New Mexico Sound Healing

Sound has been used for healing and religious experience throughout all of time, from shamanistic drumming, Tibetan bells and bowls, to Gregorian chanting. It can be studied from both the mystical viewpoint and the scientific one. As a mystic, one knows that creation began with sound, the sound of OM. As a scientist, one knows that all matter and energy is vibration and sound is vibration. The vibration of sound can be used to alter matter and energy.

According to Tom Kenyon at the Sound Healing Training in 2007, “Sound healing is the art of transmitting energy using sound as a carrier wave for intention.” Sound is one of the most basic modalities for achieving a trance or altered state. Brain patterns of individuals in a trance state show large amounts of alpha to theta activity. In current medical research, increased levels of alpha and theta brain waves have been shown to increase relaxation, lower blood pressure, lower heart rate and increase parasympathetic nervous system response. “There is a growing body of evidence that the Parasympathetic Nervous System has a critical role to play in the body/mind’s ability to ‘self-heal,’ especially during mind/body healing modalities such as medical-hypnosis and sound/music therapy." For more complete information, see Acoustic Brain Research, http://www.tomkenyon.com.

Since sound can alter brain activity, it can also alter experience. If you change how you organize information in the brain, you can change your experience of life on the mental, emotional, and physical levels.

Sound being emitted either from the client or the practicioner's voice can help to unwind and release both emotional and physical trauma from the body and its surrounding energy field. Sometimes the practicioner will also use sounds and tones from crystal and brass bowls, bells, chimes, or drums to elicit a deep trance state to help deepen the healing experience.