What is Sound Healing?

Healing brings balance to the body, mind and spirit. It is important to understand that there is a difference between healing and curing. Healing brings balance to a person even if it does not cure a disease. The physical body is naturally equipped for healing.

Sound Healing is NOT a replacement for medical treatments. However, it is an excellent complement to medical treatments, and is used to support chemotherapy treatments, to reduce pain following injury or surgery, to assist the immune system, and so on.

Sound is one of the most powerful ways of creating balance. It works holistically at physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels.

At the physical level, music and sound has well-documented effects on the body. Much of this response is based on the rhythm or the beat of the sound. Your heart will match the beat of the music, even if you aren’t consciously listening to it. You just have to be within range of the sound. When you affect the heart, you also affect your rate of breathing and brain waves. When you listen to sounds that induce the relaxation response, (ie. a slower heartbeat, breathing rate and creating more brain waves within the alpha range) your immune system is enhanced. This allows the body to heal itself more efficiently.

At the emotional level, sound can be helpful in releasing emotional blocks that are stuck in the body. Most massage therapists are familiar with this kind of emotional release when working on the muscles. Sound can also do this. One of the most effective ways is to ask your body what the sound of this blocked energy is. Then use your own voice to vocalize the sound of this block to release it.

At the mental level, technology has been developed to create CDs and sounds that can stimulate very specific brain wave responses in the brain. These in turn, affect the body. Also, the mind loves patterns. It can be distracted and calmed by repeated patterns or excited by music that keeps changing the patterns.

At the spiritual level, sound brings balance to the energetic connections between spirit and the mind, body and emotions. Chanting is one way to do this. Another way is to use your voice to affect the frequencies in the energy bodies. Also, there are many tools that create sounds that assist in spiritual growth.