Are there any parallels between taoist healing sounds and kotodama sounds?

[Oneironaut]

I just want to know if there are any similarities between the two.

[Bearded Dragon]

It's about resonance. The actual word doesn't matter. If your awareness is subtle enough you can feel that certain frequencies effect you in certain ways. This concept invariably gets lost and you end up with people chanting things that do nothing beneficial sound-wise.

 

Perhaps the easiest to pick up on is finding a note that resonates with your dantian. Then you can play around with turning up the frequency and note that you feel it resonating higher and higher until it reaches the top of your head.

 

This is perhaps the best way to answer your question. Find legit sounds and feel if they're targeting anything in particular. It's not always possible though. Depends on which layer of the onion they're targeting and whether you can feel that layer.

[vonkrankenhaus]

Healing sounds is just the sounds that vibrate various organs, like massaging the organs with resonant vibration, with the correspondences derived from 5 phases (what some call 5 "elements").

 

Kotodama is not just this, but is more related to meditaion practices than physiological tonification.

 

Kotodama is looking at the way vibration brings the World into existence in consciousness.

 

Sounds made by human are vibrating the head in various ways.

 

When we make them, we alter our images, which is our world, by vibrating the mid-brain.

 

This is where the Pineal Gland is.

 

The Pineal Gland is involved with how we create our images.

 

Kotodama is speaking or singing the world into existence, making it visible and tangible where it had, before the sound, seemed "invisible".

 

 

 

-VonKrankenhaus

[thelerner]

When I think kotodama (sacred sounds) I think about sacred shinto chanting and Abulafiah's Kabalah, two systems very into vowels, Aiee(head), EEEee(throat), Aahahh(heart), OOHHhh(belly), OOooo.  Versus Taoist Chhweii (kidney), Shhhhh(Liver), AHHahhhh(heart), SSSsss(Lung), Heeiee (differences depending on school).  

 

One similarity is the heart sound is the same.  You find Haahhh as heart sound in many 'sound' systems.  Likewise you find Maaa or Ammaaa the word for mom in many languages and Aahh is the reflexive sound of relief everywhere. 

 

Great arts, very experiential.  Exploring them allows you to appreciate chants on another level.  Thus with Abulafiah's system you feel the music, or sacred chants, playing you, up and down the body.