What is sound healing and how can it help you?

Everything in the universe is in vibration.  This is a scientific fact that is widely understood, but the applications of a universal model based on vibration is not as well understood.  We are living in a universe made of sound and light waves, and electromagnetic energy that vibrates at different frequencies is just another way of talking about electricity. We are electric beings! Our medical world has been hyper-focused on the chemical interactions in our body, but this view is extremely limiting compared with the impact that electromagnetic energy has on our systems.

Every organ in our body resonates at a particular frequency, with the heartbeat being the most easily understood frequency.  That’s why EKGs and EC’s work! These medical tests are simply measuring the electrical output of our hearts. Our brain has its own frequency or rhythm, as does the earth itself. The cavity between the earth and the ionosphere has a frequency of 7.83-Hz which is the constant electromagnetic pulse in our environment, commonly known as the Schumann resonance.  Many people call this the “Earth’s heartbeat” and we humans who inhabit this earth are deeply connected to this heartbeat. 

Interestingly, early astronauts who travelled outside of earth’s atmosphere experienced “space sickness” when they were disconnected from the frequency of the earth.  Schumann resonance generators were eventually placed onboard space shuttles in order to mitigate the debilitating effects of separating ourselves from this essential frequency.  We are finely tuned beings, and NASA inadvertently discovered just how important vibration and frequency is to our existence!

So what does this have to do with tuning forks and sound healing?  When we understand that the body is a collection of dynamic frequencies, it’s easy to understand how the introduction of outside frequencies generated by acoustic instruments such as gongs, singing bowls and tuning forks have the potential to affect our energetic bodies.  We all have likely experienced how a particular piece of music can affect our moods and emotional states, and this is similar to the beneficial biological effect that occurs when we are exposed to coherent tones produced by tuning forks. 

Conversely, many alternative healing practitioners characterize disease in the body as energetic dissonance and healing is simply a process of bring the body back into harmony.  This can happen quiet literally with the application of tuning forks on and off the body, as the pure frequencies of the forks help the body to self-correct by hearing its own dissonance and then entraining to the correct frequency.  

Eileen Day Mckusick, the founder of Biofield Tuning, describes this process in her book, “Tuning the Human Biofield.”  She states, “The tuning forks are used like sonar – as they are combed or passed through the field, their changing overtones reflect changes in the terrain of the biofield.  Blockages of flow and distortions in the field show up as dissonance that is readily perceived by both the therapist and the client.  In this way they are used diagnostically.  However, the coherent frequency of the forks also acts therapeutically in a very targeted way when the forks are held in specific areas of acute distortion, inducing greater order into the system.”

In my work as an energy healer, I have found the application of tuning forks to be deeply healing and beneficial as they allow the body and mind to relax into a natural state of harmony that promotes self-healing.  This is a wonderfully compatible practice with Reiki, as it is gentle, noninvasive and efficient and promotes deep states of relaxation.  In my own experience using tuning forks on my body, I have enjoyed the best sleep of my life, detoxification, greater levels of energy and mental clarity along with the healing of a nagging foot issue brought on by hundreds of miles of running during marathon and triathlon training.  Bonus!

I encourage all my clients to sample a bit of the sound healing magic and see how this powerful modality can improve your health and well-being.  Simply select a Biofield Tuning Standard Session, or a Sonic Meridian Flush for a relaxing, spa-like experience.

As always, please reach out with any questions on this wonderful modality!