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the question you need to ask is: "how does an idea begin"? 

that's the meditation point. from there you find the inspiration to do everything else. 
 while you are busy starving yourself, meditate on the water cycle and the breath. inhale (ah) exhale (ha) - 
 think about it like this as a metaphor for "conception" of "concept" (the idea): until the body processes carbon dioxide, the breath is like a snake through the body. because there is the essence of production for that which needs carbon dioxide in the exhale, the breathe is the birth of the idea into the world. this is the word. see how that works? .... 
 sound accompanies manifestation, because it harmonizes (not mimics) the natural resonant frequency of the organic earth and everything on it. harmony is unique. not same. 
 none of that matters other than the need to explain it logically. mediate on the question above. the more you think about the like the water cycle, the more you will get it.