VOCALIZATION FOR PAIN
RELIEF
FOR LARYNGITIS AND OTHER THROAT CONDITIONS:
1.
Sit quietly
and breathe completely silently through your mouth. You will note that this will cause your breath to become
slower and calmer, and that area of your body as well as your whole body will
relax.
2.
Still
sitting quietly, imagine a beautiful kind of sound that you would like to make,
whether it is a singing tone or a way of speaking.
Intend the sound without having the anxiety of having to make it.
Make the motion without assuming a sound must come out.
It may be silent or not; the point is to experience the sense of
well-being around the intention of making the sound.
If you do produce a sound, you need not judge it, and you may honor it by
not pushing to reproduce it exactly. Pay
attention to when it is time to rest.
3.
Have someone
else make a sound, probably a sustained tone, at your throat, so that it
vibrates. Experiment to keep
reassessing what feels right.
FOR OTHER PAIN, HEADACHES, CRAMPS, MUSCLE PAIN,
ETC.:
1.
Sit quietly
and wait to see what your voice wants to say.
Silence is fine. Try making
whining, groaning or complaining noises, even baby noises, feeling for what
sounds best to reflect your condition. Let
it change with each moment. No
sound need be arbitrary.
2.
Let the
sound be one which causes the area of pain to vibrate or be touched.
The sound is not made merely to achieve a painless state, this state
comes about as the result of expressing about the pain.
3.
Make sounds
causing your body to vibrate and check for symmetry.
Direct your attention to places that you find it more difficult to feel.
4.
Try making
sounds that express colors or emotions.
5.
Have someone
else make sounds at your body, perhaps at the area of pain, looking for a sense
of what can be vibrated or touched.
6.
It can be
useful when making these sounds, to have a non-judgemental and supportive
witness, but the experience can be powerful and healing either way.
7.
Again, be
attentive to when it is time to rest, when the attention flags, when you begin
to try to repeat an experience instead of keeping it fresh.
