Sound Body + Sound Mind = Sound Health

“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.”

- Albert Einstein, The New Convergence

We are living in a most exciting time. Finally Quantum Physicists are coming to the same conclusions that ancient seers or masters of ancient cultures have appreciated for thousands of years. While the ancient masters came to their understandings through years of meditation or prayer, scientists are finding the same results through modern research and experimentation.

We are human body/minds made up of tiny molecules that resonate together to form each of us as a unique being. When we ask questions like, “What’s the matter with you?,” we are bringing forth an understanding that “the matter that is with us” physically, mentally and/or emotionally is dynamic. It is related to resonance and vibration on a molecular level.

“The visible world is the invisible organization of energy.”

Physicist Heinz Pagels

So what does all this have to do with Sound Therapy? Everything! Life wiggles. Everything that is alive vibrates at particular frequencies that produce what we call sounds. Some of these sounds create harmony while others create dissonance. Some of these sounds are strong enough to be heard and felt, while others are not. Whether we can hear or feel the subtle vibrations (sound waves) of life, often depends upon our awareness and ability to focus. It was for that reason that ancient masters taught about the importance of prayer or meditation. As we sit and focus on breath, chants and mantras, we are focusing the lens of a camera or microscope, or fine tuning the musical instrument that is our body. Regardless, if we are aware of them or not, sound waves are always affecting us. Sound Therapy provides us with the ability to balance our frequencies to create and maintain a life of health and happiness. It is truly that simple.

As many articles have shared, animals were aware of the frequency shifts around them and moved toward higher ground before the Tsunami hit. As we know, many “human animals” are not as “tuned in.” Yet, we as humans are suppose to be the most intelligent beings on the planet. While certain parts of our brain are significantly more advanced than other animals’, our minds, or innate intelligence, seem to be sleeping on the job. We, in many ways, have become numb and tuned out.

Sound Healing or Resonance Therapy provides a way to tune in. It allows us to tap into a deeper awareness of “the matter that is with us” that is both affecting and effecting our life experience, thus enabling us to shift the vibrational frequencies that no longer serve us mentally, physically, emotionally and relationally.

“Feeling is knowing” as explained in the above Tsunami example. And as we discussed earlier, awareness is the first step. As we become more aware of the subtle “matter that is with us,” we can make conscious choices and shifts in our vibrational frequency organization. This understanding frees us from limiting beliefs systems that “we have this condition or that condition”. While we may have a pattern of “dis-ease” we now understand that we are dynamic beings that are ever changing.

New research shows that we can learn to direct our emotions and attitudes to promote health rather than allow stress reactions to cause dis-ease or dissonance. A strong and response-able body/mind connection works with natural rhythms, directing our internal energies to areas needing attention for balanced health.

Having spent over twenty years researching and developing Sound Healing environments, we are excited to share products and programs that we know will provide people with the ability to tune into Sound Health. Many spas throughout the country are just beginning to add various types of Sound Healing and Vibrational Medicine programs to their menu of service choices. These choices may include anything from sound toning or chanting classes as taught at The Chopra Center at La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, California; to treatments that place tuning forks on specific meridian points of the body in place of acupuncture needles as skillfully practiced at El Monte Sagrado in Taos, New Mexico; to adding low base frequency transducers to the bottom of treatment tables. While it is exciting that Sound Healing and Vibrational Medicine are advancing into the mainstream, it is critical to educate people about the pros and cons of the various choices available to them.

First of all, we are always encouraged to do our own research on a topic before trying any type of therapy. Visit websites like www.hado.net and learn about the research of Dr. Marsaru Emoto. Here you will learn about “The Laws of Resonance and Harmonics”, which explain how music can dynamically change the structure of water molecules. Interestingly enough, approximately 78%- 80% of our physical structure as human beings is water. Books such as the Molecules of Emotion and/or Your Body is Your Subconscious Mind, by Dr. Candice Pert are also great resources. Dr. Pert held a variety of research positions with the National Institutes of Health, and is an internationally recognized pharmacologist who has published over 250 scientific articles on peptides and their receptors and the role of these neuropeptides in the immune system. She discovered the “opiate receptor” and explains how “we are more like flickering flames than hunks of meat” and why taking drugs can often create more dissonance than harmony, thus, lessening our body’s ability to heal itself. Of course, there is the famous Dr. Andrew Weil and his new CD, Self- Healing with Sound & Music, which will take you through his own personal as well as medical prospective on the world of sound healing and even provide you with practical exercises you can do on your own.

Many of us know how music can shift us from one mood to another, or bring us back to a specific memory in time. We have all experienced someone in a car next to us with their base cranked up. As human beings, we are a divine, full range harmonic organization of frequencies. Placing ourselves in environments that vibrate at limited bandwidth frequencies is not our highest choice. It is important to understand the difference between resonance versus vibration. Many people affiliate vibration with a mechanical limited bandwidth frequency that is not honoring of the full range of informational intelligence within the body/mind and spirit. When seeking out Sound, Vibrational or Resonance Therapy it is important to make sure that the therapy honors the full range of harmonic frequencies needed to truly bring the body/mind into balance or harmony.

There are a variety of methods, technologies and pieces of equipment on the market and available in spas all over the world offering sound and vibrational therapy. The techniques vary from place to place, which is why conducting your own research is encouraged. Barry Oser, CTO of SO Sound Solutions, created the SO SoundChair, designed from inception to honor and accurately deliver the body/mind with a reflection of full range harmonic frequencies. It was specifically developed out of extremely light and durable composite materials molded in a tonal way to resonate higher tones in the upper part of the body and lower tones in the lower part of the body, as happens naturally. It is basically exercising the body/mind at a molecular level.

Through the act of listening to music and feeling it resonate through your body, you become more aware of where stress or “inner-fear-ance” patterns tend to reside in the body. That act of awareness coupled with the full musical harmonic resonance stimulates the body/mind’s natural relaxation response, thus releasing the tension in stressed areas, such as muscles, joints, ligaments, tendons, as well as relieving the mental and emotional body from such tension. Our bones, similar to tuning forks, begin to resonate. We reconnect neuro pathways to the brain, thus creating more balanced or focused states of mind and more balanced heart rates which result in whole body/mind harmony.

When we think about stress from a musical prospective, we understand that certain notes or groups of notes will be stressed at certain times of a song, while others will not. If we use this same understanding of stress within the human body/mind, we can appreciate that the stress response in the body/mind is natural. It is the continual repetitive patterns without release that cause the problems of tension, headaches, high blood pressure, insomnia, lack of focus, increased heart rate and overall physical aches and pains. When you are exposed to full body resonance/sound therapy, initially, you feel the healing vibrations in the areas that are the most tense or stressed. But typically within a short period of time or after multiple treatments, the therapy begins to alleviate those stress patterns and bring the body into harmonic balance. Through the research with the SO SoundChair, many have shared that they feel the results they get from spending in it create longer lasting calming effects that stick with them longer than a regular massage. It is understood that this is because once the bones (the tuning forks of the physical body) begin resonating they are able to translate and distribute the full range of information efficiently into the body from the core. Because the muscles and bones have a sympathetic relationship, this allows the muscles to relax and trust the harmonic information being grounded through the bones. This harmonic resonance will often continue for several days.

“A sound mind in a sound body is a simple but complete

description of a happy life!”

John Locke

Through harmonic resonance our body/mind finds Sound balance, Sound Health, and expanded awareness of the more subtle aspects of ourselves as vibrations of light and sound.