Essentially Sound

About sound healing

• Integrates modern science, ancient wisdom, music, and the healing arts.

• Healing with sound has been widely used throughout the world for thousands of years.

• It’s a form of vibrational medicine that helps to balance all aspects of your well-being, physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual.

When you’re out of balance, that’s when aches, pains, illness, and disease happen. By fine-tuning your system with sound, your body’s natural healing abilities are activated and can help restore balance within the body.

Sound Bath Benefits

• Induces deep relaxation and self-healing

• Gives relief from stress, worry, anxiety

• Releases old unhealthy patterns and tensions

• Clears blockages, stuck energy - detoxifies •Increases energy, vitality, and creativity

• Reforms new healthy patterns of harmony, balance, and well-being •Connects with sacred sound stream for inner awakening

What to expect from a sound healing session

Like with most alternative healing modalities and meditative practices, everyone’s experience is different, and new things may come up in each session. Most people will feel very relaxed and peaceful during a sound healing session; some might have visualizations, receive creative downloads, or have an emotional breakthrough. Others may go to a place mentally in which you are not quite awake and not quite asleep. It often feels like you’re floating peacefully through time and space. Meanwhile, some people may emerge from a dreamy sound bath feeling more wired than blissed out. Each experience is unique.

432 Hz is the same frequency as the solar system, water, life... it's also the same natural tone of Tibetan singing bowls and native flutes.

In 1955, the International Organization for Standardization officially declared 440Hz as the standard pitch for music worldwide. If you ever took music classes in school or played in an orchestra or band, you're likely very familiar with hearing the tone of A at 440 Hz to help 'tune' your instrument.

This standardization was set after multiple meetings over years prior. For centuries, there was no fixed frequency for A (the most magical of notes). At the turn of the 19th century, concert halls were getting bigger, and ensembles needed to fill that space with sound. Instrument construction - especially for strings - was improving. Since tuning higher leads to a "brighter" sound, orchestras all over began tuning up from the previous 'standard' pitch of A425 - at a time when string instruments used gut strings (strings made from the intestines of animals). Tuning at a higher frequency would cause those belly bands to break; likewise, they sound terrible when tuned lower.

By 1859 the French government declared that A435 was the proper pitch. It quickly became a sort of new standard for instrument makers. 26 years later at a music conference in Vienna, Austria, the tuning standard was bumped up from A435 to A440, and that's been the standard of tuning ever since. (Source: WQXR New York Public Radio)
So what about A as 432 Hz? Let's refer to a published article on PubMed (NIH National Library of Medicine). A study published in 2019 concludes that 432 Hz tuned music can decrease heart rate more than 440 Hz tuned music. The subjects were more focused on listening to music and more generally satisfied after the sessions in which they listened to 432 Hz tuned music. (Source: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31031095/)

This evidence is consistent in another study published in 2020: "Effect of music at 432 Hz and 440 Hz on dental anxiety and salivary cortisol levels in patients undergoing tooth extraction: a randomized clinical trial" where the results showed significantly lower anxiety level values were observed at 432 Hz and 440 Hz compared to the control group with no music. The salivary cortisol level at 432 Hz was significantly lower than 440 Hz and the control group, concluding that the use of music significantly decreased clinical anxiety levels, and the frequency of 432 Hz was effective in decreasing salivary cortisol levels before tooth extraction. (Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7213780/)

With crystal bowls, you may commonly find quartz crystal singing bowls - these can be commonly found as solid white, tinted or solid with color, and even infused with other crystals.

Crystal singing bowls are ideal for off-body usage. These sound bowls are naturally much more fragile than metal bowls, so it is important to note a safe space to store your bowl(s) when they’re not in use.

Crystal bowls have been used in healing modalities since the 1980s. In a merger of new and ancient technologies, the computer industry made very high-quality, pure silicon quartz crystal bowls utilized to grow pure silicon chips for their computers. If the bowls were not precise enough, they were thrown out. As the story goes, someone on the way to the trash bin discovered they have incredible pure sounds, and decided to stop discarding them! This birthed the singing crystal bowl industry.

Dr. Mitchell Gaynor, MD, a cancer specialist of Cornell Medical Center, NY, has found using the bowls, especially with simple chant and meditative practices, assists his clients to come into better states of wellness with recovery rates over those using just standard allopathic treatment. Many other practitioners are offering both studies and anecdotal testimony in their use. I find them to be an extraordinary tool for simply bathing the client in rich sounds, which generate deep-feeling states of wellness and relaxation. This can lead the body into a place of homeostasis, which assists the body in self-generative healing. From this place of relaxation or restoration, one can, also, easily guide a recipient into meditative states to explore deeper aspects of emotional release and resolution, or journeying into the inner dimensional awareness of one's greater being, and the greater cosmos.

The crystal singing bowls are tuned to influence the body’s natural healing process, focusing on the frequency of our body’s energy centers to support the body overall - emotionally and physically.

What are you feeling?

Sound Bath Benefits

• Induces deep relaxation and self-healing

• Gives relief from stress, worry, anxiety

• Releases old unhealthy patterns and tensions

• Clears blockages, stuck energy - detoxifies •Increases energy, vitality, and creativity

• Reforms new healthy patterns of harmony, balance, and well-being •Connects with sacred sound stream for inner awakening

What to expect from a sound healing session

Like with most alternative healing modalities and meditative practices, everyone’s experience is different, and new things may come up in each session. Most people will feel very relaxed and peaceful during a sound healing session; some might have visualizations, receive creative downloads, or have an emotional breakthrough. Others may go to a place mentally in which you are not quite awake and not quite asleep. It often feels like you’re floating peacefully through time and space. Meanwhile, some people may emerge from a dreamy sound bath feeling more wired than blissed out. Each experience is unique.