Rediscovering the art and science of Sound healing
John Stuart Reid and Annaliese Kohinoor illustrate how sound is fast regaining its place as the pre-eminent healing modality. Having been first
used by the ancients, sound therapy has undergone a period of re-discovery and is now poised to reveal the intricacies of healing both at the cellular and
psychological levels.
Sound will be the medicine of the future.’ Edgar Cayce
Most ancient cultures used the seemingly magical power of sound to heal. Sound healing had almost disappeared in the West until the 1930s when acoustic researchers discovered ultrasound and its medical properties. With this discovery,research burgeoned and today the ancient art of sound healing is rapidly developing into a new science.There is now a mass of research into the healing benefits of ultrasound,including its use in breaking up kidney stones and even shrinking tumours.1–3 In addition, infrasound and audible sound are now recognized as having immense healing properties.The Aboriginal people of Australia are the first known culture to heal with sound. Their ‘yidaki’ (modern name,didgeridoo) has been used
as a healing tool for at least 40,000 years. The Aborigines healed broken
bones, muscletears and illnesses of every kind using their enigmatic musical instrument. Interestingly, the sounds emitted by the yidaki are in alignment with modern sound healing technology. It is becoming apparent that the wisdom of the ancients was based on ‘sound’ principles.Sound: primordial organizer of the universe In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was with God, and the Word was God. St. John’s Gospel, Ch 1, v 1.Many spiritual traditions speak of sound as being the formative force of creation. Before focusing on current research into sound healing, let us consider the vital role sound may have played in structuring our universe.Recent studies point to sound as having reigned supreme as the prime organising force of all matter, especially during the first million years of creation.4 Of course, sound cannot travel in the vacuum of space but sound can travel wherever matter is dense
enough to allow atoms or molecules to collide with each other. In fact, it is this process of collision that provides a clear definition of sound: The passing on of vibrational data at the moment of collision between any two atoms or molecules.Sound not only structured our universe,it may also have been at work in Earth’s primordial oceans. The structuring and organizing force that triggered life has always eluded theorists. Yet, science has not yet thoroughly explored the most obvious and potent force of all:sound. (For an expanded treatise on sound as a life-creating force, see Sound, the Trigger for Life at: www.soundhealingresource.com) Although invisible, sound is actually highly structured. In water it acts to form ‘micro-sonic scaffolding’, a structuring processthat causes matter to coalesce in an orderly manner. We
believe it was this dynamic, sonic mechanism that sparked life.
Sound and life, it seems, are inextricably linked.
John Stuart Reid and Annaliese Kohinoor illustrate how sound is fast regaining its place as the pre-eminent healing modality. Having been first
used by the ancients, sound therapy has undergone a period of re-discovery and is now poised to reveal the intricacies of healing both at the cellular and
psychological levels.
Sound will be the medicine of the future.’ Edgar Cayce
Most ancient cultures used the seemingly magical power of sound to heal. Sound healing had almost disappeared in the West until the 1930s when acoustic researchers discovered ultrasound and its medical properties. With this discovery,research burgeoned and today the ancient art of sound healing is rapidly developing into a new science.There is now a mass of research into the healing benefits of ultrasound,including its use in breaking up kidney stones and even shrinking tumours.1–3 In addition, infrasound and audible sound are now recognized as having immense healing properties.The Aboriginal people of Australia are the first known culture to heal with sound. Their ‘yidaki’ (modern name,didgeridoo) has been used
as a healing tool for at least 40,000 years. The Aborigines healed broken
bones, muscletears and illnesses of every kind using their enigmatic musical instrument. Interestingly, the sounds emitted by the yidaki are in alignment with modern sound healing technology. It is becoming apparent that the wisdom of the ancients was based on ‘sound’ principles.Sound: primordial organizer of the universe In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was with God, and the Word was God. St. John’s Gospel, Ch 1, v 1.Many spiritual traditions speak of sound as being the formative force of creation. Before focusing on current research into sound healing, let us consider the vital role sound may have played in structuring our universe.Recent studies point to sound as having reigned supreme as the prime organising force of all matter, especially during the first million years of creation.4 Of course, sound cannot travel in the vacuum of space but sound can travel wherever matter is dense
enough to allow atoms or molecules to collide with each other. In fact, it is this process of collision that provides a clear definition of sound: The passing on of vibrational data at the moment of collision between any two atoms or molecules.Sound not only structured our universe,it may also have been at work in Earth’s primordial oceans. The structuring and organizing force that triggered life has always eluded theorists. Yet, science has not yet thoroughly explored the most obvious and potent force of all:sound. (For an expanded treatise on sound as a life-creating force, see Sound, the Trigger for Life at: www.soundhealingresource.com) Although invisible, sound is actually highly structured. In water it acts to form ‘micro-sonic scaffolding’, a structuring processthat causes matter to coalesce in an orderly manner. We
believe it was this dynamic, sonic mechanism that sparked life.
Sound and life, it seems, are inextricably linked.
