Sound healer and best-selling author Karen Olson is well-known for using her sound healing method to help people find peace, freedom, and the power to live their dreams.
Did you know that adding a form of vocal toning and vibration/sounds can improve the effectiveness of your music for meditation and sound healing?
How Can Sound Healing and Vibration Improve Your Music?
We are a planet of approximately 7.8 billion. All of us hail from vastly diverse backgrounds and reside in different corners of the earth. However, amidst this diversity, there exists something that ties all our living and waking moments together- sound. Every day, as we step out into the world, we come across different kinds of sounds. While some we categorise as noise, some we classify as music. Both music and sound are mixtures of sound waves at varying frequencies. However, for the purpose of distinction, one can refer to music as ordered sound, and to noise as unordered sound.
Music at a Glance
At the outset, music is defined as the art and science of ordering and combining tones in a manner that is both meaningful and evocative. From listening to it while strolling the streets, to pursuing it as a career, there’s hardly anyone out there who’s not familiar with the concept of music. Adept at both conveying as well as coaxing emotions, some of the most common elements of music include tempo, rhythm, melody, harmony, pitch, timbre, dynamics, texture, and the kind.
However, besides its array of elements and instruments, there’s much more to music than what meets the eye. There exist elements such as mindful sounds and inaudible vibrations that not only grant listeners a greater understanding of the musical landscape but also arm budding musicians with the tools to whip up compositions that are as impactful as they are vivid. Techniques such as vocal toning for healing have long been used by sound therapists and other practitioners alike to improve their physical and emotional health and well-being. Other tools such as using vibration sounds for meditation prove to be equally effective as well. However, besides improving one’s quality of life, there also exist other measures which promise to enhance the quality of a musical composition by a great deal.
Let’s take a look at some of them.
Evolving Intros and Sound Effects
Whether you can add some basic, even guttural sounds or singing simple vowel patterns while you listen to music or you are a composer and sound engineer who starts a piece with noise and gradually transforming that noise into music, sound and music has many effective variables. Most artists, who work with these “techniques”, use an analogue synthesizer to first create a tone. Subsequently, they convert the tone into a warble, and then turn the warble into a rhythm. Consequently, they layer all the different patterns together to produce a unified piece of music. Using your voice to layer sounds while you are simply listening, or creating a recording, you can feel the vibrations move inside of you.
By using this technique, you can also organise noise into various textures and compositions and settle with the one that aligns best with your mind. For this purpose, you can take the help of a synth sound bank that provide you with a host of different noises that you can include in your music. Introducing such sound effects, (or simply adding drums or percussive sounds that you create), into your composition can increase the quality of your composition by leaps and bounds and allow you to leave a subliminal impact on your listeners and yourself.
Pad Layering
With the help of pad layering, you can incorporate Solfeggio frequencies into the layers of your composition and render them with a feeling of bliss, peace, and serenity for the listener. The six frequencies that are part of the Solfeggio frequencies can be infused into any genre of music. Because of the sentiments that they evoke, these frequencies have long been linked with the school of meditation music. Besides adding a layer of finesse to your composition, the Solfeggio frequencies are also known to leave a deep impact on an individual’s conscious and subconscious mind, stimulating their inner healing in the process. A simplified version, of vocal toning using vowels can create a counter-part.
Bass Layering
If your music consists of low-end elements such as the kick and the bass, then you should probably consider layering the famous Schumann resonance into the mix. Scientifically speaking, Schumann resonance is the natural resonant frequency of planet Earth. Many researchers are of the opinion, that if we were to tune our instruments to these resonances, then our music would become more pleasant, and improve our well-being. Additionally, you can also make use of this tone to design a sub-bass layer. Basically, this is a deep, inaudible sound that can also be created when we sing the lowest pitch we can create, as we connect to Mother Earth, as the vibrations ground and connect all of us. This gives sound healing a unified and grounding energetic pulse.
Using Binaural Beats
Binaural beats are defined as auditory illusions that contain various wellness and health benefits. The binaural beat that a person experiences actually has a frequency difference between the tones that enter their left and right ear. Various studies hold binaural beats responsible for having an impact on the brainwave response. Infusing binaural beats into your composition, thus, allows you to explore into newfound avenues and possibilities. The easiest way to create a binaural beat is with a pair of “ting-shaws” which can be found online. Begin by hitting the two brass rings together, and then put one next to each ear. The pitches are slightly out-of-tune creating a beating sound. Our mind needs to make sense and organize them and this process helps to calm the mind.
Using the Power of Sound with Karen
Sound healer and best-selling author Karen Olson is well-known for using her sound healing method to help people find peace, freedom, and the power to live their dreams. She has established herself as an authority in emotional and physical wellbeing. Her education, training and personal experience is the subject of her award-winning book, SoundPath: Using the Power of Sound and Silence for Health, Harmony and Happiness. Karen’s SoundPath Method is a unique sound therapy method using music, vibrations, percussion, dancing and more. She helps clients effectively and painlessly remove long-held negative childhood beliefs and remove fear by activating their unique power within. They are able to replace blocks with messages of love connecting them to their inner purpose and truth. Please visit www.karenolson.com to learn more.