Use Sound to Heal Your Body

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The sounds we hear have a powerful effect on how we feel and can set the mood. The soundtrack in aerobics class keeps us moving and energized. While during yoga class the sound can be more peaceful and promote concentration. Our bodies and minds react differently to these sounds and rhythms. Some sounds make us fell better than others.

Some research has suggested that when used in a directed way, sound can help reduce stress, create a sense of well-being and promote healing. Sound therapy is gaining popularity as both a preventive medicine and as a complement to more traditional treatments. It has shown to help lift depression, clear sinuses and help cancer patients recover more quickly from chemotherapy.

The belief that sound affects your health and mind goes way back to ancient traditions. Chanting and mantra recitation has been a part of the Hindu spirituality and the healing power of yoga for thousands of years. This ancient tradition is just experiencing a modern day revival.

Sound therapy uses the human voice and objects that resonate to stimulate healing. Objects can include tuning forks and singing bowls. Sound therapy is one of a growing number of subtle-energy therapies that make up the field of vibrational medicine. Everything vibrates as per the law of physics. Everything has a vibration, a sound of its own. That sound it called its resonance-the frequency at which an object naturally vibrates. Each part of our bodies has its own natural resonance. Vibrational medicine is based on the idea that disease is a result of those natural resonances getting out of tune. This can be due to illness, stress or environmental factors. Sound therapy is used to get the body’s vibrations to their natural states.

Sound therapists have successfully treated a variety of ailments from stress to Parkinson’s disease. They report relief from pain and discomfort, clearing of sinuses, shifting out of depression, improved ability to sleep, increased feeling of well-being, revitalization and clarity and deep personal transformations. Healers sometimes called sounders, indicate sound can have physiological effects because its vibrations are not merely heard but are also felt. They say vibrations can lower heart rate variability, relax brain wave patters and reduce respiratory rates.

Many feel that sound therapy is the future way of healing and soon it may be as mainstream as yoga and meditation. You may even practice a little of this therapy on your own, like when you are stressed out and turn on music to ease tension and stress.

Some common techniques include the use of classical music, humming, singing bowls, tuning forks and yogic chanting. Classical music has shown to increase the rate of development of synaptic connections in young children’s minds. It helps increase creativity and joy in adults. It can help physical ailments like high blood pressure and muscle tension.

Humming can lift you spirits while clearing your head. Humming may also keep your sinuses clear and healthy. A signing bowl sings when you run a felt tipped mallet around its edge. Rhythms are produced and vibrations and tones slow down breathing, brain waves and heart rates, producing a calming sense of well-being. Tuning forks give off vibrations that increase the amount of energy in parts of the body that need to be healed or energized. These good vibes support relaxation, balance of the nervous system and increase physical energy.

Chanting can stabilize the heart rate, lower blood pressure, improve circulation, produce endorphins and aid in process of metabolism. It can help the mind focus which alleviates stress levels. Repeating the syllable “om” is said to foster a deep mental clarity and promote a sense of connectedness with a higher power.

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