Toning

Toning
Singing vowel sounds is a powerful way to refresh your energy and improve your health. The process of singing a vowel sound, with the pitch changing is called toning.
Why should you sing like this? Sounds are more powerful than you know. For example, some sounds produce melatonin in your body. Melatonin aides sleep. As people age, they lose the ability to sleep deeply. However, your body regenerates itself when you sleep. So more melatonin enables you to sleep better and have additional time for your body to regenerate itself, instead of it tossing and turning the night away. There have been studies that show the increase of youthful attributes in guinea pigs that receive melatonin. You can produce healthy chemicals inside you with toning, too!
Here’s another reason why you should consider singing to yourself or toning. Masuro Emoto published photographs of the structure of polluted water, showing a fragmented and abstract image. After a holy man toned to the water, a photograph of the same water was retaken. It revealed the water had transformed into a pure, balanced, crystalline structure, matching the pictures of unpolluted water. Toning changed the water. Our bodies are made up of 97%water. Think of what toning can do for your health!
We use sound naturally to relieve pain, but we forget to credit sound. Ouch! Groan! Scream in pain! Why do we do this? We use sound to release pain out of our body. It is instinctual.
The karate master cries before he strikes. The weight lifter groans before as he lifts. Why? Because the voice releases energy and power.
We all know that the "hello" we say to someone we love is different than the "hello" we say to someone we don’t like. The communication we give is in our tone of voice, more so than the words.
Our subconscious feelings ride on the tone or our spoken words. Our tone communicates our underlying intent and feelings beneath the words we express. When our brain censors ideas, they remain in our tone of voice. We may not even be aware of these underlying feelings, but others sense these feelings from our tone of voice. Our tone is secret hidden communication link of our subconscious mind.
Notice sounds that we utter have vowels in them, like "ooooooh" and "aaaaaaaah." The vowels and the tones or the pitch express our feelings, whereas consonants express our thoughts. Mystics have taught that vowels contain magnetic/spiritual energy, and the consonants have electrical/physical energy. They also reveal that sound creates matter and the most powerful way to create in matter with out voices is to marry our thoughts with our feelings.
How often do we tell people we feel fine, when we don’t? Or "nothing is new," when we don’t want to share anything? Or that we like something when we don’t? When our feelings and our words are not in alignment, we create dissonance in our bodies. Speaking our truth sets us free.
Toning for Health
Each organ in our body has its own frequency or tone. An organ is made up of cells that are made of moving energy, such as electrons. The collective group of cells in an organ operates well in a specific frequency. For example, we know if we freeze we can die, because the temperature causes our organs to change frequency and stop working.
When we think and feel negatively, we lower the frequency within ourselves, within our organs. When someone carries the weight of the world on his shoulders, we see him moving slowly, due to low frequency energy. In contrast, when we are happy, we feel like we can float on the clouds, as we are lighter in feelings.
An accumulation of negative thoughts and feelings, like anger, disappointment, hate, pity, helplessness, stress and worry slow down energy in our organs. If this energy slows down long enough, we get dis-ease. Acupuncture is one method to regenerate these currents of energy in our body. Another way is toning, that you can do yourself quickly, easily and for free.
Toning is a method of taking in energy and raising the frequencies of organs and systems within our bodies. Toning balances our energy, allows the natural flow of energy, allows us to express feelings and release negativity, and it gives us a body tune-up!
"The purpose of toning is to restore the vibratory pattern of the body to its perfect electromagnetic field, so that it will function in harmony with itself."
Self created sound affects you from the inside out, whole body and brain resonates. Sound can break up imbalances and restore body’s natural resonance.
Laurel Keyes writes about a small group of people that toned vowel sounds, while imagining the tone going through another’s body. She reports tumors healed, cancer cured, and other marvelous affects. One beauty of toning is that the recipient of healing sound doesn’t have to know you are doing it for it to work.
How to Tone to Benefit Others
Face another individual, or imagine them across from you.
Close your eyes.
Relax, keep your teeth apart.
Tune into your own feelings and put your thoughts aside.
Set your intentions. Expect to clear energy blockages in the other person. Placebos are often effective as high as 79 of the time, because a positive belief is a powerful energy. It is important that you believe you can heal another.
Utter the highest pitch on any vowel sound that you can, and let the tone smoothly sink in pitch, like you are pretending to be a fire siren.
As you do this, imagine the tone traveling to the other person’s body, starting with his head and going towards his feet.
Listen carefully to your sound. There will be cracks in the sound, places where it sounds softer or weaker. When this occurs, stay on this pitch, and then just above and just below the pitch until your voice is smooth and strong.
In your mind’s eye this pitch will correspond to a part in the other person’s body where an energy blockage is occurring. If you are unsure of where this spot is, don’t worry, just correct the tone and the energy blockage will clear.
If you feel in your imagination that the tone goes right or left as well as up or down, honor that feeling. If you can’t sense this, just imagine energy is clearing in the other person.
Use your imagination and see your tone run through the person’s body from top to bottom, then bottom to top, and again as necessary until you get a smooth, strong tone without any cracking or soft spots.
Laurel Keyes reports that she tones on average for 15 minutes, and if someone is seriously ill, she tones with others and may continue toning for several weeks, every day. The person receiving the benefit of the healing sound does not have to be present; although she recommends it, if possible.

Toning for Yourself
Close your eyes and imagine that your body is a black ink well. As we utter tones throughout this exercise, visualize clear water coming into the ink well, until it is pristine clear.
Let out the lowest vowel sound, or groan that you can. Let your body speak, not your mind. Be entirely absorbed in your sound and let it rise from you, as if this sound is separate from you. You are just observing it.
Imagine the tone begins in your feet and works its way up the body until it reaches the top of your head, or above that point by 13 inches or so.
Allow the tone to raise in pitch when the body wants it to.
Any areas in which the pitch takes a while to rise, is an area with an energy blockage. Don’t get louder to break through the energy blockage; that will not help. Gently continue toning and give your voice all the time it needs to raise in pitch. If you stay on a pitch for 5-10 minutes, then you are receiving a great healing!
If your voice doesn’t raise right away, in your imagination, see your tone going right of left in your body and finding a path eventually that leads upward.
In the spot in your body where you imagine the blockage or discord to be, send feelings of harmony and well being to that spot. Allow your intent to travel on your voice.
Don’t worry about how you sound, but concentrate on how the sound your body is making feels. Send love to your body.
Let the pitch raise to your highest pitch. On average, this takes 15 minutes.
If you do this regularly, you will feel energized, refreshed, healthier, and watch negative emotions loosen away from your thinking.