Sound Heals!

Music Medicine Soothes the Soul and the BodyA music therapy instructor from Yale University
Researchers throughout the world are reportingtells a breakthrough story about Jerry, a
intriguing new ways about how sound vibration26-year-old man who wouldn't speak, whose
heals the body, mind, spirit and the environment.mental age was between 2 and 8 and who threw
The words people choose to speak and the musicextremely self-destructive tantrums. Jerry was so
people listen to have profound power to decreasetransformed by music therapy that he was able
pain, draw people out of emotional and mentalto free himself from his "autistic mold" and create
isolation and even clear polluted water. Anda way to support himself in the world. What'd he
scientists are discovering that certain deep spacedo? Pairing up with a graphic designer, Jerry
sounds are amazingly similar to the sounds oflaunches a profitable greeting card company. Jerry
dolphins, Tibetan bowls and human choirs.writes many of the messages and helps design
Why Is this Important to You?the cards. Aptly, they name the company "Flew
Because you can use music, song, vibration andthe Coop."
words to dramatically affect your own health andTrippy Space Sounds
the well-being of other people. The impact,What do the sounds of dolphins, human choirs and
potential and mystery of the healing power ofTibetan bowls have in common? The sounds they
sound is demonstrated in the followingmake are uncannily similar to tones found in outer
heart-warming true stories.space.
Wake Up and Dance, Little SuzyWhile examining the recordings of spacecrafts
Do you remember the movie "Awakenings?"Voyager I and II at the California Institute for
Based on a true story, the film features the workHuman Science, scientists discover that sounds
of neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks with Parkinson'sproduced by the rings of Uranus are virtually
disease patients. Many of these patients whoseidentical to those produced by Tibetan bowls.
bodies had been immobile for decades from theSounds emitted by the planet Jupiter strongly
effects of Parkinson's began groovin' to thecompare to the high- pitched cries of dolphins.
sounds of music. Patients who had not left theirAnd sounds from the smallest moon of Uranus
wheelchairs for years, got up and began dancingresemble vocal choirs.
to certain types of music.Researchers believe that this similarity is no
After the success of these patients, Sacks,coincidence. The cosmic vibrations of dolphins,
teamed up with the music director from thebowls and choirs are currently being used to
Institute for Physical and Neurologic Function andstimulate alignment and healing at the cellular level.
has been using music as therapy with miraculous"Tibetan bowls" are used spiritually to assist
results. According to the music director, patientspeople to relax plus the bowl's vibration gently
who can't walk "bound out of their chairs andhelps "break up" old patterns of behavior that are
start dancing as long as the music is present. Forno longer useful or healthy.
people who have motor problems, music acts asRockabye Baby
a catalyst."Hospitals report that newborns who are sung or
Potent Prayer Powerspoken to on a regular basis go home 3-5 days
When a Buddhist priest prayed for an hour overearlier and weigh more than babies who aren't
the polluted water in a lake behind a dam in Japan,exposed to specific periods of adult speech or
the crystalline structure of the water changedsong. 50% of women who listen to music during
from malformed and distorted to one ofchildbirth don't need anesthesia.
immense beauty and power. The lake wasA New Symphony
transformed into a healthy source of pure water.We are only hearing the first few bars in the
A distinctly visible aura appeared around thesymphony of healing that awaits humanity as we
water crystals in photographs.open to the dynamic harmonious effects of
Autistic Man "Flew the Coop"sound.