A sound bath (also known as a sound journey or sound healing) is an experience to help you slow down, get still, and reconnect with yourself when life might feel a little busy or complicated. Generally, you’ll enter a safe space, you’ll be invited to lie down, and the sound healer might begin by guiding you through some breathing or relaxation work to help you settle. Then you’ll be immersed in a bath of sounds.
The healer might use just one instrument or many, which can include gong, singing bowls, chimes, voice, rain sticks etc. There’s nothing for you to do but surrender to the sounds, and allow the healing vibrations to wash over you and through you.
It’s a very personal experience which will feel different each time. You might just feel a few tingles. You might see colours and visions. You might receive ideas and insights. You might relax deeply and connect with inner peace. You might even feel uncomfortable, as you meet something inside yourself that needs looking at. The more you trust and embrace the experience, the more you’ll get from it. Setting an intention before the session is also very powerful.
Sound healing is a form of meditation. It helps us to journey below the thinking mind and into the body and breath; into a deeper sense of awareness. In this space, we are able to release layers of fear and worry and stress, and come home to our centre and our natural state of being, which is peace and harmony. When we connect back to this place, we have more clarity, feel more inspired, receive answers to questions that we’ve been searching outside of ourselves for, and are given a better insight into our internal world and what might need to heal.
On a scientific level, we are all energy, made up of vibrating atoms and molecules. In an ideal world, we would vibrate at a frequency of harmony, where all our cells work and vibrate together to sustain optimal physical and mental health. But in reality, life happens, and stress and anxiety knocks some cells off key or ‘out of tune’, creating disharmony, and eventually, if not treated, potentially dis-ease.
// BENEFITS OF SOUND HEALING //
Aside from lying down under a cosy blanket and doing absolutely FA for an hour that is…
🤍The sound waves that rainbow out from the crystal bowls draw your brain waves into theta and delta states (the slowest in humans), associated with deep relaxation
🤍In this deeply relaxed state, your body releases the hormone oxytocin (love/kindness hormone) and serotonin (happy hormone)
🤍Nitric oxide is also released in some parts of your body, which helps with immunity
🤍Your thinking mind drops away, giving you the freedom to explore the magical space between asleep and awake
🤍In this space, you’re more likely to find answers to questions you’ve been searching for, creative ideas, clarity, an understanding of internal blockages, peace, a sense of coming home
🤍The body is essentially tuned back to a state of balance and harmony through use of healing vibrations and intention
The pure frequencies of the crystal singing bowls essentially work to ‘tune’ us back to harmony by shifting the disharmonious cells back into place through use of vibration. It helps to think of the body, mind and soul as an orchestra, with all of the organs, systems, thoughts and feelings as the instruments. Sound healing is a tool which helps the orchestra play a beautiful melody again.