01/11/2025
Do you know Chinese classical music has healing properties?
In the silence before music begins, there is already vibration.
The ancients called it qi (气) the unseen breath that moves through all things.
When qi takes form, it becomes sound; when sound enters the heart, it becomes resonance. And when resonance aligns with the body, it becomes healing.
Chinese music traditionally uses the pentatonic scale , Gong (宫), Shang (商), Jue (角), Zhi (徵), Yu (羽).
Our body is an instrument shaped by Heaven and Earth.
Each organ holds its own tone
the Liver sings with 角 (Jue), rising like spring wind through the trees;
the Heart glows with 徵 (Zhi), the warmth of summer light;
the Spleen hums with 宫 (Gong), steady and nurturing like earth beneath the feet;
the Lung breathes with 商 (Shang), clear as autumn air;
and the Kidney echoes with 羽 (Yu), deep as winter water.
When one tone is disturbed, the whole melody of life goes out of tune.
Anger tightens the strings of the Liver;
worry makes the Earth tremble beneath the Spleen;
grief clouds the clear air of the Lung.
But when we return to sound to pure vibration
these hidden storms begin to settle.
藥 is medicine
樂 is music
The ancients did not separate medicine from music.
They listened not only with ears, but with heart.
When the right tone was played, the pulse changed,
the spirit brightened, and the body remembered its own rhythm again.
To heal is not to add something new, but to return to the original harmony that was never lost, the song of Heaven flowing quietly within us.
When you sit in stillness and breathe, listen closely, your organs are singing.
All you need to do is tune your heart until it sings along.
