It’s common for people to believe that because they cannot see something, it isn’t real. However, we are beings that have five senses curated to provide us with information about our immediate and surrounding environment. Information is being transmitted via frequencies. Our own bodies even have a personal energetic frequency to them.
Sound healing therapy comes into play because it utilizes the sound frequency of our environment to tune our individual frequency to a more balanced and harmonious state of being.
If you’re curious to learn more about sound healing therapy, what it is, and how it can help you, continue reading.
What Is Sound Healing Therapy?
Sound healing therapy is an ancient technique. It’s from different cultures and traditions that utilizes tonal frequencies to bring the body to a state of harmony. It is sometimes referred to as sound meditation or sound bathing.
Different instruments, such as crystal singing bowls or musical instruments, can aid the person being healed to a higher vibrational energetic state of being. The idea is to bring the body back into a vibrational state of balance, harmony, and oneness.
The frequencies from the sounds used in sound healing slow down the brain into alpha brain waves. The brain generates beta waves when aroused and engaged in mental activities.
Sound healing therapy is linked to slowing brainwaves down into alpha waves. Alpha waves occur during a time for optimized learning and performance. Relaxation techniques and meditation can induce alpha brainwaves.
Alpha brainwaves increase the release of many vital neurotransmitters and hormones. These include melatonin, norepinephrine, and dopamine. They play a role in regulating your circadian rhythm and modulating behavior and aggression responses. They have a role in regulating mood and concentration abilities.
How Does It Work?
How exactly does sound healing therapy work? What do you do in a sound healing therapy session?
When you get a south bath, it’ll usually involve you lying down on the floor on a yoga mat or blanket. You might sit cross-legged in a meditation lotus position.
Next, you’ll listen as the practitioner takes you on a relaxing altered state of consciousness journey. You’ll enter a deep, restorative state where you will reduce stress and gain a clear perspective. Some people even become so relaxed that they fall asleep during a healing sound therapy session.
The idea is that both you and the healer have good intentions going into the session. It doesn’t quite matter how ceremonious the routine ends up being, as long as both of your intentions are aligned with your highest good.
Types of Instruments Used
There are many instruments that can be used during a healing sound session. Tuning forks, gongs, bells, drums, singing bowls are the most common instruments.
The type of instrument used may also depend on what type of healer you are working with. A shaman may prefer drums, while an energy worker in the United States may prefer singing bowls. Crystal singing bowls work with your chakras to tune each of them into alignment.
Other instruments, such as the gong, work to stimulate the meridians of the body. These are like the chakras but act as points in the body where energy flows. The gong also activates the nervous and glandular systems.
There can be blockages within the meridians of the body or in the seven chakras that result in increased stress, tension, and emotional instability.
Healing your body with sound therapy acts to remove these blockages, allowing your chi to free flow throughout your energetic chakra system and meridian body.
Ancient Background of Sound Healing
Sound connects us with the present moment, allowing us to dive deeper into our presence and inner peace. Many cultures throughout history have some form of sound healing, whether it is through shamanic drums or vocal chanting. It’s believed that this technology utilized from the natural earth connects people to their spirituality and healing potentials.
The significance of sound is profound. The sound om, or aum, a Hindu mantra, has a vibrational frequency of four hundred and thirty-two hertz. This is thought to be the same frequency as nature or even the universe.
Beyond the Hindu religion, the didgeridoo was used by indigenous Australian people more than one thousand five hundred years ago, and most likely longer than that. The instrument was used in ceremonies for healing, communication, aiding mobility, and releasing energetic blockages.
North American indigenous cultures use musical exchange within their rituals for creative enhancement and healing purposes. People of ancient Egypt developed something called toning, which involved manipulating the sound of their speech through control of breath and voice to express healing sound vibrations.
Ancient Greece created music therapy, which involved becoming educated on music to enhance mental ability and dysfunctions.
These are only some of the instances where sound therapy can be found in the ancient world. It is certain that across the board, humans need sound to elevate their lives in a variety of ways.
Benefits of Sound Healing
The first prominent benefit of sound healing, among anything else, is that it is relaxing. Even if you got nothing else from a sound healing session, you would have to be trying hard not to be relaxed during one.
Sound healing is perfect for our busy, ever-grinding society. It acts as a detox from the external stimulation from your screen, the media, work, and more.
The next benefit is that it clears energetic blockages. Even if you’re unfamiliar with the chakra system, the sound vibrations that occur during a session work with your body to clear blockages. Energy that has been pent up and stuck in certain areas of your body will have the freedom to move about, which can result in creative expression, decreased anxiety, and decreased depression.
Certain physical sensations may occur because of what is happening to your body’s energy. In meditation, you may feel tingling sensations or sudden bursts of colder or warmer air. This can happen while in sound therapy. Embrace the feelings and let them bring you back to your present awareness.
Benefits Continued
A surprising benefit of sound therapy is that it has the ability to improve your health. Yes, it can decrease illness in your body. Due to the activation of alpha brainwaves, sound therapy reduces stress and improves your quality of sleep.
It can reduce pain from inflammation, reduce blood pressure, and lower cholesterol. These things reduce your ability to suffer from heart disease. All these results correlate to improving your quality of life and health.
Sound healing helps to improve your mental well-being, along with your emotional and spiritual well-being. Stress, depression, and anxiety being reduced results in lessened symptoms from mental illnesses.
Because sound healing lets you be present and reduce your stress, you are able to reduce your likelihood of emotionally reacting to situations. It helps to reset you, giving you a newfound sense of self and purpose.
Expectations
Everyone will react differently to a sound healing session, because it is going to influence and restore your individual frequency. For some, sound healing therapy can have intense results. It may provide you with an out-of-body experience or a moment of eureka.
For others, the results are more subtle, leaving them feeling more grounded, centered, and whole after a session. Some have emotional breakthroughs, and others may find themselves in a trance-like state.
It can be helpful going into your first sound healing session, not having any expectations that any of this will happen. If you do not have expectations, you can enjoy the experience for what it is and let things play out how they are supposed to.
If going to a practitioner makes you nervous, you can even perform sound therapy on yourself. While some people enjoy attending group sound therapy sessions with strangers or their friends, other people may be shyer and appreciate an individual healing session better.
But, you can buy your own singing bowl, gong, or drums to provide the healing benefits of sound therapy without the fuss of attending a session. That’s the beauty of sound therapy as an art and treatment. It’s accessible.
Try Sound Therapy
While sound healing therapy may not be everybody’s thing, it is worth trying it out to see how it affects you. If you leave the session feeling more relaxed, or better yet, with a profound breakthrough, you’ll have your answers.
Sound healing will be coming to SIWC in the new year in a way that no other business has in the area. Keep checking the website for up-to-date information about online booking and pricing for sound healing.
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