Soul Food Sound Healing

Sound healing is an ancient wellness practice for healing, relaxation, and self-care. Sound vibrations have a powerful effect on our minds and bodies. Research shows that sound healing can slow down our brain waves and put our bodies in a very relaxed, dreamlike state. Sound healing can help the emotional, psychological, social, spiritual, physical, and mental health of a person using sound/vibrations by a sound healing practitioner. Everything in the Universe vibrates at a certain frequency which we perceive as waves. The waves are received by our ears which are then converted into electrical signals that traverse the nerves to the auditory cortex in the brain. The sound waves then trigger responses in the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual body.  Electrical activity in the brain is displayed in the form of brainwaves, or rhythmic, repetitive frequencies. These rhythms can be measured using a device called electroencephalogram (EEG). The four types of brainwaves are Beta, Alpha, Theta, and Delta waves. Various states of consciousness in different areas of the brain generate different frequencies of brainwaves.

• Beta waves are the fastest type of brainwave and occur when the brain is active and engaged mentally.
• Alpha waves occur when the brain is in a state of non-arousal like meditation.
• Theta brainwaves are associated with daydreaming and rapid eye movement (REM) dreaming phase of sleep.
• Delta brainwaves are the slowest and associated with deep dreamless sleep.

Sound baths are based on the idea that certain frequencies correspond to specific energy centers (chakras) in your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual body. These frequencies help to balance, reset, and cleanse these energy centers (chakras). In Traditional Chinese Medicine chi is the energy that flows throughout the body. Emotional, mental, and physical ailments are a sign that chi/energy centers/chakras are imbalanced due to stress, relationships, work, food, and other daily activities. Sound baths can help to reset and cleanse these centers which will help the energy to properly flow through the body which helps the body into a state of self-healing.

 Sound healing is an invitation into a deeper state of consciousness, where you unplug from all forms of external stimuli and become more self-aware. Sound healing is also based on the idea of binaural beats or brain entrainment which theorizes that listening to certain frequencies can synchronize and change one's brainwaves. The premise of binaural beats is that the brain synchronizes its brainwave frequency to the difference in hertz between tones played in each ear, which, depending on the frequency, can lead one to states of deep relaxation associated with beta waves or meditative trance-like theta waves.

Sound Healing Therapy can improve or heal various ailments such as:

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Stress
• Chronic Pain
• PTSD
• Autism

Sound Healing Therapy can induce:

• Brain cognition and memory enhancement
• Mental well-being
• Spiritual well-being
• Mood enhancement
• Deeper better sleep
• Muscle relaxation
• Increase in body awareness
• Increase in calmness
• Improved creativity
• Relaxation
• Clarity
• Balance
• Oneness
• Improved memory and concentration