Six Healing Sounds: A foundational component of the Healing Tao System. The Six Healing Sounds are a series of arm movements and vocalizations that releases negative energy.

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HEALING SOUNDS

The use of sound to create balance and alignment in the physical body, the energy centers (chakras), and/or the etheric fields. It is a vibration applied by an instrument or the human voice, and can be understood as a field of energy medicine.

The primary question in this field is: What are the correct resonant frequencies of the body?

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Sound Healing

is a unique type of vibrational therapy that uses the human voice, tuning forks, Tibetan singing bowls, bells and tingshas, and crystal singing bowls that are directed into and around the body to balance the energy. This therapy, which may be used in combination with other energy therapies, allows the gentle "tuning" of the body's nervous system which provides support in its return to a natural balanced state.

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Sound Healing: Practitioners believe that different sounds can stimulate blood flow and increase awareness. They often use sound waves to restore the body’s natural rhythms. Treatment sometimes includes a machine that transmits sound waves directly to affected areas of the body. Sound healing is believed to treat stress, depression, dyslexia and muscle pain.

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shadow sound therapy (c) (SST, shadow therapy): Modality developed by Elide M. Solomont, Ph.D., composer, Jungian psychotherapist, sound healer, and author of One Day We'll All Be Together and You Are Who You Hate - The Alchemy of Dissonance: History, Theory, Self Reports, Practice for Therapeutic Purpose (Vantage Press, Inc., 1995). SST is a combination of guided imagery and music therapy.

According to its theory,

• if one listens to unfamiliar, unstructured, or inharmonic music, one will face one's shadow (a dark side that disappoints); and
• interpreting images of the unconscious can effect healing.

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sound: Shabda. As the darshana, or "seeing," of the Divine is a central article of faith for Hindus, similarly, hearing the Divine is spiritually indispensable. The ears are a center of many nadis connected to inner organs of perception. Gurus may when imparting initiation whisper in the ear of disciples to stimulate these centers and give a greater effect to their instructions.

During temple puja, bells ring loudly, drums resound, conches and woodwinds blare to awaken worshipers from routine states of consciousness.

Meditation on inner sound, called nada-anusandhana, is an essential yoga practice. Listening to the Vedas or other scripture is a mystical process. Traditional music is revered as the nectar of the Divine.

See: Aum, nada, Siva consciousness.

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SOUND THERAPY

Using the media of sound (music, tones, vibrations, etc.) as a tool for healing, sound therapy enables the realignment of natural body rhythms. Therapy may include, but is not limited to, the use of tibetan singing bowls, chimes, acutonic tuning forks, rattles, and drums.

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Music/Sound Therapy: Therapists in this field utilize music or sound to improve a client's sense of emotional, physical and spiritual health and well-being. Various experiments with music have shown a range of benefits for all types of situations, from the elderly suffering from Alzheimer’s to young people with learning disabilities.

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Music and Sound Therapy

Since vibration is the essence of sound and music and since energy, and thus vibration, is the essence of all things, then it follows that music and sound should be a common element among most, if not all, healing traditions.

Examples of the use of sound include: chanting in yoga and meditation, plainsong, drumming, music played during a bodywork or healing session, and hi-tech meditation soundtracks which employ subliminal pulses and/or affirmations.

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Sound Therapy: Sound Therapy is an innovative program of sound stimulation, audio-vocal activities and consultation. While anyone can benefit, it is of special interest to families and children with developmental delays, autism, PDD, Asperger’s, attention deficit disorder and some types of learning problems.

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Pulsed Light and Sound Therapies

employ frequencies of sound and/or light to entrain the brain waves, creating specific mind-body states, especially relaxation.

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Primal Sound: In Hinduism, sound is the first manifestation, even before light, in the creative scheme of things. The Primal Sound is also known as Pranava, the sound of the mula mantra, "Aum."

See: sound, Healing sound, vibrational healing

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Sound Touch Therapy (Sound Touch): Variation of Toning promoted by toning channel Wayne Perry. It involves identification of personal missing notes, attempts to facilitate their return, and the breakup of bodily energy blockages.

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Sound Energetics: Invention of Helena Reilly, M.A. It involves analysis of the voice and the application of sound at frequencies that release psychological and emotional energies.

The principle of sound energetics is that one's voice is a reflection and map of one's energetic vibration overall. sounding: Repeatedly vocalizing therapeutic sounds, such as AUM. Aum (Om) isa manifestation of spiritual power and the most sacred syllable of Hinduism. sound therapy: Modality promoted by psychologist Lisa M. Baker, M.A., of New York City. It includes Toning.

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Primordial Sound Meditation: Ancient form of mantra (or sound) meditation revived by Deepak Chopra, M.D. It involves selection of a mantra (primordial sounds) based on the date, time, and place of the prospective meditator's birth.

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SOUNDING THE BODY: a diagnostic and therapeutic technique used in sound healing.

Sound healers read a patientÕs body by singing a series of tones and listening for imbalances in the natural frequencies of the body or itsÕ energy fields. Imbalances are said to be indicated by changes in the tone of the healerÕs voice.

To correct a problem, the sound healer applies sound to the patientÕs body by singing certain tones near the affected organ, or by applying tuning forks or electronic vibratory instruments to the body.

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quantum healing: Variation of self-healing advanced by Deepak Chopra, M.D. (see Magical Mind, Magical Body and Primordial Sound Meditation).

Quantum healing is a process of peacemaking wherein one mode of consciousness - the mind - corrects mistakes in another mode of consciousness - the body.

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Keys of Christopher sound-wave energy therapy (advanced sound-wave energy therapy, Energy Dimensions Sound-Wave Energy Therapy, Energy Dimensions Sound-Wave Therapy, Keys of Christopher, Keys of Christopher Method): A non-touch energy medicine technique developed in San Rafael, California, and taught since 1995.

Its principle is that vibrations of sound/light frequencies running through the practitioner's hands can become stored in the atomic structure of the recipient for days or weeks and continually work through bodily energy blocks.

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MUSIC THERAPY

Music therapy is the prescribed use of music by a qualified person to effect positive changes in the psychological, physical, cognitive, or social functioning of individuals who have health or educational problems.

The idea of music as a healing influence that can affect health and behavior is as least as old as the writings of Aristotle and Plato. The 20th century discipline began after World War I and World War II when community musicians of all types, both amateur and professional, went to veterans' hospitals around the country to play for the thousands of veterans suffering both physical and emotional trauma from the wars. The patients' physical and emotional improvements in response to music led the doctors and nurses to request that hospitals hire musicians. 

For children, illness and hospitalizations disrupt normal living patterns, school and important social activities. Music therapy helps to reduce this disruption by providing sensitive, creative interventions--including playing instruments and writing songs. These interventions also offer acute and chronically ill children the chance to learn, express themselves, interact with family and peers and, simply, relax and enjoy themselves. Even parents and siblings can join the fun and experience the benefits. The power of music is documented: Studies have shown that music can influence heart rate, respiration, blood pressure, pain perception, physical health and well-being. Music is loved by young and old.

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BioSonic Sound and Light Repatterning: Component of BioSonics that includes color breathing.

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