The Benefits of Sound Therapy

Could you benefit from sound therapy?

Stress plays a HUGE role in health issues and dis-ease. With countless distractions, stimulation, and noise in our modern world, it’s challenging to reduce stress and recharge. Many people are turning to sound therapy for relief. This form of acoustic therapy uses sound vibrations to relax the body and mind, leading to many benefits that support healing. And sound therapy is enjoyable; it speaks to your soul. Let’s explore the benefits of sound therapy and how it can help you achieve a greater state of relaxation and wellness.

What is Sound Therapy?

Sound therapy uses sound waves to relax the body and bring it into a parasympathetic state that restores health. Sound healing therapists use tuning forks, singing bowls, drums, gongs, chimes, and other instruments (including their voice), to create a soothing soundscape. The harmonious frequencies produced by these instruments help clear energetic blocks and promote flow and harmony within your mind, body, and soul.

How Does Sound Therapy Work?

Frequency + Intention

During a sound therapy session, you typically sit or lay in a relaxed and receptive position. What makes sound therapy healing is (1) the frequency, or wavelength, of the sound and (2) your intention. Sound healing frequencies create different responses. For example, hearing binaural beats (two different tones played in each ear) balances brainwaves and calms the nervous system. 

Receiving the full benefits also depends on your intention. Sound Expert Jonathan Goldman says, “Frequency plus intent equals healing, which means the sound we make, coupled with the intention or the consciousness we put on the sound, creates the outcome of the sound.” The more attentively you listen and allow the sound to wash over you (like a sound bath), the deeper your body relaxes. Many people also feel a spiritual connection that allows Divine insights to flow through and heighten the experience even more.

9 Benefits of Sound Therapy

Sound therapy encourages a state of DEEP relaxation so the body can heal. Using specific frequencies, sound allows you to shift into harmony, balance, and coherence. Sound therapy can be beneficial for reducing stress, clearing energetic and emotional blocks, improving mood, increasing awareness, reducing pain, promoting health, and more.

Sound therapy can help YOU…

1. Relieve Stress

Over 90 percent of doctor’s visits are due to stress, and stress relief is one of the greatest benefits of sound healing. Simply put, stress and dis-ease reflect disharmony, while relaxation and health reflect harmony. Sound therapy relaxes your body and quiets your mind to reduce stress-related issues and improve your health. As calming sounds surround and flow through your system, you restore harmony, balance, and flow within your mind, body, and soul. This can lead to a renewed sense of happiness, purpose, and wellness.

“You can look at disease as a form of disharmony. And there’s no organ system in the body that’s not affected by sound, music and vibration.” — Mitchell Gaynor, M.D., Sounds of Healing

2. Improve Health

Sound healing creates “sound health.” As a result of reducing stress, sound therapy also supports health by activating a relaxed rest-and-digest healing response. This parasympathetic state produces nitric oxide (NO), which improves circulation, blood flow, and cell efficiency — All of which promote health. Sound Healing Expert, Dr. John Beaulieu has researched how therapeutic sound promotes nitric oxide, a powerful antibacterial and antiviral molecule that benefits relaxation, pain-relief, inflammation, circulation, and immunity.

3. Release Buried Emotions

Since everything has a vibrational frequency, including you, it’s only natural that sound impacts how you feel. That’s why music can elicit specific emotions. Sound therapy allows you to unearth and release buried emotions, traumas, and memories. As this energetic weight releases, you feel lighter and more at ease. Due to these emotional shifts, therapeutic sound can be helpful for anxiety and depression.

“Sound has a direct effect on the chemistry of our emotions. It is not just that certain types of music make us feel happy or sad, but that specific frequencies can alter our brainwave patterns, which directly shift our emotional states.” — Don Gorman, The Sound Healer’s Bible.

4. Enhance Mood

Though you may not realize it, the sounds you hear throughout the day profoundly impact your mood. For example, noise from a construction site can leave you feeling irritated and on edge, whereas the tranquil sounds of nature elicit feelings of calm and peace. That’s why it’s essential to be intentional about the sounds you allow into your space. Luckily, sound therapy provides an opportunity to enhance your mood with high-vibe frequencies that encourage feelings of well-being. According to a study published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, listening to 30 minutes of live music increases dopamine levels. This “feel-good” neurotransmitter makes you feel happy and motivated. Recorded music provides similar benefits. 

5. Boost Brainwaves

You’re designed to be in harmony, and your brain supports that. By providing a consistent frequency, sound therapy allows your brainwaves to entrain or synchronize with the frequency of the sound. When your brainwaves are in sync, you feel more relaxed and focused. You can balance and harmonize your brain, body, heart, chakras, meridians, and more through entrainment. You can also shift your brainwaves from a normal beta state to a relaxed alpha state, a deep meditative theta state, and even a restorative delta state. Brainwave entrainment has many benefits, including better focus, concentration, relaxation, and sleep.

6. Expand Consciousness 

Not only does sound have the ability to boost brainwaves, it can also help you access expanded states of consciousness. Ancient cultures often used drumming to create a heartbeat rhythm of about 5 hertz, a theta brainwave state. Theta brainwaves allow you to enter a deeply meditative, dream-like state. Some also speculate that specific frequencies open the third eye and crown chakras that enable connection to higher realms of consciousness.

“When we raise our vibration through sound, we open ourselves up to experience life in a completely different way. We connect with our higher selves, the universe, and all that is. We become more attuned to our intuition and the subtle guidance of our soul.” — Julie Beischel, Ph.D., Mediumship Researcher

7. Access a Whole-Brain State

Science shows that brainwave entrainment is also effective at bridging both brain hemispheres to stimulate a Whole-Brain State. Listening to or playing music is one of the few things that lights up the entire brain on an EEG scan. When you’re in a Whole-Brain State, you’re able to think more clearly and creatively, coming up with solutions much easier.

“In a Whole-Brain State, both sides of the brain work together efficiently. The logical left side and the creative right side are integrated so you can think more clearly, creatively, and holistically. You become more intelligent, insightful, and effective when both sides of your brain work together in harmony.” — Dr. Dan Gable, Whole Brain States Expert

8. Increase Heart-Brain Coherence

Sound therapy increases heart-brain coherence, which promotes better communication between these two organs. When your heart and brain resonate and work together, you think more clearly, make better decisions, and feel more centered, calm, and happy. As you achieve higher heart-brain states, you can also expand consciousness into mystical states and resonate with different dimensions of reality.

9. Be More Magnetic

Using sound therapeutically allows you to achieve greater harmony and become a powerful manifestor. When you’re in a state of resonance, you emit a high-frequency signal that influences your reality in POWERFUL ways. You also tune into more subtle signals around you, making it easier to receive guidance from your intuition and the Universe.

“As we become more coherent and harmonious, we increase our magnetic field and radiate a higher vibration that is attractive to all things. We can change the world around us by changing the quality of our own consciousness.” — Dr. Masaru Emoto, Water Crystals Researcher

Experience Sound Therapy

Whether you want to relax, reduce stress, or improve your health, sound therapy is worth experiencing. Here are some ways to include more harmonious sounds in your life…

• Spend more time outside enjoying the sounds of nature

• Schedule a private Biofield Tuning sound therapy session

• Attend a local or online sound bath, drum circle, or sonic journey

• Listen to sound healing frequencies and music, especially with headphones

• Express your voice through singing, humming, chanting, or vocal toning

• Play an instrument like a drum, rattle, or Native American flute

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