While working professionally as a sound therapist since 1992, as well as producing and hosting an alternative health radio and television program for fifteen years, I have been privy to the results of various sound healing research.  I have read published papers, studies, reports and testimonials, watched an assortment of videos, and interviewed many researchers, practitioners, healers and “healees”, working with sound.  I have also closely examined the health benefits and results garnered by many of my clients, as well as those that I have experienced personally in my own life.

Although not always easily quantifiable or scientifically verifiable, (many of the people observed and studied may have supplemented their healing with other combined healing modalities), I have found that the results indicate the following:

• Since all matter is vibrational in nature, sound therapy and vibrational healing may be the most effective healing modalities available to us.
• Every individual has their own unique, personal vibration, or signature frequency pattern.
• Sound healing with vocal toning is the most effective, safest, easiest, most natural, and, inexpensive form of sound therapy. (No singing or musical training is necessary.)
• Vocal toning, primarily using vowel sounds, may be essential in assisting the body’s release of pent-up tension, stress and pain.
• Vocal toning with overtones and harmonics may produce profound therapeutic benefits within the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual bodies.

Over the years I have found, in both my own, and other’s research, that to support sound health & body/mind harmony, sounds are therapeutically beneficial and effective in the following order:

1. An individual vocally toning overtones, harmonics and multiples of their own specific notes and sounds – after diagnostically determining their patterns and needs.

      (The most effective method).

2. An individual listening to live, vocally produced overtones, harmonics, and multiples of their own specific notes and sounds. (May be combined with #1)
3. An individual playing an acoustic musical instrument with overtones, harmonics and multiples of their own specific notes and sounds. (May be combined with #1)
4. An individual listening to a recording of their own voice toning overtones, harmonics, and multiples of their own specific notes and sounds. (May be combined with #1)
5. An individual listening to a recording of another’s voice toning overtones, harmonics, and multiples of their own specific notes and sounds. (May be combined with #1)
6. Sound machines and devices that mimic the frequency wave patterns of the human voice, and can produce harmonics and multiples of an individual’s own specific notes. (Note- Use with proper investigation and caution. Although they can sometimes be effective, there have been reports of unhealthy side effects connected to receiving the wrong frequencies, sounds and tones with sound machines. Further impacting this, are sensitivities exhibited by some, to “artificial” or electronically generated sounds.)

My advice- Investigate published reports on various sound therapy research and practices.  Read any available books on toning and sound healing.  Study the descriptions of people’s various experiences in the comprehensive realm of healing with sound and vibration.  Talk with anyone who has knowledge and is willing to share their experiences and views on this fascinating subject.  However, always rely on your own common sense and intuition.  Explore, but ultimately, trust yourself and own your tone!

Wayne Perry is the founder and director of The Sound Therapy Center of Los Angeles.

He may be reached at 323-656-6337 for appointments and consultations.

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