The Secret of Cymatics, Sound Made Visible

When You Play Piano, You Are Surrounded By Sheer Beauty

Cymatics: the word comes from Greek “kuma” and means “wave.” It is the study of sound and vibration made visible on the surface of a plate, diaphragm or membrane. It was named by the Swiss medical doctor, Hans Jenny, who was a pioneer in this field.

Our children with special needs are dealing with a lot of inner chaos and have a harder time making sense of the chaotic world we live in. But there is hope and help: music and rhythm create order out of chaos. So when we get our special needs children actively involved in music-making, we are assuring an inner beauty and peace for them, which no other modality can bring or guarantee.

Go to my website and watch the following video on TED Talks, you will be blown away:

http://danielaclapp.com/piano/the-secret-of-cymatics/

Just think of what music can do for your child’s brain, how it can bring about healing, inner peace and order?! From such a place of inner peace and beauty automatically flow better self-esteem, better thinking skills, higher brain-function, better health, a more productive and successful life.

Isn’t that what we all ultimately want for our children and for ourselves?

Classical music is the only modality known to mankind that can bring such magic and has the miraculous power to transform you.

Watch the following video:

http://danielaclapp.com/piano/the-secret-of-cymatics

Bearing Fruit in Season

My parents have a big, beautiful garden where they grow every vegetable and fruit that grows in Germany. We also have apple trees that bear the most delicious, sweet, juicy apples you will ever taste. Every autumn the apples are ready for harvest, and when I look at our apple-trees during that time, I am struck by the sheer abundance that is almost a wasteful amount of apples. Apples on the ground, apples hanging from the branches, apples everywhere. But soon these trees will be bare, entering their dormant stage. They will enter a season of waiting in which they do not bear any fruit.  At least they are not bearing any visible fruit, and the waiting for more apples looks barren when it is actually the preparation for abundance.

Even the Bible talks about bearing fruit in season. “There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven.”  ~ Ecclesiastes 1:3

In years long gone by, the only way to do things was in rhythm with nature, observing and respecting its laws. We could only eat fresh berries and tomatoes in the summer, apples in the autumn, canned and stored foods in the winter, and the little snowdrop flowers were the first messengers that spring is arriving.

Little Snowdrop flower

Now we live in a culture, where fruits and everything else we can think of are available all the time. We don’t have to observe the natural rhythm of sowing and harvest, of night and day, of rest and work. We can produce everything artificially and instantly. And that is where trouble begins: we ignore our own physical limitations, and the limitations of each season of our life. We demand and we expect “fresh fruit” at the snap of our fingers.

But learning to play the piano brings us back to those natural rhythms of life itself; it is a cycle of sowing, which is the daily practicing, then waiting, which is more practicing, then harvesting fruits, which is the playing in recitals or just having mastered a concept or a piece, and then the barren waiting again.

If you focus too much on the barren ground in the winter, then you will miss the abundance that is all around you all year long.

Music Transforms You

Cymatics…what is that?

And What It Has To Do with Your Child’s Health, Brain and Success

Cymatics: the word comes from Greek “kuma” and means “wave.” It is the study of sound and vibration made visible on the surface of a plate, diaphragm or membrane. It was named by the Swiss medical doctor, Hans Jenny, who was a pioneer in this field.

Ernst Chladni (1756-1827), a German musician and scientist, sometimes known as ‘the father of acoustics, used a brass plate, put a bunch of sand on it and moved a violin bow along the sides of the plate.  He found that geometric patterns could be created, depending on where and what speed on the edge of the plate the bow was drawn.

Just take a look at the beautiful patterns and order that sound/music can create out of randomly strewn salt-grains, which represent the chaos in our world.

Everything that is beautiful has order to it. Just look at nature: the flowers, the constellation of the planets. Our children with special needs are dealing with a lot of inner chaos and have a harder time making sense of the chaotic world we live in. But there is hope and help: music and rhythm create order out of chaos. So when we get our special needs children actively involved in music-making, we are assuring an inner beauty and peace for them, which no other modality can bring or guarantee.

Are you ready for this? This is amazing! Are you sitting down? Do you have your seat belt on? Here are piano-notes made visible:

If piano playing can create such beautiful shapes, just think of what it can do for your child’s brain, healing, inner peace and order?! From such a place of inner peace and beauty automatically flow better self-esteem, better thinking skills, higher brain-function, better health, a more productive and successful life.

Isn’t that what we all ultimately want for our children and for ourselves?

Classical music is the only modality known to mankind that can bring such magic and has the miraculous power to transform you.

Music Transforms You

Daniela Clapp

http://danielaclapp.com