How Sound Affects Your Health
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Everything on our planet has a frequency that can be measured.
It has been suggested that all humans come into the world with the aid of an actual sound, maintain that while living, and exit from this life utilizing a frequency. Each of us has a sound all our own, similar to a computer that has a certain hum, each part of our bodies and our body as a whole has a unique signature sound. These sounds or frequencies are in sync with those we enjoy being around and are out of sync with those we don’t. With modern technology, it is now possible for scientists to hear bad frequencies such as cancer in our bodies.
Our ancestors had a distinct communication advantage to forge social bonds, diffuse social tensions, and convey emotional states around them because they communicated with music. Today these advantages are gone as they are disrupted by all the frequencies from lights, TV, radio, and electrical equipment. Many people believe that when we have illnesses our frequencies are not running in concert. As if the parts of our computer are not working together, which explains why we feel “out of sync” or “out of sorts”. Any sort of trauma can affect our bodies dramatically, whether it is loud sounds, yelling, or damage to our bodies from food that has low frequencies or injuries.
Music therapy is something that has been used in the past to help people with a variety of illnesses. The American Music Therapy Association states that music therapy is the ‘evidence-based use of music interventions to accomplish individualized goals within a therapeutic relationship by a credentialed professional. It does not state what type of music is required, show a distinction between music, sounds or that one definition of music is better than another. In other words, all music is considered to be therapeutic.
As an example, music can be an effective tool for the mentally or emotionally ill. Autism is one disorder that has been particularly researched. Music therapy has enabled some autistic children to relate to others and have improved learning skills. Substance abuse, schizophrenia, paranoia, and disorders of personality, anxiety, and affect are all conditions that are benefited by music therapy. In these groups, participation and social interaction are promoted through music.
Reality orientation is improved. Patients are helped to develop coping skills, reduce stress, and express their feelings. Therefore, mental, and physical illness can thus be viewed as an acute loss of synchrony with the ongoing rhythm and flow of nature. The individual loses the ability to act in a rhythmic and focused way to the self, others, and the environment.
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A movie that represents the amazing healing ability of frequencies is The Story of the Weeping Camel. The movie takes place in Mongolia with a community of Nomads during the camel birthing season. One camel has a very difficult birth of a colt that takes two days. After the birth, she rejects the colt. The families try many techniques to bring the mother and the baby together so the baby will not perish, none of which work.
Finally, one of the elders of the community states that they need to get a violin. Yes, a violin. So, two young boys hop on some camels and head towards a larger community to find the musician who has a violin. The musician comes back with them and after a brief honoring ceremony; the violin is placed with a strap around the camels’ hump. Now throughout the movie, it is apparent how windy it is in Mongolia, and as the violin sits on the camel’s back, it is played by the wind to produce a frequency.
It is astonishing to see the camel turn and look at the violin and you can see its ears perk up and her whole constitution change. This goes on for several minutes and then one of the women of the village gently pets the mother camel and sings a song, while the musician plays the violin. They then bring the baby colt over to the mother and they are united, this time in true mother-baby fashion. It is an amazing thing.
For purposes of distinction, lets group music into four categories, 1) Popular music that people hear on the radio, 2) Primitive music: such as Gregorian chants, drumming, American Indian or Aboriginal music, 3) Music that people create themselves (typically this is ad hoc music that is either a cappella or performed with others in groups with items other than actual musical instruments), and 4) Tones or frequencies of sounds, which may include tuning forks, whale sounds, or brain wave frequencies.
Although all forms of music can have beneficial properties, for healing in this capacity, sound frequencies work well. These frequencies are typically found in primitive music, tuning forks, and professionally made CDs that provide frequencies specifically for this purpose.
In our brains, we have brainwaves or frequencies that are created by neurons. Neurons communicate by electrical pulses. It is possible to see these pulses on an electroencephalogram (EEG). Brain waves are measured in cycles per second or Hertz,(Hz), the lower the number of Hz, the slower the brain activity or the slower the frequency of the activity. The different types of brainwaves are:
§ Delta waves (below 4 Hz) occur during sleep
§ Theta waves (4–7 Hz) are associated with sleep, deep relaxation (like hypnotic relaxation), and visualization
§ Alpha waves (8–13 Hz) occur when we are relaxed and calm
§ Beta waves (13–38 Hz) occur when we are actively thinking, problem-solving, etc.
§ The Sensory motor rhythm (or SMR; around 14 Hz) SMR activity seems to link brain and body functions.
§ Gamma brain waves (39–100 Hz) are involved in higher mental activity and consolidation of information. An interesting study has shown that advanced Tibetan meditators produce higher levels of gamma than non-meditators both before and during meditation
Our brain produces several brainwaves of frequencies all at once, similar to several instruments in an orchestra playing a symphony. Each wave has a part, and the outcome becomes something others want to listen to or be around for enjoyment. Some health professionals believe that in illness, these instruments are out of sync for various reasons, stuck in patterns, some louder than others, some with a slow tempo, some fast; they are unable to shift to the next transition, unable to stabilize or stop to allow a re-synchronization of the waves.
Also, each type of brainwave stimulates the body to produce different hormones, which help perform many important functions in the body, including balancing the brain itself. To emphasize, this is analogous to the mood shifts and brain fog of hormonal changes a woman experiences after childbirth or during menopause.
It has been proven that listening to music or imagining it, even without any overt movement or keeping time, activates the motor cortex and subcortical motor systems. The auditory cortex has a tonotopic map, with low to high tones stretched out across the cortical surface. In this sense, the brain contains a “map” of different pitches, and different areas of the brain respond to different pitches.
Pitch is so important that the brain represents it directly… we could place electrodes in the brain and be able to determine what pitches were being played to a person just by looking at the brain activity. It is these absolute pitch values that the brain is paying attention to throughout its different stages of processing.
Some researchers have postulated that human dream processes are analogous to a computer “reboot”. That the reason people dream is similar to a computer in that the individual must do a “reboot” to clear out the stuck programs or in loops so mentally people can evolve to meet changing circumstances. From this point of view, the primary function of sleep is to allow an important clearing process to get underway without interference from external sources.
Rhythm, even its most intense and driving forms, is a reliable mode of integration. It draws things together into a steady pulse. Instead of perceiving severe emotional disorders exclusively as some kind of chemical imbalance, I see them as resulting from the fragmentation of essential life rhythms.
Like an instrument, the body…has to be sympathetically ‘toned’ to respond effectively and appropriately. Music is an effective “mechanism …which tunes the cortical system and may serve an essential function allowing the orderly processing of memory and help to reduce fantasy and obsession. The key to healing the body with specific tones lies in our understanding of how frequency acts upon genes, cells, and other structures of the body. Only then will we know how to determine the exact frequencies for each human being.
So how can this help us be healthy you might be asking?
There are CDs available online on many websites that people can listen to in order to help bring these healthy frequencies back to their bodies. Companies like Centerpointe Research, Immrama Institute, and The Brainwave Solution are just some that produce powerful CD’s to assist our bodies in recovering healthy frequencies that are lost during trauma to our bodies, just like the violin did for the camel.
And now there are patches (they look like clear Band-Aids) that work to balance these frequencies as well. More companies are being formed each day with similar tools to help empower people energetically. Imagine how our world would change before our eyes if the frequencies in our bodies were optimally running together all of humanity making frequencies in sync. What a beautiful thing that would be if we all made music together in harmony.
About the Author
Kasara is educated as a Mental Health Therapist, Master Herbalist, Traditional Naturopath and Energy Worker with over 35 years of helping thousands of clients find alternative health options that work. She writes articles on Medium, and on her website http://truhealth.com/. You may subscribe to her Medium account or her newsletter to stay connected.
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