A practical and accessible guide to sound healing therapies
• Explores tools such as tuning forks, gongs, singing bowls, drumming, chakra chants, and angelic vibrations
• Provides simple practices such as humming, vowel toning, and affirmations that you can begin using right away for self-healing
• Explains how sound therapy triggers self-healing mechanisms and offers a non-invasive way to permeate every cell of the body with healing intentions
All sound and vibration affect us. From the moment of birth--even in the womb--every word, thought, or sound we encounter is important and powerful, nourishing or toxic. When we understand the powerful effects of sound and vibration, we can consciously apply them for our health and well-being.
In this practical and accessible guide, Erica Longdon explains the therapeutic and healing impact of sound, frequency, and vibration on the body, mind, and spirit. She shows how sound therapy triggers the body's natural self-healing mechanisms and offers a non-invasive way to permeate every cell of the body with healing intentions. She presents a wide range of sound-healing methods and vibrational practices and explores tools such as tuning forks, gongs, singing bowls, drumming, chakra chants, and angelic vibrations as well as cymatics--the study of wave phenomena, which makes sound visible. She explains how to use different sound healing methods and offers instructions both for self-treatment and as preparation if you go see a sound therapist. She reveals how each of us has a sound healing tool at our disposal--our own voice--and provides simple practices and exercises such as humming, vowel toning, and affirmations that you can begin using right away for self-healing. She also explores the power of silence and how even our inner vibrations--thoughts and intentions--affect us sonically and can be used for vibrational healing.
Offering a natural way to treat pain and illness, this guide gives you the tools to connect with your inner healer, restore balance and harmony, and harness the power of vibration for sound health. Erica Longdon is a metaphysician, writer, radio host, and healer with 30 years' experience in television and radio as a script writer and voice-over actor and more than 20 years' experience as a complementary health practitioner. Adept at connecting with angels, she is a Reiki master and a qualified meditation teacher and works as a psychic advisor with 12Listen.com and for personal clients. She lives in Penzance, Cornwall, UK. From chapter "VITAMIN M"
• "M"
• MANTRA
• MUSIC
"M"
M is the supreme consonant. Humming "M" is the antidote to anxiety. M is the sound of yourself. M draws you inward to the point of inner peace. M is the opposite of ego. Humming is especially useful if you are "shamed" about your voice and find singing or chanting challenging to try. Internationally renowned sound healers Jonathan and Andi Goldman have recently written an entire book on humming: The Humming Effect, in which they explore the science behind the many spiritual and therapeutic effects of this self-administered therapy. Ritually, the sound of humming, MMMM is found at the end of OM, AMEN, and many of the other sacred seed syllables (see Vitamin V - vowels). We even make a humming sound when we make a discovery or find ourselves in agreement with another's statement. It is a life-affirming sound.
MANTRA
Mantra is a Sanskrit word which means: "that which protects and purifies the mind". It can be more simply translated as: "man" = mind and "tra" = tool. Mind is intended in the broadest sense of thoughts, and the emotions associated with them.
The sacred sound of the mantra contains "seeds" (bija syllables in Sanskrit - see Vitamin V: Vowels). These syllables, when repeated, take seed in the mind and act as a catalyst for change.
Mantras can be vocal or mental. Whereas chanting eventually require
