About
Us
Our Mission
The mission of Inner Listening
is to create physical, emotional and spiritual health
through the application of time-honored music therapies
and counseling. Our logo, the chambered nautilus encapsulates
our integrative approaches which incorporate both nature
and science. We believe in the natural harmonies of sound
to support inner growth while being substantiated by research.
The chambered nautilus is a metaphor for life's journey
- a continual evolution toward wholeness. The chambered
nautilus builds its own beautiful pearly shell, chamber
by chamber, as it grows. We have the opportunity to do the
same as we create our own lives. Viewed in cross-section,
it depicts a balanced spiral, unwinding naturally toward
its ultimate goal. Each previous chamber represents an earlier,
less developed state of being within the fragile beauty
of its shell body.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, in his poem, The Chambered Nautilus
writes,
“Let each new temple, nobler than the last,
Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast,
Till thou at length art free,
Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!”
The energetic spiral of the chambered nautilus can be found
throughout nature including pinecones, flowers, star nebulas
and in the human body as the inner ear cochlia (meaning
“snail” in Latin), natural sound amplifiers.
It is also used in ancient art to symbolize a gathering
of energy and connection with the spirit. Modern musical
instruments such as the French horn mimic this shape. As
such, sound is the perfect medium to stimulate our own internal
nautilus or natural impetus toward wholeness. Through music,
we can experience the essence and energy of the self, impacting
every system in the body.
A symbol of beauty and mathematical proportion, the nautilus
has attracted scientific attention since the time of the
ancient Greeks. Fibonacci discovered that the organic construction
of the nautilus spiral can be illustrated by a unique logarithm
based on adding whole numbers together in a specific mathematical
sequence.
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