Welcome to the official podcast of the Grammy-nominated record label Metta Mindfulness Music,
Where we discuss how the ancient wisdom and neuroscience of our sound healing music can improve your health,
Well-being,
And transform your life into an inspired,
Positive experience.
I'm your host,
Pete Serdan,
And this week we are continuing our series on our album Six Healing Sounds,
Discussing the fire element from the traditional East Asian medicine practice of qigong.
You are currently listening to our music track titled Fire from the Six Healing Sounds album by Yuval Ron,
Which was composed in the key of G,
Utilizing the same tonal assignment as the healing sound of fire from ancient East Asian wisdom traditions,
As well as incorporating vocal recordings of the sound as well.
Activating the fire element is tied to the health of the heart,
Reducing symptoms of insomnia,
Mental restlessness,
Poor memory,
Depression,
And relieving impatience.
These practices of qigong demonstrate how ancient wisdom has known of the healing potential of sound vibration long before any modern scientific discoveries.
Quoting from the research article Sound Yoga,
Ancient Wisdom or New Age Nonsense by Bob Shingleton,
The theories of relativity were anticipated thousands of years ago.
Music is not just notes being played,
It is pulses of highly complex energy,
The impact of which on the human body is not fully understood.
Sound is vibrating energy that interacts with everything,
Sentient and inanimate.
Now we will listen to the subsequent excerpt from a seminar given by the President and Executive Producer of Metta Mindfulness Music,
Dr.
Richard Gold,
Discussing the fire element,
Its impact on the heart,
And a demonstration of breathing and stretching exercises you can practice,
Pressure point openings,
As well as dietary habits and herbal remedies to support your heart health and manage a restless mind.
So wood feeds fire.
There's actually four main energies associated with the fire.
The heart is the primary one and the small intestine is secondary.
Something called the pericardium,
The heart protector.
And at the end,
I'll introduce you to the concept of the triple warmer,
Which is also part of the fire element.
So as I read through here,
Share with you,
Let's bring our hands over our heart.
It's on our left upper chest area.
Send love to our heart.
Boy,
Does our heart work hard for us too,
Beating constantly,
Thousands and thousands and thousands of times.
Never stops,
Even when we sleep.
The healing sound is going to be ah,
It's in the key of G.
We want to breathe in love and joy,
Happiness,
Honor,
Sincerity,
Creativity,
And enthusiasm,
And let go of impatience,
Arrogance,
Hastiness,
Cruelty,
And violence.
We want to affirm that you are appropriate,
You are responsible,
And you are loving.
So we're actually going to do the mirror image of what we did for wood.
We're going to breathe in coming up.
We're going to interlock and rotate.
And this time,
We're going to lean to the side lateral stretch to the right,
Opening up the area of the heart.
And then as we come,
Exhale,
We're going to come forward and we float our hands down going ah,
Okay.
One more time,
Breathing in,
Interlock,
Rotate,
Side lateral stretch to the right.
And coming up,
Exhaling,
Ah.
Great.
So we teach or we learn that the heart regulates the blood circulation and blood vessels.
It's responsible for even and regular pulse and nourishing of the arteries.
It influences our vitality and our spirit.
The sensory orifice of the tongue is the tongue that relates to the heart.
And the health of our complexion is a reflection of how healthy our heart and how fluid and vital the blood of the body is.
We say in PCM or Chinese medicine,
East Asian medicine,
The heart is a close relationship with the brain and mental consciousness and memory,
Something called shen in the medicine,
Which is the spirit.
So the heart,
Because of the tongue,
Governs speech.
And also when the heart is full and robust with blood and energy,
It helps with our sleep.
So we have dysfunction,
We have mental restlessness,
Poor memory,
Lack of joy,
Depression,
Anxiety is listed here,
But I think lack of joy is a better way to look at it.
And people that have a heart type,
The depression or lack of joy,
They may speak slowly or have trouble speaking from the heart.
And I mentioned insomnia again.
One telltale sign we see about a heart of blood and heart dysfunction is what's called inappropriate laughter.
When in a dialogue with a friend or a client,
In my instance,
When they talk about things like they'll say,
You know,
My parents really never loved me.
That's inappropriate laughter.
And that's a sign of injury to the heart.
When the heart's out of balance,
We see lack of enthusiasm,
Lack of vitality.
The mind jump,
Jump,
Jump,
Jump,
Monkey mind all the time,
Despair,
And again,
This lack of sleep,
Long-term memory issues,
Sometimes excessive dreaming is related to excess in the heart energy,
Your stagnation.
Here's some foods that are good for the heart.
The leafy greens are very good,
Kale and collards and spinach.
They're good,
Especially steamed more than sauteed.
And even if less,
Unless they're immature,
They shouldn't really be raw.
Whole grains,
The fatty fish with the omega-3s,
Walnuts and almonds,
The chia seeds and flax seeds and hemp seeds.
Olive oil appears in a lot of places as being beneficial.
The berries are good for the heart,
The avocados,
Garlic,
Beans,
Well-cooked,
Dark chocolate,
And green tea.
These are all foods that are good for the heart in moderation,
Everything in moderation.
A very important point I want to share with you is the point Heart 7,
Which actually has this word shen,
Its name means spirit gate.
We'll see a closer diagram visually,
But it's here on the wrist,
On the little finger side.
And interestingly,
There's actually a shenmen point in the ear,
Which has been shown in research to increase endorphin release in the brain.
And we see that this point nourishes the heart,
Calms the emotions,
Relieves anxiety,
Soothes worries of a troubled mind.
It's a very important point for sleep,
For helping with sleep.
It helps support mental clarity.
And if speaking publicly is a concern,
One thing to do actually is just hold Heart 7 as you speak or as you're getting ready to speak.
I have done this over the years.
Again,
It's on the little finger side,
In this little depression right at the wrist crease.
It's on both sides.
Very valuable point that we use in treatment.
One of the things we can do as practitioners,
Sometimes we put magnets on these points,
We put little seeds that can be used for stimulation.
We have a lot of techniques we can use in the modern practice of this medicine.
A really nice formula for nourishing the heart is a formula called gupitan.
Kuibeiwan is another name for it.
And the longan berry,
Which is actually just a fruit,
It can be used as the dried fruits,
Very delicious,
Is an important herb in this.
And this formula nourishes the heart,
It helps strengthen the qi,
Tonifies blood,
And it also works to help the earth element,
Which we're going to see is the next element.
And so we strengthen the heart and some of that energy helps with the spleen or earth energy.
You'll see that we don't,
Rarely do we use single herbs in Chinese herbal medicine.
It's usually therapeutic,
Synergistic combinations,
And each of the herbs has different roles in the formula,
Energetically,
Flavor-wise,
And harmony within the whole formula.
It's a very,
Very complex and beautiful system of medicine.
