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Language of Light Sound SOULutions by Nancy Byers As we move into the new millennium, many are feeling inner stirrings and a longing for something they cannot name. Souls are ready to move into a deeper knowing, remembering and experiencing of Source: Heart-Love-Oneness. Fourteen years ago, my own inner restlessness sparked a very conscious request of the universe: “I’m ready for whatever is next,” I proclaimed… and added as a footnote, “and if by any chance I could use my voice (like Dionne Warwick) I would really love that!” At the time, I had no conscious awareness of what that voiced intention would set into motion. I now believe that it was inextricably linked to the unfolding of my journey deep into the heart of the Great Mystery. It would eventually lead to the blending of my heart’s desire (to experience ever-unfolding levels of love) with the next stage of my soul’s journey (delivering the Language of Light). At that time I had never heard of the Language of Light: a universal language made up of a composite of frequencies, holding encodings in sound through transmissions of songs and ancient languages. A few nights after voicing the intentional prayer, experiences began for which I had no previous frame of reference. The beginning of the development of the Language of Light consisted of experiences of being cocooned into light, cellular release, physical vibrations in my head and body, a feeling of bliss leading to eventual surrender, combined with questioning curiosity and an upheaval in my world view at that time. Every aspect of my being was deeply affected. The experiences started during nighttime. I would awaken, gently vibrating with a feeling of being infused by an exquisite white light that I called The Substance. While this was happening, I felt a seamlessness with everything that existed, across all time. The feeling was so beautiful and powerful that words were simply unable to capture or describe it. At the time, I described it as not just a feeling of love, joy and peace, but the extract of them. The process of cellular release consisted of images from different time periods. I sensed I was reintegrating ancient memory patterns to a conscious level. While I felt them deeply as if reliving them in my body, I knew to not give them too much importance. It felt as if something was being activated and released and I could feel the energy changes occurring deep inside my body during the daytime as well. As I had no frame of reference for what was happening, I sought help from a therapist. Once in the therapist’s office, traditional therapy was no longer relevant. The work gradually took on a developmental quality. At first I would describe images I was sensing and sensations that I was feeling. As I was talking, I started to feel enveloped by the “Substance.” It was as if a dimmer switch was being turned up in intensity very slowly. As this occurred, talking became irrelevant. The feeling of the “Substance” was compelling to the point that I looked at the therapist and signaled that I could no longer talk. I then sat in silence the rest of the session until she would gently say that our time was up. This continued for several sessions, and each time in the middle of talking, I felt compelled to surrender to the silence. It was as if I was lifted or expanded into a timeless state filled with such depth of Love and Joy and Peace that from the first “taste” of it, I knew that whatever this was, I was willing to continue exploring it. Soon the intensity of the Light was such that I could no longer sit up, so we dismantled the therapist’s couch. I lay down on the cushions on the floor, and she sat next to me, holding one hand. I was amazed by the therapist’s willingness to follow the directives I would give. Being a traditional Marriage and Family Therapist myself, I appreciated her willingness to follow my unusual requests without hesitation. When I asked her what she thought this was, she calmly stated that she had no clue either, but she trusted that it was about love and growth, and because she knew me well from earlier experience as my therapist, she knew it wasn’t crazy. Her sense of calm acceptance and gentle reassurance were such gifts. She became the gatekeeper and anchor throughout the developmental phase of the process. Soon a routine was established. After a few moments of reporting what was taking place in between sessions, I lay down on the floor with the therapist seated next to me, holding my hand. Together we sang a hymn that we both knew, “Open My Eyes That I May See.” As soon as I started to sing, I could feel an energetic shift occurring. I felt I was being lifted into the Substance and suspended in the bliss of it until I heard the therapist’s voice gently saying it was time to close. At first, the sessions were for one hour once a week, but in time they were one-and-a-half hours twice a week. For three years the routine was the same. During this time, there were so many changes occurring in my body. The heat I felt during these sessions caused my body to turn a red color that the therapist had never seen before. I felt pressure from my heart chakra to the top of my head, especially inside my head, including my palate. The vibrating continued, my breathing varied dramatically from almost no sign to labored breathing. It seemed that this phase of the process was a preparation of my body to hold different frequencies. Gradually the strength of the light increased as if the amount was determined by how much my body could handle. Despite these many sensations that I was experiencing, the part that stood out was the limitless feeling of Love; the oneness of all. No matter what emotional stress or physical distress I was in when I entered the therapist’s office, those symptoms could simply not co-exist in this expansive state. During this phase, I learned a lot about myself and the circus of my mind. While in this expanded state of Love, I was very peaceful. There was no need to question what this was. The fact that it simply was was sufficient. When I asked questions in this silence, for the most part I understood to “trust with the deepest part of your knowing.” In this state, filled with a reverence for this Love, Joy, Peace and Beauty that we all are, it was easy to trust the process. That is what kept me doing it for over three years, with no idea of what form this would eventually take. It was clear that this was a journey to be navigated with the heart, moving ever so slowly yet surely towards a willingness to not know in a way explainable by the left-brain, yet felt deeply and known in the innermost sanctuary of my heart. It was while driving through the countryside on the way home that the circus of my mind relentlessly kicked in. My mind started to work overtime with incessant questioning: How was this happening? What or who was it? Was it coming from the inside or outside of me? Am I making it all up? Am I crazy? Is this my way of getting attention? How do I describe it? What is going on in my body? Why do I feel communication is occurring in the silence? When will my therapist say she’s finally had enough? By far, the most challenging part was existing in what at the time seemed like such different worlds. After three years, sound became a part of the process. One particular session it was as if my language center had been scrambled. After that, each time I lay down in the therapist’s office, I “caught” a sound wave that runs through everything. What came out of my mouth sounded like gibberish, but while doing it, I was still suspended in the blissful state. For eight months, the sounds were present every time I lay down in the therapist’s office. It was quite stressful on my body at the time. Gradually, my body adjusted to the expression of these strange sounds. This part of the journey was the most difficult because mentally I had no idea what this was or how it could ever be used in a beneficial way. I remember feeling that I must be the butt of a cosmic joke. Three years of waiting for this? I certainly had no idea of what to expect, but I had never heard of anything like this, and I was shocked that it was not in English! Fortunately, though, while doing it all of the resistance and questioning melted into exquisite love. After eight months of this, a friend called to invite me to hear Swami Satya Devji who was in town. After several nights of attending talks given by him, I asked if he could help me by listening to an audiotape I brought with me, which I had recorded in the therapist’s office. After hearing it, he told me that the particular set of sounds on that tape were Sanskrit. They were the “sounds of time” used by tantric yogis to attune to their light bodies. He encouraged me to trust what was happening and to surrender even more deeply. Over time, more and more sounds were expressed, each requiring an adjustment in my physical body. Shortly afterwards I would find myself standing next to people in line, for example, in a grocery store. In my mind’s eye, I would see a movie of a stone tablet being taken off a shelf of an infinite number of tablets. A tablet would be placed in my heart and I would feel a calibration from my heart to the top of my throat. I watched as the sounds were expressed how energy could be broken up and rearranged into harmony. Though I was unable to do this yet, over and over again I saw this happening. While working with clients as a counselor, this occurred too. A person would be talking about a relationship dilemma, for example, and I would watch the same scene in my mind’s eye. I would feel a calibration – an energetic shift, like tuning into a particular person’s radio station to their set of frequencies. And at that precise moment, when it was attuned to them in ways I didn’t understand, then it could be played through my voice. After two years of seeing these pictures, I began to actually use them in working with people. It started out exactly as I had pictured it. I lay down, connected to them with one hand, and saw the stone tablets in my mind’s eye. While sharing this with someone, 3 or 4 tablets would be introduced, one at a time, each holding different sets of frequencies. Sometimes the sounds were spoken; at other times, sung. Often the people I was working with could identify the language spoken – or at least parts of it. For example: Hebrew, Arabic, Sanskrit, Chinese, and Native American Indian. I never knew what I was saying, but I was always in the expanded state of Love and Oneness and felt at a very deep and sacred soul space. I always felt that I was helping them remember something across all time in a deep, cellular memory place. It took about a year of working lying down before I could finally sit up and eventually stand up. So much joy accompanied this shift. I believe my body finally integrated all the different frequencies. It was such a pleasure to finally be able to look into eyes and to move around while doing this. I have been ever so grateful for this change. With it came a shift in the visual – instead of the tablets off to the right of me in my mind’s eye, suddenly all of the images were inside of me so that instead of me and the tablets, I became the tablets and that’s how I feel as I work with the Language of Light now. About this time, I was doing this work at the request of Jonathan Goldman, president of the World Federation of Sound Healers, at a Healing Sounds conference he was conducting in Colorado. A gentleman walked up to me when I finished, asking if I knew what I was saying. I said I didn’t, but that I always felt that it was about love and remembering. He smiled, mentioned that he was a linguist, and walked off only to return a few minutes later with a page of words he had noted. He said that the particular language he heard was Persian. Much to my delight, one of the phrases he had noted was “yad gerefte” -- remember! (as in a command). I feel very blessed that so many people have stepped forward to assist me in a number of ways. Jonathan Goldman wrote two chapters called Language of Light in his book, Shifting Frequencies. He later told me that he believed the activation for the information for those chapters occurred as a result of my delivering a transmission of the Language of Light to him. Now it is fourteen years since I uttered that request of the universe to show me what was next in my soul’s journey. I never imagined that it would include traveling abroad to deliver the Language of Light. The current phase brings so much joy, pleasure and playfulness now that the integration of so many frequencies is complete. Right now seems to be a phase of exploring just how this work can be used to benefit others. The seamless quality I experienced in the beginning continues to be the joyful, love-filled place from which I work. From a broader perspective, the Language of Light is being used for planetary healing: shifting paradigms and belief systems and moving into greater love and oneness. It is also being used for the purpose of teaching and healing. I believe it teaches us to trust our multidimensional capabilities. Using the principle of Intention + Energy (sound) = Manifestation with the Language of Light empowers individuals in co-creation with the universe. Currently I’m exploring the effects of the Language of Light with specific populations. These include persons with AIDS, multiple sclerosis, autistic individuals and children with various neurological challenges. The most common short-term responses include pain relief and relaxation, sometime resulting in relief of depression. Physically challenged individuals are particularly empowered as a result of experiencing themselves as so much more than their physical limitation. Most people report a “remembering” in experiencing this work. This can occur in limitless ways. Some individuals open to their own heart’s desire and soul purpose; some sense a shift toward greater intimacy and interconnectedness. It can be used for individuals, groups, place, animals and plants. Vickie Dodd, an internationally known pioneer in the field of Sound as a Bodywork and director of SoundBody Productions says, “Everything that has occurred in our lives is recorded in our bodies. These events are recorded in our tissue as memories that actually exude a sound, and respond and change shape when engaged by our voice. Sound touches us where hands and words cannot reach.” I have particularly enjoyed Einstein’s famous comment, paraphrased as "You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness where it was created." I believe that the Language of Light invites us to further explore the Great Mystery and to open up to a deep inner heart space of remembrance of who we already are. Wayne Moody, a visionary architect in Tucson, Arizona, wrote me an e-mail stating, “I am suggesting that there may very well be a language beyond words; a universal language of vibration from which words are derived. This language is one that can be transmitted and received, not by the mouthing of sounds and words, but by listening from the mind and speaking from the heart and vice-versa. This is a language that needs no verbal translation; it is a language that cannot be discerned through the physical senses. It is translated directly into knowing through subtle vibrations alone. It can be transmitted and picked up all over the universe instantaneously by those who know how to speak and hear the Language of Light.” The timeless quality of the Language of Light imparts an invitation to joyfully explore the Great Mystery of All-That-Is. It is my heart’s desire to share this for the benefit of all. Nancy
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