Are you someone who is consciously on a healing or spiritual journey ? There are many tools available to us for breaking through our limitations and supporting our healing journey, but we often fail to succeed in receiving the full benefit that these tools have to offer because of our tendency to outsource our agency to them, according to sound researcher and ethnomusicologist, Alexandre Tannous. He believes our inner narrative plays a big role in this. In this episode, Alexandre shares with us how we can create a more empowered inner narrative to receive greater benefit from common “healing” tools, especially those of sound and psychedelics, to break through our limitations while exploring our own consciousness. He shares with us a method he has developed for receiving maximum benefit from listening to music, called Judicious Listening. I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I did.  References Resources:  www.soundmeditation.com Learn more about judicious listening: https://soundmeditation.com/trading-our-chains-for-enchantment/ More on the importance of language : https://soundmeditation.com/why-not-just-call-it-sound-healing/ Biography Alexandre Tannous is an ethnomusicologist, sound therapist and sound researcher. For the past 22 years he has been researching the therapeutic and esoteric properties of sound from three different perspectives – Western scientific, Eastern philosophical, and shamanic societal beliefs – to gain a deeper understanding of how, and to what extent, sound has been used to affect human consciousness. This search has led him to the intersection where art, science, philosophy, and spirituality intersect. His ethnomusicological approach entails a social scientific study of sound use in several traditional contexts—religious, spiritual, holistic, and cultural—for various purposes and occasions in entertainment, worship, meditation, and rituals of healing and trance. Consequently, his approach in researching, understanding, experiencing, transmitting, and working with sound has always been based on a multidisciplinary approach. As a recipient of the Mellon Fellowship, Alexandre earned a Master of Arts and a Master of Philosophy degrees in Ethnomusicology from Columbia University where he was enrolled in the Ph.D. program. He has taught various music courses at the same institution.  Check out our website,  ResonanceRising.Co