“It can only get better from here,” she believes. I’m definitely taking the natural approach to healing nowadays,” Aiko told People.Īiko is focused “on manifesting the good things” in life. So now, if I have a headache, if I have a stomachache, anything like that, I’ll open up my books, and I’ll see which of these bowls is good for this part of my body, and I’ll play those bowls. What I realized in studying is that the actual tones were vibrating throughout my body and actually helping me. When I got the Tibetan bowls, I would use them when I felt frustrated, and it would just take my mind off of it.
When I was younger, I would escape with alcohol or a substance, and obviously those things have terrible side effects. “I was never clinically diagnosed, but I definitely have been through some things. She dedicated the song For My Brother before her brother died. “I think we all have some form of anxiety, depression,” she says. Jhene Aiko is a popular American singer and songwriter. I realized I still have siblings, and we are him, and he’s a part of us.”Īiko incorporated the sound of Tibetan singing bowls, used by Buddhist monks in meditation practice, on each track of Chilombo, something Aiko uses in her personal life when she feels frustrated. I would think of him, and instead of being sad, I would be happy and know he’s not suffering anymore. “I started reading more about death and what it means to live,” she said. “She said he got really calm.”Īiko, the youngest of five siblings, said she dealt with her grief by avoiding her siblings and turning to substances to numb her pain, a habit she had developed as early as 12-years-old.Īiko eventually turned to spirituality and meditation to combat her depression and help her heal. “She played that song, and he took his last breath,” Aiko said. Right before Miyagi died, Aiko’s now-manager played the song she had written for him, titled “For My Brother,” for the first time. “During the LimeWire days, he had all the newest music,” she told People.
Aiko and Miyagi were very close, and she credits him as having a huge influence on her taste in music. Aiko’s older brother, Miyagi, passed away at the age of 26 in 2012 from an inoperable brain tumor.
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