SOUND THERAPY
“Sound has the power to heal our wounds, ignite our spirit, change consciousness, and reunite us with the divine harmonies and rhythms of the universe.”
Donna Carey, PhD, L.Ac.,
co-founder of Acutonics® Institute of Integrative Medicine, LLC
What is sound healing and sound therapy?
Sound healing is the use of instruments or the voice to change the balance of the body from dis-ease or dis-harmony to ease and harmony. When receiving sound healing, instruments create vibrations that initiate a healing response from the body. When placed on or around the body, the vibrations from tuning forks, hand chimes or other sound tools like singing bowls, set up sound waves that travel through the body. Because the human body is made up of roughly 70% water, sound waves travel easily and four times faster through water than air like ripples in a pond. These ripples can break up physical blocks like tight muscles, or emotional blocks like stuck feelings.
The goal of sound healing is to use vibrational frequencies specifically attuned to promote relaxation.
Instead of feeling overstimulated or over-stressed by a harsh or chaotic environment, how good does it feel when you step away from that jarring stimulus and replace it with something soothing? Sound waves, provided by sound tools applied directly to or around the body, can be a powerful agent in creating this transformation. When your body activates the parasympathetic nervous system and begins to relax, the healing process can begin.
Sound therapy is the application of sound vibration in order to help the body return to emotional and physiological well-being.
Sound therapy works on the principle that everything in the universe vibrates, from the smallest particle to the planets in the solar system, to the billions of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy. These vibrations create patterns of geometric waveforms, frequencies, musical intervals and sound that can set another body in motion, known as resonance.
The human body is excellent receptor for vibration because it is approximately 70% water. Sound therapy facilitates the release and restructuring of geometrical grids and vibrational patterns created through beliefs, thought patterns and habits by allowing the creation of new mental, emotional and physical bodies. On other words, sound therapy effectively redesigns by sonically resetting negative cellular patterns. Building on these principles of vibration, frequency, resonance, and more, healing becomes possible, attuning the body to carefully calibrated frequencies that support well-being.
What is Acutonics®?
Acutonics® a non-invasive, energy-based healing system of vibrational sound therapy that utilizes tuning forks, hand chimes, and symphonic gongs scientifically calculated and tuned to the orbital musical frequencies of the planetary bodies in our solar system known as musica univeralis or “music of the spheres”. Pythagoras in 6th century BCE originated the concept of these heavenly harmonies by recognizing that sounds were the foundation of the universe and are subject to mathematical laws and proportions. As originally calculated according to Johannes Kepler’s discovery of the laws of planetary motion, each planetary orbital velocity has unique tonal qualities and evoke healing energies. The planets provide musical intervals, archetypes, psychological depth, and correspondences that help me as an Acutonics® Practitioner (certification in progress) select and fine-tune the therapeutic frequencies applied to the body. Acutonics® also incorporates Tibetan bowls, bells, drums, rattles, and other indigenous sound tools to connect the body, mind and soul in the journey toward optimal health, harmonic attunement or at-one-ment with all things in the universe.
Acutonics® tuning forks have a proprietary space-grade aluminum alloy developed for its sound quality and accuracy. They have a rich resonance and lasting vibration that connects with and supports the body’s natural frequencies, while stimulating and balancing the physical and subtle energy field. Acutonics® tuning forks promote wellness, deep harmony and Harmonic Attunement®. To use them effectively, Acutonics® has developed an integrative care model that recognizes the whole person, body, mind, and spirit and all aspects of lifestyle.
Acutonics® tuning fork therapy method draws from East Asian medicine, psychology, science, cosmological studies and sound healing principles to inform the selection of tuning forks and where to place them on or around the body.
Unlike other sound healing modalities, Acutonics® uses frequencies that are the natural harmonious frequencies of the universe.
The creative and cross-disclipinary way in which Acutonics® uses tuning forks, works with selected frequencies, and the depth of this methodology is unique to this work. My role as an Acutonics® Practitioner (certification in progress) is to identify where there is an imbalance and work with the body, mind, and spirit to ease it back into balance. Consciously directed and specific sound vibration can free one from old patterns and take one to a place of wholeness and joyful connection with one’s true inner being. Celestial vibrations shift one out of restriction into expansion. Using sound and vibration, the Acutonics® tuning fork therapy strives to reharmonize and attune the human energy field to achieve optimal health, actualization, and wholeness.
What can I expect?
Acutonics® tuning forks are struck on an activator causing them to vibrate. Acutonics® applies precision-calibrated tuning forks to specific acupressure and acupuncture points to access the meridian and chakra energy systems. The sound waves of the tuning forks vibrate and travel deep into your cells through water, affecting human physiology and reaching places not easily accessed by traditional medicine. Applying the tuning forks support your body’s natural frequencies, access your bone, muscle, circulatory and auditory systems, stimulate and balance the physical and subtle energy fields, and promote wellness, deep inner harmony and Harmonic Attunement®. Listening to the tuning forks sends vibrations in the vestibular system within the inner ear canal accesses one’s sense of motion, balance, space, memory and healing. Determining which tuning forks to use and how to apply them effectively on or around the body is what gives them their therapeutic effect. During a session, a combination of sound therapy tools may be used such as Acutonics® tuning forks, planetary gongs, hand chimes, Tibetan bowls, and harmonic essential oils. Based upon the issue at hand determines the selection of specific tools using the frequency of the planets and their therapeutic qualities. This integrative approach helps to deepen one’s understanding of the profound universal connections between the natural world, body, mind and spirit, and the role that they each play in the journey toward wholeness.
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What are the different service packages?
Sessions address issues at hand. Each subsequent session may go deeper to address more complex and deeply rooted disharmonies and discordant patterns. Sessions facilitate reharmonization on physical, emotional, mental and spiritual levels.
What’s the research?
Acutonics® sound therapy methods are backed by over 20 years of documented clinical case studies that demonstrate the positive effects of sound therapy. Through research, Acutonics® has been shown to help address a wide range of ailments: Musculoskeletal, neurological, psycho-spiritual, emotional, psychological, gastrointestinal, gynecological, respiratory, and many other chronic and debilitating conditions. Specific case study examples that incorporate the use of Acutonics® can be found in Acutonics®: There’s No Place Like Ohm, Sound Healing, East Asian Medicine and the Cosmic Mysteries, and in Acutonics® From Galaxies to Cells Case Study Companion Guide.
