Yoga of Sound and Sense

India
September 20, 2011 5:38pm CST
During my researches on ancient languages, I came to realize that origin of language are the impacts different sounds make on our mind through our hearing organs. Accordingly, alphabet Devnagari was made, and words were composed using these alphabetic letters. Even Latin and Greek languages had this link of sounds and senses. In later period, we lost links between senses and sounds, making the modern languages dry of senses of sounds - http://healthmad.com/fitness/yoga-of-sound-and-sense/ Friends, how do you perceive about this important issue of modern languages.
4 responses
• Guatemala
21 Sep 11
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@savypat (20216)
• United States
21 Sep 11
In many cultures it is well known that certian sounds have healing and even spiritual results. The sound of a in the english word Father is one that comes to mind for me. This aaaaaaaa has measurable influence on the energy center call the heart chakra. Ommm is another sound, thought to be most sacred of all human sounds.If one will sit in silence and utter these sounds, one can feel their vibration though out the body. While these are positive sounds there are just as many negative sounds resulting in depression, hate and anger. All this is ancient knowledge.
@marguicha (216171)
• Chile
21 Sep 11
I have had a life long love story with language which lead me to studying literature and becoming a writer in my native language. I perceive language as a very complex thing that has to appeal to both sides of our brain. The rational part will understand meanings, but the other part of out brain will capture even the silences between each word and the choosing one word instead of the other because of how it feels and sounds. It´s difficult for me to explain all this in English. It is not my language And I feel that I am not making myself understood. Yet I remember that at one time in a workshop I was attending, the writer in charge was an intimate friend of Gabriel García Márquez, the colombian Nobel Prize winner. He told us that García Marquez, at one time was very frustrated. He was writing about a very warm day " and the page did not get hot" When I write in my language, I try to make the page "get hot". In poetry that is a must. If it doesn´t happen, the poem is worthless.
• India
21 Sep 11
It was interesting to know about what you said,i am also interested to know about histories of different kinds,i some times think how these languages came,where was the orgins of letters,sounds,speaking,writing,etc.i wish i can read more informatiom from you sir,all the best to your researches.