Healing Sound

by Mary-Beth Korutz-Killian
Spring 2003

What is Healing Sound?

Have you ever had a bad day at the office? But once you got into your car for your long drive home and cranked up the radio (because one of your favorite songs just happened to be playing) didn't you feel much better...actually the best you felt all day? Or how about when you woke one morning and found that you were feeling a little blue, you decide to take your morning beverage out on the patio and sit and relax to finish your drink. As you sit, you hear a beautiful song made by a songbird just a few yards away, in one of your trees. You instantly feel uplifted and break into a warm, full smile, all is well again and you are feeling terrific. This is "Healing Sound" in a nutshell. Lets take a closer look.

When one thinks of natural healing, herbs, vitamins and diet usually come to mind. But healing doesn't only come from what you put in your mouth. Sounds heal in other ways that perhaps are even more fundamental. Evolutionary psychologists really don't understand why we (humans and animals) love music, but according to the latest science, we know that animals are musical; especially our birds, and in much the same way we are.

Sound and music, touches the soul and spirit, and then reaches the deepest roots of healing. Our love for it may be one of the most profound feelings we generate. Music not only soothes ones soul and brings inner peace, but actually makes us whole, and lets us feel the wholeness of the world.

The healing powers of Sound and Music is an inner healing, intangible but yet extremely strong, invisible but profound, delicate but at the same time irresistible. Music and healing sound, moves one toward that place inside from which deep healing can come. There are no limits to the healing that can happen when you reach that place inside.

History and Nature

Sound and Music have been healing body, mind, and spirit from the beginning of time. The healing quality of the voice manifests in many different ways. From the communication of wonder that comes with just listening to a beautiful singing voice, to the pure quality of tone affecting the physical and emotional body of the person or animal to whom it is directed.

Nature provides us with many aural cues for elevating our consciousness. When we start to access the purity of ones own tone, one becomes aware of these aural cues: in the wind, the ocean, and the song of birds. These signals have always been there, science has proven that higher frequency Sounds charge the cerebral cortex. When you are in a state of heightened listening awareness, you can actually feel the effect of a bird’s song, a simple bird song, one that you hear everyday. You can feel it ripple through your body, and it can subtly alter your awareness. Therefore, if this does happen to humans, it is only logical to assume that it also does happen to our feathered friends. Our feathered friends can and do elevate their consciousness through their song, chirps, calls, squawks, and hearing others sing, be it animal or human. With this elevated consciousness comes an open path to inner healing through Music and Sound.

Plato once said..."Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is good, just and beautiful, of which is the invisible, but nevertheless dazzling, passionate and eternal form." His words still apply today and are even more profound with the healing properties of Music and Sound that science has come to discover throughout the centuries since Plato walked this earth.

How Sound and Music Heal

How does Sound and Music affect healing? Music and Sound saturate living cells with Nutritive Energy (Negentropic). Studied under laboratory conditions, musical information seems to increase capacities and coherence, whether they are cells or neurons. Ones own DNA hears the Music or Sound and participates in a consciousness process. We know that the cells, by way of physical and vibratory configuration of its DNA, is capable of picking up, storing and broadcasting information about the environment. This suggests that living matter, whether it be human or animal, organizes its environment, which demonstrates that cells communicate with one another. Neguentropy is a negative entropy without which no living system would be viable. Neguentropy is a force of information that organizes the structures and functions of living systems and participates in intercellular bio-communication. The first effect of Music or Healing Sound is that of auto-diagnosis, immediately followed by a therapeutic effect, first the revelation of traumas or disease, and then their immediate corrections or healing operated by our non local higher consciousness.

Proof of vibratory action of Music and Healing Sounds on living cells

	Slide 1: Blood cells in a fresh sample . This sample shows the actual configuration of a fresh cell (taken before a session of Music and Healing sounds).
	Slide 2: Blood cells after 3 days (SAME sample taken before a Music and Healing Sound session and kept for 3 days in a refrigerator). One can notice that in slide 2 the white corpuscles has totally lost its form thus its "information."
	Slide 3: Blood cells after 3 days (sample taken from the same subject just after an experiential session with healing music and sound for 1 hour and a half hours). One can notice that in slide 3 the white corpuscles have RETAINED their FORM and INFORMATION despite 3 days of aging (after hearing healing music and sound).

Healing Music and Sound increases the quantity of hemoglobin and reinforces the immune system. The study of the physiological effects produced by resonance with Healing Music and Sound reveals that the circuits relay information between consciousness and our cells. The above example is collected blood samples from a subject, both before and after a Healing Music and Sound session. Note the important variations in the number of white corpuscles, the aging nucleated cells, and the hemoglobin. The white corpuscle, notably the poly-nuclear neutrophiles, increases almost constantly. The hemoglobin also shows a noticeable increase during the Healing Music and Sound session.

There was also a noticeable super oxygenation in the blood sample showing that Healing Music and Sound slows down the aging process. Therefore, by a phenomenon of resonance, audio frequencies created in a state of inner coherence enables reinstatement of electromagnetic coherence in the listening subject, by eliminating malformations of the electromagnetic body. The correct information may be then transmitted to the physical body by way of DNA and hemoglobin. As information increases order at the cellular level, the aging process could become non-mandatory as long as one is in contact with the orderly information from our higher consciousness. A harmonious combination of Healing Music and Sound, infra-sound, and ultrasound can heal all on a cellular level.

How Sound is Perceived

With our hears we hear sound; with ultrasound we enter into the cellular environment of living matter; and with infra sound we touch this same matter directly, as if with a microscopic finger. By combining these three ranges of frequency, we can reach a multidimensional form of communication between consciousness and matter, between composed music and the consciousness-material totality of the receiver (who needs not necessarily only hear with his ears but also with his flesh, cells, and all the tissues of his unconscious. Healing Music and Sound, stands as a means of therapy and personal development, which is accessible to all. Healing Music and Sound, enables its listeners to gradually rid themselves of the past emotional, physiological and psychic disease they are holding onto and can begin to heal. Whatever the age, from the moment the listener's consciousness participates in the exchange of information taking place in the infinitely small spaces of his or her body, between the exterior environment and the inner subatomic or Quantum level healing will begin.

With the information above you can begin a glorious quest of healing body, mind and spirit for you and your feathered friend. This is one of the easiest modalities to participate in. One actually doesn't have to do much. Just listen. I am sure you have already applied this theory to yourself and your bird without even giving it a second thought. Doesn't your bird enjoy certain CD's that you play more than others and actually shows you by maybe displaying or dancing or chirping softly along with the music? On some level they are using this music and sound as Healing Sound and Music and are actually healing themselves from within!

If you have any questions you can e-mail me at BaBaBooo@aol.com

Please put Holistic Bird Question in the subject line. Namaste' I honor the place in you which the entire universe dwells. I honor the place in you which is of love, of truth, of light, and peace. When you are in that place in you, and I am in that place in me, WE are one.

Some Recommended Healing Music and Sound CD's

Musical Healing by David and Steve Gordon with others.
Prayer by Uttara Kuru
Pure Calm by Stuart Jones
Healing Massage by New World Music
Sacred by Taliesin Orchestra
The Veil of Life by Geela
Journey to the East by Philip Chapman
Colour Healing by New World Music
Rainstick by Tomoko
Love Medicine Music by Cherokee Rose
Clouds by Kevin Kendle

References:

Musical Healing David and Steve Gordon
Vibrational Healing Richard Gerber
Multidimensional Music: A Powerful Transformational Tool
Jacotte Chollet

Online:

Sound Healing for Body, Mind and Spirit
http://www.sacredsound.com/soundheal.html

Healing Sound and Sacred Sound
http://www.healingmusic.org/TrudyCharlton.htm