Healing with Sound

Healing with sound uses sound frequencies to restore harmony and balance. Sound is vibration, and that vibration moves throughout our body and energy field.

At times you can consciously feel this. For example, when the bass is turned up you can hear the speakers vibrating and feel the vibration going through the floor and through you.

When you circle a crystal goblet with your finger, the tone is loud and piercing. It passes through you. It also passes through space at the speed of sound. More than likely, something else in the vicinity resonates and sounds along with it.

Like other forms of vibrational healing, sound and light healing are based on the principles of harmonic resonance. When you introduce the correct frequency, it reminds the body's energy field of its original blueprint and helps restore harmony to the system.

Research indicates that there appears to be a relationship between the atomic weight of elements and specific frequencies. This means that if a specific frequency is low in an individual, the corresponding element, such as selenium or zinc, is also low. Once the frequency of the mineral has been received by the body, it will resonate with this vibration and absorb the mineral.

To determine which frequencies are needed, a sound healer might use a dowsing instrument like a pendulum, or more sophisticated equipment. They record and listen to the voice to determine which tones are deficient.

Healing with sound has achieved good results when the missing frequencies are played back at a low octave. They are played at cycles corresponding to brain wave frequencies. This stimulates the brain to promote healing.

If you listen carefully while people talk, you'll notice that the quality of their voices changes as their emotional states change. When you listen to others, it sometimes sounds as if their voices are being choked off, or that something is missing. Most of us would probably benefit from having a voice analysis so missing frequencies can be reintroduced into the field.

Tibetan Bowls

Antique Tibetan singing bowls were made from several kinds of metal. This caused them to produce multiple harmonic overtones at the same time. New bowls can produce these complex chords if they are made with high quality bronze.

When using the crystal singing bowl or the Tibetan singing bowl for healing, one sound may be produced to introduce the needed frequency or multiple bowls will be played. A bowl may be held near the person or passed over the body. S/he might also be surrounded by many bowls.

For meditation, you might focus on the tones as they are played throughout. Another way to use the bowls in meditation is to produce the tone and then follow it until you no longer hear any sound at all. This brings you to a place of silence.

The mandala quartz crystal singing bowl energy healing video uses the visual images of different colored mandala along with several singing bowls. This provides healing colors of light and sound therapy together. To just tune into the sounds, listen with eyes closed.

Music and Healing with Sound

Music can instantly transport us mentally to another time and place. It can make us feel melancholy or happy and energized. It induces primal feelings or spiritual states of mind. Our bodies naturally move to the rhythm.

Health is also affected by music whether from toning, chanting or singing. Studies have been done showing that plants moved away from heavy metal music and didn't fare as well as those that drew closer to more soothing music.

Notice how you feel when different types of music are played. If you dislike the music or tones, it will irritate you and won't be useful for healing with sound. If your purpose is to relax, choose music that is slower and calming, but not melancholic. You might enjoy listening to nature sounds like ocean waves or rain. This is relaxing because you can just listen without singing along because there is no beat.

If you need energizing or uplifting, choose music that has a faster beat and makes you feel good. Choose music that inspires you to move your body or engage in an activity. I like to play drumming CDs while I clean the house. The beat gets me going.

To use music for emotional healing, notice which music and songs bring you down. Only instead of going to that dark place and staying there, use the song as a healing opportunity. You don't consciously have to understand the connection.

I've found that if I do a few rounds of EFT tapping each time the song plays, it bothers me less and less. After a few rounds of Tapping with Tunes, I find myself singing happily along to the song that brought tears just a week or so before.

Research shows that Baroque music of the 1700's, such as the music of Vivaldi and Bach can increase our ability to learn. Mozart's music has been linked to improved performance on certain mental tasks such as completing mazes quickly.

Playing a musical instrument or actively engaging with music as it's played activates the whole brain. Studies done with meditators show that people who have more whole brain activity are happier and calmer.

Professional musicians produce music for healing with sound. Eric Berglund and Steven Halpern are two musicians. Chakra Suite focuses on specific frequencies related to the seven chakra centers. Many of these musicians have sample files on their websites.

Spiritual Healing with Sound

Spiritual songs, chants, tones and music have enriched the spiritual experience regardless of religion or culture. They raise our vibration and foster our connection with Source energy.

If you enjoy listening to music, singing or playing an instrument, choose spiritual music or worship and praise songs. As you feel inspired, make up your own words and tunes.

Chant or tone sacred words and sounds that are meaningful to you. Do this on your own or with the help of an audio. The sacred and mystical sound of Indian religions is "Aum" or "Om". The syllable is elongated and toned in prayer and meditation.

There is a theory that in ancient languages like Hawaiin, Greek, Sanskrit and Latin, the sounds being chanted and their tonal vibrations affect the neurology of the listener. The vibration of the word itself has the same frequency as what is being spoken of at the deepest level of the chant.

This chanting expands neurology by making new connections, attuning it to spirit and expanding consciousness. It opens the heart. Perhaps this is why Catholics felt reverent and connected to God during the Latin Mass even though they consciously understood little of it.

Healing with sound is easy and affects us on every level. Since it only requires our voice or a portable audio device, we have the opportunity to benefit from it wherever we are.