Sonotherapy or Sound Therapy is a very ancient discipline that uses the voice and musical instruments to generate certain vibrations that have a beneficial impact on our body breathwork.
The vibrations allow us to restore and correct the correct resonance frequency, thus returning health to our sick parts.
Although there are many instruments that can be used in the exercise of Sonotherapy or Sound Therapy, the voice is one of the most powerful and effective.
In Sonotherapy, pure vibration is worked on and not just music. The scientific basis of Sonotherapy rests on the principle of “Resonance in Sympathy”, when a vibrating object causes vibrations in another object.
What is Sonotherapy or Sound Therapy?
Better known as Sound Therapy, it consists of the application of the Voice and musical and vibratory instruments in the energy fields and on the physical body. Human beings have made use of sound since their Creation to obtain and express information about the world around them, to communicate with each other, to heal, to transform and, above all, to feel united.
It is the oldest Therapy in the world, since the “First Mother” sang lullabies to the ‘first baby’, and the first human beings sat around the first fire.
Although the uses of sound for healing are very ancient, they have largely been limited to spiritual and esoteric traditions. In the last decade, however, the use of sound as a therapeutic modality has become a working focus for the scientific and medical communities.
In Sonotherapy, pure vibration is worked on and not just music. The scientific basis of Sonotherapy rests on the principle of “Resonance in Sympathy”, when a vibrating object causes vibrations in another object.
The best known example is when a singer breaks glass with her voice. The sound waves propagate in the air, moving the molecules until they reach the other object, which has no other option than to match (or at least try to) the vibrations received.
In the case of glass, it is very rigid and cannot vibrate in tune with sound, the result being that it breaks. Of course in Sonotherapy the idea is not to break, but to restore harmony and coherence at all levels of the Being. You can try to break crystallized and/or stagnant energies both in the energy fields that surround the body, and in the physical body itself, emotions and preconceived ideas.
The entire universe is in a state of vibration. This includes the human body. Every organ, bone, cell and any other part of the body (and its energy field) has a healthy vibrational ratio.
If we are unable to resonate with a part of ourselves or our environment, we will become dissonant or sick. That is to say, the healthy frequency is changed to a frequency that vibrates without harmony, creating the disease. Through sound, and especially our own voices, we can project the correct resonant frequency to the part that is sick, returning it to its normal frequency. This would result in healing.
Cymatics
The science of Cymatics (the study of waves) clearly demonstrates the power of Sound to effect changes in matter. A cymatic apparatus, invented by the German scientist Ernst Chladni in the 18th century, consists of a metal plate, on the surface of which powder or sand is poured.
By touching the axis of the plate with a violin bow, the sand moves, lifting the granites to form symmetrical and geometrically harmonious patterns. That is, sound is capable of making changes at the physical level, and has had very good results in the treatment of tumors and cancers, reducing the effects of chemotherapy, and also in some cases dramatically reducing the size of tumors.
Intuition, sensitivity to subtle energies, the ability to “see” or perceive energies are great advantages in the practice of this modality. It has many shamanic aspects.
Instruments for Sonotherapy
Today the most prominent instruments are:
The Voice – The instrument without a doubt the most powerful and effective.
Vocal Harmonic Singing – A vocal technique that allows a person to sing TWO or MORE sounds at once.
Singing bowls (the well-known ‘Tibetan bowls’ – metal and quartz bowls).
Therapeutic tuning forks (tuned according to natural cycles instead of musical scale tones), and applied to the physical body – SonoPuntura, in the energy fields – “Crosstalk” and in the bones “Osteophony”.
Drums, didgeridoo, ocean drums, bells and a long list more…
The famous American medium Edgar Cayce predicted in the 1920s (1920…) that sound would be the medicine of the future. This future is arriving as I write!