The Sounds of Healing
By Sulana
Stone
It has the power to burst a crystal
wine goblet … or disintegrate a cancer cell. It can stimulate sadness …
or joy. It can improve learning, memory and creativity. It reduces
stress and pain.
Sound! It’s a powerful force of nature.
And around the world researchers are demonstrating that sound can also
be used to restore health.
Sound Medicine 101
How does sound helps us heal? By a
process called sympathetic resonance. One vibration affects another
vibration. Like how the energy of one joyous person—or one angry
person—affects a room full of people. Or how your favorite music lifts
your spirit—when you feel blue. In sound medicine, specific healing
sound vibrations are used purposely to create more harmonious vibrations
in our cells and organs.
When we’re healthy, our cells are
vibrating at their natural “healthy” frequency. And when we’re ill, our
cells are not vibrating at their natural frequency—rather they’re
vibrating at what you might call a “disharmonious” or ”ill” frequency.
To activate the healing process, we use “healthy” sound vibration to
remind the “ill” cells of their natural “healthy” vibration. Then the
“ill” cells begin to vibrate at that “healthy” vibration. And the cells
begin to heal.
Good Vibrations Give Me Excitations
Elvis got us All Shook Up. The Beach
Boys showered us in Good Vibrations. Now researchers are discovering
that sound shakes us up, makes us feel good and transforms us at our
core.
Sound can trigger pleasurable memories,
release stuck emotions, and induce deep relaxation. Sound can also
harmonize the body’s energy system, assist people to communicate better,
and create spontaneous physical and spiritual healing.
Scientists provide ample evidence that
Sound Medicine can be used to enhance our well-being:
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A
Kaiser Permanente study finds that pain medication can be reduced by up
to 30 percent by playing music to patients.
·
University Hospital of Cleveland reports that a single 30-minute
music therapy session significantly boosts the effectiveness of
people’s immune system.
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Yale
University researchers find that music has a way of communicating with
autistic patients who otherwise can’t be reached and helped.
·
The Cornell
Cancer Prevention Center in NY has cancer patients play crystal and
Tibetan Singing Bowls, and finds that people recover 50% faster after
chemotherapy treatments when the bowls are played.
·
The Albert
Einstein College of Medicine has discovered that sound helps people
affected by disorders originating from the brain. Sound therapy is
beneficial for stroke
victims, psychiatric patients, and patients with Parkinson
disease and Alzheimer's disease.
Other medical studies show that:
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Pregnant women
can use music to "block" pain.
·
60% of patients
require less anesthesia when music is played during surgical operations.
·
Sound improves
oxygen metabolism in healthy cells and destabilizes and disintegrates
cancer cells.
·
Infants who
listen to Brahms gain weight faster, have fewer complications, and are
released from the hospital an average
of a week
earlier than those babies who did not listen to Brahms.
·
Patients who
receive music therapy while undergoing bone marrow transplants begin
producing white blood cells two days earlier than those who don't have
music therapy.
·
In
coronary care units, patients listening to classical music have fewer
complications like irregular heartbeats and problems with high blood
pressure.
Self-Renewal
If you need an energy boost, why not
check out some fresh sounds? Listen to some new kinds of music.
Experiment with easy-to-play instruments. Tibetan bowls, crystal bowls
and Native American flutes are simple and fun to play. Or use your
voice. Sing. Chant. Tone.
Keep track of what happens. Take note
of any change on how you feel.
Do you have more or less energy? More
or less clarity? Do you feel better? Lighter? More grounded? More
connected?
Find a sound that helps you shift to a
vibration that feels good. Then create your own life symphony!
If you’d like to experience first-hand the profound deep healing effects
of sacred harmonic sounds, join us for an evening of fun, relaxation and
healing. You’re invited on the 1st Friday evening of any
Dream Workshop around the country. And it’s free!
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