Sound healing is the ability of sound to heal elements of ourselves that are in imbalance. Discover what to expect from a Sound Healing session.

Sound healing is the ability of sound to heal elements of ourselves that are in imbalance. Sound healing dates back to prehistoric times. In ancient mystery schools of Egypt, Greece and India, the use of sound and music for healing was a highly developed sacred science (Goldman and Sims 2015). Many instruments or tools can be used in sound healing, including the voice, through toning or chanting, to balance the physical body, chakras and subtle bodies (Andrews 1992). In a therapeutic setting, a practitioner works with a client to address physical and emotional issues and helps to facilitate healing.

How does Sound Healing work?
The Big Bang Theory suggests that 13.8 billion years ago, the universe started from a singularity, then expanded to become the cosmos we know today. Despite its name, scientists suggest that the “Big Bang” was in fact silent as the early universe was too energetically dense and there was no recognisable matter as we know it to allow sound to be propagated. Over the next 380,000 years, as the universe continued to expand and cool forming galaxies, and primordial sound waves were formed. Primordial sound would likely have been a very powerful but low frequency. Around 4.6 billion years ago when the Earth is thought to have been formed, there was an abundance of sound. The earth surface cooled, the rains fell forming oceans and creatures evolved.

A few years ago, I realised I had stopped singing and laughing. When I say ‘singing’, I mean singing in the privacy and safety of my kitchen or shower. I had essentially lost my voice. It was a gradual process, so I didn’t even notice it had happened, but I knew why it happened. I was in situations where I felt I couldn’t express my true desires, thoughts and emotions, mainly for fear they would be rejected or for disrupting the status quo.

A cascade of events then unfolded starting with enrolling on the Cranio-Sacral Therapy training. I had received Cranio-Sacral treatment for several years before this, but the training provides a very different aspect to healing and I was forced to confront the fact I couldn’t hear myself. Laughter, and singing in a similar vein, is a universal expression of joy. Joy is not a transient emotion or experience, it is an internal state of being where you are present, grounded and contented. In contrast, happiness is much more dependent on our external world and what is happening around us. If we get that new pair of shoes or if we win an argument with our partner, we will be happy. I had a roof over my head, I had a job, I could buy good food, but I wasn’t able to express an internal joy.