What exactly is Healing Sound?
We are constantly surrounded by sounds in our modern world and they all have an effect on our minds and bodies. Some of these sounds grate on us and make us irritable. Other sounds, like our favorite songs, energize or relax us. How does sound do that?
Sound, used consciously, is a huge tool to help you strengthen and maintain your health – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual.
Sound is defined as vibrational energy. Sound healing or sound therapy describes a wide variety of technologies and techniques to use sound vibration to make an immediate change in the body, stimulating a natural healing response at the physical, mental, emotional and/or spiritual levels.
How does this benefit You?
Enormously!! And holistically!
Here are just a few:
- reduce stress effectively and naturally
- enhance your immune system, digestion, circulation and so much more
- improve focus and concentration
- sleep better
- enhance creativity
- and so much more.
Ancient cultures all over our planet have used sound and music for healing. It was humanity’s first healer.
It’s interesting how science is now documenting what we have always known through intuition and millennia of experience.
A Few Nuggets from the Research
From his fifty years of research, Dr. Alfred Tomatis, French surgeon, ear, nose and throat specialist, psychologist and inventor, tells us that the ear is a portal into the brain and functions by charging the brain with the electrical impulses of sound. The results of his research are used in more than 250 Tomatis centres in Europe and North America helping thousands of people with learning disabilities, autism, depression, chronic fatigue, immune system disorders, improving creativity and more.
There would be no life without rhythm. The planets, the weather, waves, our body cycles all move rhythmically. If something is out of rhythm, it is not working right. For example, electric shock is used to bring an irregular heartbeat back into rhythm. The conscious use of rhythm can alter major body cycles: your heartbeat, breathing and brain waves. If you alter just one of these you affect the others. This is called entrainment. A stronger external rhythm will cause one of these body rhythms to match it. That’s why so many people find sitting at the seashore relaxing.
Normal breathing moves at about 12 breaths per minute. When waves come in at about 8 per minute, your breathing slows down to match it. Slowing down your breathing also slows down your heartbeat and brain waves.
Music that is created for relaxation uses this knowledge to change your body pulses. Research has shown that one of the effects of slowing down these body pulses is that your immune system improves.
The latest research from a relatively new field called psychoneuroimmunology, the study of the mind/body relationship, has found that music or sound along with guided imagery is the most beneficial way to affect the immune system to combat disease.
Dr. Mitchell Gaynor, oncologist, and founder of Gaynor Integrative Oncology, prescribes singing crystal bowls and visualizations to accompany his patients’ chemotherapy or radiation treatments with great success.
In his book, “The Biology of Belief,” Dr. Bruce Lipton, cell biologist, describes how he has found specific protein molecules in the cell membrane that are direct receptors for our thoughts, sending this energy right into the cell. This explains how our thoughts directly affect us at the cellular level.
Quantum mechanics is redefining the very nature of our physical universe and challenging belief systems that have been in place for hundreds of years. Quantum physics tells us that everything is in vibration. And each kind of atom, molecule, body organ, and person vibrates at a specific frequency. An atom is 99.9% empty space, so the very core of matter is mostly empty space and the remaining .1% is vibration.
Both the empty space and the vibration are affected by consciousness (or is consciousness) and sound is a carrier wave for consciousness and conscious intent.
This is where things get really interesting. When sound and conscious intent are applied at the atomic level, miracles happen.
In energy medicine many modalities work at the quantum or atomic level of matter. Sound is such an interesting modality because it not only works at the physical level by pushing and rearranging atoms and molecules around, it also works at the quantum level.
It is well known that a great deal of illness has at its core, emotional and spiritual problems. Every emotion has a sound. This has been measured by Manfred Clynes. They are called Sentic Forms. By matching the sound of an emotion, especially with the voice, an emotional energy that can been causing dis-ease can be loosened up and dissolved quickly and easily.
I have personally seen people create miracles for themselves with this technique. More information about the psychology and science of how this happens can be found in Tom Kenyon’s book, “Brain States.”
Maybe we are coming around full circle to begin to understand the reverence ancient people of the world had for the healing power of sound.
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