The Healing Power of Sound

Here in the 21st century, we are finally beginning to remember the wisdom of sound. Amidst the wellness explosion of yoga, breathwork, tapping, gua sha and the rest, sound healing is having a zeitgeist moment, and is finally breaking through modern consciousness in a way that offers us so much fresh hope and opportunity.From demonstrations on the sofas of morning televisions shows, to gongs and singing bowls soundtracking London Fashion Week, sound healing has never been more ready for its moment in the spotlight. It's becoming extremely easy to access high quality sound bath sessions from well-trained professionals, and it's so exciting that more and more people are being drawn into the powerful vortex of personal development and healing that sound frequencies offer us. But sound healing doesn't have to be something you can only experience in a yoga studio, or at a festival, or even in a therapeutic or clinical space.Remember - you are sound, and sound is everywhere. It's everything.You can tap into your own sound healing journey any time you like. This book is intended as a guide, a workbook, to help you capture healing and harmony through a new connection to the sounds that shape your life, and a new awareness of the physical, mental and emotional impact that sound can have on your own personal experience of the world, and on your wellbeing.To make best use of this book, you're invited to make it an interactive experience. Keep a journal to hand, and a set of headphones (good quality over-ear ones are usually suggested, but whatever you have is fine). If you have any instruments hanging around the house, dust them off and put them in your line of vision once again.Most of all, cultivate curiosity, and awareness. Turn up your inner volume. Start to notice the sonic detail of your life.

Janie Everett is a sound therapist, crystal expert, energy practitioner and astrology obsessive. On a very definite second act, she came to this work through life-defining personal experience that continues to inform her learning every day. Her work can be seen online @_silenceandnoise_ and she is currently based in the UK.