What is Sound Therapy?

What is Sound Therapy?
A new and perhaps ancient concept of dis-ease in the human body is emerging, which is that illness is an out-of-tune behavior of the body.  When something is diseased, it is due to some factor causing a frequency change and it begins to vibrate differently than it once did.  Sometimes this is a necessary period of un-comfortableness (dis-ease) as the body perhaps is increasing its vibration and adjusting to a new frequency.  Using sound, especially intentional and prayerful sound, it is possible to apply harmonizing vibrations which help the body to come into harmony again.

Jonathan Goldman, a dear friend and pioneer in the field of sound therapy, has made the analogy that in a healthy body, every tissue, bone, organ, and other part is producing a balanced set of frequencies that together make up the “symphony of the body.”  Dis-ease is likened to one player forgetting or losing their sheet music, or playing the wrong notes.  Traditional allopathic medicine would simply cut off the head of this player, or remove the player (organ) entirely.   Sound therapy suggests that by projecting the correct resonant frequency back into the imbalanced part, it could restore natural harmony.

Musical intervals and the body:

In examining the human body, we find that anatomical proportions resemble the waveform expression of musical intervals.  For example, the distance between one’s extended toe to the top of the sacrum, relative to the top of the sacrum to the top of the head is 3:2, the same ratio as the interval of a fifth (the note C to the note G).  These musical ratios exist throughout the body.