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ALTERNATIVESIn ancient Greece, music became so widely
respected for its impact on physiology that it was even
used to improve the sports performances of athletes
during the Olympic games. The ancient Egyptians
used vowel sound chants in healing. Australian
aboriginal peoples are believed to have used musical
instruments for healing purposes more than 40,000
years ago. And now many forward-thinking therapists
of many varieties are finding the power of certain
sound frequencies to heal.
Sound is a vibratory waveform measured in cycles per
second (cps, equivalent to Hertz or Hz) that varies with
time (like voltage or current). The human ear can detect
sounds from around 18 cps to approximately 18,000
cps, although as we get older our hearing decreases in
acuity. Young children can sometimes hear above 20,000
cps, and dolphins and whales can produce and sense
waveforms up to 180,000 cps.
It’s important to remember that just because we
don’t hear something doesn’t mean there isn’t a sound.
The entire universe is in a constant state of vibration,
from the electrons moving around the nucleus of every
atom to planets moving around their suns and distant
galaxies moving around the galactic core. Everything is
in motion and therefore making what can be perceived
as sound. Pythagoras referred to this as “the music of
the spheres.”
But it’s not just heavenly bodies that emit sound. Even
the chair you’re sitting on, the book you’re reading, the
carburetor in your car and the molecules that make upyour body are in a state of vibration. In fact, each of
them has a unique vibratory frequency.
The foundation of sound healing is based on the
understanding that every bone, every organ of the
human body, even every individual human body, has
a unique signature frequency that can be manipulated
and modulated by other frequencies. So if your liver
is not operating at its correct frequency, for example,
it can be ‘tuned up’ through the application of the
correct sound vibration.
Jonathan Goldman, MA, an international authority
on sound healing, pioneer in the field of harmonics,
and director of the Sound Healers Association in
Boulder, Colorado, says that when we are in “sound
health,” the human body is like an incredible orchestra
playing the Symphony of the Self.
“But what if the second violin player loses their sheet
music?” he asks. “They begin to play out of tune, out
of harmony, and pretty soon the whole string section
sounds off. Eventually the whole orchestra sounds
off. This is a metaphor for a part of our body losing
its normally healthy resonance frequency, its correct
vibration. When this happens, we say it is diseased.”
In the world of sound healing, there are two main
methodologies: psychoacoustics and vibroacoustics.
Psychoacoustics refers to sound produced from an
external source that is consciously registered through
our ears and our brain, such as from music, gongs,
singing bowls and tones, thus affecting the entire
nervous system.Back around 530 BC, Pythagoras, the first person in the West to declare
the Earth was round, taught that music can bring the souls of men and
women into harmony, calm the mind and restore the physical body
to perfect health using harmonic ratios as a medicine for mental and
physical diseases.
SOUND HEALING IS BASED ON THE UNDERSTANDING THAT EVERY ORGAN OF
THE BODY, AND EVERY INDIVIDUAL, HAS A UNIQUE SIGNATURE FREQUENCY...
WHEN WE ARE IN ‘SOUND HEALTH,’ THE HUMAN BODY IS LIKE AN INCREDIBLE
ORCHESETRA PLAYING THE SYMPHONY OF THE SELF