The Highest Quality Metal for Gongs is Nickel Silver Alloy
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This song I wrote called Survive The Night
Blog Post Three,
December 16, 2024 by Jain Wells
The Benefit of Using A Quality Well Made Gong For Healing
Excerpt from my book Gong Consciousness - third edition release by February.
A well made gong modulated for precision sound frequency has an ability to penetrate the human energy field in such a way that it changes cellular configuration. This is due to a finely tuned frequency. Studies have been done comparing dull flat one dimensional gongs that may have a pleasing sound versus highly modulated sound frequency metal in the shape of a gong. Regardless of the gong size generally though not always — above 20 inches wide the gong creates a pressure wave of frequency bandwidth that has a unique focal stream of sound that has a cleansing effect on human cellular health.
The more well-hydrated the greater the cleansing effect. The extensive work that I have engaged through dedicated gong sound healing over a nine year period exemplifies several factors that contribute to a successful gong session. The consciousness of the practitioner and her or his ability to hold a compassionate loving energy has great effect in terms of supporting a client or gong bath participant to relax. However, there is also know-how involved that entails skillful knowing of how to monitor a client’s progress. The subtle level change can appear minuscule to one who may notice a difference in a client’s speech or be surprised at something they say, though only a skilled healing practitioner with enough field experience can discern what and how much advancement has taken place and how to actively and quite literally facilitate it. Without that level of know-how the client won’t benefit from whatever else is being offered. Without a skilled healing practitioner to understand the intricacies of the healing process the potential for a shift is often lost. A gong can be purchased by anyone as playing the gong is also like a hobby for many though when someone uses an inferior gong and applies it in an intended healing context who is not familiar with how to guide a healing session the gong alone will quite frequently cause harm. Unless there are industry standards there are risks to client health.
My course teaching active healing practitioners how to counsel a client is offered as many people who study how to work with a particular healing modality quite often do not learn how to facilitate healing with direct counseling. Regardless of what particular healing modality may be utilized, the course shows a student a guided means of measuring how the client may have healed something while facilitating a shift in feeling as well as perspective. It is experiential in nature. Only then will a quality well made gong facilitate an energetic shift the way it was intended.
The gong used in any healing situation has everything to do the level and degree of healing facilitated. I have done my own experimentation and always the quality and level of gong sound frequency exposure affects the quality and speed of a shift.
The gong is a tool and that tool has to be quality made with precision sound pressure in order to benefit the person on the receiving end. This is an irrefutable fact. Without a gong the skill level and compassion of the counsellor / therapist / psychotherapist etc. will predict what kind of emotional shift may occur. This is high level skill to facilitate genuine shift that is energetic in nature. Only someone who is qualified can understand and facilitate such change. It is no different than any discipline. Only a mechanic with high level skill and experience can listen to a vehicle and know without a doubt what part needs adjusting or replacing. There is no ego in claiming a truism. A sculptor takes years to undercover a masterpiece that will never be understood by a novice in the trade.
Counselling is a finely intuited level of knowing. A felt sense. Though with a gong the potential for significantly greater and quicker energetic shifts can be a reality. My work has always been about combining my psychotherapy practice with gong sound wave therapy. It is as natural a blend as ‘yoga with the gong’ which is a superior form of healing, and even more finely Kundalini yoga which combines movement, repetition and breathwork to fully open body mind to remarkable change.
I solely recommend Meinl Sonic Energy and their top competitor Paiste Gongs - both based and established in Germany — as a source for acquiring a healing gong. Barry Mason and Martin Blasé use a similar manual hand hammering and low temperature heating process for handcrafting the highest quality titanium gongs though the cost difference is substantially greater. Personally, I mostly prefer the Paiste Sound Creation and the Meinl Wu Xing and Flower of Life gongs.
My top pick for healing gongs for multiple reasons is the nickel silver metal gong for its great healing capacity. There is a reason the two largest by far gong makers and distributors on the world globe use only finely suited nickel silver sheet metal for crafting high quality gongs - and they have the expertise to carry it out without compromise and distribute worldwide to any music shop — without question of its quality.
Meinl Sonic Energy is by far the most well established percussion and hand drum maker. The cymbal line of handcrafted metal cymbals is also unique for larger drum kits and where the impetus for gong making came from. Paiste is the oldest company known for making high quality modern gongs using what has become a set standard of tradition in the well established German gong making industry. The Paiste Sound Creation Earth gong which is my top recommendation for healing practitioners has a different tonal quality than most every other gong there is. Through trial and error it has the loudest output with the most minuscule effort which is a noteworthy factor.
Buy and keep what you are able of gongs made by Meinl Sonic and Paiste, if lifetime gonging is a factor in your life as it is for me and many others. The nickel silver metal alloy is still by far the most resonant well blended metal alloy for crafting quality handmade gongs specifically for focused healing as well as performance quality sound resonance.
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The Impact of Self-Shame
Blog Two
December 6, 2024 by Jain Wells
The Limiting Influence of Shame
When we get down on ourselves the impact on our sense of self is severe. The loss of our prime motivation to honour our innermost desire is often thwarted by what we wish we had done - or not done. Even if there is no one to know about something we either did or didn’t do it is felt on an invisible plane which impedes our trust in our own ability to know ‘right’ from what might be considered ‘wrong’, at least to someone that we might think is important or that has an effect on our own self-perception.
If self-shame is permitted to have a hold over one’s ability to act in self-interest in a positive way it eventually inhibits the possibility to self-correct and to make an inner adjustment toward something helpful and constructive. Once that line becomes blurred there is not often an incentive to self-correct as the result of discrepancy becomes distorted. When we care it means we want to live better according to our highest value. A failure to care always ends with someone hiding their deepest fear which prevents that potential care to predominate and quite often a sinister facade imposes itself and never gets dropped - until there is something or someone that makes the idea of caring a value to uphold provided there is sincerity.
When self-shame covers over our impetus to take a caring stance it never comes back until something or someone holds a line or standard that is worth maintaining. If you fail to care about something that impacted your own value of honour it will heighten your own sense of self-shame even though you may often think that what is not known won’t ultimately matter. Your own sense of self-embarrassment can also ignite an urge to disparage someone that did or didn’t respect your dignity in terms of righteous self-honour whether or not there has been any conflict that limited the dialogue. Suffice to say that whoever ignites an impulse in someone to care versus not care is a mere irrelevant factor as the desire to care did not emanate from within.
Social cause and effect never truly has an honest impact on what is important unless there is compassion. Right and wrong are social constructs unless you have an inner moral compass that directs your motion and ability to discern what is honest versus what is most convenient and convenience won’t suffice to deliver whatever might take precedence. Never jump to a conclusion prior to just sitting with a possible answer as you might reconsider what you might have thought was a problem and acknowledge that it has merit.
The Disintegrating Power of Disparagement
Blog Post One,
November, 2024 by Jain Wells
DISPARAGEMENT & GOSSIP AND WHAT IT DOES FOR BOTH SIDES
Disparagement — this word is known to all people who have been on the receiving end of gossip and unfair critical harassment. Someone who disparages another never feels well. The level of inner resentment that occurs through the critical channel of disparagement is significant. Deception goes hand in hand with the disparaging profile and the person who seeks to cut down and pulverize a competitor or a suitor — in terms of a person who is close to the disparager who is unaware of how the disparager often feels.
One who conspires to harm another person through slander, defamation and gossip to discredit will eventually self-destruct. For however ill-cited that disparager feels about another is the degree to which he or she is self-loathed and ultimately non-accepting of his or her own path. No disparager ever wants to be found out. The amount of energy expended in trying to cut down or harm another is lost energy for the Self.