Nothing affects your environmental wellness quite like sound; whether it’s nails on a chalkboard or a screaming baby on an aeroplane, the wrong sounds can really take their toll on your wellbeing. The question remains, however; can the right sounds actually see your health improve? According to a recent wellness trend, it can.
Sound healing uses chanting, music and other helpful noises to stimulate your body to heal itself. Through matter in the air, sound is transmitted as vibrations of energy at a particular wavelength. According to sound healing, everything in the universe is seen as being in a state of vibration, which is why they give out sounds. Therefore, illness is the same as being “out of tune” and sound healing uses instruments, the human voice and other tools to bring you back “into tune”. However, although this modality has gathered real steam as a complementary wellness technique, a body of literature on sound healing remains to be seen.
The exact origin of sound healing is unknown, but what we do know is that, for thousands of years, many different cultures have used chanting, music and unusual sounds in an attempt to heal the infirm. The basic structure of sound healing treatment involves making vibrations with instruments, noise makes and human voices. Health is embodied as therapeutic sound, and so these vibrations are supposed to bring your body back into harmony with this sound. This can be helpful if you need to heal from an emotional problem or even a reoccurring infection. While contemporary healers use all the wisdom of old healing techniques, they also tip their hat to the future by combining these ancient practices with modern research and opinions.
These days, there are a variety of therapeutic settings in which sound healing is used. It is not uncommon to find the practice in place in birthing centres, hospices or even detox clinics. While practitioners will most often use soothing music as the main tool, they may well turn to other noises, such as chanting or banging on gongs. Plus, sound healing isn’t just used as a single therapy, but in conjunction with other alternative methods. This is why you may have music played when you’re having a therapeutic massage or undergoing a session of acupuncture. Whether or not sound heals the ailments themselves remains to be proved, but the medical community do acknowledge that soothing sounds have a role to play in patient quality of life and pain threshold.
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