Sound Heals: Music Medicine Soothes the Soul and Body

[FNAME]A music therapy instructor from Yale University tells a
Researchers throughout the world are reportingbreakthrough story about Jerry, a 26-year-old man
intriguing new ways about how sound vibration healswho wouldn't speak, whose mental age was between
the body, mind, spirit and the environment. The words2 and 8 and who threw extremely self-destructive
people choose to speak and the music people listen totantrums. Jerry was so transformed by music therapy
have profound power to decrease pain, draw peoplethat he was able to free himself from his "autistic
out of emotional and mental isolation and even clearmold" and create a way to support himself in the
polluted water. And scientists are discovering thatworld. What'd he do?
certain deep space sounds are amazingly similar to thePairing up with a graphic designer, Jerry launches a
sounds of dolphins, Tibetan bowls and human choirs.profitable greeting card company. Jerry writes many
Why Is this Important to You?of the messages and helps design the cards. Aptly,
Because you can use music, song, vibration and wordsthey name the company "Flew the Coop."
to dramatically affect your own health and theTrippy Space Sounds
well-being of other people. The impact, potential andWhat do the sounds of dolphins, human choirs and
mystery of the healing power of sound isTibetan bowls* have in common? The sounds they
demonstrated in the following heart-warming truemake are uncannily similar to tones found in outer
stories.space.
Wake Up and Dance, Little SuzyWhile examining the recordings of spacecrafts
Do you remember the movie "Awakenings?" BasedVoyager I and II at the California Institute for Human
on a true story, the film features the work ofScience, scientists discover that sounds produced by
neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks with Parkinson's diseasethe rings of Uranus are virtually identical to those
patients. Many of these patients whose bodies hadproduced by Tibetan bowls. Sounds emitted by the
been immobile for decades from the effects ofplanet Jupiter strongly compare to the high-pitched
Parkinson's began groovin' to the sounds of music.cries of dolphins. And sounds from the smallest moon
Patients who had not left their wheelchairs for years,of Uranus resemble vocal choirs.
got up and began dancing to certain types of music.Researchers believe that this similarity is no
After the success of these patients, Sacks, teamedcoincidence. The cosmic vibrations of dolphins, bowls
up with the music director from the Institute forand choirs are currently being used to stimulate
Physical and Neurologic Function and has been usingalignment and healing at the cellular level.
music as therapy with miraculous results. According to"Tibetan bowls" are used in The Dream Workshops to
the music director, patients who can't walk "bound outassist people to relax plus the bowl's vibration gently
of their chairs and start dancing as long as the music ishelps "break up" old patterns of behavior that are no
present. For people who have motor problems, musiclonger useful or healthy.
acts as a catalyst."Rockabye Baby
Potent Prayer PowerHospitals report that newborns who are sung or
When a Buddhist priest prayed for an hour over thespoken to on a regular basis go home 3-5 days earlier
polluted water in a lake behind a dam in Japan, theand weigh more than babies who aren't exposed to
crystalline structure of the water changed fromspecific periods of adult speech or song. 50% of
malformed and distorted to one of immense beautywomen who listen to music during childbirth don't need
and power. The lake was transformed into a healthyanesthesia.
source of pure water. A distinctly visible auraWe are only hearing the first few bars in the
appeared around the water crystals in photographs.symphony of healing that awaits humanity as we open
Autistic Man "Flew the Coop"to the dynamic harmonious effects of sound.