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For thousand years, sound has been regarded as a healing energy. Many ancient cultures and traditions have been using it for healing. Ancient civilizations that still exist today recognized its notable healing power.
There are old stories that demonstrated the healing energy of sound. We can find in the Bible how King Saul’s depression was lifted by David’s harp. There was also an Egyptian papyri of about 2,600 years ago that refers to chants as remarkable treatment for sterility and rheumatic pain.
The primeval Greeks held that music had a strong energy that can heal both the body and soul. Gout and back pain were treated by the music produced by lyre and flute. It is recounted that Alexander the Great’s insanity was cured by melody played on the lyre. That’s why ancient Greeks created an adage that says ‘Men have song as a physician for pain.’ Pythagoras, a well-known Greek philosopher and also regarded as a the Father of Music Therapy, believed in the power of sounds and made use of distinct songs and incantations with specific tunes and beats, as it is effective in curing diseases of both the body and mind.
Sound healing is the beneficial application of sound frequencies to cure the mind and body. It intends to bring them into a state of harmony and good health.
Dr. Alfred Tomatis, a French ear, nose and throat expert has dedicated around 50 years to study the ear and its special role. He considers the ear to be the most important of all the 5 senses of a person. Why? Simply because the ears take control of the body’s state of balance, pace and movement and the ears also coordinate and conduct with the nervous system.
Through the medulla, the auditory nerve links with body’s muscles. Therefore, the muscle tone, the balance, the flexibility and even the vision of a person are affected by sound. Another details that happen within the body is how the inner ear is connected with the larynx, then to other organs such as heart, lungs, stomach, liver, bladder, kidneys, and both small and large intestines.
Tomatis considers that higher frequency sounds which is 3,000 hertz and above it is able to trigger the brain and move cognitive roles which include the thinking, the spatial insight and the memory of a person. He also believes that listening to high frequency sounds increase one’s concentration and attentiveness.
