Mantak Chia Six Healing Sounds

[Yazmín Bohon]

Soundsare among the most powerful vibrations in our universe. Do you recall hearing traffic noise from afar, a sleepless night when neighbors are partying several blocks away, or joyful sounds of children laughing in a distant playground? Sound waves have the power to penetrate through cement walls and glass windows. They have a significant impact on our brains as well, as they vibrate through the nervous system and soft tissues of the human body. The sounds we absorb and the sounds we voice have significant impact on our daily experiences.

The six healing sounds are primary, pre-language vocal expressions. Regardless of culture, race, or geographical location, babies all over the world express these sounds prior to communication through words. According to the Taoist teaching of Chi Nei Tsang, the six healing sounds are associated with the 5 Elements and the Navel Gate.

Chinese medicine views the internal organs as containers of the qi, our life force energy, including our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual aspects. The healing sounds help to harmonize the qi vibrations amongst all these aspects. By using a specific vowel, sound waves access a particular organ and open up energetic blocks and stagnation, restoring flow and vitality.

Toning the six healing sounds is a powerful practice that preserves our connection to our primary instincts as infants, assisting in nurturing and rejuvenating the internal organs throughout our life.

Toning requires deep breaths with long exhalations to vocalize the sound. This brings calmness to the entire nervous system, allowing us to open blocked qi, balance the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual vibrations, transform unsupportive feelings or thoughts, and enhance our health and wellbeing.

Feelings are the languishing of sensations, in which the emotions communicate with the physical body. They bridge between the subtle vibrations and the tangible aspects of our physical experience. Balancing the emotions supports the healing of physical symptoms enhancing flow and vitality.

There are many therapeutic applications of the healing sounds. I still recall the profound experience at my first exploration of these sounds in a Chi Nei Tsang training course. Various sensations and symptoms in my body began to make sense and heal. I learned to recognize them as energetic blocks calling for attention.

CNT internal organ manipulations: to support the functions of the organs for purification and rejuvenation with hands-on techniques while toning the sounds.

Qi/yoga/meridians stretch: combines the healing sounds with qigong movements, yoga, meridians stretch, and meditations. This practice deepens the connection to our core, to the breath, to oneself, and to others. It strengthens the physical body, calms the emotions, and harmonizes our yin and yang energy flow for rejuvenation and relaxation.

In our divided world of systematic race, cultural hate, aggression and survival challenges, practice with healing sounds helps to unite us all as human beings. It brings us back to our pre-language authentic self, so that we may bridge our differences, heal, and find peace within and without.

The training video is an excerpt from a 2021 workshop at the Universal Healing Tao Center in Thailand. You can find the entire course as a recording on our website, www.mantak-chia-media.com.

It was Grandmaster Mantak Chia who was instrumental in making the Six Healing Sounds known in the West. In Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), the 5 yin organs heart, lungs, kidneys, liver and spleen are a life-sustaining whole to which the Six Healing Sounds refer.

The aim of the exercises is nothing less than emotional harmonisation.

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Most of you heard of the "inner smile" practice, popularized in the West by Mantak Chia. I've been through a few thousands of English books on Taoism, esp. books on practice, but somehow never seen the Chinese term for this practice. I also don't remember seeing this practice in any book other than Chia's books.

AFAIC the inner smile practice is very similar to one of the fundamental practices from vipassana or other similar systems. In daoism there are countless practices similar to the inner smile. Any teacher can make up their own names for the practices so for me the names don't really matter. What matters is what they do to the body.

Of course hacking something fundamental like Sung basically makes it useless beyond a very shallow level. Sung has many layers and depths. Sung is the application of non-contrived action - Wei Wu Wei.

Inner smile was one of the first practices I began doing. I learned the Chia version but would combine it with the healing sounds. So inner smile and the matching color/attributes breathing in, and healing sound breathing out. I was surprised because it began to release all sorts of stuck emotions in the organs which I was not expecting nor prepared for.

Dear El Tortugo, have you seen this in any book? A part of a book describing the Small Heavenly Cycle practice which also contain the inner smile practice as a part of it. I'll be very happy if you can give me a reference. Just the name of the book is enough, if you don't remember the details like chapter, page, and so on.

Lots of people like to rip on Master Chia, perhaps with good reason. But Ive always regarded his "inner smile" practice as one of the best, least-likely-to-do-harm practices in his system. Is it, as Freeform says, simplified for westerners? Is it a backasswards perversion of a traditional method? Oh probably. But if, like me, youd like to include a backasswards simplified-for-westerners practice or two in your spiritual arsenal, the inner smile is, in my opinion, a good choice.

This was actually an interesting statement that caused me to think. I will for example try a new mantra and feel all sorts of effects and be aware of what its doing to my mind and my energy and be totally blown away and then in my enthusiasm to see if these effects are replicated in others, I will get a friend or two to try the mantra. I'll give them a little time to try it and then when I ask them what they notice they usually say they didn't really notice anything one way or the other. Once this happens enough times I begin to wonder why my experience seems to be so different. So reading your take on it makes me just assume I am wired a bit differently lol.

I resonate with what you said, I have practiced with the Om Mani Padme Hum mantra, and I have had different experiences from karmic cleansings, bad luck, good luck, when I was younger like 19 years, to receiving the same mantra yesterday in dreams and get into delicate states of serene joy and compassionate bliss after a pretty shitty period.

I don't think I can teach or try to get others to learn with the mantra, or another mantra or other technique would be very irresponsible for me.

Finally I see that there are no canned solutions or roads nor can a row of Arahants be produced as in a Ford car production.

What turns out to be rubbish for some, is akin to the wish-granting jewel.

Pffff...and like so many other practices. I wouldn't even know where to start; it's called "spiritual materialism," and oh god get out of it ASAP or it will stagnate you and your practice beyond belief.

Your sentiments are identical to a point I made in another thread about how the West tends to do this. A lot. It creates surface level spirituality as the bastardization by its very nature precludes any form of true development. In many ways its akin to spiritual steroids in that you may get the externals by "hacking" your way past the hard parts but its those parts that actually do the work and are the point all along. So strange when you think about it.

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