Ever since the great Master Don Conreaux devised, in the 1980s, a method of immersion in the sound vibrations produced by striking GONGS, in both indoor and outdoor settings, this one-of-a-kind sensory experience has come to be known as the Gong Bath. In total Silence and in the Presence of each participant, an inner journey unfolds in a state of deep relaxation, in total comfort, lying on soft mats and covered by a blanket that allows one to stay warm despite the body’s water undergoing significant movement.
Since the sound of the GONG slows down brain waves, it can often happen that one falls asleep, but this does not diminish the sound-energetic work at all – on the contrary, it enhances the depth of the experience, because the thinking mind is bypassed, the mind that uses and blocks a great deal of energy in analyzing what it sees and wants to control around itself. Likewise, when the volume of the GONG is raised, we allow our mind to step outside its usual functioning, silencing the chatter of our rational thoughts, placing us, therefore, in deep connection with our Inner Silence and with our Essence.
“No one can teach you to play the GONG, only the GONG itself can teach you how“, warns Don Conreaux!
Our mind makes us think that it is we who are playing the GONG, but, in truth, it is the GONG that plays us. The more we draw close to the GONG, with the mallet or other tools, the more it teaches us to respect its Essence, its Soul, and its Vibrations. This helps us to depower our Ego, which is the only true prerequisite for “harmonizing with the GONG.” This happens when this vibration is sustained over time and our Ego is transformed by the vibrational frequencies into Sound. The GONG shows us how we are doing, where we are on our evolutionary path, and the process we are living through harmony and dissonance that becomes harmony again, and dissonance once more.
The Sound of the Gong influences, at various levels and intensities, all our cognitive abilities studied by neuroscience: multisensory interactions, memory, learning, attention, creativity, and emotions, in addition to the classic auditory systems obviously involved in sound perception.
When the environment around us is saturated with sound vibrations, our body is reached by this “Informed Energy” through the skin and through all our organs, thanks to their protein structures. Sound vibrations act on the autonomic nervous system and on the entire neuro-endocrine-immune system, and every cell thus “massaged” eliminates etheric toxins and energetic blocks, working on hemispheric synchronization and on states of consciousness that become “altered”; a connection between both hemispheres will be activated – hemispheres which, individually, work autonomously, often in opposition – but in this new mode of “unity” they work in unison! In this way linear time disappears! This brings buried or unconscious experiences into consciousness and helps the person go beyond the illusory egoic separation and enter the True Essence of Being: the I AM!
We are observing how, in the current era, machines and technology are replacing the characteristics of the human brain’s left hemisphere. The left hemisphere is narrow and is responsible for memory. In reaction, the right hemisphere strengthens and becomes increasingly fundamental in interpersonal relationships, those that govern emotion, empathy, and creativity. It is broad, it considers the Whole, the Big Picture and not the detail. It is open and receptive, or, as we would say in this historical period, it is holistic.
It is not true that one part of the brain governs emotions and the other rationality: in fact, both hemispheres are responsible for both reasoning and emotion. Let us say, rather, that in the left we are in trauma and in the right we are in the phase of resolution.
The right hemisphere thus understands symbolism, metaphors, the vision of events within their context; it possesses the overall view and perceives the more “subtle” meanings. It is the new, change, the free and intelligent reaction, unbound from constraints or repetition compulsions,
The right hemisphere is fluid and open to Love and to a Higher Purpose, to Helping and to Evolution. The left is fixed, isolated, static, responsible for the Memory of what we already know, our experiences, our memories, and our programs that frighten us, block us, and limit us, making us feel trapped and powerless.
EVERYTHING IS ONE and as such it is the task of our evolutionary path to also unify the functioning of the two hemispheres, which, in “communion,” act by following and relying on Quantum Laws, so that, first, they allow the intuition of higher concepts understood as frequency, that is, the “download of higher information,” and second, the integration of this information through a more evolved overall vision, a “holographic” vision through which the information is then understood at a deep level and integrated into consciousness.
Let us look at this diagram of the two hemispheres:
LEFT
ANACHRONISTIC SUBJECTIVE RATIONAL STATE
PATTERNS
FEAR, BEING OVERWHELMED AND WITHDRAWING INTO ONESELF; GUILT AND SHAME; COMPENSATION, NEED FOR APPROVAL; LACK AND SURVIVAL.
RIGHT
STRENGTH, KINDNESS, A SENSE OF INNOVATION AND FREEDOM FROM THE OLD, EVOLUTION, INDEPENDENCE, AND RESOLUTION OF PAST TRAUMAS.
LEFT
MEMORY; ARTIFICIAL WORLD; CONVENTIONS; DISORDER; SURVIVAL.
AUTOMATISM OF THE LEFT HEMISPHERE THAT DEFENDS EVERYTHING THAT HAS BEEN NEUROLOGICALLY MEMORIZED. THIS AUTOMATISM DRIVES THE HUMAN BEING TO COMMIT ACTIONS OUTSIDE THE UNIFYING AND INCLUSIVE ASPECT, ACTIONS THAT WOULD TEND TOWARD NON-LIFE IN ORDER TO SAFEGUARD ALL THE STORED DATA, EVEN IF IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH HUMAN EVOLUTION
RIGHT
CREATIVE SYMBOLIC EVOLUTIONARY STATE
NO CULTURAL MODEL
CREATIVITY; NATURAL WORLD; PHYSIOLOGICAL INFORMATION; ORDER; DREAMS, INTUITIONS AND SENSATIONS; EVOLUTION AND LIFE
A MECHANISM MORE ORIENTED TOWARD INTUITIONS, THEREFORE, TOWARD SENSATIONS AIMED AT SYNTHESIS, THE SYNERGY OF WHAT HAS BEEN MEMORIZED WITH CREATIVITY AIMED AT EVOLUTION.