SOUND HEALING

Sound healing uses toning, chanting, or vibrations from the voice or instruments to stimulate the body's own ability to heal itself. Sound healing and music are known to boost the immune system, regulate respiration, lower blood pressure, alleviate pain, reduce stress, and promote endurance.

Sound can change skin temperature, reduce muscle tension, and influence brain wave frequencies. You don't have to be consciously aware of a sound for it to have an effect on you, because sound creates a response in the entire body.

Sound tools entrain the brain to move into the deeper Alpha and Theta brain wave frequencies that induce deep meditative and peaceful states, clarity of mind and intuition. Modern medicine can now measure and thus confirm the practice of sound as a means to heal. Vibrational Sound from Tibetan Singing Bowls has such proven results. Mitchel Gaynor, MD is the clinical professor at Weill- Cornell Medical College and founder of Gaynor Integrative Oncology in New York City. The August 2003 issue of Spirituality and Health magazine reports the success he has had treating victims of life threatening disease and those undergoing chemotherapy and side effects through sound therapy including Tibetan bowls, crystal bowls and chanting.

Dr. Mitchell Gaynor states "If we accept that sound is vibration and we know that vibration touches every part of our physical being, then we understand that sound is heard not only through our ears but through every cell in our bodies. One reason sound heals on a physical level is because it so deeply touches and transforms us on the emotional and spiritual planes. Sound can redress imbalances on every level of physiologic functioning and can play a positive role in the treatment of virtually any medical disorder."

According to Dr. Gaynor: "The use of sound is among the most powerful healing modalities ever embraced by twentieth century practitioners." It has been called "the medicine of the 21st century".

Music, particularly classical, has also been found to have widespread beneficial effects on health, such as improving concentration, calming babies in the womb, lowering the breathing rate, promoting positive emotional experiences, and reducing anxiety and pain.

Scientific studies show that sound waves can produce changes in the autonomic, immune, endocrine and neuropeptide systems of the physical body. In fact, our bodies are capable of absorbing sound that is outside our normal range of hearing. This means that all the sound wave frequencies that are in our environment, especially the ones we can't hear like microwaves, cell phones, etc. are having an impact on our health and on our frequencies, and our resonate state of being.

The human ear is only capable of hearing sounds between 16 and 16,000 cycles per second, which is a very narrow range. Dolphins and whales are capable of hearing sounds that are in the 250,000 cycles per second range.

Everything that is in a state of vibration has a natural rate at which it vibrates, an optimum range if you will, and that rate is called resonance. When we are in resonance, we are in balance. One of the ways we can use sound to heal the body is to recognize that every organ, every cell, every bone and gland of the body absorbs and emits sound and has a resonate frequency.

When parts of the body become diseased, they are no longer vibrating at their resonant frequency. These diseased parts of the body are no longer producing the correct sound waves. Instead of zapping the organ with a chemical drug, or removing it from the body, we are able correct the rate of vibration with sound waves and bring the body back to a healthy state of resonance, much the same way kidney stones are being removed with ultra-sound waves.

There are many ways that a therapist can use sound to effect change within the vibratory pattern of the physical body, through the use of voice, music, drum, quartz crystal bowls or tuning forks. Sound Therapy is not about getting you to sing, it's about using sound waves to create resonance in your vibrational field.

Often called the aura, this energy field is holding the sum total of all of your thoughts and emotions including the vibratory rates of the all your organs and bodily systems. Modern science has proven that we are all electromagnetic beings and we are fields of energy. Some gifted persons are actually able to see these fields. When a physic is giving you a reading, he/she is reading your energy field.

As a society we have been trained not to express our emotions, particularly the ones that would be labelled as negative. Therefore, most of us have much unexpressed emotional energy in our fields, which means that our sounds are being held in. This creates a build-up of energy that if not cleared, sooner or later will manifest in the physical body as disease. As I once heard it said, “Buried feelings don't die, they take on a life of their own” Also, because this unexpressed energy is magnetic in nature, it draws into your life experience, circumstances that match this energy.

An energy field that vibrates at a high level of frequency will draw positive healthy, happy experiences, while energy that is low in vibration will draw in experiences that we consider negative or unhealthy. That's right, it is nothing to do with your luck, it has to do with the state of vibration of your body and your thoughts. This is a universal law called The Law of Attraction , which states: “That which is likened to itself will be drawn unto itself.” We need to begin think of ourselves as more than physical beings, we are electromagnetic beings, with energy fields that are interacting with our environment in a way that is beyond the perception of our first five senses.

When coupled with exercises in positive emotion with focused intent, Sound Therapy is the quickest and most effective way that I have seen to effect positive change in your state of vibration. Sound Therapy empowers you to move forward in your life and create lasting change by raising the vibratory rate of your energy fields.

Sound therapy is very versatile, so voice can also be combined with instruments, sound can be used in conjunction with bodywork, and patients can be encouraged to express their pain through sound. Tuning forks and dissonant musical intervals can also be used.

Vibrational Sound Healing Therapy is becoming internationally recognized as an effective tool for the treatment of stress related conditions. Sound therapy has been used by health professionals in private practice, hospitals, schools, nurseries, birthing centers, hospices, and psychotherapeutic settings. The type of sound and technique varies by training and the practitioner's professional background.

Sonic Balancing International provides sound healing in an ultra relaxed environment. We offer a variety of therapies combining the latest sound research technology, such as Rife, Scenar, and the Lambdoma Harmonic Keyboard, with the ancient art of singing bowls, tuning forks, and gong meditation. A truly transformational experience.