Did You Know You Can Tune Yourself?
Studies with Dr. John Beaulieu
I have been studying Finely Tuned a course in sound healing with Dr. John Beaulieu. The experiential learning in this course has led me to a greater realization of what a profound and intelligent body we have. If we are attuned or coherent, we can make decisions from a confident and easeful place. When we are stressed, our bodies are out of sync with our natural state of presence. We feel chaos in the mind and contraction in our bodies.
Sound healing is another tool in the tool box to come back to a place of ease when we feel ungrounded.
Early in my lessons, Dr. John introduced a familiar concept: neural coherence. It means we are in-tune. In simple language we may say we are in the zone, relaxed, open or centered. In sound terms we are in tune to the frequency and oscillating neural patterns; neural networks working together simultaneously. A synchronicity and vibration that feels unified. Some may call it amplified awareness of the vibrations and energy in our bodies.
Even better, an aliveness while being balanced and aware.
There was a large scientific step in trauma research when Steven Porges introduced the polyvagal theory in 1994. This gigantic nerve runs in crucial parts of the body affect our life each day.
This great connector of the brain gut pathway – is the vagus nerve.
Building vagal tone (via the vagus nerve), helps create safety and it represents a main component of the parasympathetic nervous system (PNS). The PNS oversees many bodily functions, including control of mood, immune response, digestion, and heart rate. The vagus nerve connects to the heart, lungs, gut, face, down to the sex organs. It is the regulator of the central nervous system. When you’re coherent, your intuition, your heart, and your brain are functioning together as one oscillating synchronistic network.
As a culture we spend most of our working days in our brains accessing our intellect and logic. We are more mechanically and analytically focused, which can lead to:
overdoing, overthinking, or an endless loop of thought spirals that aren’t resolving in any way.
Many of us describe this as anxiety, stress, or relationship problems. It is also described as neural dissonance or being out of sorts. When we invite our body’s intelligence into the equation, we are holistically inviting in all innate abilities that live within us to assist us in our life endeavors. We have new possibilities to fine tune what is most important in our lives.
What are some good examples of being in tune or out of tune?
Out of tune we may panic, we go off the rails of our lives.
In tune, we return to a state of ease.
Out of tune we experience fear of pain, physical chronic discomfort, headaches. In tune, we feel regulated, flexible, alive and healthy.
Life circumstances will throw us off kilter, and we inevitably will be stressed. Stress affects our mind, our body, and ultimately our spirit and ability to feel inspiration. Living from a place of holism at the center of everything reveals that health is a much bigger picture. In order to feel well, passionate, excited, and at ease, we need tools to come back in tune with our inner aligned center. The place where open awareness and ease resides.
Energy and sound healing provide a way to more easily and confidently return to our naturally attuned state.
Want some quick and easy ways to tune yourself? Click Here to find Dr. John’s beginners tuner set.
Jennifer Degen
January 11, 2023
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