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The Healing Power of Rhythm by Nowick Gray
Meditation:
Let your head quietly slip back in a soothing bath, until your ears are underwater. Quiet your thoughts and listen. What do you hear? The rhythmic beating of your heart (pumping blood through your inner ear). This is just one clue.
The drum is a heartbeat of creation, and represents our connection with the mother, the source...and with our own mother, the echo chamber of the womb. With mother earth, and the beat of the sea. The pounding surf, the crack of lightning, the wingbeats of migrating birds. The turning of the seasons, the sound of our own breath. The moving feet and pumping arms of a runner; the rhythmic stride of a long-distance walker. The movements of lovers, and people working the fields. All the sounds of all the movements we do to keep alive and to express our joy, and even our pain; the insistent clockwork of stress, the innocent soft lapping of a kitten's tongue.
The drum heals our connection with each other when we play it together. It brings to our attention what works between us and what doesn't. It shows us exactly where and how we harmonize and where we don't. It makes us attune to the invisible world of the energy between us: this becomes more important than what we think we see, what we wish for or regret. What's real is happening right now, in the moving moment. And when it's gone, we have only to look for the next to get back on; this time we ride.
Read more in Nowick Gray's latest African drumming blog (*not officially associated with RhythmHeals.com)
http://alternativeculture.com/music/heartbeat.htm
