EPISODE 156
Ian Morris: Music That Heals You
How does music work within your body? Does music soothe you? Do you look for motivation or energy in music? Immerse yourself in the healing power of music with composer and sound alchemist Ian Morris in this frequency-minded Living 4D conversation.
Learn more about Ian’s work on his Listening to Smile website and on social media on Facebook and Instagram.
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SHOW NOTES
- Ian shifted to creating healing music and release work a decade ago when he was diagnosed with MS and colon cancer. (11:07)
- Divine intervention — musical tracks disappearing — plays a role in Ian’s process for making healing music. (23:41)
- Just like taste, you have a sound palette too. (33:17)
- Frequency and tempo teach the body. (39:42)
- Ian feels a connection to these spirit instruments. (48:28)
- Reprogramming your body with frequencies of feeling. (57:09)
- The devil’s interval. (1:10:39)
- Ian’s crossroad at a young age: Work in a bank or become a musician. (1:27:18)
- Why do muscleheads listen to angry music when they work out in the gym? (1:44:47)
- Nearly all of the music Ian produces uses binaural beats. (1:52:44)
- Music as medicine. (2:07:37)
- How Ian built a way to license his healing music to holistic practitioners. (2:12:11)
- “Most of the things I worried about never happened anyway.” (2:22:14)
RESOURCES & FURTHER READING
- The Healing Power of Sound: Recovery From Life-Threatening Illness Using Sound, Voice and Music by Dr. Mitchell Gaynor
- You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay
- Quantum Jumps: An Extraordinary Science of Happiness and Prosperity by Cynthia Sue Larson
- Soul Communication: Opening Your Spiritual Channels for Success and Fulfillment by Dr. Zhi Gang Sha
- Cymatics: Sound Alchemy
- The Umbrella Academy Vol. 1 by Gerald Way and Gabriel Ba
- The Silva Method
- A trailer for the documentary Alive Inside on YouTube
- Paul’s Living 4D conversations with Eileen McKusick and Ari Honarvar
- The work of Deva and Miten Premal, Hilary Stagg, Lisa Lynne, Victor Schauberger and Frank Zappa
- Solfeggio frequencies and Schumann resonances
- The Book of 528 by Leonard Horowitz
- The Social Dilemma on Netflix
- Blueprint for Immortality by Harold Saxton Burr
- Farmers of Forty Centuries: Organic Farming in China, Korea and Japan by F.H. King
- Fringe
- The Spirit of Music: The Lesson Continues and The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music by Victor Wooten
- The Mindscape of Alan Moore
- Watermelon in Easter Hay by Frank Zappa on YouTube
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