Sound bath therapy – a healing process

Music has always been one’s partner in the blue days to energize the soul. People are in constant battle with mental and emotional strain, anxiety, depression, detachment. They are always looking for ways to obtain peace.

The appropriate theme for workout routines not only anchors your spirits but also eases your thoughts. During an ailment, the alterations in cells make them less efficient. Hence, during the sound therapy, when your body is surrounded by healing notes, the sound-waves increase the body pulse and induce wellness and spiritual expansion. The psychophysiological rejoinders produced by essential elements of music, pitch, and rhythm evoke memories, both pleasant and unpleasant.

Moving on from ancient meditation practices and yoga techniques for healing, sound baths are in vogue now. Though this technique is not new, however, traces have been discovered in the ancient scriptures. Spiritual followers for ages have been applying sound waves produced by various instruments, such as bells, flutes, and singing bowls, and musical symphonies to derive cognitive and emotional responses to stimulate healings and improving mood.

Nowadays, sound baths involve light breathing exercise, relaxing with one’s back touching the yoga mat or the pose of Shavasana, and centring the thoughts. It is encouraged to hold sessions in a quiet and dimly lighted area, where the only sounds present are the rhythms and human sounds chanting shlokas and mantras in varying wavelengths. Although these sessions are mostly held at organized places or studios, however, it can always be organized in the comfort of one’s home. Readers could follow these steps to plan private sound bath sessions, under their own roofs :

• Work by removing the negative aura from your space. Take a singing bowl and strike your bowl with the mallet as you walk around your room.

• Once cleansed, take a relaxed position and surround yourself with candles to set the mood and enhance the stream of spiritual energy.

• Anchor your goals on emotions and connect with the tune resonating from the singing bowl.

• Take deep breaths and direct your focus on your goals. Relax and channel the sound vibration in your body to draw inner harmony and calmness.

• Humming along with singing bowl giving a sense of empowerment.

Throughout this time, keep following your instincts and let your body go with the flow. When you are done, rest wordlessly for a few moments and show grace to the music elements. While the sound bath is considered extremely vital for the healing process, it is equally important to prepare yourself both physically and emotionally for the cleansing and healing process. This guided practice of uniting with the inner soul through the melodies, in the session of 15-30 minutes, strives to engage the mind at the core and enables the release of lingering mindful distress. This intends to strengthen and revive the energy of the chakras.

Many people yearn to experience similar benefits of traditional meditation methods and find it extremely difficult to centre their thoughts. However, some find it more convenient to release their feelings in the shlokas, mantras, the OM chants. The perks of sound bath therapy go beyond mere relaxation, and have proved helpful for pregnant women, old age people, and people with disease/ disorder/trauma.

Holding a sound bath therapy session that is personalized to one’s need can prove to be a game-changer.