Sound + Self Love with Ann Sensing

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In this episode Aaron talks with friend and Sound Guide Ann Sensing about how to have self-love practices using sound. 

Show Notes

:29 sec

Aaron Talks

Hey everyone, what you’re hearing is the Sounds of healing. Have you ever felt frustrated within about your life and about your relationships and wondered how it’s all connected ?

It seems there’s a common theme or thread when something just isn’t right. That though everything on the outside looks good, what’s happening from within is a different story. 

In this episode we’re going to talk with my friend Ann Sensing. She’s a sound healer and sound meditation guide. Her story was pretty familiar, in that, though things looked good on the outside, there’s still not a satisfaction from within.

She stumbled upon sound meditation. Some call it a sound bath, where we can slow down enough to hear ourselves and understand whats going on and to understand what are truth is on the inside. 

I believe that how we do anything is how we do everything. When we have an unhealthy relationship with someone or something, like maybe it’s our diet, maybe its our partner, or maybe it’s a family member. That’s really about our relationship with ourselves. Even though things look good on the outside, we’re still struggling from within. 

The first step is always acknowledging where you’re at. Becoming aware means you have to look on the inside. You have to get honest with yourself to understand what your frustration and your pain is. or why the pattern you’re in keeps continuing. We have to investigate what’s going on. We have to connect the dots. What’s that truth about for yourself ? 

What does it look like to get past the discomfort and live through a new experience ?

In this episode we talk about sound and instruments. We talk about the instrument that everyone has built in, their voice. 

I believe that to be loved is to be seen to be known and to be heard. If we’re not hearing ourselves, if we’re not listening form within. If we don’t know our own voice, how can we show up in a relationship with somebody else ? 

We’re all looking for freedom within ourselves to feel like we are who we are and to identify our truest self.

How can we tune ourselves to the frequency of who we are ?

What I like about sound meditation is that it’s about learning to pause, slow down, and really listen to what our body is telling us. 

We put a lot of expectations on our relationships and we put a lot of expectation on ourselves. It seems like the more we put expectations on ourselves, the worse the outcome. 

Sound can give you that space to slowdown and drop all those expectations and expose the truth of what’s going on for you. True self-love is acknowledging yourself.  

Find a practice. Something you can do, that anchors you and helps you get back to center with yourself. 

How can you love yourself enough to slow down. Top your Xanax prescription, and find a healthy, wholistic way to heal from your wounds. 

Let me introduce my good friend and sound guide, Ann Sensing. 

3 min 

Ann and Aaron banter before introduction

3:55 min

How Ann and Aaron met and modality joking. We’re medium high spiritual. 

Ann’s going to be on another planet and sound love.

Using the sound of your voice to heal and own your emotions 

6:00 min

What sparked sound meditation for Ann? 

Yoga was saving mental health. Quit job and got certified as a yoga instructor. 

8:00 min

Wanted to dive more into meditation and found sound meditation. Music had always been healing. Found a center with sound and meditation. 

 8:40 min 

Yoga  was the “gateway drug” for Ann.

9:30 min

What was the moment where you saw the difference and shifted to sound meditation. 

Ann wasn’t in a healthy relationship with a lot of different aspects. Original ah ha moment was really acknowledging how I was feeling. Stopped Trying to satisfy with the external world. 

11:50 min 

What did external look like vs internally ? 

Externally looked perfect. Nice heels. Looked easy and organized. 

Internally she was so depressed. She didn’t feel like herself. Overtime it got to Ann. 

13:45 min 

Aaron said you had dissonance. 

What did Ann want in those struggling moments ? Things that had money value lessened. It was not filling her cup. 

15:00 min

Started dating meditation and fell in self love. Ann was starting to fall in self-love.

Lots of discomfort upfront. 5-6 month training. 

16:00 min

Exploring your voice in the discomfort. 

17 min 

Felt like a different person at the end. Reclaiming your identity.

17:50 min 

Gibberish voice practice. 

19:00 min 

Holding space. personal freedom of identity 

Voice is one of the major things we identify with. Throat chakra. 

The voice is like a bridge between your heart ond brain. 

Its like a metaphysical bridge

21 min 

classic butterfly analogy

Ann has to constantly be in practice. Daily practices. Keeping your vocal path clear. 

 22:30 min

Break to shruti box. And the daily self love practice to notice and be aware of your voice. You’re relaxing your blood vessel. 

Like little self love hacks. Voice is an instrument. 

Tap into what you’re feeling. Ann has numbed so much. You can find the emotion in your voice. 

Ask yourself what the emotion is 

24:55 min 

Relationships using the sound of your voice.  Instead of attacking with words. Pause stop the argument. Let out the sound out. There’s something’s that words can’t identify. When you name and identify, you regret what you say. 

26:00 min

Give yourself space and time. Not getting mad at your partner and own your emotions with sound.

Sound is therapeutic. 

27:40 min

The ways that the instruments effect the mind and body. . 

Aaron remembers the names. 

How can the instruments slowly heal us? 

29:00 min 

Sound bath is a form of meditation. Bathing in the vibrations of these sounds.  Learning to slow down and rest. Learning to pause and listen. You are in collaboration with the instruments. The more open and receptive of it. 

Come in with a beginners mind, and you are more open o the experience. You get so much more. 

The instruments are all rich with overtone. 

The body can entrain in the frequency of the over tones of the sound. The fundamentals of frequency is that everything is moving. The body is intelligent. Our bodies are aligning to the wave of sound. 

We’re always looking to be in the highest vibration that you can. 

Parasympathetic nervous system is being turned on and we are relaxing.

33:25 min 

The meditative states. Theta, delta, and alpha

Be open to being cool. Just think about being cool. Experiment being cool. 

35  min 

What might you expect feeling at the end of a sound meditation.    

There is no expectation. If you think you’re going to feel zen, you might not. Your experience is your own. 

“My state of calm might be someone else’s anxiety.” 

37:40 min 

Relaxation response kicked in. Get out of fight flight or hide. You’re there for a reason. More than likely relax and be away from your phone. 

You want to be calmer at the end. But if you put an expectation then it might backfire. 

You don’t want it to be something that you achieve or bypass. 

If you feel bad after a sound bath, Ann might congratulate you that something is moving. 

40 min

Hypothetical, break up or fight. Continually experiencing struggling with resistance in a relationship. What would the result of going to a sound meditation might help. 

Anything where we are being present. It brings more light to what’s happening with you. 

We heal together. Or you can have an instrument at home. Guided meditation typically has the breath as the focus. 

42:33 min

Hearing the sounds of Ann Sensing.

The fear of the “woo woo”.  What do we do to acknowledge that sound meditation is a real thing and supports you in a self love practice.   

44 min - normalizing

It can be intimidating. ”Lay down and get vulnerable” putting it out in a non threatening. Being open to those possibilities. Not a traditional role for Ann.  

How can I reach people in a safe non threatening way. 

It’s good to have the science. 

It’s a good baseline. It helps our society. 

47:00 min

Aaron’s agenda behind the agenda is how do we let go of Xanax. How can we holistically heal?

Loving yourself enough to slow down and take the time to be present in your life.

Yell in your morning.

How worthy do we feel of giving it to ourselves. Spreading it and sharing it. 

48:50 min 

We don’t always know what our internal struggle is. 

Be open to being cool. You got to get grounded. What does the healthy version of you look like ?

50 min 

Aaron Talks

Hey thanks for listening if you’d like to connect with Ann Sensing you can go to magniliameditation.com She has some cool guides on how to have a better home meditation with sound. 

You can check out the album we recorded here on Spotify. Look under Ann Sensing.

This episode is brought to you by me, I’m a personal coach helping you to have a better relationship within yourself. You can connect with me at theKindofLove.com

I’m Aaron Tosti.

Best of love to you. 

You can also connect with Ann on instagram @ann.sensing or @nashvillemeditation 

Ann’s Album

https://open.spotify.com/album/7shHbAAvRr8UJAnACuobRd?si=IXV3RKN0RUuifrGImWPjSQ