Singing Bowls and Souls

Oh wow, what a few couple of weeks. I've been thoroughly traveling up and down the length of my mood. From happy and excited to nervous and anxious, this is certainly an interesting time to be me.  The tiny house project continues, though more slowly than anticipated. I feel that I was led to believe that it would happen much faster than it has, and that has put some stress on me.  This combined with the fact that I don't have much of a place to sleep has got me all in a fit. However, I did get to do a singing bowl session the other night with my new friends Molly, Tom and Mike. Tom has been doing sound healing for about ten years and he has a dozen singing bowls (big ones!), a few gongs and a few other random devices that create extremely cool sounds.  You lay on the floor with all the bowls and gongs around you while the rest of the group works together to create the sound, striking the gongs and bowls. Now it's not just talking about sounds here, we're talking about vibration, and oh boy do you feel it.  As i laid there during my session I was at first very aware of the feelings, thinking about what I was feeling. As it progressed, I was able to let go of my mind and just feel what I was feeling.  Probably one of the most calming experiences I've ever had and deeply healing. As we are all beings of energy vibrating and a certain frequency, sound can do wonders for our spirits, and mine was definitely uplifted.

Oh yeah! I made a new friend :) Her name is Molly and she's from New Hampshire by way of New York. She came to Portland about 3 months ago and is on a similar spiritual quest, signing up for the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine to study Chinese medicine and acupuncture. We met at a class on intuition held at the New Renaissance Bookshop with Dawn Lianna.  The synchronicity behind Molly is that meeting her was the 3rd instance of Molly in 24 hours for me and for her, she was sitting right next to me (Ben) and a lady named Mary, which happen to be her brother's name and her mother's name. So after the class I asked her if she wanted to go grab coffee and we've been hanging out ever since! It's nice to have someone on a similar path to talk to, she's really awesome. PLUS, we watched the last season of Breaking Bad together, 8 episodes, 2 nights, wonderful. I've been doing lots of emotional and spiritual work lately so sometimes its nice just to relax into an alternate reality. Its kind of a mild form of hypnotism, so I learned from the hypnotherapist (more on that later).