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Everyone has experienced a feeling of being near a campfire somewhere in the nature, and everyone knows how relaxing it can be. Everything becomes more friendly and positive, people become closer, more connected, and the souls of people become widely open for the beauty of living. Deep feelings are coming out from people’s true beings, often expressed through some nice song sung by the whole company around the fire. Actually that is one of the greatest hits in human history: a folk song with a melody of a fire in background!
In addition, the fireplace sounds in a house brings feelings of deep intimacy, safety and soulful experience of being alive. This is the best rest after a busy day in the urban jungle.
Except the visual phenomenon of a fire in the night, another element that is helping people to experience such feelings is the sound of fire. It is not noticeable at first, but when silence of a night touches human beings, the deep and metaphysical melody of the fire sound goes directly to hearts and touches them the most gentle way.
Sometimes while fire is dancing, people also feel a call to dance with the fire sounds. Throughout the history, but also today, main rituals of human communities have been manifested around the fire, dancing in trance. Rituals are the keys of civilization. There are theories that sitting around a fireplace of the primitive human ancestors was an important element in their evolution to Homo sapiens. The fire and fire sounds are somehow producing cognitive insights into human brains and helps them to think deeper and clearer way.
Scientific analysis of acoustic features of the fire sound shows that its frequencies are influencing the brainwaves of humans in a specific way. When listening to sounds of fire, a human brain is coming to a state where Alpha waves are dominant. Alpha waves are electromagnetic oscillations in the frequency range of 8-12 Hz. It is a state when a person is in wakeful relaxation with closed or open eyes.
In this state, the audio frequency of the fire sound helps brain to reduce all the temporary, shallow, and everyday thoughts, as well as to become more receptive to the inner, true universal powers of human beings. The positive hormones initiated with this brain wavelength are raising their level in blood and the whole organism is stimulated to accept the beauty of the moment.
It is not uncommon that experienced meditators use fire sounds. They help them to reach deeper levels in the meditative process. This kind of fire sound “music” can be very helpful also during brain processes of ordinary people. It will make you more focused, more thoughtful, with deeper understanding of the matter. Using fire sound in everyday life will make you feel balanced and harmonized with your true being, which is suppressed by duties of your life. An archetypal music of the fire will make you feel connected with your self in a most delightful way.