Healing Through Sound

A blog that explores the learnings, teachings, & relevant tips around accessing the healing power of sound and your voice.

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5 Ways Sound Therapy Can Boost Your Immunity

In our fast-paced and often stressful lives, maintaining a strong and resilient immune system is crucial for our overall well-being. While a balanced diet, regular exercise, and adequate sleep are essential factors in maintaining a healthy immune system, sound therapy is an alternative holistic methods that can complement these practices. In this blog, we will explore five ways sound therapy can help boost your immunity.

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Refreshing Your Mind: The Power of Brain Floss

In today's fast-paced world, our minds are constantly bombarded with information, tasks, and distractions. It's no wonder that we often feel mentally overwhelmed and drained. Just as we need to take care of our physical health, it is equally important to prioritize our mental well-being. Enter Brain Floss, a powerful concept that can help us declutter our minds and create space for clarity, focus, and productivity.

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How Singing and Humming Can Improve Your Happiness

Susan Blanton of Create Happy Now and I talk about how singing and humming can improve your happiness. It raises your vibration which improves your happiness. Using your own voice, like singing and humming, has a soothing affect not only to others, your children, you baby, but also yourself!

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The Top 10 FAQ’s About Sound Healing Therapy

Your voice is your SUPERPOWER - the ultimate healing instrument - the most effective delivery system of healing frequencies to your body - your very own unique voice - your soul’s fingerprint.

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Your Voice is Your Superpower!

Your voice is your SUPERPOWER - the ultimate healing instrument - the most effective delivery system of healing frequencies to your body - your very own unique voice - your soul’s fingerprint.

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How Does Sound Therapy Relieve Stress?

Sound therapy, also known as vibrational sound therapy or sound healing, is based on the idea that different sounds, vibrations and frequencies can have therapeutic effects on the body and mind.

The idea behind using sound for stress relief is that it can help to calm the mind, reduce anxiety and promote relaxation by getting you into a lower brainwave state.

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The Biggest Mistake People Make About Sound Healing

Sound will be the medicine of the future! Edgar Cayce, known as the father of holistic medicine predicted this back in the 1940’s. The biggest mistake people make is minimizing or dismissing the powerful effects that sound and music have on us.

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Does Sound Therapy Really Work?

Neuroscientists have found that the more we can access a resting brain state, the more it can help us achieve heart-brain coherence. This is an optimal state associated with increased cognition, emotional stability, and resilience. I always tell my clients that sound therapy is like a nervous system reset — like bringing your body/mind back to its factory settings!

Even though science has just started to study the benefits of sound therapy, there is a wealth of experiential evidence that indicates definite positive physical, mental, and emotional effects on humans and animals.

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Sound and Music - Ancient Medicine for Modern Times

I wanted to share an amazing awareness that opened up as I was listening to the iconic rock song “Don’t Stop Believin” by Journey. I’ve been a singer, performer and voice teacher for many years. When menopause came, it changed my voice, and not for the better, so I felt like my voice betrayed me. I energetically pushed away singing and music and started to become more interested in sound therapy — I put my musical past on the shelf.

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The last time my horse bucked me off…

something amazing opened up for me! So dialing back to 1972 when I was 13. In true teenage fashion, I told my family that if they wanted to move to rural northwest NJ, they would have to get me a horse - and they did. A beautiful 16 hand quarter horse/thoroughbred I named Sequoia.

But I was terrified of her, and she knew it…

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Your Heart is Smart

“Listen to your heart” or “speak from your heart” are phrases that most of us are very familiar with. But what exactly does that mean, and what are we listening for, and does our heart really have a voice? The general idea that we are all taught is that the brain is the computer of the body controlling all the organs and systems and is the dominant “voice” of the body. However, new research is revealing that the heart actually sends more signals to the brain than the brain sends to the heart!

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Love Your Body with 6 Healing Sounds

In this video, I guide you to send love and gratitude to each organ, clearing congestion, using the 6 Healing Breath Sounds of Traditional Chinese Medicine. I also encourage you to use your voice organically to further open up the flow of energy or qi in your organs which affects the energy flow in your entire body.

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Can Your Voice Heal You?

I'm always surprised when I ask if people have heard of sound healing, and they say no. The use of the sound as a healing medium goes back thousands of years - it is an ancient art that is having a resurgence in this paradigm - a new/old technology.

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Sound as Medicine?

Sound will be the medicine of the future! Edgar Cayce, known as the father of holistic medicine predicted this back in the 1940’s. The biggest mistake people make is minimizing or dismissing the powerful effects that sound and music have on us. I don’t know why it’s so hard to believe this, because we all have experienced the heart lifting effects of a favorite song or the sound of the ocean, or the sweet chirping of crickets on a moonlit night.

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Keep Your Vibes High

You have a frequency that is higher than most diseases, viruses and pathogens - you have the power to control your own vibrational energy to support your health and wellbeing. WE ALL HAVE THAT CHOICE!

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