“There is no greater and more living resonator of sound than the human body.  Sound has an effect on each atom of the body, for each atom resounds.” -Hazrat Inayat Khan, The Music of Life (1967)

As my former teacher used to say, “We must create new words or redefine our current words to reflect the change in the energy of these times”. We tend to use the words “frequency” and “vibration” interchangeably in any discussion around sound therapy – particularly in metaphysical circles. However, these are really two distinctively different attributes which “overlap”.

Many of us have experienced that exquisite sense of “quickening” that comes from a “spiritual encounter”. We tend to express the feeling as a “vibration” – as in “that place has some really good vibrations”. Although you may feel a sense of what could be termed a “vibration” when you encounter something, or someone that you resonate with, the “quickening” or physical sensation that you feel is actually a result of that resonance, not the resonance itself. The “good vibrations” you are feeling is a physical manifestation of a positive resonance involving a band of much higher frequencies resonating in sympathy. It’s like watching a tree swaying in the wind – you can’t actually SEE the wind, but rather the resulting physical effect the wind has on the tree.Vibration is a subset of frequencies that falls in the bandwidth that can specifically be perceived by the physical human body. Although there is a tremendously wide spectrum of frequencies of all variety that impact the human body on a continuous basis, only those that can be felt at our “mass density” level are vibrational. For example, even though at this very moment it is likely that a number of microwave frequencies are passing through your body, you do not specifically experience these frequencies physically as “vibration” because they are too high. Accordingly, the term “oscillation” rather than “vibration” may be used to differentiate physical from non-physical perception, and to raise the awareness of which energy spectrum we are dealing with when we discuss the field of sound therapy and the lesser-known aspect of sound known as physioacoustics.

Physioacoustics is a scientific method of applying low frequency stimulation to the human body in such a way as to obtain desired emotional or physical effects. It may be thought of as the science which takes the active ingredients out of “music” and concentrates them into a pure form to motivate or to heal – it sort of feels like a “sonic massage”.

A discussion of physioacoustics usually leads us to the most critical physical, (and energetic), principle of sound – that which is known as resonance. A resonance occurs when two or more tuned frequency systems interact in such a way as to transfer energy. This principle of resonance is one of the most critical factors associated with why sound therapy is such a powerful modality. The term “sound” indicates the lowest bandwidth of our total frequency spectrum. As such, the property known as sound has the profound ability to penetrate any substance and to move matter at the molecular level. In this way, sound can alter our “reality” at a much more fundamental level because it can penetrate and move though solid matter. As energetic beings, we are in essence a collection of broad-spectrum frequency generators, and our physical bodies are in effect large resonant chambers. Therefore, we can induce very profound energetic transfers at every level of our multidimensional selves by resonating our bodies with sound.

In my sound therapy practice I use a great deal of low frequency sound and physioacoustic vibration because low frequencies have a tendency to createexcitations and resonances of an infinite number of higher harmonically-related frequencies. By using subharmonic frequencies, one can cause an excitation of any mathematically proportional frequency above it – and the higher frequencies will actually “pick out” the appropriate low frequency and resonate Everything that occupies physical space possesses multiple resonance frequencies. Our physical body structures, (i.e. bones, muscles, organs, etc.), are no different.

Each structure has a band of characteristic resonance frequencies that is continually changing as we evolve. By energizing the human body using sound, we are essentially resonating the body at the structural level. So although by and large, our bodies do operate at aband of characteristic frequencies far beyond the audio spectrum, these higher frequencies are harmonically related to a set of common lower base audible frequencies to which are harmonically related. So, by imparting the appropriate low frequency sound energy related to the characteristic sympathetic resonance of the organized mass structures of the body, we are not only vibrationally massaging these internal structures and stimulating their innate capacity to detoxify, but we are also providing a harmonic base related to multiple resonant frequencies of the energetic systems that operate at much higher frequencies. Through the centuries, the stones and walls present at many sacred sites have retained energetic information stored within their very structure at the molecular level. Adept shamans are capable of accessing this information by using resonant sound, which is one of the reasons that some orders of monks tone and chant during ceremonies at these sites.

Similarly, YOU have information locked within you at the molecular level. By allowing sound to move through you, the information stored within your physical structure can be accessed. As an energetic being, you store this information in the form of a feeling or an emotional energy. In many cases, this emotional energy has been stored in the body’s energetic memory at the cellular level, and has been carried forth from lifetime to lifetime. Sound is an excellent means of transmitting and stimulating the experiencing of these various emotions, which causes the emotions to then “bubble” to the surface of our energetic field. When you connect to your feelings, you connect to your entire chakra system, which then allows you to understand the information available to you within and without your energetic body. In this way, emotions that are no longer appropriate may then be released. This in turn, will prevent these emotions from manifesting as a physical ailment. Using sound in this way can bring about a rearrangement of your structural essence at its most fundamental levels, and create an opening for information from Source to flow in. The opening and clearing of blocked or repressed energetic centers will enhance one’s ability to integrate higher information and accelerate the ascension process. Also, by releasing inappropriate energies you are allowing an access to a greater knowledge and wisdom that is stored within you to take their place. As you allow sound to play your body, you are opening yourself to rediscovering the frequencies that are connected to something within and without: of Light, of the Divine Love, of other worlds. Your body is reminded of frequencies that it has longed for – which the sound has reminded it of. Frequency and vibration, no matter how you choose to define or distinguish them intellectually, imply the most profound principle in the universe – that of sympathetic resonance. As such, resonance is a metaphor for the energetic expression of the Universe at its most fundamental level, or “the way things REALLY work”. And just as with Holy Father/Mother God, resonance does not imply conditions or judgment in any way – not good or bad - it just IS. It’s ALL about resonance!

Copyright © 2008 by August Worley. All rights reserved.

August Worley is a certified Reiki master, musician/sound therapist, a professor of electrical engineering, and the inventor of PYRADYM™. a Sound, Light, Physioacoustic and ultrasonic resonance instrument. For private sessions in Atlanta contact the Harmony Learning Center (second Saturday of each month) and Crystal Visions in Asheville (first and third Wednesday of each month) or call 828.301.6935. For more information related to Pyradym, please visit us at www.augustara.com