What is sound healing and does it have benefits for wellbeing?

7 months ago

Though you might roll your eyes at the mere mention of “good vibrations” it’s more than a coincidence that music, religious reverence and healing have been interconnected throughout history. The vibration of a gong, a drum or the human voice chanting supposedly has a positive effect on our nervous systems and elicits a calm, reflective or even emotional state.

It certainly feels that way whenever I’m enveloped by a series of sustained vibrating tones at a sound bath – something I’ve been doing regularly for the past couple of years. At a sound bath, a practitioner usually plays singing bowls and gongs, and sometimes a collection of percussive instruments and chimes, to create a soundscape ...

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