Rhythm and Vibration

What is rhythm and what is vibration?  To our ancient ancestors, rhythm was the time of the full moon cycle or the summer solstice.  Rhythm was something dependable such as the spring and fall equinoxes.  These rhythms taught us when to plant and when to harvest our crops.  These rhythms told us when the rains were coming and when our children would be born.  The celestial gods and goddesses gave us our mythology by their consistent movements through the sky.  They taught us morals, sorrow, happiness and purpose of life.

Vibration to the ancients was sound, the sound of creation, and the sound of life.  Modernists, such as we, would call this sound energy.  We see this in all the spiritual books of the world and from all ancient peoples, both in the East and the West.  The sound or vibration was the keynote or word behind every manifestation.  In the Western traditions, we called the sound of creation the “Logos” or “Word” and it is masculine in nature.  In the East, the word/vibration is named “Vach” and is feminine in character.  In the Rig-Veda, Vach is called “the divine Vach” or  “queen of the gods.”  She is the creator of the very universe itself.

The ancients were careful with their speech because of their understanding of vibration.  They hardly ever spoke the names of their deities out loud.  To know the key vibration or the true spiritual name of something is to have power over it.  There was a great respect for vibration and rhythm by our ancestors.  They understood the marriage between vibration and rhythm and have consequently given us a great heritage to build upon.

What About Now?

Science has shown that each of us has a circadian or biorhythm of our own.  Every twenty-four hours there is a rhythm that each of our bodies goes through.  Traditional Chinese medicine clocked this biorhythm through a system of energy channels in the body called meridians.  There are twelve major organ meridians in the body and it takes twenty-four hours for the universal energy known as “Chi” to circulate all twelve-organ channels.  Thus, we have in this model both a vibration and a rhythm, which constitutes life and health when functioning properly.

In life and therapy there is a principle known as entrainment.  The principle of entrainment literally means to be brought along with or put into sympathy with a vibration and or rhythm.  You see this happen with tuning forks.  When an “A” tuning fork is properly struck and brought into close proximity of a group of stagnant “A” tuning forks, they will all begin to vibrate in sympathy automatically.  This is the principle of entrainment in action.

What does all this information about vibration and rhythm mean for us?  It helps us realize that we should spend more time in nature.  It should make us realize that we, just like our ancestors before us, need to sit by a babbling brook or a fountain in the park.  We need to let the flowing water or the air rustling through the trees on a balmy summer day entrain us back to a natural vibration and a natural rhythm that will restore and preserve our health.  As the Beach Boys sing in their song, “Good, good, good, good vibrations.”  May all our vibrations be harmonious and all our cycles loving and joyful.

Brian John Piccolo is a teacher at Irene’s Myomassology Institute, lecturer, therapist, spiritual astrologer, theologian and philosopher.  He has authored several books, audio CD’s, and DVD videos on metaphysics, spirituality and healing.  Brian can be reached by email at bjpiccolo@comcast.net.  His books are available at www.lulu.com/piccolo