"Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons.
You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS OF GUIDED MEDITATIONS?
*All of the guided meditations, along with the accompanying background meditation music tracks, that are used within the events, are created by Amanda Cook - Massage, Complementary & Holistic Therapies.*
The sole purpose of the meditations is to help bring the recipients focus back into the present moment, allowing any unwanted thoughts and mind chatter to dissipate. By redirecting your awareness and focus on the descriptive words, visualisations and affirmations, this helps to distract your busy mind, and bring you clarity of thought and balanced feelings and emotions.
Helping to control anxiety, stress and negative thought patterns, widen the imagination and activate creativity within, helping to reframe your thoughts and beliefs.
Its not always easy to relax, due to the amount of tension we might be holding physically and mentally.
The deeper relaxation someone can reach, will allow for deeper healing physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually and energetically, and allow the sound to travel around and through the body more effectively.
This makes beginning the Soundbath with meditation an effective way to reach a mental state of relaxation, stillness and openness to receiving the power of sound.
HOW DOES A SOUNDBATH WORK, AND HOW DOES IT BRING BENEFIT?
The sense of hearing has the greatest effect than all of the other senses, due to our ears continuing to function even when we are asleep.
Humans have been studying the connection between sound frequencies and the effects on human bodies, since the time of Pythagoras, when he himself used sound frequencies on his patients.
After the meditation, the Soundbath progresses on to the beautiful harmonious Gongs. The gongs create resonant, sustaining notes that wash and ripple sound vibrations, tones and frequencies through skin, bones, fluid, and every cell within the body. Resulting in full body relaxation and recalibration of the whole body.
These waves of sound help the brain to reach very deep relaxation, by altering the brainwave states.
The gongs begin by increasing your brains alpha waves, which is a mild meditative state.
As the Gongs continue to fill you with encompassing notes and tones, your brain starts to increase your brains delta and theta waves, which are your brains slowest brainwaves, that are only reached during our deepest sleep.
It is in this brainwave state that natural healing can take place, and deep relaxation occurs, bringing our consciousness into an altered state.
Sound therapy transforms lower vibrations/frequencies of guilt, fear etc, into higher vibrations/frequencies of love, joy and happiness etc, by synchronisation of the neurons to the external sound beat.
Everything in the universe has a vibrational frequency, which interacts with every cell within the body, It does this by a process called 'The Frequency Following Response' - When a new frequency is introduced to your brain, the neurons are compelled to sync to it. This induces the brain into an altered consciousness, holistically effecting the whole body.
The Soundbath always ends with the deep, earthy bass rhythms of the Bahia buffalo drum.
The buffalo drums rhythmic beat, creates repetition. This repetition creates stillness and entrains your brain into a mild almost hypnotic state, where old negative thoughts, feelings, emotions and beliefs can be transmuted into a state of positivity, peacefulness and love.
The deep bass tones are extremely grounding and bring your body back into its natural Rhythm with the mother earth.
The high frame notes of The buffalo drum stimulate your alpha brainwave state, creating a daydream feeling within.
The lower overtones of the drum, stimulate your theta brainwave state, creating a deeper dream state, that can open the spiritual heart within us.
When the mind is still and in a dream state, we can receive spiritual guidance, healing from within ourselves, and the universe.
The differing movements, volumes, intensities and instruments used, create a natural flow of sound, affecting the recipient dramatically.
During a Soundbath, the space to be, and silence, are just as effective and important for healing, as much as the sound itself.
- Sound therapy clears away negative energetic blockages, promoting emotional release. Its important to note that you may feel off sorts after a soundbath, before you begin to feel balance, especially if you have a lot to release and clear within.
- Sound therapy lowers cholesterol levels and balances blood pressure
- Sound therapy increases anti-inflammatory molecules such as, nitrous oxide, improving cell efficiency
- Sound therapy penetrates every cell within the body. This stimulates neural pathways of sensory and motor neurons, leading to improved brain function.
- Specific sound therapy frequencies, stimulate 'Nociceptors' which regulate pain sensory in the body
- Sound therapy allows the brain to relax, so it can transform your cells from distress, to relief
- Sound therapy soothes the mind and enhances immunity response
- Sound therapy balances and relaxes both sides of the brain
- Sound therapy can improve lifestyle, create spiritual healing, improve sleep, and activate self growth
ARE YOU FEELING DRAWN TO THE POWER OF SOUND?
Take a look at the upcoming events below, and I look forward to sharing the amazing and wondrous experience and journey with you.
Amanda Cook