'Everything In Its Right Place' Radiohead: a musical and sound healing, spiritual exploration.

'Everything In Its Right Place' Radiohead: a musical and sound healing, spiritual exploration.

As I listened to this song, I knew it was the right one. I had been cruising through my playlist looking for pure chillout tracks that I could use in a healing session, like Treefingers but ones that made me feel more positive. (In the hope that it would make the patient feel more positive too - although everyone's energy responds differently to the same track, it depends on the moment).

It wasn't what I had been looking for on a rational level - a song with no pulse, with long drawn-out chords, no lyrics, perhaps no vocals, in a major or modal key (your typical sound healing track). 

Yet, it did just the trick - drawing me into its vortex, of healing negativity within me. That old adage, quoted by.. John Beaulieu? In his loving and wise, intuitive 'Music and Sound in the Healing Arts' - that sometimes, the opposite or complementary sound can heal you but at other times, (as in my case at this time) hearing something that echoes your existing mood or condition can provide the best healing.

It drew me into a beautiful, calming, muted green, grey and blue vortex of healing gently my negativity, creating a feeling of peace, calm, tranquility, hope and positivity.

How did it do it musically?

Perhaps the descending echoey and beautifully low bass line created a feeling of descending deep into a lovely vortex?

The tinkly instrument added the feeling of calm, angelic almost tranquility, on a human to angel level - a meeting point, like in a mandorla.

And then the words kicked in...
Everything... everything... Everything... In its riight plaaaace... In its riiiight plaaaace... In its riiiight plaaaaace...

The repetition.

The use of three.

The rhythm.

It reminded me of the technique my lovely angels or spiritual guiding beings use to calm me down, or bring something to my attention - sometimes, they come close to my right ear and speak a short phrase in rhythm, repeating it.

Sometimes I get annoyed or afraid! But if I trust and go with it, being aware of the words, I soon relax, often going into a deep sleep or deep state of awareness, or I feel chakras linking or being woven together like a figure of eight - harmony, balance, like the harmonograph picture of a perfect fifth?