We have had unusually beautiful fall weather in Calgary for the past couple of weeks. Warm enough to drive with the windows open! In November! For Calgary, that’s outstanding!
Yesterday, returning home from some errands, a sports car pulled up beside me at a red light with windows down and the bass vibrations of loud rap music rattling everything around it. I could even feel my teeth vibrating against each other!
It’s moments like this where you realize the powerful effect of sound as it goes through you. It can be as aggravating as it can be healing.
The human body responds so naturally to sound because we are intimately wired to respond to sound. Your body listens with a change in heartbeat, breathing or brainwave state. Your body also listens by being relaxed or tense. Or the sound or music will create a sensation in a part of your body, like a knot in your stomach, a headache or a healing response.
The right choice of sound or music can effortlessly
- create relaxation
- boost your immune system
- dissolve emotional blocks
- stimulate the natural healing ability of your body
- give you peace
. . . and so much more.
These are amazing results. However one of the most profound response I have seen so many times in either myself, Ed or many clients is how powerfully sound can reduce or eliminate pain.
I have been playing the classical guitar for about four decades. To make it comfortable to reach the fingerboard, most classical guitarists use a footstool.
After about twenty years of playing with one leg higher than the other, I was starting to experience some pain and wear and tear in my hip joint from the unbalanced way of sitting. So I ordered a device that keeps my guitar in the right position, both my feet flat on the floor and my back straight.
But some damage had already been done. Every once in a while, if I don’t keep up with my self-care, that hip joint can get pretty sore.
When that happens, I reach for my large, old Tibetan singing bowl and have Ed give me a sonic massage with the bowl.
As the bowl is moved along my spine, the strong vibrations loosen up the tight muscles, allowing my spine to re-align, stimulates the natural healing response and completely eliminates any pain. This lasts for months.
The voice can also be just as powerful for pain relief as the Tibetan singing bowl.
Here is Sharon’s (another Sharon) story:
When I did one of their advanced courses in the summer I had not been feeling well on and off for a couple of weeks prior to the course. On the last day of the course I woke feeling really ill and did not know how I was going to make the 90-minute drive home much less the whole day of class. I really did not want to miss the class so I went in hopes that Sharon could work some magic and make me feel better. It took 2 or 3 sessions during the morning with Sharon and the rest of the class helping at times but I went from wanting to roll up in a ball on the floor in pain to feeling well again. Sound healing works!
What worked for Sharon’s intense pain, was a combination of the voice and a singing crystal bowl.
There are so many other ways that sound can be used to manage or eliminate pain, effectively and naturally. Especially the kind of pain that is caused by symptoms related to stress.
Sound and music are our most ancient healers. And unlike aspirin, it’s a drug-free, non invasive method to manage your discomfort, and it’s the perfect complement to traditional treatments!
Join us, Sharon and Ed Carne of Sound Wellness, on Wednesday evening, Nov. 30, where we’ll look at some of the root causes for chronic pain – causes that most of us are totally unaware of. And we’ll explore some Sound Solutions to manage your pain and discomfort.
