Welcome back friends to our podcast, Unlocking Your World of Creativity.
Today we talk with NY Times bestselling author and the founder of Voices of Eden, an Ancient Wisdom and Healing Music Institute, Eliana Gilad. Eliana is a healing voice mentor, therapeutic singing pioneer, and founder of the Find Your True Voice program. She helps heart centered entrepreneurs and healing professionals embody their own unique voices and confidently express their truth from the inside out.
This brings us to today's interview. Mark discusses with Eliana about:
How can people start to find their voice in these uncertain times?
Being who you already are:
An insightful part of Eliana’s Journey
After extensive research into vibration of sound studying anything from science to archaeology to medicine, Eliana compiled 16 studies that were conducted where sound was used as a healing technique. Finally convincing a doctor to try it she was allowed to work on a premature infant in an intensive care unit. The baby weighed less than a pound. Eliana began to sing, and the baby began to move! This proved three things to the doctors.
Not only did they see how the power of sound healing was working it helped the medical staff in their own work with focus and they felt calmer.
This experience allowed Eliana into receiving a fully funded research project for three years and paying her salary to study babies in the NICU.
“When there's something in you that's an impulse, that's a hunch, trust it, even if it doesn't make sense. it's your true voice.”
**Bonus Voice Healing Activation
Eliana explains in ancient times the leaders would go to temples and avail themselves of special applications of voice and rhythm that would bypass the intellect and connect them inwardly to their higher mind. There was always a focus.
This is an activation focused on Unlocking Your Creativity.
Enjoy!
You can find Eliana Gilad and more of what she does at Voices of Eden. There you can explore her different types of healings and offerings along with free resources to get you started.
Be sure to check out her best-selling book Emerge Triumphant: Thrive Through Uncertainty on Amazon.
Lastly, you can listen to her ted talks here: Trust Your Silent Voice: Find Your Power and Your Voice, Make it Heard
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(:Welcome back friends through our podcast, Unlocking Your World of Creativity. And today we're gonna talk about unlocking creativity through unleashing the power of our voice, our inner voice, and the ability and power to shine through that voice. And we're gonna be talking with a expert in healing, voice mentoring, and teaching and activating. And our guest is Eliana Gillad. Eliana, welcome to the program.
(:Thank you so much, Mark. I'm delighted to be here. Woohoohoo.
(:Yeah, there you go. Well, it's gonna be exciting to talk in the world of creativity. You've lived in Paris, you've lived in the States, you've lived in Israel, uh, so there's a good global perspective there that I'm looking forward to hearing too. Eliana is the author of a great book called Emerge Triumphant among other books, but we'll talk about that one today. And Eliana, this book has a terrific theme, a terrific story. Uh, maybe we could just start there, that the idea of emerging triumphant and finding our voice and thriving through uncertainty. How, how is it that we create a, people can start to find our voice in these uncertain times?
(:Uh, first of all, turn off your media
(:Well, uh, Cause you're not gonna find it by trying to figure things out or by using, you know, the, the, well here's the, which one do you want first? The good news or the bad
(:Which one? Tell me.
(:I'll, I'll take the bad news first so that we can come out on the other side.
(:Yeah. So we'll come out on the good end. Right,
Mm-hmm.
(:And more just following the plan for plan sake.
(:Following the plan. Yeah. And I've just come from two months overseas, come back to the states, and I'm sensing this just in the past two months. I have this sense of, uh, like after the summer, but nobody knows what's going on. But it, like, in the online space,
Just by definition. Yes. You
(:Want, you know, you want to be comfortable. Go down with the Titanic. Choice is yours, you know, you wanna expand and thrive, let go and get ready for adventure.
Yes. Well, certainly we're talking about these modern challenges, but your book also brings out the fact that a lot of these are ancient, you know, archetypes. Ancient wisdom that we need to draw upon to solve or to at least, uh, understand what we're going through. Yeah. Uh, maybe give us some insight into how the ancient voices came through in writing and crafting your
(:Book. Yeah. Well, fortunately, uh, for me, I am, uh, well we just came into the Hebrew New Year, 5,738 year old tradition. Mm-hmm.
No. The leaves are, you know, the dead leaves are turning into compost. That in the ne that's happening quite actively in the dead of winter. But it's all existing at the same time. When we're focused on our cognitively, in our intellect, in our heads, how, you know, how we've lived for the last few thousand years. We never, we never get to access that. So we have the great fortune that those cultures that are still have remnants and connected to the ancient still have access to those technologies and, and wisdom that was never written down. It was passed down from generation to generation. So it didn't get lost. Mm-hmm.
Right. It's a part of you. Yes.
(:You know, and having lived through three wars, social unrest and displacement in, you know, in Israel for 20 plus years, you know, it's like the best thing that I could have gone through for it prepared me really well for these times. There
(:You go. You know, And, and I don't think everybody would take that, uh, maybe optimistic view of it, but I see where you're going in terms of how it prepared you.
(:Cause everybody, well, everybody lives through war. It doesn't have to be pro, it doesn't have to be literal bombs, but, uh, it's what happens when you're trying to figure out what to do next and it ain't working and you're still doing all the quote unquote right. Things like it's on social media, but people aren't calling and the sales aren't coming in and you're terrified. Oh my God. But what about the mortgage or what about the rent? Right? Yes. Or you're, uh, after being in lockdown and you've been in a relationship for, and the kids have left and you know, and the parents are in assisted living and you're suddenly meeting your partner after 20 something years going, what? Mm-hmm.
Like you don't wanna reveal this.
(:Mm-hmm.
A little sheet comes out.
(:Yeah, yeah. You know, with the little headlines. And the guy would go, Oh my God, you wouldn't believe what happened. And one day I got up enough courage, I said, I actually do. I said, I actually threw my television. I may be working here, but I threw my television set away because it's always bad news. He goes, What are you from the moon
(:He goes, Let's look. I go, Okay. And it was exactly that, you know, he goes, It's war rape, pillage. Good news is a ceasefire. It's the same story. That's what commercial media is based on to scare the holy but Jesus out of you. And then there are advertisements to sell you solutions to your pain. Mm-hmm.
Yes. Well, and I think that's, I think with that background in my own life and all our lives as when I came to this, well, when I, when I came to this book then, and said, Well, Miriam's, well, which we always knew was both, you know, a place and a gathering place. But, you know, considering that as the source of stories and where we're gonna meet and tell the stories of the day. But I, I just found the, the metaphor or the analogy of Miriam's, well, to a media outlet,
Yeah. That's very interesting. Yeah. I hadn't thought of that actually, because Yeah. In ancient times, the well was the gathering place. And that's where news, and that's where Yeah, that's where, But isn't that interesting cuz it was word of mouth. Mm-hmm.
You, That's how I see. I take a really wide, wide view, you know? So let's go back to the, Well, you know, there's also your wisdom, your answers are inside. They're not outside and they're not in the 32nd sound bite. And, and, um, it's not three steps too. It's like, how difficult is it for you to be who you already are? The difficult part is daring to stop the drug of scrolling or the drug of what, whatever the autopilot is. Mm-hmm.
But you're, you're bringing up an interesting, again, that a different view that I get now that I'm talking to you live than just reading the book. But yeah, the fact that, uh, we do have insight, not external or outside influence, but even the way then, uh, it, it reveals to me a different, uh, I guess explanation to the craftsmanship of your book. You end the chapter with some questions for reflection. You don't end the chapter with here's three steps, or here's a plan, or here's a plan of action. No, I Or advice that you wanna take. You say, Okay, now that you've read this, contemplate on this for a moment to help reveal that insight rather than your external advice.
(:Absolutely. Because you have your answers. I don't have your answers. I don't know, You know, I have enough questioning myself,
Yes. Yes.
(:We're not in control. Well,
(:And
(:At the same time, and at the same time, we are, it's the, you know, it's the, And I love that about the, the ancient coming back. Because if you think about what I love about this story of Hebrews in the desert mm-hmm.
The desert. Yes. What if we had 40 more? Right.
(:Right. Yes. You know, and like the first book, it's like you say about the crafting, like, how do I write a book about something that's not cerebral? The world doesn't need another book. And I'm in service to some, to, to, the message is your answers are inside that outside. Right. Right. So, you know, read the book of yourself, you know, listen to
(:Yourself, read that story. Well, in in particular, you have a chapter on confidence. And I use that word confidence in every episode of this podcast. So I couldn't help but be gravitated towards it. Oh, sure. And you talk about breaking through, uh, out of slavery, but the, just breaking through from any resistance, there's a lot of resistance and desire to break out of something in all our lives. Yeah. And you kind of say, Hey, we need to get past they, if there's a will to the way and, you know, other sort of mantras. But what is, in terms of finding our voice and breaking through whatever creative pursuit or personal pursuit or family pursuit that might be.
(:Yeah, that's a great question. Well, this is what got forgotten that is so important to remember and reconnect with today. Our voice, literally and figuratively, our voice is, we knew the power of voice literally and figuratively in ancient times, and then we disconnected from it. But your voice, your human voice, your, is your, it's the instrument that bridges your inner clarity, your inner world with your outer expression. And when you are disconnected from your inner clarity, you know, from your, I'll call it, you know, let's call it your inner voice, meaning it's that a nudge, my second Ted talk, if you, there's a really good exploration there that the second Ted talk is trust your silent voice. And there's the research and there's really cool stuff. There, there, there dare speak my own voice in creativity for years, just like the book, How am I gonna write this?
(:I always thought, well, what if, you know, there's this story of the parting of the seas. It's like, how could the, Here here's a drum. Mm-hmm.
So I was thinking, how come, how could that be water's part? And theres, there'd be no sound. It's like, skin wet, go wait a minute. But they knew how to wield power. What if through their voices, you know, through the connection to the vibration that the waters parted. I'm like, Oh, yeah. Oh God, that makes so much sense. But I didn't dare say that to anyone, you know, it's like, I'll, you know, hang me on the cross or, you know, send me
So
(:Good. All right. So how do you prove something that's 5,000 years old in a modern world where everything has to have the good housekeeping seal?
(:Yes. I was gonna ask you marketing about that. Scientific proof.
(:Yeah. You know, and, and, and so, uh, well, for the Ted, I, I'd like look for who's doing research, you know, of voice vibration, water molecules,
It's astounding. So I dared, you know, that for me was such a, that is after, at 20 years of knowing this intuitively mm-hmm.
I mean, how am I even get in there? And but it was so clear to me that if I reacted to what the news was portraying, which I knew from CBS that I was contributing to the problem. Mm-hmm.
I just, I called and I, I went and the, and the, uh, the nurse said, Oh yeah, come. But then I got there and the doctor goes, You can't come in here with, I'm like,
Anything I could find that had to do with vibration, it was, you know, science and archeology and medicine, anything that had to do. And I, I compiled 16, uh, studies and I went in and go, Well, of course, you know, this one
And when you began to sing, he began to move. And this proved three things to us. One, that he was hearing, two, that part of his brain was working, and three, that he enjoyed the music. And in addition, we as the medical staff, it helped us in our own work, we could focus better. And we were calmer. So Elena, you know, I asked for your patients, cuz I, you know, we believe that if this could become, uh, a regular procedure, you know, regular in the nicu, then this could begin a whole new era for all the babies, no matter what their origin. And we translated that letter from Hebrew into English. Um, we ended up, uh, getting a fully funded research for three years, paid my, paid my salary, and I'm not a doctor. I'm the instigator of this. And I knew one day they put letters after my name in the research. I go, What are those letters,
(:They never took them off. And at the beginning I was terrified. Oh God. One day in the future I'm gonna get punished because, you know, that same thing, because I dared speak by truth when there was no precedence to it. But today, that is why I'm here. Mm-hmm.
I wanted to circle back, because you're also talking about the look, all of us creatives, every listener to this podcast says, I have this inner critic and I'm going against the grain on something to create something new. But you're talking about what if the water parted because of the sound vibrations from the singing and the dancing and the drumming. Well, you're, you're going against science and medicine, but you're also going against biblical tradition. You're going against ancient stories. You're going against the Hollywood movie. We have all seen it. We know how Moses is part of the water. He would just raise his hands. So, you know, there's too much that we could say, Oh yeah, I, who am I
(:I know. And living in and living in Israel, it's like me mm-hmm.
Well, and you remind us in the book that Miriam is from three religious traditions. Yeah. Uh, so, you know, you've got a lot of, uh, confluence of potential translation there.
(:Because that's how the waters part. And I just see over the 30 years time and time again, no matter if it's the Authentic Voice course or it's emerged triumphant, you know, that, that people learning these tools, you know, when they learn to connect to the, to the inner clarity and bridge that, you know, with the voice that's behind the sound, the sound is actually the after effect. But it brings us back to that. Well, it's like the, we learn any kind of presentation course teaches you about how to speak and how to look at the camera. And, you know, I'm from broadcasting, I blacked out in my first TED Talk, the first one I know how to present. Yes. It didn't have to do with presentation, it's where it's coming from. But it ended up best thing, Imagine your terror of, you know, the blocks that come up when you go to creatively express yourself.
(:Well, imagine that that block could actually be your greatest mojo. Your it is, I mean, I'm live pinnacle of my career. You know, it's like live Ted Ted Talks are live mm-hmm.
Your, here you're rr
(:Career
Yep. That's so beautiful.
(:Love it so much. Where, where can we find you, connect with you, learn more about your work? And I I also understand you have some workshops and you're planning some new ones for next year.
(:Yeah. So, uh, you, the repository is@voicesofeden.com. That's the main website. And on there you'll find a, and the book is at, uh, forward slash book. Great. And there is a nice, uh, little gift video too that was recorded at one of the ancient healing sites of Galilee on the shores of the Mediterranean. And, uh, there's a free workshop there that you can avail yourself of. And, uh, uh, next step if you're, you know, if you're really ready to find your true voice, you know, there are, there are, uh, are jumpstart resources there to help you to get out of your mind and into your heart and connect your voice from your heart out.
(:Wonderful. Well, I can't wait to visit the website. Take advantage of all those resources and listeners. Again, it's Eliana Gallad. She's the author of Thrive Through Uncertainty, Emerge Triumphant, a wonderful book, uh, that's, uh, based on a lot of Miriam's teachings, both, uh, you know, sort of biblical and as you've suggested, Eliana, sort of the, the all encompassing, you know, view of Miriam as a feminine voice with ancient wisdom. Well, thanks for sharing.
(:Thank you.
(:And listeners, come back again next time. We're gonna continue around the world journeys to talk to creative practitioners everywhere about how they get inspired with new ideas, but also as we've learned today, uh, how to overcome obstacles and launch our work out into the world and, uh, free our voice and use our voice, uh, to pursue the creativity that is inside of us. So until next time, I'm Mark Stinson and we're unlocking your world of creativity. And stay tuned for Eliana's demonstration of the, uh, heart voice activation.
(:Well, yeah. And the activation, it's going to be focused upon unlocking your creativity. That's gonna be the focus.
(:So fantastic. Well stay tuned for that and we'll see you next time. Bye for.