Sound meditation – Why is this important?

Sound meditation – Why is this important? I found sound meditation to be the deepest experience for me. Maybe it is because I was a professional musician for about ten years. But when speaking to other people, they also find sound toning and sound meditation one of the deepest and most profound forms of meditation.

I can feel parts of my body resonate when I use certain sounds and tones. This is the deepest meditation for me, and when I use this technique regularly, my silent meditations get much deeper also. I used to do sound healing sessions with tuning forks and developed ways of healing the chakra system and the ethereal body by using the forks. It was the strangest of activities at first.

I could tell if a chakra or energy field of the body was out of sync just by waving the tuning forks around the area of the chakra or around the body if it were not so specific to body position. This was one of many empirical evidential realisations that I had with meditation and how it works. I used to re tune people’s energy body, and they would tell me how clear and amazing they felt after a session.

I found I had become a symptoms-based healer and tried to encourage the client to stop living the life that kept taking their energy out of resonance of their natural field. This came with frustration after frustration until I found sound toning. This meant that I could teach them the way to do this, and then do the practice at home, so they did not become reliant on me.

The Power of Sound

Have you ever felt the calming effect of ocean waves or used ASMR to relax? If so, you've already experienced the power of sound. Sound can be used to reach a deeper level of relaxation through sound meditation. Sound meditation replaces spoken words with sounds and vibrations, like those produced by gongs, singing bowls and drums.

What is Sound Meditation?

You may be familiar with meditation that uses spoken words to help you focus on the present. Sound meditation replaces these words with sounds and vibrations. While it may seem unusual at first, even a short sound meditation session can provide blissful relaxation similar to a spa treatment.

A History of Sound Healing

Using sound for relaxation has a long history in many cultures. Ancient civilisations used chanting to improve mental clarity and focus.

Sound therapy was even used to rehabilitate soldiers returning from World War II in the 1940s. Sound healing has ancient roots across the world, from Australian aboriginal tribes who used the didgeridoo as a sound healing instrument over 40,000 years ago to Tibetan singing bowl ceremonies. More recently, sound baths have emerged as a popular type of sound healing that use Tibetan singing bowls, quartz bowls and bells to guide the listener.

Benefits of Sound Meditation

Stress Reduction

Sound meditation can provide a sense of peace and tranquillity, helping to alleviate stress, anxiety and emotional overwhelm.

Soothing sounds calm the mind and promote relaxation, allowing the body and mind to settle and slow down. Gentle, soothing sounds can act as a natural stress reliever, dissolving existing tension within your body.

One study published in the Journal of Evidence-Based Integrative Medicine found that an hour-long sound meditation using Tibetan singing bowls, crystal singing bowls, gongs and other instruments helped reduce tension, anger, fatigue, anxiety, and depression while increasing a sense of spiritual well-being.

Improved Sleep

Incorporating practices that promote relaxation can improve sleep quality.

Sound meditation can help the body move into a state of rest and digest, rather than remaining in fight-or-flight mode, which makes falling asleep easier and improves sleep quality throughout the night.

Enhanced Concentration & Focus

Sound meditation requires you to focus your awareness on the sounds you hear, bringing your attention back whenever it wanders.

This focus reduces mental chatter, negative self-talk and habitual patterns. As your practice develops, immersing yourself in the sound can lead to a calm and clear mind and greater focus throughout the day.

How Does Sound Heal?

Science is still researching how sound heals, but current findings are promising. A review of 400 scientific articles on music as medicine found that music has mental and physical health benefits, improving mood and reducing stress.

One theory is that sound works through vibrational tactile effects on the body.

Sound could stimulate touch fibres that affect pain perception. One study found that low-frequency sound stimulation helped people with fibromyalgia by improving sleep, decreasing pain and allowing nearly three-fourths of participants to reduce pain medication.

Sound-based vibration treatment has been shown to help with various types of pain including arthritis, menstrual pain, post-operative pain and knee replacement pain.

It has also been found to improve mobility, reduce muscle pain and stiffness, increase blood circulation, and lower blood pressure.

Another theory focuses on “binaural beats” or “brain entrainment” - the idea that listening to certain frequencies can synchronize and change one's brainwaves.

Sound Healing: The Future of Therapy?

Sound healing offers potential therapeutic benefits with low to minimal side effects.

As research continues to explore the healing power of sound, it may become a more widely accepted and integrated form of therapy in the future.

Sound toning helps your body resonate back with your energy body. It really is deep for me, and I found it remarkable when I could focus, say, on my Sacral chakra, and make it vibrate by focusing on a tone, and using that tone. This helped me clear my energy body and made me feel amazing again. Sound is incredible. I have created a vocal toning course for you to heal your chakra system using sound.

Click the link below to experience this amazing healing for yourself.

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I look forward to connecting with you again really soon.

Until then, be well and keep shining.

Peter. :)

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