Watch the video, Next Level Advanced Sound Healing Benefits and you can read the article below with the references.
Next Level Advanced Sound Healing Benefits
Beyond Sound Baths
There are different categories of sound healing and a sound bath with a crystal singing bowl is one. Sound healing is an ancient method that includes specific instruments, vocalizations, chants, meditations, and rhythm patterns that are applied with specific systems and protocols depending on their application and purpose.
Scientific research now backs up ancient methods revealing a plethora of positive boggling benefits to all our systems that literally change us on all levels. More on this below.
What all sound healing sessions have in common is the sound vibrations travel like waves over the person as a frequency and pattern of continuous resonating vibrations. These effects are noticeably relaxing and transportive for the listener but there is so much more going on.
Because sound healing is an ancient field going back over 60,000 with the indigenous people of northern Australia, sound healing therapy is not limited to the sounds of the crystal singing bowls. Other more ancient instruments with healing vibrations are the
- Didgeridoo
- Tibetan bowls
- Particular sound patterns, tones, frequencies, and repetitions
- Harmonic overtones especially vocalized
- Ancient chants
- Specific drum rhythms
As in other healing modalities the benefits are derived by the application of the sound healing practitioner who knows the protocols, nuances, applications, ethics, and how to support the receiver.
What Are The Benefits Of Transformative Sound Healing
Sounds and their rhythms affect us in five different areas which include
- Psychological
- Neurological
- Emotional responses
- Mental responses and
- Biochemical responses
What this means is
- Our physical body responses positively change when we hear specific sound vibrations, tones, music, and rhythm patterns. And exponential positive changes occur when we listen to the specific vibrations and rhythms for at least 10-20 minutes in one setting, and when we repeat this process over time. With continued listening there are exponential benefits. Our immune system is boosted as well allowing us to become more physically resilient.
- Our neurological systems becomes relaxed which is the opposite of staying in ordinary consciousness where we hold stress, trauma, and addictions. Our ‘normal’ state of consciousness is where the neurological patterns are stuck and where they stay held in the trauma response. Accessing the receptive states of specific sound listening allows our neurological system to relax, regenerate, and restore. This teaches our neurological system a new way of responding.
- When we listen to specific sound and music patterns our emotional and mental patterns change from dysregulation to regulation. There is a balance that occurs and there is an elevation of mood which means people feel better and are more positive. There is also a diminishing of depression and anxiety, cyclic and intrusive thoughts, which transform to stabilization. But there are more benefits beyond these because there is an expansive nature to continuous listening that develops inner peace, inner connection and wisdom that also builds with practice.
- Biochemically there is a diminishing of production of the stress hormone, cortisol, and inflammation, which is linked to the underlying cause of disease. That is part one.
- Part two which is equally as potent that occurs simultaneously is there is an increase in the production of beneficial hormones including dopamine, serotonin, and oxytocin which is why there are so many benefits for our neurological system, physiological system, and mental and emotional systems.
- Our feeling awareness notices these changes in the neurological, mental, emotional, and physical systems. At first we may notice a subtle change, however with continued sound listening as a regular practice we become more attuned, and our awareness heightens.
The Fundamental Principle Underlying The Theory Of Sound Healing
The fundamental principle underlying the theory of Sound Healing is that all matter vibrates at a specific frequency through which it can both influence and be influenced by all other matter. Thus, everything on the planet and beyond can be considered interconnected through resonance. Ancient sound healing systems knew these benefits!
When there is a combination of specific rhythms, tones, vibrations, and frequencies they are healing exponentially not only by how we feel but also measured by scientific research!
Is Sound Healing Only For People Who Want To Diminish The Current Trajectory Of Mental And Physical Illness?
Beyond all the sound healing benefits listed above there is more. Sound healing also impact changes in our relationship with the qualities connected to our heart, kindness, consideration, compassion while deepening our inner connection to higher levels of awareness that raise our vibration.
Specific sound healing is medicine that heals the current trajectory of the status quo for heart disease, addiction, cancer, immune compromised illness, diabetes, Parkinsons’s, Alzheimer’s, dementia bi-polar, anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, and other conditions because the research shows these are all caused by the release of cortisol that leads to inflammation. Listening to specific sound and music patterns diminishes cortisol and inflammation and creates the regeneration and anti-aging.
Specific sound healing methods hold our body, mind, and spirit in a state where we access levels of consciousness that is necessary for us to thrive.
Why Is Sound Healing Gaining Popularity And Credibility
There is an increasing understanding that in order for human beings to not only heal and recover from the modern mental and physical illnesses we need different tools and methods, or said in another way, what we are doing isn’t working for us. And there is an understanding that holistic healing that is healing from within is not only preferable, but enjoyable, non-invasive, and restorative. However there is more.
There is a great movement through the world to develop and access a deeper inner connection which is seen through the research of the effectiveness of meditation, the work of using psychedelics for healing PTSD, trauma, depression, anxiety, and insight that is gained from going beyond the current perspectives into a more expansive and relaxed state. The brain wave states that connect us to these restorative and regenerative states are not our ordinary consciousness but the state of alpha or deeper where again, as said before, there are neurochemical, physiological, emotional, and mental positive changes that are occurring simultaneously in our brain waves, heart rate, and respiration.
Simultaneous Regenerative Changes
In fact, when there are simultaneously change in our brain waves, heart rate, and respiration we know the system is working and we are accessing the Relaxation Response the regenerative state, where we are expansive, healing while lessening
Chronic pain, Fatigue, Stress and inflammation (the underlying causes of many physical and mental illness), Depression, Anxiety, High blood pressure, Mental and emotional dysregulation,
And improving and developing
Cognition and memory, Well-being and good health, Relaxation, Resilience, Problem-solving, Regulation of emotions and cognitive processes, Elevation of mood, Deep inner spiritual connection, Anti-aging, Immune Response, and Insight and Creativity!
If That Isn’t Enough…
there is a consistent building of our well-being that connects us deeply where we progress and evolve because our neurological system is restoring and re-regulating at a higher level through sound healing methods. All of these outcomes are hallmarks of therapeutic services that allow resolution and inner development, progress, and advancement.
References
Albers S, Fusar-Poli L, Freeman R. E, Spreen M, Ket J. C, Vink A. C, Maratsos A, Crawford M, Chen X. J, Gold C. (2017). Music therapy for depression. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD004517.pub3
Understanding the stress response. Chronic activation of this survival mechanism impairs health. Harvard Mental Health Letters. 2011 Mar;27(9):4-5. PMID: 21476246.
Eley, R., & Gorman, D. (2010). Didgeridoo playing and singing to support asthma management in Aboriginal Australians. Journal of Rural Health, 26(1), 100-104. doi: 10.1111/j.1748-0361.2009.00256.x
Fancourt D., Ockelford A., Belai A. (2014). The psychoneuroimmunological effects of music: A systematic review and a new model. Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, 36, 15–26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bbi.2013.10.014
Gaynor, M. (1999). Sounds of healing : a physician reveals the therapeutic power of sound, voice, and music. https://archive.org/details/soundsofhealingp00gayn
Gupta, Sanja (2023). Does Sound Healing Actually Work? If you’re interested in the idea of sound baths, jump in! https://www.verywellmind.com/sound-healing-for-self-care-8384146
Halstead, M. T., & Roscoe, S. T. (2002). Restoring the spirit at the end of life: music as an intervention for oncology nurses. Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, 6(6), 332-336. doi: 10.1188/02.CJON.332-336. PMID: 12434464.
Inflammation: a unifying theory of disease? Research is showing that chronic inflammation may be the common factor in many diseases. Harv Health Lett. 2006 Apr;31(6):4-5. PMID: 16680848. (2023). https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16680848/
Institute of Noetic Science. IONS. Sound Healing. https://noetic.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Sound-Healing.pdf
Saifman, Jared., Colverson, Aaron., Dore,, Sylvain, Prem., Amanda, Chomiak., Joseph. Therapeutic Potential of Music-Based Interventions on the Stress Response and Neuroinflammatory Biomarkers in COVID-19: A Review Center for Translational Research in Neurodegenerative Disease, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida https://doi.org/10.1177/20592043221135808
Koen B. D., Lloyd J., Barz G., Brummel-Smith K. (Eds.). (2008). The Oxford handbook of medical ethnomusicology. Oxford University Press. https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/28204?login=false
Newlyn, Emma. (2024). Vibration An ancient art and science – good vibes. https://www.ekhartyoga.com/articles/wellbeing/a-guide-to-sound-healing
