The relationship between the sound of the gong, healing, and the energy body exists, because all sound is essentially the expression of prana, the vital energy of the Universe. The primal sound in yoga, the sound of OM, is said to be the highest level of sound vibration that created time, space, and form. In essence, we are sonic creatures living in a universe created by sound. In sound we are born and in sound we are healed.
What is sound HEaling??
Sound healing. Sound Bath. Sound Therapy. Sound Medicine.
I am here to share with you how sound healing works on all levels of the being. Whether this is your first time hearing about Sound Therapy or you’ve been to a few sound baths already, there is something here for you.
Lets paint a picture. You’ve come to a sound bath at your local yoga studio. Lying on your back covered in blankets and feeling very relaxed, your eyes are covered and the smell of palo santo lingers in the air. The quiet hum of a singing bowl starts ringing louder and you can feel it in your heart. You can feel it at the crown of your head. The hum grows softer until there is complete silence. The gong is struck softly. A deep resonance is felt as every cell, bone, and organ in your body vibrates to the sound. Your body is encased in a sonic envelope of sound and vibrations. You drift in and out of consciousness for some time until there is silence again. The practitioner slowly draws you back to reality.
Maybe you experienced bliss, maybe you were deeply relaxed. Maybe tears came to your eyes as a memory or emotion was released. Perhaps you traveled to an alternate dimension. Or possibly just fell asleep! The results and experiences will never be the same. Sound Healing is unique to each person depending what is needed in their life at that moment to bring them into alignment with their purpose and to grow.
Sound therapy works on an energetic level releasing blocks, emotions, beliefs, and thought forms so that our energy or prana/ life force can flow freely through our system.
Healing is defined as the restoration of natural balance & flow of energy on all levels of existence. (Physical, Mental, Emotional, Spiritual) Health is the natural state of an organism. Illness or disease occurs when this state is deranged by an imbalance or lack of vital life force energy.
Life force energy * Prana * Chi * Qi
Prana is that life energy. Food, air, water, light, sound all carry prana. Everything carries life force energy to some degree. And all Healing is predicated on the availability and movement of prana through the physical body. Flowing Mountain stream water is going to be high in prana where as stagnant water will be low in prana. Fresh produce straight from the garden will be high in life force energy, but decaying over ripened produce will have low life force energy.
Choosing things high in life force energy is the first step to creating an environment within ourselves for healing to occur. However if the movement of that energy can not flow … we can not grow.
If you lay on your arm long enough the circulation will be cut off and you will feel the consequences to that. If you have a blockage of blood that can lead to a stroke or a heart attack. If you are choking on something, then your airways are blocked and you can not breathe. If you have an energetic block such as a suppressed emotion or memory, energy will not flow and dis-ease will occur. Blocks in energy can be clouding your sense of self worth, your beliefs of whether or not you are capable of doing something, Create fear, and so on and eventually manifest on the physical level of pain or illness as the last warning sign.
The body knows how to heal itself we just have to help it remember sometimes by providing it with the energy it needs and lifting those blocks for the energy to flow freely. This is where sound healing comes in. Sound Therapy brings about an energetic balance or healing by breaking free the stagnant energy, blocks and old patterns within all our levels of being.
Shifts happen once we are able to accept some level of self responsibility
We are our own healers. In order for us to heal we must take responsibility for all of our life. It is the precursor to deciding not to wait for someone else to do the healing for us.(Which by the way is not possible, you’ll be waiting for a long time.) I mention this because many people go to these types of therapies expecting miraculous healing to occur overnight. Or that the practitioner is the one doing the healing. The practitioner is the space holder for healing to occur. He or she will create safe sacred space with INTENTION and be the channel for that healing energy to move through. This work is subtle and incremental.
We must own the healing process even if it is painful. Pain is often the doorway to change. It helps to realize at the time we probably did not know better. Once we take responsibility for our life and our feelings and all that comes with it the shift will happen.
PHYsical level
On a physical level sound healing can have immediate affects, but it mostly eases pain temporarily until the root of the problem reveals itself. This is because most all physical dis-ease is rooted in an emotional or mental issues or block. We must get to the root of the problem in order for complete healing. Since Sound healing works on all levels especially the emotional and mental bodies also known as the Manomaya Kosha and the Gyanamaya Kosha in Ayruveda, it can help resolve the root causes of physical manifestations if we can integrate what is being brought to the surface during these energetic healings. Mindfulness and awareness are key.
When a gong, tuning fork, or singing bowl is sounded the sound waves influence the surface of the skin and stimulates our dermatomes. Dermatomes are surface areas of the skin connected to the spine through out the body. Through a network of nerves these skin areas are connected to different organs in the body with corresponding segments of the spinal cord. When the dermatomes are stimulated by the sound waves it produces an effect on the corresponding organ.
One of the obvious outcomes of sound healing is the meditative and relaxing state it puts us in. So we reap all the benefits in those areas. Along with stimulating circulation, nerve endings, and the glandular system, the pituitary and pineal glands being directly affected.
Another newly discovered benefit to sound healing is the release of the molecule Nitric Oxide. Nitric Oxide is a gas found in our vascular, neural and immune cells. It is responsible for signaling a chemical reaction to occur when a foreign invader such as a virus, bacteria or free radical is present.
The Nitric Oxide is constantly being released in 6 minute cycles called puffing. However when we have unmanaged stress or trauma the nitric oxide release can flat line creating pro-inflammation and a depressed immune function. It can manifest as lack of energy, joint pain, decreased sexual drive, headaches, depression, memory loss, and poor digestion!!
By getting regular sound healings we can prevent the flatline from occurring or restart that spike to the nitric oxide and allow the natural puffing cycle to begin again. Nitric Oxide is also produced through nasal breathing.
If you want to learn more about Nitric Oxide heres a link to an article with some great information.
The Emotional & Mental LEvels
When the instrument is struck and the vibrations make their way to us it allows a reorganization of emotional energy and feelings that are tied into the body structure and consequently affecting the mind.
We as humans are essentially beings who transform energy and information. The body has centers for the transformation of energy/ intelligence known as chakras. We are bombardeed by energies and information all day long, in our minds we can not comprehend it all nor do we need it at the time. When energy comes to us these energy centers take that and transform it in a way for us to comprehend based off our “programs” Programs are stored on this energy level. Events that happened to us as children, our beliefs, trauma, emotions are all stored into these programs that we compute and translate as our reality.
This is the level where sound healing therapy really can help us. Its cosmic resonance reminds us of who we truly are and not what we think we have become. “When a gong is played therapy occurs because transformation occurs and we have a new relationship to the body mind and spirit that invites healing to happen.” We are multi dimensional beings existing on multiple levels simultaneously. Sound allows for the clearing of the blocks on all these levels making way for Pure Consciousness, creative source energy to pierce through and flow in bringing awareness to old patterns and light to the darkness.
Sound Healing is a tune up for our auric field. Bringing incoherent systems into holistic resonance and harmony through entrainment and synchronicity.
If you are local to Denver area and interested in scheduling a sound healing with me follow this link 🙂
