When I discovered the monochord, I was soon fascinated by its sound. Still during my music therapy training, I started to experiment with my own monochord. I found it was a relaxation tool for some patients. It seemed to be also successful for strongly performance-oriented humans, with whom autogenous training. While some felt lucky, the sound was nervous to threatening for others. I did not understand that at all at that time, and so my interest grew to investigate this topic.
For the sound perception in terms of music therapy, we use the monochord with thirteen strings which are all tuned on the same pitch. The player now goes over the strings, alternating with a finger of the right and left hand. A flowing sound circling develops in itself, which consists of merging same tones. When playing the fundamental of the strings, fine melodies of natural overtones are perceptible. If one can get involved in this sound, it comes frequently to feelings of removal and sense of security its in a larger whole, a higher order, which can appear as to the feeling of being crried in the mother's lap or within the field of cosmic unity. This range of topics can however be filled by early disturbances in the fundamental phase when one feels one with the mother and basically understand the mother without words. Then these sorrowful experiences can come to teh surface. Through this, they become conscient therapeutically.
The most frequent association to the monochord sound is the item water in its most diverse manifestations, which can be expressed positively in feelings of weightlessness: moving itself or resting in warm water. However, floating in air or in space is often experienced, cosmic feelings of menta integration its into the natural order of the planetary motions. This points out relaxation and solves it. The feeling to be carried is reflected in pictures, where someone is in a boat or on an air mattress, thus on the
water. Often phenomena are experienced like the removal of the separation between the body and the sound also timelessness dips in in pictures, where someone is in a cave or a covering; these memories can emerge the small pillow with parents or friends in the warm sleeping bag of the tent. But negative feelings can be
released: fear to dissolve, to resolve himself.Please pay attention to it. We have to respect the protection against the hearing as an unconscient protection factor.
In the monochord sound, a broad spectrum of the cosmic experience comes to expression.© Tonius TIMMERMANN
TO SOUND JOURNEY OF HEALTH
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