Healing Through Sound or sound therapy is used for many problems encompassing such as Alzheimer’s and tooth pain, reducing stress and help the body to heal itself. Greek mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras prescribed music to his students suggesting sounds that would help them work, relax, sleep and wake up better and more refreshed, some 2,500 years ago. Sound therapists believe it affects the body’s blood pressure and muscle tension and can release painkilling, mood changing chemicals produced by the body called endorphins, also by balancing energy centers called charkas. Western medical doctors often use high-tech ultrasound machines to help heal soft tissue injuries and to take diagnostic photographs of fetuses.

Additionally, the following might be of interest: Gordon-Michael Scallion, Futurist and visionary (Earth Changes Report) in the September 1996 issue of ECR, states in regard to a question from a reader he predominate healing modality of the future will be sound followed by light, and then certain forms of magnetic pulses. I see most of the healing work in the future being done by instrumentation that directs sound at key points of the body. For color healing, I see an instrument placed over the eyes that generates a pulsed light of a specific color, frequency, rate, and duration which is then focused at key regions of the retina."

 

Martial Arts techniques included here are meditation, healing and stress breathing techniques preventing illnesses, self-defense techniques against illness rather than defense against another person. Aikido and Ki Aikido are the most modern founded in the 1920’s, a non-competitive approach to replace aggression and find peacefulness. Working with energy flows and redirecting aggression, plus adopting many of the fluid dance-like techniques of t’ai chi a person can be taught how to remain centered, alert, at rest yet poised to move in any direction at any moment. Qi Gong (Chi Kung) is considered the Chinese equivalent of yoga, and is practiced by some 200 million Chinese everyday. This is a deep breathing exercise utilizing a vertical stance and a variety of arm and hand gestures. There are thousands of forms, styles, schools, methods and traditions having a broad range of applications including sports, health, healing, sexuality, fitness, longevity and spiritual development.

Tai Chi Chuan (Tai Chi) is a self-defense strategy and a gentle exercise technique with the goal of achieving harmony with nature and the universe. Fundamental to it is the belief that life energy circulates along channels in the body known as meridians. This technique is said to improve mental acuity, regulate nerve and blood systems, strengthen the heart and internal organs and improve flexibility.

Massage is a form of body manipulation to ease pain and prevent or cure illness having a secondary effect on the circulatory and nervous systems. Egyptians, Romans, Greeks, Japanese and Chinese plus most other cultures practiced some form of massage making it over 5,000 years old. The use of massage may slow release of the stress hormone cortical as well as increase the body’s production of the hormone serotonin which can improve your mood, boost your immune system and possibly ward off migraine headaches. Therapies include the following:

Aston-Patterning, a comprehensive movement of education, fitness, ergonomics and hands-on structural bodywork enabling the practioner to design methods for realigning the body’s natural balance and gravity through physical fitness techniques and deep-tissue manipulation with treatments varying according to need.

Cranial-Sacral Therapy is that approach which focuses on the skull and spinal column with therapists using very little pressure to massage the bones, membranes and fluids supporting the spinal column. The theory is that such manipulations reduce tension allowing the body to return to its original or optimum condition. This can be good for headaches, chronic ear infections and lower back pain.

Deep Tissue Bodywork aims to restore full rotational movement to joints due to poor diet and stress factors targeting chronic tension in muscles that lie far below the surface of your body. This technique usually involves slow strokes, direct pressure or friction movements using fingers, thumbs or occasionally even elbows to apply needed pressure.