What is Sound Healing? part 1

Some of you may not have heard of Sound Healing. Even if you have heard of it, you may not know exactly what it is. There have been many to come before me whom I have learned from and I suggest that you look into them and their definitions as well. (They include Zacciah Blackburn, Dr. John Beaulieu, N.D., Ph.D., R.P.P., Layne Redmond and Jonathan Goldman, to name a few). I will try to convey my understanding, in my own words.
First of all, what is sound? Everything in the Universe is in motion. Galaxies, stars, planets, life-forms, organs, cells, molecules, atoms, etc. Planets revolve around stars just like electrons revolve around the nucleus of an atom: as above, so below.
The sound that our ears perceive is created the same way. If you pluck the string of a guitar, it vibrates or cycles at a certain speed that creates a sound wave. A visual representation of this sound wave would be a wavy line that goes up and down. The speed at which the string vibrates, or the speed that it takes for the wave to go from all the way at the top to all the way at the bottom, to all the way at the top, is its frequency. Frequencies are measured in cycles per second, or hertz (Hz).
Let's look at this musically. A frequency of 440 Hz would create what we Westerners recognize as the note "A" (the note orchestras tune to). An interesting fact is that if you went to a piano and plays A 440, and then played the next A down (to the left), the frequency of that A would be 220 Hz: exactly half of the original A! If you then went back to A 440 and went to the next A up (to the right), its frequency would be 880 Hz: exactly double that of the original A! So if we divide the frequency IN HALF, we get the same note, but DOWN an octave. If we DOUBLE the frequency, we get the same note, but UP an octave. This will be very important later.
Can you hear a dog whistle? No. That doesn't mean that it isn't making any sound though. The same goes for planets and electrons. Human hearing is in the range of about 16 to 16,000 Hz, but frequencies exist well below and above that range (dolphins can make and hear sounds at around 180,000 Hz).
Now that we have a more broad understanding of what sound actually is, lets see how that applies. Our atoms, our cells, our organs, our bodies, (the Earth, the solar system, the galaxy, the Universe…) are all vibrating, creating frequencies/sounds. When we are at peak health, all of those frequencies are “in tune” and sound good together. That is why the orchestra, or piano, or guitar must be tuned before it can be played. If something is out of tune, no matter what is played it will not sound good. The same goes for our bodies. If we have an illness, it is because a part of us is out of tune.
I heard an interesting comparison (made by Jonathan Goldman). Lets compare our body to an orchestra. If we have a dis-ease, it is like one of the violinists lost his sheet music, so he is just playing what he thinks is the right music, making the entire orchestra sound terrible. One solution is to drug him so that he falls asleep (medication), another solution is to kill him (surgery), but what if, instead of all that, we simply give him the music he is supposed to be playing. Now he can go back to functioning the way he is supposed to and the orchestra can return to its original, intended magnificence.
This is what Sound Healing does. It “gives you your music back”. The Sacred Sounds are used to put your body, mind and spirit back in tune, so that you can create the music you were intended to create.
In Harmony,
(((Tim)))