What is Sound Healing & How Does it Work

What Is Sound Healing? How Does It Work?

The power of sound touches and moves us deeply because we are vibrational beings in nature. Cultures the world over use sound to attune, invoke, and transform consciousness.

"Speech is the essence of humanity." All of what humanity thinks and ultimately becomes is determined by the expression of ideas and actions through speech (and its derivative, writing). Everything comes into being through speech. Ideas remain just as an idea until they are created through the power of speech.

Sound is a form of energy made up of vibrations that have the potential to heal while others can break glass. Mantras are syllables, words or phrases when repeated will bring an individual to a higher state of consciousness. They are sounds or energies that always existed in the Universe and cannot be created or destroyed.

Mantra repetition (or japa) provides you with a point to focus your mind. It also releases the energy that is encapsulated in that sound. The energy literally manifests itself, creating a specific thought pattern in the mind. Correct pronunciation is very important. With sincere practice, repetition of a mantra leads to pure thought where the sound vibration merges with the thought vibration and there is no awareness of meaning. This way, the mantra will lead you to true meditation.

What is a mantra?
The word "mantra" is derived from two Sanskrit words. The first is "manas" or "mind," which provides the "man" syllable. The second syllable is drawn from the Sanskrit word "trai" meaning to "protect" or to "free from." Therefore, the word mantra literally means "to free from the mind." Mantra is, at its core, a tool used by the mind, which eventually frees one from the fluctuations of the mind.
Mantras create thought-energy waves.

The human consciousness is really a collection of states of consciousness, which exist throughout the physical and subtle bodies. Each organ has a consciousness of its own. That consciousness allows it to perform functions specific to it. Then come the various systems. The cardiovascular system, the reproductive system and other systems have various organs or body parts working at slightly different stages of a single process. Like the organs, there is a primitive consciousness also associated with each system. And these are just within the physical body. Similar functions and states of consciousness exist within the subtle body as well. So individual organ consciousness is overlaid by system consciousness, overlaid again by subtle body counterparts and consciousness, and so on and so on.

The ego with its self-defined "I" ness assumes a pre-eminent state among the subtle disturbance of random, semi-conscious thoughts, which pulse through our organism. Of course, our organism can "pick up" the vibration of other organisms nearby. The result is that there are countless vibrations riding in and through the subconscious mind at any given time.

Mantras start a powerful vibration, which corresponds to both a specific spiritual energy frequency and a state of consciousness in seed form. Over time, the mantra process begins to override all of the other smaller vibrations, which eventually become absorbed by the mantra. After a length of time, which varies from individual to individual, the great wave of the mantra stills all other vibrations. Ultimately, the mantra produces a state where the organism vibrates at the rate completely in tune with the energy and spiritual state represented by and contained within the mantra.
At this point, a change of state occurs in the organism. The organism becomes subtly different. The person who becomes one with the state produced by the mantra is also coherent in a way which did not exist prior to the conscious undertaking of repetition of the mantra.

Mantras eventually quiet the mind and are an effective tool for meditation.