Walls of Words

A snippet from the Vocal Sound Healing Complete Training.

Sound can travel through walls — both literally and figuratively.

Words are not reality itself; they merely point to it. They split pure energy into symbols. Combined, words form sentences that convey meaning. While words are like walls, sentences create a room.

In this room of words, one can feel alone and misunderstood or utterly at home. It goes without saying (pun intended) that words can sometimes be too rigid. They can erect barriers between you and others, or even between you and yourself.

You can imprison yourself in a castle built from your own words. It’s often our mental chatter— the self-critic, the stressy mess—that isolates us from living a truly connected life.

Nature helps us to soften these walls, reconnecting us with the un-symbolic. A tree, a mountain, or the ocean are not symbols pointing to reality; they are existence itself.

Being your own being is also about returning to that place within yourself that exists before you erected those walls of words, before you defined your life with language.

Your voice is a remarkably accessible and powerful tool for accessing that pure place within yourself. It reaches that understanding before meanings complicate things — a felt understanding, an intuition of yourself or the situation before you define it.

Sound can cut through walls. And sometimes, this is exactly what we need.