Remembering What I’ve Always Known

I was at a holistic healthcare conference in Tuscon when the memory came back to me. Dr. Geoffrey Montague-Smith, an osteopath from London, was demonstrating how he uses sound frequencies to diagnose and resolve health conditions. He struck two metal tuning forks against each other, a perfect fifth of C and G, and moved them through space around a volunteer subject. I suddenly felt myself “rushing the stage,” to get as close as I could to hear the sounds change as the tuning forks moved around her body.

Often at these types of conferences, my mind is occupied with the activity of learning and retaining new information. In this moment, I did not feel like I was learning something new. I felt like I was remembering something I had forgotten.

That moment was the birth of my exploration of sound healing, which led to my discovery of Alchemy Crystal Bowls, and the founding of HeartsongBath, a Music as Medicine experience. That spark of recognition ignited a fire that fueled my dedicated pursuit of teachers and experiences of sound healing.

As I pursued my training, the same story seemed to arise over and over again from my peers. So many of us shared the experience of deep recognition and a sense that something had been unveiled that had been “in the room all along.” Once I began to facilitate public sound bath events, I would get the same feedback from my students. There is something deeply familiar and compelling about this practice that makes it incredibly relatable to a broad audience. This is a universal healing practice that has something to offer everyone, from the crunchiest crystal-wearing chakra-worshippers, to the strictest of left-brained skeptics.

I believe this has something to do with our nature as vibratory bodies. The physical matter that makes up our physical bodies - skin, bone, organ, cell - is, in many ways, an illusion. When you break the physical down to its smallest possible components, you end up with empty space occupied by a frequency. Maybe this is what we are remembering when we experience the sounds and vibrations of the crystal singing bowls - we are remembering who we really are.

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