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The Vibration That Heals: From Verbal First Aid to the Power of Pure Music

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How does this work? How does sound make for the mending of bones, the softening and soothing of broken hearts, the nearly instant increase in auto-immunity?

According to some experts, it is the vibration itself. The simplest example of this principle is the use of sonic vibrations (like what is used in the generation of sonograms) to heal soft-tissue injuries. This is now a common occurrence in vocational rehabilitation.

Frequency healing, as it is called, has been studied intensely and broken down Hz by Hz. Every frequency "range" has a specific, non-random effect. For instance, 1.0 Hz impacts the pituitary, stimulating the production of growth hormones, while 111 Hz will increase beta endorphins and stimulate cell regeneration.

When I offer seminars on animal-assisted therapy, I spend quite a bit of time on the therapeutic nature of animal-sound and animal vibration (just in their presence). Their cooing, purring, whinnying, sighing, and happy barking can be enormously healing. Apparently, the frequency of a cat's purr helps broken bones to knit together faster. When investigated further, they found that vibrations between 20 and 140Hz at low db are anabolic for bone growth, mending muscles and ligaments, and reducing swelling and pain.

The Common Consensus: What we Know Intuitively

Do people need science to tell them music is good for them? Or that sound impacts them? Or that words have power? Not really.

For some people, music (whether that is the strain of a violin or the crash of the ocean's waves) is as vital and necessary as breathing. One woman's chronic nausea from cancer treatment was only alleviated when she listened to classical music. Yet another client who recently lost her son claims she can only get through her day by playing old records of Peter Pan, which she used to play for him. One dear friend wrote to me, "Music hits me on a level I cannot describe. I have asked the Lord to be in the part of Heaven where the singing is."

We feel music in our hearts just as we hear words in our cells: Who hasn't felt the electricity of driving down the road at a normal clip only to find himself cruising at 85 mph when the Allman Brothers came on the radio or felt hopeful and young when she heard the words to an old song that reminded her of that perfect summer and her first boyfriend?

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Judith Acosta, LISW, CHT is a licensed psychotherapist and clinical homeopath in private practice in Placitas and Albuquerque. Her areas of specialization include the treatment of anxiety, depression, and trauma. She has appeared on both television (more...)
 
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