On how playing a slow heart beat learnt on the Way of the Buzzard’s ‘Healing Drum’ course led me to the practice of aligning my heartbeat with the Heart of Annwn and to beginning to formulate ‘the Rule of the Heart’ with others within the Monastery of Annwn.
It began with a drumbeat.
During the period I was struggling with anxiety about the disruption to my sleep pattern caused by night work, which was making me lose even more sleep, I found a helpful practice in the Way of the Buzzard’s ‘Healing Drum’ Course.
It was a drumbeat which echoed the sound of a heartbeat and which I found of use in slowing my own heartbeat and calming my anxiety before I went to sleep.
As I made playing this slow beat on my drum* a regular practice I found it not only slowed the rhythm of my heart but brought it into alignment with the beating of a far greater heart, which I intuited was ‘the Heart of Annwn’.**
A chant came to me:
Slow Beat
Slowly beats
The Heart of Annwn
Slowly beats
The Sacred Heart
And then another, which I imagined being played at the…
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Sounds very soothing, I need to find some form of release, too. What is ‘way of the buzzard’?
Ugh, life just gets more stressful by the day.
I just put a link to their website in the original post.
Thank you for sharing! I am going to send the link to my daughter who has similar experiences