Sound therapy has recently made waves in wellness circles. According to Shape, this form of sound healing utilizes musical vibrations as healing modality to improve overall health and well-being.
Instruments such as singing bowls, gongs and tuning forks produce soothing sounds that have anti-inflammatory and immunity boosting effects. Here’s how they do so:
Reduces Stress
Sounds can have a dramatic impact on our moods; loud music may leave us feeling stressed out while nature sounds may produce feelings of calm and peace.
Sound therapy uses sounds to ease stress and boost mood while helping individuals to establish healthier coping mechanisms and overcome stress without resorting to self-destructive behaviours.
Sound therapy can also improve sleep quality, leading to enhanced quality of life and physical wellbeing. Sound therapy also activates a parasympathetic healing response that boosts immunity while decreasing pain and inflammation, and may increase production of nitric oxide which could enhance circulation and cell efficiency for improved overall health benefits.
Relieves Headaches
Sound therapy utilizes music, tones and vibrations to induce relaxation, nervous system rebalancing and emotional healing. Practitioners employ instruments like bells, singing bowls, chimes and gongs to produce soothing sounds that stimulate and balance chakras – the body’s energy centers located throughout its energy grids.
Though sound healing may appear to be just another wellness fad, its advantages can actually be scientifically demonstrated. First and foremost, sound therapy puts your body into parasympathetic mode which reduces stress levels and inflammation levels in a natural manner.
Sound therapy’s other advantages include increasing cellular production of nitric oxide, which acts as a natural vasodilator that enhances circulation and decreases blood pressure at an atomic level. Nitric oxide also has anti-migraine benefits by relieving stress that often contributes to headaches or migraines.
Boosts Confidence
Stress is at the center of many of today’s health issues and issues we experience, and sound therapy sessions can be effective at relieving it and increasing performance at work by increasing confidence.
Sound therapy uses soothing sounds to lower stress and clear your mind, increasing energy and removing negativity from your life.
Sound frequencies can help increase production of nitric oxide, which acts as a vasodilator that improves blood flow and helps you keep a healthy heart rate, helping prevent heart attacks and strokes as well. Nitric oxide also aids depression sufferers by changing how their brain responds to certain emotions by altering brain wave frequency from beta state (wakefulness) to deep meditational state delta (deep meditational state).
Improves Relationships
Music can have an immense effect on our emotions; an upbeat tune can lift spirits while slow ballads have the power to move us towards tears. But many don’t realise that sound healing works similarly by stimulating both psychological and physical healing through vibrations and frequencies.
As different sounds transmit different frequencies when listening, it’s essential that you choose those best suited to your needs. A sound bath offers one such approach by featuring Tibetan singing bowls, gongs, tuning forks and chimes as sound source options.
These sounds may help improve sleep and ease stress relief, benefiting your overall health in turn. Other forms of sound therapy include acoustic music therapies as well as binaural beats.
Helps You Think Clearer
Sound therapy can help you focus on what’s most important to you and think more quickly – both benefits that will serve you in work or school environments.
Studies show that people living with fibromyalgia often struggle to concentrate, and sound therapy may help improve their ability to do so. Furthermore, sound therapy has been found to decrease pain levels as well as cut down on medication use.
Music has long been used as a healing modality and sound therapy is an emerging trend. It may help reduce stress and anxiety levels, improve concentration, strengthen immunity, heal injuries or wounds faster and help promote recovery faster than any other therapy method. Bonny Method of Guided Imagery and Music (GIM) uses classical music to help clients explore their consciousness and spirituality more deeply.
