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The Healing Power of Sound

by Simon BSoc.Sc, MBAcC, MCOH

The astonishing results of sound upon blood, water, cancer cells,

neurones and a range of conditions.

About the Author

Simon is a qualified acupuncturist, healer and bodyworker. He

has made an extensive study of sound healing. In 1996 he founded the

UK Sound Healers Association, a non-profit making organization

dedicated to promoting sound healing. He has taught sound healing

workshops in Australia, Canada, South Africa, Zimbabwe, the UK and

the USA.

He has written four books, and has recently completed a comprehensive

guide to sound healing entitled The Healing Power of Sound. At

present he is running workshops for those who wish to reconnect with

their true voice and to experience the healing power of sound, and

training courses for healers and therapists who wish to use sound as

part of their healing practice.

The History of Sound Healing

Sound has been used as a healing force for thousands of years.

All ancient civilizations used sound for healing. Traditional

cultures still surviving today understand the remarkable healing

power that lies in sound.

In the Bible we are told that played his harp to lift King

Saul & #65533;s depression. Egyptian papyri over 2,600 years old refer to

incantations as cures for infertility and rheumatic pain.

The ancient Greeks believed music had the power to heal body and

soul. They used the flute and the lyre for treating illnesses such as

gout and sciatica. It is reported that the Great & #65533;s sanity

was restored by music played on the lyre. There is an ancient Greek

saying, & #65533;Men have song as a physician for pain. & #65533;

Pythagoras used special songs and incantations with particular

melodies and rhythms, to cure diseases of the body and mind.1

What is Sound Healing?

Sound healing is the therapeutic application of sound

frequencies to the body/mind of a person with the intention of

bringing them into a state of harmony and health. The dictionary

defines & #65533;harmony & #65533; as & #65533;congruity of parts to their whole or

to one

another & #65533;. & #65533;Health & #65533; is defined as & #65533;the state of being

bodily and

mentally vigorous and free of disease & #65533;.

The French ear, nose and throat specialist Dr Alfred Tomatis has

devoted the last 50 years to understanding the ear and its function.

He believes that the ear is the most important of all our sense

organs. The ear controls the body & #65533;s sense of balance, rhythm and

movement and is the conductor of the entire nervous system.

Through the medulla, the auditory nerve connects with all the

muscles of the body. Hence, muscle tone, equilibrium, flexibility and

vision are affected by sound. Through the vagus nerve, the inner ear

connects with the larynx, heart, lungs, stomach, liver, bladder,

kidneys, small intestine and large intestine.

Tomatis believes that high frequency sounds (3,000Hz and above)

activate the brain and affect cognitive functions such as thinking,

spatial perception and memory. Listening to these sounds increases

our attentiveness and concentration.2

Resonance

When an opera singer vibrates a glass with their voice, they

have matched the resonant frequency of the glass. As the singer

increases the volume of their sound, the resonance becomes too great

for the forces that hold the glass together and it shatters. Modern

medicine now uses sound waves to break up kidney stones and

gallstones.

Every organ, every bone, every cell in the body has its own

resonant frequency. Together they make up a composite frequency like

the instruments of an orchestra. When one organ in the body is out of

tune it will affect the whole body. Through sound healing it may be

possible to bring the diseased organ into harmony with the rest of

the body, hence avoiding the need for drugs or surgery.

The principle of entrainment states that powerful rhythmic

vibrations from one source will cause the less powerful vibrations of

another source to lock into the vibration of the first source. Nature

always seeks the most efficient state; it takes less energy to pulse

in co-operation that in opposition.

Scientific Research into Sound

In the 18th century Ernest Chladni, a German physicist, found

that when a violin bow was drawn vertically across the rim of a metal

plate the sound waves produced created patterns in sand sprinkled on

the plate. Different musical tones would cause the sand particles to

move into geometric patterns.

In the 1960s Hans , a Swiss scientist, spent over ten years

conducting experiments to discover the effects of sound waves on

materials placed on metal plates vibrated with sound. Materials such

as glycerine, mercury, gel, powder and iron fillings were used. He

photographed the patterns created.

He found that low frequency sounds produced simple geometric

shapes in the materials. As the sound frequency was increased, these

simple forms would break up and more complex patterns would appear.

The sound & #65533;OH & #65533; would produce a perfect circle. The sound

& #65533;OM & #65533;

produced a pattern that resembles the Shri Yantra; the ancient

mandala for & #65533;OM & #65533; used in India for thousands of years.

came to the conclusion that sound creates form and that

the entire human body had its own sound made up of all the sounds of

its cells, tissues and organs.3

Fabien Maman

In 1974, Fabien Maman was working as a professional jazz

musician. He noticed that certain musical keys had an energizing

effect on both the musicians and the audience.

Fabien worked with the French physicist Sternheimer.

Sternheimer had discovered that elementary particles vibrate at

frequencies in accordance with musical laws. They found that body

tissue, organs and acupuncture meridians each have a musical note.

A few years later, Fabien met H & #65533;l & #65533;ne Grimal, a senior

researcher at the National Centre for Scientific Research in Paris.

They devoted a year-and-a-half to study the effects of sound on

normal and malignant cells. Using drums, gongs, flutes, guitar, bass

and a xylophone, they investigated the effects of sound on healthy

blood cells, haemoglobin, and the & #65533;Hela & #65533; cancer cell from the

uterus.

They found that even at 30-40 decibels the sound always produced

noticeable changes in the cells. As the sounds progressed up the

musical scale there would be an & #65533;explosion & #65533; of the cancer cells at

a

certain frequency as the sound travelled outward from the centre of

the cell to its outer membrane. The experiment yielded the most

dramatic results when the human voice was used.

Fabien says, & #65533;Near the end of the scale, usually around the

seventh interval, the cancer cells exploded. It appears that the

cancer cells were not able to support a progressive accumulation of

frequencies. & #65533;4 & #65533;The healthy cells appeared supple and able to

freely

receive, absorb and return the energy. In contrast, the cancer cells

appeared inflexible and immutable in their structure. & #65533;5

Hela cancer cells being broken up by the musical scale played on a

xylophone6

In experimental sessions on actual cancer patients, the music

produced equally astonishing results. Female volunteers with breast

cancer were taught to tone the whole scale, using a violin to keep a

base note for 21 minutes at a time. They spent 31/2 hours a day doing

this for a month. One woman & #65533;s tumour disappeared completely.7

Fabien Maman took healthy blood cells and played a xylophone to

them. He photographed the changes in the electromagnetic fields

around the cells using Kirlian photography. Subjected to a chromatic

scale of frequencies, the slight difference of a half tone would

produce a completely different shape and colour in the energy field

of the cell. He found that the note & #65533;C & #65533; made them longer,

& #65533;D & #65533;

produced a variety of colours, & #65533;E & #65533; made them spherical and

& #65533;A & #65533;

(440Hz) changed the colour of their energy field from red to pink.

In his next experiment, Fabien took a sample of blood from a

person & #65533;s finger. He then asked the person to sing the seven notes of

the major scale to their own blood cell. With each note, the cell & #65533;s

energy field changed its shape and colour. When the person sang an

& #65533;F & #65533; to their own blood cells, the cells resonated perfectly with

the

voice, producing a balanced, round shape and vibrant colours of

magenta and turquoise.

He says, & #65533;The cells are completely bathed in light and alive

with full resonance, clear evidence that this & #65533;F & #65533; is the

fundamental

sound of the singer & #65533; Fundamental sound can be very helpful for the

physical body through its harmonising and regenerating effect at the

cellular level. & #65533;8

Blood cells responding to the sound of a person's voice9

From his experiments, Fabien concluded that, & #65533;In the human

voice there is an added element which cannot be found in any other

instrument & #65533; The human voice carries its own spiritual resonance & #65533;

This difference, evident from the photographs, is what makes the

voice the most powerful healing instrument & #65533; particularly when the

person needing the healing produced the sounds with his or her own

voice. & #65533;10

Jim Oliver says that the body responds to sounds that we cannot

hear. He says, & #65533;We put the selected sounds exclusively into a pair

of headphones and put them on a client & #65533;s ankles. They responded to

the sound even though their ears could not hear the sound. Once you

vibrate a part of the body the blood cells carry this resonance to

the whole body very quickly. & #65533;11

Masaru Emoto

A Japanese scientist, Masaru Emoto, wanted to find a way of

scientifically evaluating water quality. He decided to freeze samples

of water taken from different sources to compare their crystalline

structure. When pure water crystallizes it forms a pure crystal;

would contaminated water also form a pure crystal?

Water was placed in petri dishes in a freezer for two hours,

then placed under a microscope and photographed at a magnification of

200-500 times. Although the crystals that formed were all unique, the

crystals from water of the same source were all similar in shape.

Over a four-year period his team took 10,000 photographs.

Tap water from Japanese cities generally would not form complete

crystals. Tap water from London formed no crystals at all. Spring

water generally produced the most beautiful crystals, as did water

from holy places such as Lourdes.

Masaru Emoto & #65533;s next experiment was playing music to water. He

placed distilled water in between two speakers and played one piece

of music fully at normal volume. Then he froze the water.

Classical music produced beautiful crystals of slightly

different colours. Healing music, a Tibetan mantra and folk music

also produced beautiful crystals. Heavy metal music produced a

pattern that looked like a crystal that had exploded into a thousand

pieces. Japanese pop music produced ugly square-shaped crystals

rather then the normal hexagonal ones.12

Since our body is made up of 70% water, Masaru Emoto & #65533;s work

demonstrates that we are constantly being influenced by the sounds

around us and by the information stored in the water we consume.

Water crystals formed when distilled water was frozen after being

played Bach's 'Air on a G String'

Water crystals produced when distilled water was frozen after being

played heavy metal music13

Music as Medicine

Don , in his book The Mozart Effect, shows how music,

particularly Mozart & #65533;s, has all kinds of beneficial effects for human

health. Scientists suggest that listening to Mozart helps us to

improve our powers of concentration and enhances our ability to make

intuitive leaps, by organizing the firing pattern of neurones in the

cerebral cortex.14

The foetus prefers Mozart and Vivaldi to other composers. When

pregnant mothers listened to Mozart and Vivaldi, the babies & #65533; heart

rates invariably steadied and kicking declined. Rock music & #65533;drove

most foetuses to distraction & #65533; and they & #65533;kicked violently & #65533;

when it

was played to their pregnant mothers.15

Slower tempo music slows our breathing rate. The human heartbeat

will tend to match the rhythm of music. Listening to Pacabel & #65533;s

Cannon, for instance, at around 64 beats per minute, the rate of a

resting heart beat, will slow our breathing rate and heart rate and

change our brain wave pattern from beta to alpha. Music will also

calm our nervous system and affect metabolism.

The pitch and rhythm of music influence the limbic system,

affecting our emotions. Scientists concluded that preferred music

& #65533;may elicit a profound positive emotional experience that can

trigger the release of hormones, which can contribute to a lessening

of those factors which enhance the disease process & #65533;.16

Music is now used to reduce the pain and anxiety of patients

undergoing dental treatment and surgical operations. In a study of

59,000 patients, 97% of patients stated that music really helped them

to relax in the post-operative situation and during surgery in

regional anaesthesia.17

In his research, Dr Mike found that classical music works

on the whole brain, whereas pop music affects only one side of the

brain. He says, & #65533;I recommend that those who are looking for a peak

experience try classical. Mozart is a great place to start, but it is

a question of trial and error, find what works for you. & #65533;18

Singing/Toning

Dr Tomatis found that a child traumatized by an enraged or

screaming adult learns to survive by shutting out these noises. Once

the hearing shuts down the child will find it hard to learn.19

This explains why some people can sing in tune while others

consider themselves & #65533;tone deaf & #65533;. It is impossible for us to make a

sound unless we have heard that sound or note before. I have found

from experience in teaching voice work that once a person & #65533;s hearing

is reawakened then they can begin to hear what is sung to them and

can then accurately copy this sound.

Toning is defined as & #65533; & #65533;to make sound with an elongated vowel

for an extended period & #65533;. Toning with other people creates a feeling

of unity. It also helps us to release stress and repressed emotions.

Regular toning and humming helps to re-energize the body and restore

health to the mind, body and spirit.

Toning has a neurochemical effect on the body, boosting the

immune system and causing the release of endorphins. Toning assists

in good breathing and posture. The muscles of the digestive system

are massaged and stimulated by regular toning. Toning has also been

effective in relieving insomnia.20

Wolfson

Alfred Wolfson was a German-born singing teacher who was plagued

by the sounds of artillery and human agony that he experienced as a

soldier in the trenches in World War I. Wolfson cured himself of

aural hallucinations by singing the terrible sounds that haunted him.

He went on to develop a therapeutic method that was based on using

the voice. He taught his students to make spontaneous noises,

including those of animals, birds and even machines.

Using Jung & #65533;s concept of the anima and animus, Wolfson taught

that by extending the vocal range through singing exercises, one

could contact the opposite polarity within oneself, thereby

integrating the psyche and healing a variety of psychological and

physical conditions.21

Laurel Keys, in her book Toning the Creative Power of

the Voice, says, & #65533;A whiny weak voice will suck in negativity,

attracting lingering illness like cancer, asthma, allergies, tumors,

rheumatism and arthritis. No healing will be possible until the

person reverses their tonal pattern. & #65533;22

Laurel discovered toning by accident. One day her body became

filled with a sound so great that she had to express it. & #65533;Each time

I toned, my body felt exhilarated, alive as it had never felt before,

a feeling of wholeness and extreme well-being. & #65533;22

Chant

Dr Tomatis discovered the power of chant after visiting a

monastery in France. The new abbot had stopped the monks chanting.

The Benedictine monks normally chant for six to eight hours a day.

The abbot believed that the Gregorian chant served no useful purpose

and that without it they could recapture that time for other things.

The monks had been chanting in order to & #65533;charge up & #65533;

themselves,

but they hadn & #65533;t realized what they were doing. As the days passed

they became more and more tired. A procession of doctors came to the

monastery over a period of several months. They changed the monks & #65533;

diet and sleep patterns but the monks became more tired than ever.

When the abbot called in Dr Tomatis in February 1967, Tomatis

found 70 out of the 90 monks & #65533;slumping in their cells like wet

dishrags & #65533;. He reintroduced their chanting immediately. By November,

almost all of them had gone back to their normal activities, their

prayer, their few hours of sleep, and their arduous work schedule.23

Principles of Sound Healing

Entrainment

The principle of entrainment explains how sound healing works. A

harmonious sound projected at a person who is in a state of

disharmony will eventually bring them into resonance with the

harmonious sound. Our atoms, molecules, cells, glands and organs all

have a vibrational frequency. Sounds from outside our body will

stimulate sympathetic vibration in the molecules and cells of our

body.

Intention

The sound wave created by a person singing or playing an

instrument will carry information to the receiver of the sound. We

all know that a song can be sung with a loving intention or an

aggressive intention. When a mother sings a lullaby to her child, the

child feels the love in the mother & #65533;s voice and is rocked to sleep.

At a football match, fans sing aggressive chants directed at the

opposing supporters and their team. Here the intention is to

intimidate.

Sympathetic Resonance

When two objects have similar vibratory characteristics that

allow them to vibrate at the same frequency, they form a resonant

system. When a & #65533;C & #65533; tuning fork is struck, another

& #65533;C & #65533; tuning fork

close by will also begin to vibrate. For healing to occur there must

be a resonance or rapport between healer and patient.

Pure Tone

Goldman in his book Healing Sounds says, & #65533;When we have

learned techniques for harmonic toning, the human voice is able to

create nearly every frequency, at least within the bandwidth of

audible frequency. & #65533; offers the simple formula, & #65533;Frequency

plus Intention equals Healing. & #65533; If we can find a pure sound

frequency coupled with a pure intention then healing will occur. When

our body receives a pure tone our muscles will relax and tension will

be released.24

Sound Healing

When working with a person in a sound healing session I use my

voice to scan over their body. I find that my voice will & #65533;break

up & #65533;

over areas of their body where there is pain, disease or poor

function. I then administer sound healing through my voice using

different tones, vowel sounds and harmonics until the imbalance is

cleared. I use healing songs, prayers and mantras. I will also help a

person find their fundamental sound.

I use a wide range of sound healing techniques to treat all

conditions. These include combining my voice with instruments, using

sound in combination with bodywork, encouraging the person to express

their pain through sound, using tuning forks and different musical

intervals.

Dissonant intervals can be used in sound healing to help a

person to get in touch with painful emotions. When the dissonance is

resolved by sounding the interval above, the person listening will

experience a feeling of release, lightness and joy. If the person has

experienced deep trauma, I will often chant the person & #65533;s name to

call back their spirit.

Sound healing can be combined with other healing therapies such

as massage and bodywork. After a sound healing treatment most people

report a feeling of deep relaxation and an improvement in the

function of mind and body. Structural imbalances in the body will

often correct themselves during the sound treatment.

References

1. Goldman . Healing Sounds. Element Books. Shaftesbury. p30.

ISBN 1-85230-314-X. 1992.

2. Tomatis Alfred. The Conscious Ear. Station Hill Press. New York.

ISBN 0-88268-108-7. 1991.

3. Hans. Cymatics, Volumes I and II. Basilius Presse AG. Basel.

1974.

4. Maman Fabien. The Role of Music in the Twenty-First Century. Tama-

Do Press. California. p61. ISBN 0-9657714-0-7. 1997.

5. Maman Fabien. ibid. p90.

6. Maman Fabien. ibid. p56. Photograph reproduced with permission

from Fabien Maman.

7. Don. The Mozart Effect. Avon Books. New York. pp242-243.

ISBN 0-380-97418-5. 1997.

8. Maman Fabien. ibid. p20.

9. Maman Fabien. ibid. p80. Photograph reproduced with permission

from Fabien Maman.

10. Maman Fabien. ibid. p81.

11. Oliver Jim. Notes from CD Harmonic Resonance. The Relaxation

Company. New York. 1995.

12. Emoto Masaru. The Message from Water. HADO Kyoikusha. Tokyo. ISBN

4-939098-00-1. 1999.

13. Emoto Masaru. ibid. pp77,87. Photographs reproduced with

permission from Masaru Emoto.

14. Don. ibid. p23.

15. Don. ibid. p15.

16. Don. ibid. p73.

17. Harvey Arthur. Music in Attitudinal Medicine. in Don ed.

Music: Physician for Times to Come. Quest Books. Illinois. p189. ISBN

0-8356-0668-6. 1991.

18. Mike. Why Music Heals Your Mind. Interview. Sunday Express.

p51.21 May 2000.

19. Joudry . Sound Therapy for the Walkman. Steele and

Steele. Dolmen. Canada. p7. ISBN 0-9691687-0-5. 1984.

20. Don. ibid. pp92-93.

21. Don. ibid. pp102-103.

22. Keys Laurel . Toning the Creative Power of the Voice.

DeVorss and Co. California. pp10-12. ISBN 0-87516-176-6. 1973.

23. Tim. Chant the Healing Powers of Voice and Ear. in

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24. Goldman . ibid. p94.

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