Listen to the video above, Transforming Trauma with Sound Healing or read the blog below.
Transformative Benefits for the Physical Body, Mind, Emotions, and Spirit
The components of sound healing for trauma, stress, and PTSD that are transformative.
Particular rhythms, sound patterns, tone and vibration as sound healing activate and synchronize with our brain activity and neurological system that have many different areas that are healing. These include therapeutic responses, support in healing, faciliation of emotional process and response, as well as relaxation. Specific sound and tonal repetitions and rhythms create a safety because of their continuous playing that we rely upon as a sound structure that sustains, holding us in harmonious synchronization. Our brain waves, heart rate, and respiration changes that occur from the specific curated sounds promote shifting from our ordinary level of consciousness where stress and trauma are held in our neurological system to restorative levels of consciousness.
There are four powerful components of these particular sounds and rhythms
- The effective specific sound and music patterns are non-pharmaceutical interventions
- Sound listening is easy to use and self-administer
- Using these specific sound and music programs regularly and over time provide consistent and reliable method that deepens
- Simultaneous sharing with others can increase benefits
What are the components of Stress and Trauma and how do they affect us?
Each of us may or may not have a level of trauma we experienced from childhood or later in life that is considered an event that is disruptive to our system whether we notice it at the time of the event or not. While some stressors or traumas are considered smaller, exposure to these smaller stressors compounds to an effect of trauma. And other traumas are a single large event that is powerfully significant.
The Adverse Childhood Experience Test known as ACE’s is a method of identifying different childhood experiences as traumas. And now we know people who experience childhood traumas have disruption in their systems that cause continued stress that is detrimental to their physical and mental health over their lifetime. Heading for physical or mental health challenges isn’t a given, because we can interrupt powerfully restoring our entire physical body, mind and emotions and spiritual components of our system as one part and beyond develop neuroplasticity and epigenetics. More on these areas below.
In this time there are tools to restore our system form these traumas!
The Relationship of Trauma, Stress, Inflammation, and Illness
When people are exposed to stressors in childhood they compound into proclivities for mental and physical illness because of the emotional content stored in the physical body and neurological system which is the same for experiencing a traumatic event that causes PTSD. These are stressors that release cortisol and cortisol causes inflammation in our system. Inflammation is the underlying condition for the following physical and mental health issues, heart disease (the leading cause of death), cancer, diabetes, addiction, immune-compromised illness, depression, anxiety, bi-polar, and schizophrenia.
Consider experiencing trauma and stressors are like a virus. When we are responding through these trauma responses we are holding the energy of the trauma it implodes to our physical, mental, emotional, being resulting in illness or can explode in behavior that is like a tornado effecting everyone around the person in a destructive manner and often impacting ourselves and all our relationships, that is until we change these responses.
In ancient practices and perspectives, although we may not experience trauma ourselves, the traumas of our families, and generations, those who came before us, are passed to us from their neurological responses, their thoughts, and emotions. This occurs through what is spoken in tone, the information that is left out or absent, and secrets, as disturbances in their morphogenic field that have mental, emotional content and that we have the power to overcome and transform. We have the ability to heal and transform trauma and stress from our life and what is passed to us through generations that emanates from us going outward in time and space dimensionally and then we are responding differently in our lives that is profound.
Although people say you cannot change the past you can change the emotional energy about the past, the mental energy about the past in our thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and responses. This perspective is now rooted in scientific research that reveals we are empowered beings that are not limited to the physical and mental health illnesses of our time and can change how our genetic switches respond to the stress!
Progress with Genetic Research and Stress and How it Affects Us
Now there is genetic research that shows we are likely to inherit our responses to stress and trauma through our ancestors which compounds the stress we experience in our lives. But the research also shows that we have the ability to change our own stress responses as well as the inherited responses. And we also inherit the wisdom of our ancestors!
What Ancient People and the Medicine Healers of Today Know and are Practicing
There has been an ancient wisdom about space and time, healing and changing how we respond to the challenges, traumas, and illnesses that is being revived but has been in existence for thousands of years. This wisdom is now revealed in scientific research that shows we change ourselves through specific practices that transform our inner and outer experiences of who we are and what we are capable of. It is the intention of this blog to get the word out that there are tools and methods, which are available, easy to use and access, that are not only restorative and transformative but also empower us and connect us deeply to our expansive nature with epigenetics and neuroplasticity.
We no longer have to hold these traumas and stressors, which result in inflammation from our lives or the lives of those of our ancestors!
How to Change the Stress Response;
An Epigenetic Revolution
Changing the stress response from trauma in our body is composed of changing our brain wave patterns, heart rate, and respiration all simultaneously resulting in many different positive changes in our physical body, mind, emotions, and spirit.
How to Release Stress and Trauma from the Neurological System
You will always hear that a system of energy has two components, the sending and receiving components. However there is one more component that is not included. That component is the energy that is sent in the sending and receiving has an imprint. In interactions, these sending and receiving transmissions have intention that is emotional and mental energy. The emotional and mental energy imprint stays in the system until it is released or restored to its naturally functioning status.
Releasing the emotional and negative energy as an imprint of a vibration is easily changed through curated sound healing patterns that are restorative that have consistent frequency, tone, vibration because there is coherence with humans which means these coherent vibrations as sound patterns release dopamine and serotonin the feel-good chemicals. Serotonin regulates mood and emotions for emotional stability and dopamine releases hormones that help us to feel good and experience pleasure and reward resulting in counteracting the negative effects of trauma and fostering a sense of well-being and emotional stability. While these changes are occurring there is also diminishing of the production of cortisol that causes inflammation which is the underlying cause of most mental and physical illness.
Musical Memory and Release from Ordinary Consciousness; A Life-long Method for Neuroplasticity
What is sound and musical memory? Through our lives we learn in different ways and one of the significant ways we learn is through repetition. Repeating a practice helps to imprint the process in our memory that sustains within our consciousness, ‘muscle memory’ until it is second nature. The more we repeat the process the easier it is to access and the quicker the results are, which is so with the curated sounds of the 3Melete practices. In ancient Greece, the three original muses held the most significant components of human development and transformation. and Mneme, as one of these three muses, is for memory, which is repeating into memory so that it becomes second nature.
Rhythm
Musical memory is also composed of rhythm and rhythmic patterns and as humans as many creatures we are hard wired for noticing and responding to particular rhythms that are beneficial, transformative, and empowering. Consider the rhythm of the ocean waves or the sound of our heartbeat that is used to sooth a baby after their birth.
The rhythms that are beneficial and transformative for us that connect us to deep levels of awareness, restore our beings from trauma and stress, which boost our immune system are consistent without change, at a specific tone and resonance, which sustain over time, which hold us easily in that listening space so we can rely upon the rhythm’s consistency that hold the listener in that restorative space.
These rhythms cause entrainment so that we are resonating with them. Entrainment is synchronization with an outer stimulus in this case sound. It is within this state of resonance we build our resilience, intuition, and restoration in our neurological system, build our immune system, and release the cortisol and inflammation that are the underlying causes of the physical and mental illnesses.
Ancient Specific Sound and Music Practices as Sound Healing,
10 Ways Particular Sound and Rhythms Profoundly Heal and Transform Us
The following 10 areas are significant positive transformational elements that occur by listening to specific sound and music patterns. These are not ordinary sound patterns but comprised of a specific system and steps deepen overtime with consistent listening as a life-long practice that changes our physical body, mind, emotions, and spirit.
- Our neurological system releases the stored trauma through consistent practice of listening for 20 minutes a day. Through this listening we connect to a deep relaxation called the Relaxation Response. This is a regenerative and restorative state.
- There is a diminishing of the production of cortisol the stress hormone that is stored in the body. Cortisol causes inflammation which is the underlying cause of most physical and mental illnesses including cancer, addiction, heart disease, diabetes, immune-compromised illness, Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, dementia, schizophrenia, depression, anxiety, and bi-polar.
- When we connect to these restorative states regularly there are changes in our heart rate, respiration, pulse, and brain waves. These simultaneous changes are healing and transformative. We were never designed to stay or thrive in one level of consciousness.
- Listening to specific sound and music systems diminishes depression and anxiety and releases positive hormones serotonin and dopamine that are the feel-good chemicals.
- We build resilience and problem-solving. Resilience and problem-solving are also components of using our intuition, insight, and creativity. All of these elements are how we utilize, develop, and expand our self-empowerment and inner trust which are the opposite of the fear responses of trauma and stress.
- There is a deepened connection to our own inner wisdom and spirituality that is personal to us.
- And with continued and regular use of curated sound patterns we connect to our compassion. Compassion as a healing element and feeling extends to ourselves first and then radiates outward to the world, other people, all creatures in the sky, land, water, and ocean.
- Connecting to specific rhythms and sound and music patterns is healing for our physical body, builds our immune system and changes mental and emotional dysregulation to regulation.
- Regular listening promotes calm and centeredness which also aids in getting good sleep, managing challenges, and managing pain, and our spiritual connection and journey.
- Listening to curated sound and music patterns creates neuroplasticity which is a dynamic element of our ability to adapt and change and learn and grow and expand beyond our current understanding. Neuroplasticity is an element of evolution.
- Listening to curated sound and music as sound healing connects us to genetic responses that do not result in disease or illness but instead to thriving empowerment, health and longevity.
Healing Trauma with Sound Healing, the Time Has Come
Our genetic history reveals all of us have been exposed to different kinds of trauma and different intensities of trauma, it is the human story that is part of this time of transformation. And our opportunity to transform our own neurological systems from holding the patterns of stress, trauma and inflammation are available. Our ancient history within us as individuals and within the collective consciousness of each us is highly resonant to and with specific repetitions of sounds and sound rhythms and patterns. Using these sound rhythms and patterns in systems with protocols allows us to easily access restoration of our neurological systems diminishing stress the underlying causes of mental and physical illness, developing our innate abilities for our transformation.
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