Root Balance

This weekend I had the privilege to experience a sound therapy energy healing.  Sound therapy works with the properties of sound that resonate with the vibrations of our body.  Sickness is seen as a part of the body that is functioning at the wrong frequency and in altering its sound vibrations one can bring it back in tune with the rest of the body.  In tuning all the instruments of our body we can once again be in harmony with the orchestra of the world around us.
Elyah is the daughter of two clairvoyant healers and found her healing power through the sound of her voice.  She then went on to learn about various instruments of healers around the world and plays them in unison to reach every level of one's being, from the spirit to the cells.  She uses therapeutic diapasons, Tibetan sound bowls, crystal bowls, shamanic drums, the gong of the sun, the gong of the moon, the didgeridoo, chimes, and the Amerindian flute.  Each instrument works with a different chakra and may provoke a variety of reactions in one's body.  Some reactions may be pleasant and some can be very uncomfortable depending on what parts of your body need balancing.  The shamanic drum and the didgeridoo work with the root chakra and every time that she played these two instruments I felt extreme discomfort.  Anxiety, fear and restlessness passed through me in powerful waves as I fought these sounds from entering me.  It was as though I knew what they were trying to do and I didn't want to allow them to do it.  The root chakra is the first chakra and is found at the base of the spine.  It establishes the deepest connections with your physical body and your environment.  It is the most primal of the chakras and is where the fight or flight response is initiated.  It also connects us with our ancestors and helps us to harness their energies to survive trying times.
It is no surprise to me that these sounds are the ones that were the hardest for me to hear.  My root chakra has been a place of pain for me for many years.  The blockage of energy in this area was so great that it transformed into a back injury that has followed me for three years.  During my hardest moments I spent most of my time trying to runaway from the pain that I felt and hide from truths.  Instead of healing the wounds in my roots I severed them from my body and took off running.  Instead of helping me to rid myself of the pain I amplified it and it is only in slowly reconnecting with my roots that I am finding a slow process of healing.  At the end of the session Elyah said that a common mistake is to think that strong roots can prevent us from freeing our spirit to move upward but the opposite is true.  The stronger our roots are, the more support we have to allow our branches to reach higher.  There must always be a balance between our connection to the earth and our upward movement.  If we only reach upward and lose our roots, we risk getting caught in the wind and blowing in the wrong direction.  Our roots keep us steady and give us comfort in times of difficulty.  No branch grows without its roots.  This is why I am so excited to return to the place of my roots and reestablish my connection to the earth.