Frequencies – How Sound & Vibrations Can Elevate Your Life.
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When’s the last time you listened to music, or a podcast, or white noise, or binaural beats, or any other form of audio?
Probably not that long ago. Now answer this: when’s the last time you gave any thought whatsoever to the wavelength frequency of the sound being blasted into your ears? Most likely, never.
At the gym, at the end of a shift, on a romantic night in with the lights turned down and a delicious meal on the table, humans have this strange habit of turning on certain sounds from various sources that vibrate the air around and randomly hit your eardrums which stimulates specific neural activity in such a way as to effect a change in mood, focus or emotion.
Weird.
What’s even weirder is that this isn’t typically thought of as being bizarre. Music innervates daily life, and just as emotional health is critical to your humanity, music, sound, and vibration are tied up in your overall wellbeing. But sound doesn’t even need to be structured to elicit an emotional and physiological response. Think back to the last time you were sitting quietly minding your own business, focusing on some project, and out of nowhere the air is split by the sound of a glass or plate clattering on the ground. You snap to attention, briefly entering fight-or-flight fear mode.
This is due to something even weirder. The gut reaction to jump and become afraid at loud noises is deeply woven into human genetics. Loud noises elicit a fear response, including increased blood pressure and pulse rate, in order to keep you alive. And that type of fight-or-flight, sympathetic nervous system reaction initiates the release of the chemical norepinephrine, which shuts down immune functions like viral defense and ramps up the production of specialized white blood cells called monocytes. These monocytes, while extremely effective in inhibiting infection, are by nature pro-inflammatory. So if you’re constantly exposed to loud noises or sounds that cause a similar reaction to a nonstick pan colliding with tile, or louder, you may be allowing minor inflammation, the bane of longevity and physical health, to rise and rule largely unchecked. However, if you expose yourself to sounds that are more wholesome, you can reduce the damaging effects of other sounds, and even heal yourself of a myriad of diseases and decrease the prevalence of harmful mental states and degenerative physiological conditions.
That’s the (simply stated) basis of sound healing. Sound healing is the practice of using audio tones and vibrational frequencies to repair damaged tissues and cells within the body. It works on the idea that all matter is vibrating at specific frequencies, and sickness, disease, depression, and stress cause human beings to vibrate at a lower frequency. Playing tones that promote healing, happiness, and vitality will allow DNA strands to repair themselves.
Sound has been used as a healing tool for centuries and is still regularly utilized by many alternative health care centers and cultures with rich ancestral traditions. Tibetan singing bowls, tuning forks, drumming therapy, and even chanting are all used in sound therapy, and many participants experience strong emotions during therapy sessions. Advocates of sound healing claim that it has the power to heal mental illness, arthritis, autoimmune disorders, and can even shrink cancerous tumors.
This may sound a bit woo-woo, but this type of medicine isn’t as superstitious as you might be led to believe. Sound healing is a form of energy medicine, which refers to two kinds of energy fields: veritable energy fields (measurable), and putative energy fields (can’t be measured with current technology). Veritable energy fields include things like vibrational energy from sound, and electromagnetic forces such as visible light, magnetism, and monochromatic radiation such as lasers.
There are oodles of well-established uses for measurable energy fields in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), laser eye correction surgery, cardiac pacemakers, radiation therapy and UV light therapy, just to name a few. There are even a few less well-known therapies based on veritable energy, such as magnetic therapy for pain relief, and, as you’re about to discover, sound energy/vibrational therapy.
Sound therapy is as old as dirt – or at least as old as primitive human medicine. Here, you’ll discover just a few of the dozens of methods available, including one super practical tip you can implement today. But first, it’s time to put to rest the naysaying and to get into the specifics of how sound physically interacts with your body.
Sound Waves, Brainwaves, and Cellular Waves There are three things you should familiarize yourself with: sound itself, and how it works, the electromagnetic rhythms of your brain, and the vibrational energy of your cells.
Sound is vibration, or waves of air molecules oscillating as a result of the rapid, back-and-forth movement of an object. And if you'd like a crisp scientific definition:
“Sound waves are produced by a vibrating body, be it an oboe reed, guitar string, loudspeaker cone or jet engine. The vibrating sound source causes a disturbance to the surrounding air molecules, causing them to bounce off each other with a force proportional to the disturbance. The energy of their interaction creates ripples of more dense (higher pressure) to less dense (lower pressure) air molecules, with pressures above and below the normal atmospheric pressure. When the molecules are pushed closer together it is called compression; when they have pulled apart, it is called rarefaction. The back and forth oscillation of pressure produces a sound wave.”
A vibrating object, whether a guitar string or your own vocal chord, causes the air surrounding it to also vibrate. These sound waves hit your eardrums, making them vibrate, and that in turn causes waves in the fluid of your inner ear. Those waves are detected by various auditory nerves that relay the information to your brain to let you hear. Hearing, the detection of sound, isn’t detached from the physical world – it’s a physical effect, resulting from a physical cause. So it shouldn’t seem all that weird that certain frequencies of vibrating air impact your physiology and mental state.
Now onto brain waves. Neuroscientist Seth Horowitz wrote a book called The Universal Sense: How Hearing Shapes the Mind. He talks about the “right rhythms” for your brain, which may affect neurohormonal changes that occur over several months to a single neuron changing its activity state in milliseconds or less. With EEG (electroencephalography) machines, a few major rhythms have been identified that underpin the human cortex (the largest part of the brain that plays a key role in memory, attention, perception, cognition, awareness, thought, language, and consciousness), each of which changes under different physiological and cognitive conditions. The theta rhythm is the slowest (4-8 Hz) and rises at least in part from the hippocampus during memory processing. The alpha rhythm (6-12 Hz) is generated by connections between different parts of the cortex and the cortex and the thalamus. The beta rhythm (20 Hz) is generated in the motor cortex to control voluntary movement, and is usually only seen right after a person stops moving, acting as a sort of “off switch”. The gamma rhythm (40 Hz), may be involved in binding together individual sensory inputs and feedback loops that let you observe the world as a coherent, consistent environment.
But waves, rhythms and electrical vibrations don’t zap around just in your cranium.
These waves interact with your entire body and this is how sickness, disease, depression, and stress cause human beings to vibrate at a lower frequency, according to a JB Bardot article. There’s also a great book available titled Healing and Recovery, by Dr. David Hawkins. In it, he explains how frequencies, including audible frequencies produced by sound and music, can elicit either positive or negative emotion. And those frequencies can also elicit positive vibrations in different cells and tissues in your body – but they can also cause negative vibrations. That’s why some music makes you feel really good, while some can stress you out to no end.
Sound medicine is the science of biohacking these bodily rhythms that are vibrating in your brain, feet, and everywhere in between, in order to maximize the prominence and efficiency of specific wavelengths. Dr. Horowitz mentions a number of commonly-used strategies, like playing a tone or noise at a particular rate like the 8-10 Hz posterior alpha rhythm to induce relaxation. But methods like that are a bit simplistic, so he goes on to say that to get large portions of your brain hooked to a single rhythm, you need to expose yourself to a complicated input from a number of sources acting together. One way to do that is through binaural beating.
Most of the current research on binaural beats is based on the early 1970’s research done by biophysicist Gerald Oster, who showed that when a tone is played in one ear, and a slightly different tone is played in the other, the difference between the tones causes the brain to create a third, internal tone, which is the binaural beat. This syncs up the brain waves in both hemispheres, a process duly dubbed “brainwave entrainment”. In 2008, the journal Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine published a review of twenty studies of brainwave entrainment and patient outcome and concluded that it is indeed an effective tool against cognitive functioning deficits, stress, pain, headaches, behavioral problems, and premenstrual syndrome.
Sound can even be used to treat more serious conditions than a simple lack of focus or drive, however. Ultrasound, whose most commonly-known use is observing the fetus in the womb, uses sound waves to produce a visible image. It’s also used to determine pain sources, as well as loci of swelling and infection. But lately, it’s taken on a more therapeutic application. Either by itself or in conjunction with drugs, it’s used to treat diabetes, stroke, cancer, cardiovascular diseases, infections, osteoporosis, thrombosis, glaucoma, nerve damage, skin wounds and bone fractures. And one of the primary ways by which it works is its interactions with cells and tissues. Hold on tight, things are about to get a little technical.
Your cells have what’s called electrical potential, by which they resonate and vibrate at specific frequencies that change under various circumstances. All molecules, including the ones that make up your cells, oscillate at a specific frequency, whose intensity is dependent on temperature. For single molecules and molecule groups, there are characteristic frequency patterns with defined peaks already used in modern chemical analysis. The characteristic spectra of molecular vibrations of many biomolecules have been determined for different tissue types, ranging from 1011 – 1014 Hz. Certain parts of tissue cells, like the cell membrane, endoplasmic reticulum, Golgi apparatus, and different microsomes representing polar lipids, will exhibit varying frequency patterns in different environments. When the cell is damaged, it reads the electromagnetic signals of specific frequencies in order to properly respond to the surrounding circumstances.
Now, ultrasound will actually elevate the temperature of the target tissue cells. It’ll also impact the vibrational frequency of the entire cell. And granted, different tissue types will react differently – osteocytes (bone cells) have a higher ultrasound absorption coefficient than muscle cells, so they react more dramatically. But ultrasound is still beneficial to the entire body. Perhaps the most dramatic effect is called “cellular cavitation”. Cavitation bubbles form when high-amplitude ultrasonic pressure waves travel through liquid. When the bubbles occur in close proximity, they rupture, and the resulting jets can rapidly stretch cells, poke holes in them or even obliterate their membranes, leading ultimately to cell death. Dying cells express a signal to the surrounding surviving cells to eat them and clean up the remains, a process known as “autophagy”. This is what makes ultrasound so effective against unhealthy, damaged, and/or tumorous cells. By targeting them, the ultrasound waves cause them to rupture and be swept up by the surrounding tissue cells.
To summarize:
Your body is literally humming (albeit very quietly) with energy at specific vibrational frequencies. When you’re healthy, you hum along at normal rates. But when something’s wrong with some part of your body, your cells, and therefore you, hum much more quietly and less efficiently. So in order to fully maximize your natural inclination to vibrate your way through breakfast, work, lunch, school, and dinner till you go to sleep and hum a different tune, you have to expose yourself to beneficial sound waves. There’s a wonderland of paraphernalia that can induce audio therapy, from sound healing ceremonies and crystal bowls, to music, to vibrating massage therapy tables and all sorts of other things out there that capitalize on your body’s response to vibration. So for the next little bit, enjoy a short and sweet introduction to sound therapy biohacks.
Vibrational Energy Healing & Restorative Frequency Therapy
First of all, you need to limit or eliminate exposure to deleterious sound and vibration frequencies. There are negative frequencies that cause negative physiological effects. In particular, the “A” tone generated by most tuning instruments oscillates at a frequency of 440 Hz, which, when played on its own over the body, introduces a certain level of physiological chaos. Sonically, moving up ever so slightly to 444 Hz gives you the greatest frequency, something you can play safely because it activates every single organ, and positively impacts your DNA.
For example, 528 Hz affects your brain and influences any sense of shame or unworthiness, lending a greater sense of self-worth, as well as impacts the cells of the heart. Human sound (voice) tuned to these frequencies can directly counter the effects of harmful EMF’S by recalibrating the biofield of the body to its healthy resonant frequency.
A human sound resonance & vibration machine introduces a healthy frequency that entrains with the scrambled frequencies caused by exposure to these damaging electromagnetic fields. This creates a resonant response in the body and brain to reestablish a state of harmony.
Halo Day Spa has a human-generated sound resonance & vibration machine that is exponentially the most effective carrier and delivery system of beneficial frequency to the body compared to frequencies or tones that are machine or digitally produced, or tones created through the use of musical instruments, singing bowls, or tuning forks.
Our brain and body are hard-wired to readily resonate and entrain with the human voice.
The human voice can elicit not only a physiological response but often a powerful, transcendent and transformative emotional one as well.
There are over five thousand scientific papers and peer-reviewed studies on the health dangers of electromagnetic (EMF) fields such as Wi-Fi and cell phone transmissions.
Bioelectromagnetic Medicine: The Role of Resonance Signaling A. Foletti, S. Grimaldi, A. Lisi, M. Ledda, AR Liboff, Electromagnetic Biological Medicine, Dec., 2013
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23323834
You can also use two devices that generate potent, body-optimizing frequencies using pulsed electromagnetic fields, or PEMF – the Delta Sleeper PEMF machine, and the EarthPulse PEMF Sleep Machine. As already stated, your brain naturally generates specific electromagnetic frequency patterns that reflect what state you’re in. But the brain is highly receptive to external electromagnetic stimuli. So if you expose your body to specific PEMF frequencies, they’ll stimulate those that your brain would produce at various sleep stages, thus inducing that particular stage at a much faster, more efficient rate, and resulting in better sleep, improved energy production and greater metabolic health.
But even if you don’t take advantage of these cool gadgets, there’s one simple, practical tip that you should absolutely try after reading this, and it requires nothing more than your bare feet. This giant ball of dirt and rock hurtling through space we call Earth emits a natural electromagnetic frequency called the Schumann resonance. It falls roughly between 7.3 and 7.4 Hz, so it’s super slow but oh-so-powerful. And honestly, not nearly enough people get their minimum daily intake of the Schumann resonance. Human ancestors got a heavy dose every single day, walking around barefoot, sleeping on the ground, running through the woods hunting, meandering from bush to bush gathering nuts and berries, and even just sitting on the packed earth in their homes. But with the rise of thicker footwear and man-made flooring, man experiences far less Schumann resonance, a sad lot to be in since 7-8 Hz has been shown to effect a healing change in the body, and to regulate the body’s electrical signals and conducting channels after flying on a plane, using WiFi or Bluetooth, or being surrounded by appliances and cell phone towers and dirty electricity.
We at Halo recommend to reorient yourself to the frequencies of the Earth, just go outside for ten to twenty minutes a day barefoot and get in touch with trees, rocks, dirt, or any natural thing that’s touching the earth so you can absorb the healing properties associated with the Schumann resonance. You can even get specially designed shoes that compound its effect, like the Earth Runners minimalist earthing sandals, just in case you don’t want to be that barefoot hippie at the neighborhood potluck. They’re inspired by the world-renowned long-distance runners, the Tarahumara Native American Indians of Northwestern Mexico, capable of traversing over 100 miles on foot in just a couple days, with minimal footwear. However you do it, barefoot or in special footwear, go out of your way each day to recreate this one-of-a-kind, primal experience to fully optimize body, mind, and spirit.
Summary Words and sounds are much more than just a method of communication. They are tangible forces that have a direct effect on your health and wellbeing. The study of quantum physics shows that the human body and the entire universe is made up of tiny pieces of vibrating matter, hinged together by magnetic forces. Exposing the internal organs and brain to different musical frequencies will encourage the living matter in you to heal from within, to raise the frequency of your body and promote health, vitality and spiritual enhancement.
As you go through your day, think about how your exposure to various types of vibrations affect you. What kind of music do you listen to? Are you getting in touch with the planet you live on? Do you play frequencies like 444 Hz, 528 Hz, or any frequency in the 800s to hone in on specific areas of your body? Do you surround yourself with pulsing, electromagnetic energy to reset your brain and capitalize on the waves you generate naturally?
There are lots of ways you can maximize your exposure to beneficial vibrations. So your task now is to make time at some point in the day to kick aside the shoes and wiggle your toes in some dirt. It doesn’t have to be long, just ten or twenty minutes, so you’ve got every opportunity to include this in your daily routine. Wholesome, total-body rejuvenation can occur from within, all you have to do is tune your environment, and your body will inevitably follow suit.
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