More and more people are beginning to understand and acknowledge that everything is in vibration. Another way of saying this is that everything is in motion.
Imagine taking a journey inside your own body to view the smallest part of yourself – an atom. An atom is like an ultra miniature solar system. The nucleus in the centre is like the sun in the centre of our solar system. Electrons and other tiny bits whirl around the nucleus like the earth and the other planets orbit the sun.
The planets don’t go whirling off into the darkness of space. They are held within the solar system by gravity and their electromagnetic fields, just like a series of giant magnets. In the same way, electrons don’t go spinning off from the nucleus of an atom in your body. They also are held in place by gravity and their electromagnetic fields.
Sound is vibrational energy. It pushes against atoms as it travels.
Imagine standing in the waves on the seashore. Your feet feel secure in the sand and the waves move back and forth around your legs. You can feel the push of the wave as it crashes into your legs and you can feel the pull of the water as it moves back into the sea.
Here is an easy experiment to watch the movement of waves. Fill your kitchen sink half full of water. Let the water become still and then drop one drop of water into the sink from about one foot above.
Watch the waves move out from the drop, hit the side of the sink and then bounce back to move toward the middle of the sink.
Here is another easy experiment. Fill your kitchen sink half full of water and set the faucet to drip one drop of water at a time. Watch the rhythmic patterns of the waves as they move out to the side of the sink and back.
Sound is very similar. It pushes and pulls like the waves of water as it moves. Actually, sound can’t move at all unless it has atoms or molecules to push.
Not everyone knows that sound travels through the human body about four times faster than it travels through the air. Yes, we hear the sound – like a knock on the door – but it is also traveling through our bodies – creating waves as it travels.
Sometimes, if the sound is a really low sound, like the deep bass of a sub-woofer (an amplifier of low sounds) we can feel the sound move through our bodies. The next time you go to a movie, check in with your body. The sound at movies is usually quite loud and so are the low sounds of the music. See if you can feel the vibration in your body as the sound moves through it.
If I am watching a movie with the sound of explosions in it (my family loves “Star Trek” and “Star Wars”) I can feel that sound moving through me. Especially if the volume is set high.
Some sounds traveling through your body are beneficial. Some are not. Do you know the difference?