Sound Healing – How Does it Help?
Sound healing sounds like a new phenomenon, but it’s been around since Ancient Greek times. The Ancient Greeks used sound healing to help with mental health issues, boost confidence, and productivity. The sounds (whether music alone or with voice) heals the body, improves moods, and promotes an overall feeling of wellness.
Depending on the tones and harmonies, sound healing can send the body into a relaxed state or energize it, promoting creativity and productivity. Sound and music are a part of who we are, even if we don’t realize it.
Think about how you feel when your favorite song comes on or when you participate in a religious ritual of song. Does your body come alive? Do you tingle or just feel ‘different’? This is a sign that your body is reacting to the sounds.
Sound healing uses these benefits to create wonderful reactions in the body and mind. Keep reading to learn how it works.
Understanding Sound Healing
Sound healing uses sound vibrations to heal the body and mind. Sound shifts the body’s frequency from low to high. Low body frequencies create feelings of fear and guilt. High body frequencies emulate happiness and joy.
Healing music or sounds helps eliminate energetic blocks, which put the body in sync. Since the body is made of 75% water and water carries sound vibration, it makes sense that the body would receive sound vibrations so well.
Here is a well-known quote by Dr. Mitchell Gaynor on the benefits of sound waves:
“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” .
Additionally, Dr. Gaynor explains the profound effects of sound healing: “One reason sound heals on a physical level is because it so deeply touches and transforms us on the emotional and spiritual planes”.
Sound healing may use tones, music, vibrations, or frequencies depending on the type of healing you need. The right method considers your overall health, mental wellbeing, spiritual needs, and what you want to feel moving forward.
The Types of Sound Healing
Many instruments offer sound healing, each with a different purpose. The most common are the following.
Tuning Forks
If you have chronic pains or feel emotionally imbalanced, try tuning fork sound healing. Known as the ‘tuner’ for other instruments, tuning forks also tune the human body. When held to the affected body part, the vibrations break energy blocks, which promotes a feeling of ease and joy throughout the body. They can also be used at each of the body’s chakras to create energetic healing.
Singing Bowls
Singing bowls create a deep, relaxing sound. Overall, singing bowls relax the mind, but each size creates a unique sound, and works differently on each body part. When placed on the body, singing bowls put you in a dreamlike state and helps reduce emotional distress, and fatigue. Practitioners use a combination of singing bowls as well as single use, depending on the issues you need addressed.
Binaural Beats
Binaural beats train your brain to follow a binaural beat or new frequency, usually less than 40Hz. Here’s how it works.
You hear a tone with one frequency in one ear and a different frequency in the opposite ear. Your brain only hears the difference between the two frequencies – the lower frequency. This is the binaural beat and is what trains the brainwaves to reduce the effects of stress or anxiety. Binaural beats also help with insomnia, depression, and the inability to focus. It’s a great method for meditation and promoting a feeling of overall wellness.
Gongs
Gong ‘baths’ are a common healing method today. Gongs themselves have been around since 4,000 B.C. Today, practitioners use them in combination with one another to create stronger vibrations putting clients in a meditative state. The combination of sounds promotes the mind-body connection that meditation creates, but at a faster pace.
"Sound healing helps us access the core energetic systems within the body in a non-invasive way. Strong vibrations and rich sounds, such as those from singing bowls and tuning forks, can transform cellular structures rapidly, leading to physical and emotional healing. Studies have shown that sound waves can disrupt cancer cells within minutes, demonstrating how fast and effective sound therapy can be”
Like most sound healing, gong baths help clear emotional energy blocks. They also improve focus and overall clarity.
Solfeggio Frequencies
Solfeggio Frequencies are music at a specific frequency (there are several) that create specific brain waves. Most people use Solfeggio Frequencies to make big changes in their lives, whether there are relationship issues, difficulties with change, or they want to improve their intuition.
Solfeggio Frequencies affect the conscious and subconscious mind and use a mathematical calculation to create six frequencies that heal the body and mind.
Common Frequencies:
- 396 Hz – Eliminates fear
- 417 Hz – Helps promote and accept change
- 528 Hz – Optimal healing
- 639 Hz – Relationship healing
- 741 Hz – Opens up intuition and creativity
- 852 Hz – Spiritual awakening
Vocal Toning
While technically not an instrument, your voice (or that of someone else) is one of the most healing instruments available today. Using one tone to balance your overall body and energetic pathways, vocal toning is very healing.
Sometimes you do it yourself without realizing it. Sighing, for example, is a vocal tone. The healing vibrations of the guttural sounds your body makes shifts your cells and releases energy blocks.
This is why many cultures have chants, the repeated tone of the sounds heals the body from the inside out. Formally, vocal toning has seven tones, each of which works on one of the body’s chakras.
Are you ready to try sound healing and see how your body benefits from it? Try FRQNCY, a meditation, healing music, and binaural beats therapy. We offer the amazing benefits of sound therapy to open up your energetic flow, release tensions, stress, fatigue, depression, anxiety, and fear.
It’s time to live your life to the fullest, but you can’t do that unless your energy flows. We all reach obstacles, especially when life throws us curveballs. Think about what you want from sound healing. What is your largest goal right now? This will help you choose the right method to promote healing, feel amazing, and have a smooth energy flow that promotes overall wellness.
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