In all my years (almost 30 years) as a therapist, I’ve not experienced clients relaxing as deeply as they do when receiving a sound balance.
Sound therapy uses sound, music and specialist instruments played in therapeutic ways, combined with deep self-reflection techniques to improve health and wellbeing. Specifically, I use a variety of tuning forks both on and around the body. These tuning forks vibrate at different frequencies. Each of these frequencies has a harmonious, some say healing, sound quality that when heard and felt by the body, encourages the body’s own energetic frequency to resonate with those frequencies.
It’s well known that our bodies emit energetic frequencies. Think about ECGs and how they can detect the electrical activity of the heart. The heart’s electrical activity and subsequent electromagnetic frequencies can be measured even at a distance from the body. Our emotions can affect this electrical activity. Most of us know that stress, for example, can elicit an increase in the electrical activity in the heart and create irregularities in heart rhythm and chaotic electromagnetic frequencies. Love, on the other hand, creates very harmonious, coherent (organised) frequencies.
Drawing on the theory of entrainment, which is the process of making something have the same pattern or rhythm as something else, I use the harmonious, resonant and coherent frequencies emitted by the tuning forks to encourage the electromagnetic frequencies of the body to synchronise with them and to re-attune the body’s frequencies when they go ‘off key’.
In recent years research has linked sound therapy to benefits in health and well-being, including boosting immune function, reducing pain and lowering stress levels. Studies also suggest that sound therapy has a deeply relaxing and calming effect on those experiencing symptoms of stress.
A sound balance can take anything from 30 minutes to one hour and is suitable for most people. Here are some of the reasons clients have come to me for a sound balance:
- pain
- anxiety
- stress
- chakra balancing
- aura cleansing
- emotional healing
- relaxation
If you’ve not tried Sound Therapy yet I’d definitely recommend it! If you’ve had a sound balance what was your experience? Did you enjoy it? Did you find it relaxing? I’d love to hear your thoughts.
Adele Logan 