The Six Bearings
The six sound-bearings of the inner river
The First Bearing - Field of Stillness
What this song opens.
A doorway of gentle haze — the moment when the world has not yet taken form.
It opens the early, inner field where everything is still possible and nothing is fixed.
It calls you back to the thin veil between sleeping and waking.
Where it lives in the body.
High in the chest, just beneath the collar of breath, where the lungs widen before they deepen.
It lives in the place where memory is still a mist rather than a word.
When to listen.
When you feel the need to begin again.
When you sense direction without wanting to choose it yet.
When your body is soft enough to hear a first whisper.
The Second Bearing – Deepen to the Core
What this song opens.
A line of quiet clarity — light stretching across a still surface.
It opens the ability to perceive what moves beneath what appears unmoving.
It lets the body remember subtle guidance without urgency.
Where it lives in the body.
In the lower belly, where water does not ripple but carries.
A horizontal space of calm that widens gently from within.
The place where your core reflects light instead of holding it.
When to listen.
When you need clarity without sharpness.
When movement begins but has not yet taken shape.
When a quiet glimmer is enough — no answers, only direction.
The Third Bearing – Breath of the Ancients
What this song opens.
A moment of rising clarity — where an inner stream meets a wider breath.
It opens the thin threshold where water remembers it is also air.
It invites your awareness to lift, gently, without needing to understand.
Where it lives in the body.
Along the spine where breath begins to lengthen.
In the chest behind the sternum — the quiet, spacious place that widens without effort.
At the crown when it softens and begins to lift.
When to listen.
When you need to remember your higher viewpoint.
When two parts of your life feel separate and want to meet.
When you are ready for a subtle rising without force.
The Fourth Bearing – Ember Beneath
What this song opens.
The inner flame that glows instead of burns.
It opens the body's quiet memory — the warmth beneath thought, the truth beneath effort.
It softens the inner field so that remembering becomes possible.
Where it lives in the body.
Deep in the lower abdomen, above the pelvis.
A center of heat without form, pulsing gently like an ember protected by darkness.
A place that expands inward rather than outward.
When to listen.
When you need to return to yourself.
When you feel distant from your own center.
When light must rise from within, slow and steady, without force.
The Fifth Bearing – The Coming Glow
What this song opens.
The in–between: not moving, not resting — simply waiting.
It opens the breath you do not take, but receive.
It reveals the quiet rhythm that appears when you stop pushing.
Where it lives in the body.
In the throat and along the collarbones, where breath gathers before it descends.
In the subtle pause between inhale and exhale — the held, listening space.
In the upper chest when it softens and no longer reaches forward.
When to listen.
When you feel yourself rushing ahead of your own pace.
When your mind continues but your body asks for stillness.
When waiting is the only true movement available.
The Sixth Bearing – The Homecoming Glow
What this song opens.
A chamber of return — quiet, low-lit, familiar.
It opens the inner horizon where warmth gathers before rising.
It softens the edges of everything held too tightly.
It reminds the body of how to come home to itself.
Where it lives in the body.
At the back of the diaphragm, where breath meets memory.
In the deep belly, where warmth pools and spreads like an ember.
In the subtle field behind the heart, where old echoes dissolve into glow.
When to listen.
When you need to remember who you were before you hurried.
When you feel scattered and long to return to centre.
When the day asks for gentleness instead of force.
When you want to follow warmth back into presence.
