Have you ever attended a crystal bowl meditation? If so, were you able to 'lose yourself' in the essence of the bowls? There is nothing quite like this experience for realigning the energy fields of the human system described as your chakras.
Science has long known that sound produces changes in the autonomic, endocrine, immune and neuropeptide system.
Scientists now believe that every human atom, cell, gland and organ both emit and absorb sound.
A relaxed body, and its brain waves, vibrates at a fundamental frequency, aligning us with the Earth's own electromagnetic field.
Many modern scientists and physicians are utilizing this information within their medical practices.
Mitchell Gaynor, MD, director of Medical Oncology and Integrative Medicine at the Strang-Cornell Cancer Prevention Center, uses crystal bowls and Tibetan bowls in his practice with cancer patients.
Sonic Induction Therapy, using primordial sounds and sounds of nature, promotes healing at the cellular level.
Sound healing is no longer listed under Woo Woo practices in sound approaches to healing.
Virtually all cultures once used the sounds of music therapeutically.
Unfortunately, the role of music in our lives, at least in the Western Hemisphere, has become significantly more entertainment based.
Recently, the use of sound and music has reappeared as a valuable healing mode for Western Health Practitioners and Patients.
The goal for patients is to: reduce stress and pain, develop creativity and self-awareness, reach a place of deep relaxation, and improve cognitive function.
Did you ever stop to think about why each of us seems innately attracted to music? Perhaps this attraction is our body's own wisdom calling us back to an ancient healing practice once employed at the physical, emotional and spiritual levels of human consciousness.
So, let's speak about the Chakra system of the human body.
Chakras are measurable patterns of electromagnetic activity.
Each chakra reflects essential aspects of consciousness, forming the master programs that govern life, love, learning and illumination.
Anodea Judith in her book Wheels of Life, writes: "Chakras can be open, closed or any of the various stages in between.
These states may be basic aspects of someone's personality throughout most of their life, or something that changes from moment to moment, in response to a situation.
An ailing chakra may be unable to change its state easily, being "stuck" in either an open or a closed state.
Then the chakra needs healing, by uncovering and removing whatever is blocking it.
" Each chakra center is associated with not only a specific 'tone' of the musical scale, but also, with a corresponding color.
Hearing the crystal bowls, with their haunting melodies, seems to awaken in us an ancient memory, indeed touching the deepest core of our souls.
Find out more about the use of crystal bowls in therapeutic healing by reading Sounds of Healing, by Mitchell Gaynor.