From the moment the embryo develops in the womb, sound transmission exists. The sounds that are transmitted from the mother shape the baby’s hearing, sense of perception, vibration, touch and texture. In addition, through our early experiences with sound and vibration, our whole nervous system is created and able to absorb acoustic therapies and vibrational healing. Sound penetrates molecules, tissues, and organs throughout our system and has been proven to impact proteins and DNA inside of our cells.
Our world is made up of energy which essentially is electromagnetic radiation. Everything in the universe is energy and different matter vibrates at different frequencies. Sounds are energy waves vibrating at different frequencies and wavelengths. These vibrations are absorbed into our cells and stimulate our system in positive and negative ways.
Sounds and the soothing aspects of sound have been practiced for centuries, for healing and also in religious and spiritual contexts such as Gregorian Chanting, using sound bowls, and tuning forks just to name a few. Sound baths were created using different musical instruments to balance the frequencies within the body. The therapeutic uses of sound fall into many different categories such as sound balancing, sound therapy, sound medicine, integrative medicine, frequency medicine, energy and alternative medicine.
In modern medicine, we have many technologies that use pulsating electromagnetic fields to stimulate healing within our body. For example, ultrasound is used to increase tissue relaxation, increasing blood flow which reduces local swelling, inflammation, pain, break down scar tissues and helps to heal bone fractures. Ultrasound also is used for imaging purposes.
Research has shown that pure analog sounds of continuous tones or melodious music have the potential to correct the energetic imbalances that may be present in the body or the biofield of a person, perhaps even leading to the repair of imbalanced DNA or RNA genetic material inside our cells. (Tuning the Human Biofield, Eileen Day McKusick, 2014, pg. xvi-xvii, 67, 71).
Sound therapy is not only impactful for humans but also for animals. Just like human beings, animals are sensitive to sounds and therefor are affected by the sounds that take place in their environment. Playing relaxing music in the background for animals living in shelters for example, has been proven to dramatically reduce the anxiety that the animals feel and portray behaviorally. When the body is in a state of relaxation the body is able to recalibrate, energize and heal itself.
The physical, mental, and emotional body is able to live in a more optimal and heathy way. Tuning fork therapy is a modality of healing that uses various clear universal tones to “lighten” and “brighten” the cells within our body. Though scientific studies, certain types of notes and music stimulates nitric oxide (NO) production within the body which causes muscles to relax and blood vessels to dilate which stimulates healing.
Through these scientific findings, sound therapies are becoming more popular and used as integrative techniques to stimulate health and well-being for humans and animals. Many Western and Eastern practitioners are becoming more interested in learning and integrating diverse methods to achieve optimal health and wellness in the body and to use the various tools at their disposal.