Are all the sounds the same in qigong or are they different from style to style. And do all have the same name or it changes depending the style or the dialect where it comes from? How many sounds 6 or 12 or ??
Thanks,
Mig
The “sounds” I learned weren’t really well defined. I’d love to know more about healing sounds.
Nevertheless, I was taught (and use) the following.
- Stand up straight and relaxed.
2a) Beginners, put your hands over the organ you wish to vibrate. - Breathe in deep: relax.
- Breathe out slowly and intonate. Vocalize, starting either very high (soprano) or very low (bass). Slowly and smoothly slide the note towards the other end of the spectrum (if you started soprano, slide down to bass, and vice versa)
- at some point along the scale (ie at some note) you will feel a vibration in the area of the selected organ. Discontinue sliding up or down the scale; relax, breathe in deep, then vocalize and sustain the note that causes the desired vibration.
- Repeat.
2b) Advanced practitioners: hand placement is optional. After a while, it’s possible to feel internal vibrations much more clearly without the use of the hands.
Special method:
Got a nasty cough? Gross stuff in your lungs? Attempt the following:
- stand in a classic “embrace the tree” posture. Relax.
- follow the method outlined above and focus on finding the note that vibrates the lowest part of your lungs (hint - feel for the lower ribs.)
- Beginning with the note that vibrates the lower lungs, slowly and smoothly scale the note upwards. Feel the vibration climb up your lungs and ribs.
- You will notice that when you come across an area of lung that has a blockage of some sort, the smoothness of the note will be interrupted in some way - perhaps with a crackling sound, or perhaps just with a muting of tone. When you find one of these spots, pause, relax, breathe in and continue from a slightly lower note (ie start again immediately below the blockage.) Scale over the blockage a few times - most of the time it only takes 3-5 passes before the blockage resolves.
5)continue raising the pitch smoothly and slowly. Repeat step 4 as needed, then continue. - Finish when your vocalizations have climbed so high that your nasal passage is vibrating.
The lung exercise often pushes phlegm up from the lower lung to the throat. Sometimes, if the phlegm is deep, a sharp inhale may pull it down again. If you feel that you’ve dislodged some phlegm but it’s not all the way to the throat yet, breathe in slowly and gently in order to avoid pulling the phlegm down again. By continuing the Lung resonating exercise and not being afraid to “cough and blow,” the phlegm will dislodge eventually. 
For other organs, it’s generally best to coax the vibrations along the organ’s natural flow - ie start at the top of the Large Intestine and work down, for example.
[QUOTE=Xiao3 Meng4;1086822]The “sounds” I learned weren’t really well defined. I’d love to know more about healing sounds.[/QUOTE]
two different (similar) links to my teacher doing and answering questions about SHS:
http://users.erols.com/dantao/6sounds.html
http://users.erols.com/dantao/sixsound.html
his book on it:
http://www.amazon.com/Taoist-Qigong-Health-Vitality-Meditation/dp/1590300688
of course, I think it’s all relative: there appears to be significant variability between different sets of healing sounds, and the whole notion of Taoist-practice sounds relating to specific “Western” organs raises an eyebrow or two, but anyway…
[QUOTE=of course, I think it’s all relative: there appears to be significant variability between different sets of healing sounds, and the whole notion of Taoist-practice sounds relating to specific “Western” organs raises an eyebrow or two, but anyway…[/QUOTE]
Thanks. I heard the sounds and it seems to be only six. Any particular reason why six and how this sounds have been used in other CMA styles either from the north or the south?
Thanks again,
Mig