Sound therapy is the process by which the practitioner plays various instruments, in which the client may experience physical, emotional, energetic or spiritual restoration, or a combination thereof.
Our bodies naturally try to find order and energetic equilibrium. Sometimes, it takes a certain amount of energy of a more harmonic nature, a higher degree of order, to decrease the dis-order and make things better. Sound is energy. Sound is vibration. So, through the use of sound, we are able to help organize the energy in a persons body.
Research suggests that when used in a directed way, sound can also help us reduce stress, create a deep sense of well-being and even promote healing. Sound therapy is gaining popularity as both a preventative medicine and as a complement to more-traditional treatments. Using the human voice and objects that resonate to stimulate healing, sound therapy is one of a growing number of subtle-energy therapies that make up the field of vibrational medicine.
“Whether or not we hear it, everything has a sound, a vibration all its own,” writes Joshua Leeds in The Power of Sound (Healing Arts Press, 2001).