Wednesday, June 20, 2007

What Is Sound Healing? part 2

Last time I kind of jumped around a lot, so I figured I’d try to explain a few things, mostly from the technical side. As I said before, we call the frequency 440 Hz, “A” in our musical alphabet. This is the note orchestras tune to. The A below (to the left) has a frequency of 220 Hz (440/2). The next A below that would be 110 Hz and the one below that would be 55 Hz, etc. The A above (to the right) 440 Hz would be 880 Hz (440*2), and above that would be 1760 Hz, and above that would be 3520 Hz, etc. The point of all this is that when we divide a frequency in half or double it, we consider it the same note, but in a different octave (the ratio of these notes would be 1:2 or 2:1). Why is this important? Remember all those frequencies outside of human hearing? This is how we can be in tune with them. Even though we can’t create the exact frequency of our organs or cells or atoms, we can create those notes in a lower octave, within our hearing and singing range, and tune them that way.
Here is probably the coolest example (if you thought there was a lot of math involved so far, just you wait). OK, a frequency is measured in cycles per second (cycles/1 second). The Earth takes 365.242 days to make one “cycle” around the Sun. If we translate 365.242 days into seconds, we get 31,556,908.8 seconds in one Earth year (60 seconds * 60 minutes = 3600 seconds per hour. 3600 seconds * 24 hours = 86,400 seconds per day. 86,400 seconds * 365.242 days = 31,556,908.8). So the frequency (cycles/1 second) of the Earth going around the Sun is 1 cycle/ 31,556,908.8 seconds. Now this is obviously not in our hearing range, so to find a comparable frequency, we need to bring it up a few octaves (actually, 32 octaves). 1/31,556,908.8 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 * 2 = 4,294,967,296/31,556,908.8 = 136.102282 Hz (to make it a little more simple, I’ll round it to 136.1 from now on).
This frequency of 136.1 Hz is close to, but not quite, the note C Sharp on the piano. Spiritual Masters in India referred to this as sadja or sa, resonating with the primordial vibration, OM. Indian musicians will tune their instruments to this frequency to be in tune with the Earth, and increase the meditative quality of their music. Wouldn’t it be great if we could be in tune with Mother Earth in addition to being in tune with ourselves?
In Harmony,
(((Tim)))

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