it's removing the obstacles because when your body can drop into that deep state of relaxation the body has the natural intelligence to heal itself so what's happening with the brits who are brain waves changed to match the vibration of the gong is its exact word untrained so then trains with that so you have you know the alpha beta delta faded state and the deep meditation status they had and so what happens is this you don't have a choice it'll drop you deep in ten it's automatic out of so it's automatically automatic yeah and then you're also saying the vibration goes into our cells and i squeeze into all your cells and there's a lot of research just being done on it but there is some research out there that says the harmonic vibrations of the gongs can of metal elements can actually trigger nitric oxide in the cells and nitric oxide is a natural pain reliever and it also helps with stem cell production beautiful i love all of that so when you play it's not always the most comfortable though because people who have had an injury or people who are holding an emotional blockage it'll come and knock up against it but if you can surrender to it it'll move through so that's like a sign an indicator that something's happening something's moving sometimes things feel uncomfortable worse until they feel better but it's sometimes you hear that term a healing crisis so yes release that's and they can try to waive that you have to kind of hang in there right and then you can trigger it and some people will fall asleep and start snoring because they need that earth so it's like we are also instruments right and everybody is different rating differently at any given moment and so are these so it's like these these beautiful beings  individuals respond differently and they get what they need yes yes and that's the beauty when you play when i do a group sound journey versus one on one i can't pick up what every single person needs but what i do is it's my intention when i play these i have to be in a very still open space to play because they tell me what to play the gongs move through me and tell me where to go want to play so when i'm in a group situation i just hold the intention for them to help and for whatever the highest good for people there is and people will tell me they hear different things out of the gongs and when i play them you'll hear there's so many overtones and it's not necessarily about the sound it's about listening to the space between the sound because in that act of listening it's the space where everything moves out of the stillness and so when i play i ask everybody to hold an intention that they want and then listen for the space between the sounds beautiful no wonder it's meditative yes the there's a focus element to that yes very gentle right it isn't well it isn't it's not it all depends the gong can be played very softly and gentle and what i love about them is it does around you and the same thing with metal bowls verses the crystal balls they will surround you and almost hold you but you can get the gongs going where they're shaking you up and i had a woman stand up in the middle of a sound journey and scream stop it because it was shaking her up so much yes  everything i'm just not a harmonic sound practitioner i also do body work and i also teach she coming which is cultivation of breath and so when whence and an athlete comes to me and they're very inflamed but they have a knot i might take a bowl and put the bowl on the body or a tuning fork and the vibration just relaxes it so i can go when and if somebody if somebody has that mental loop i call it you know stuck on the mouse little wheel and they can get their mind out of something the gang in the bowls they can relax you and take you into no mind where we can repattern g the thoughts and let it go and i used the breath work and the awareness of people with the sound to feel like the vibrations coming in and breaking up whatever they need to do and like i said before once somebody is totally relaxed the body has the natural intelligence to heal themselves so let's experience that a little bit just demonstrate some and talk a little bit about what you have here ok well when i do a sound journey something i also do you have to you have to match where the person is so if somebody is coming in very agitated ok if i think dart out is a rattle breaks a rattle will break up that agitation that that's buying really have to know your instrument oh yeah it's the voices and so once i break that up then i start moving so i might come then to a little higher pitch a little more irritating and then move i can feel the natural progression sort of the graduation of deliberately moving someone's energy by using the sound insane in sound in music there's three elements that make up everything tone pulse and form so the tone should  it makes it a little tighter and so that the tone the pol it still keeps an edge but if i slow it down flute player when i was twelve just to ask you you were you were a musician prior to this i started as a silver flute player when i was twelve and i don't know if you play an instrument but a lot of people to play an instrument you hope for yourself you play  e to start out if i was really down i would start out and play really mellow slow music and then i'd work my way up to something more upbeat and i would and i would move my emotions with it so it's the same thing that i do now in creating a soundscape is i tried to move people's emotions from where they are to a deep relaxation or you try to get them to a point sometimes where they're so tense but they're they're scared to jump and then you back down and then you take them again and when once they feel comfortable with it you can take them to that edge and push them over  so it depends on their intention as well and you're also intuitively feeling yes they may not even realize they want to go but the goal is to leave them in better off exactly but sometimes where we get mistaken about healing work happy and joyful isn't necessarily healing sometimes to get to that place you have to go through the darkness and you have to go through the pain because we're holding in our bodies a lot of times and people don't realize they're holding it and so sometimes i'll be playing and i'll bring in the sound you know i can bring in the wind ok here's the wind and that my that might remind somebody one day that might remind somebody of that stormy night that something happened and so it'll bring back a memory and will push them over and over release it and it brings it up out of your own conscious and once something's up out of the unconscious you can face it and you can release it people put so much energy into a voiding uncomfortable ness and what is labeled as negative emotion or bad emotion when in fact that's simply information right it's information about something you didn't know maybe that was going on inside of you in the point is that's temporary unless you stuff it back down you want to move through it to the other side and these are ways that invite you invite that to happen again with the within of your family in a safe environment so i just keep reminding people the past no longer exist the future never comes you have to be where you are right now and i say to them right now you're ok so we're just going to revisit whatever memories the sound in the gongs bring up so how did you come to the guy did you first listen to it as a participant and just fall in love with it or because it's it's a unique path i what you're doing i learn things intuitively and i spent twenty years in the corporate world i was a buyer in the fashion industry and i had some health issues that forced me to retire and so i started and then i decided when i was going  to that i became a massage therapist but i knew that massage wasn't the end all so it took me on my own healing journey and i started going into ci kong and she can talk to me about the and my whole life i've always been asking where does nothing come from so in my learning of cheek i ended up in england in glastonbury and i met a man there who was a music educator who had switched to healing sound and he had gone and soon as i heard them i fell in love his teacher was young his teacher was don conroe who for one of the first times in a long time was teaching in new york so i came back and i started studying with him and i learned his aspect of it and then i wanted more and i ended up going to the new york open center's sound program it was a ten month i and the history and the science very very nice and yeah it's a journey or journey it's a journey it's a journey but those one of those things it makes you realise we are some blueprint that each of us come in with right it's loose sometimes but but it's like you met up with your potential destiny right even when the gong came together even the native american flute i was going to ask you these are just so beautiful they're like little works of art i love the native american flu can you tell us just a bit about that and play well even with the native american flute i discovered it in england there was one of the guys with the cheek kong that i was studying he was selling high spirits native flutes and i was a silver flute player and so i bought one from him and started playing and i realized the healing power of it because what makes all of this is the overtones the  harmonics the vibrations and each one is different so i love using the double flute because you have the drone which kind of holds the bass but then with the flute i can tell i look at it is an instrument of journeying it takes people from one place to another so when you play a single  it can take you on a journey but when you add the drone it adds a whole different dimension just your planet i feel like i want to cry yeah i mean it literally brings up like happy tears of emotion as you play that and it's the overtones you know because well how i look at things is out of stillness like we said everything alive vibrates so as you have that stillness and life manifest out of it is a vibration it's not just one vibration it's a harmonics so you can take you can take something and this is where you go back to tell one pulse and form but i can take a flu that sounds very sad ok because of the tones that i'm doing but i can come and go i was out west a native american flute person said to me quit playing with your head tell me from your heart a story and don't think of words but play the emotion what and that's what i did so if i want to tell you i don't know about my greatest love  affair i get it i get so i got to learn so music to me is the universal language if we spoke two different languages it doesn't matter because music creates a feel in a mood and so so it can help you to remember things it can move through your entire body you don't even need to hear you can feel the vibration and that's happening all the time and we can't switch that off so it's such a beautiful art feeling art to be able to invite people into that deliberately creating tension which is so in tension frames everything of course there's so much human noise and there's so much white noise and there's and there's even now with cell phones and why farai there's so much vibration that's going through us that it creates that's why you need to go out into nature and you need to feel the vibration natural symphony i want to talk to somebody who was down in south in south the south pole and he took a  cover up so much more or so noisy our minds are noisy we have noise around us so much that ik right keeping us from that so i know you're going to to demo a little further the the god and your instruments  really excited about that you have any final words though for our viewers oh well i didn't even get into the different gongs that's what i really wanted to do listen yeah get still and listen listen within you and listen without of without and harmonize you find what makes you expand well we're wrapping up another enlightening show i'd like to end with a quote from author rene brown love is not something we give or get it is something that we nurture and grow a connection that can