September 15, 2025

Sound healing

Your body operates as a complex symphony — each organ, tissue, and cell is vibrating at specific frequencies. When these biological systems function optimally, they create harmonious resonance. When stressed, diseased, or imbalanced, certain areas fall "out of tune," creating discord within the orchestra.

This idea forms the foundation of sound healing — that external vibrations can “re-tune” disrupted cellular frequencies. Just as a tuning fork can bring a guitar string into proper pitch through sympathetic resonance, targeted sound frequencies can restore optimal vibration to compromised tissues.

The mechanism rests upon entrainment, a way that rhythmic systems naturally synchronize to dominant frequencies in their environment. Your heart rate, for instance, can align with specific musical rhythms, while certain frequencies measurably influence brainwave patterns.

Different materials create distinct vibrational qualities when used in sound healing. Crystal singing bowls produce pure, sustained tones that differ markedly from the warm, complex overtones of wooden instruments. Metal gongs generate penetrating vibrations, while bone creates yet another unique resonance pattern. Each instrument imparts a different therapeutic vibration; it all depends on what you’re hoping to attune and heal.

Practice
​Step-by-step instructions to turn theory into healing.

• Experiment with vocal toning: Find a comfortable pitch and sustain simple vowel sounds (Ah, Oh, Mm) for 30-60 seconds. Notice where you feel vibrations in your body — chest, throat, head. Different pitches resonate in different areas, potentially influencing the organs housed there.
• Use tuning forks systematically: Start with a 528 Hz tuning fork (often called the "heart frequency"). Strike it and place the handle on various points — sternum, temples, joints — while listening to the tone. Observe any sensations, warmth, or changes in tension.
• Practice sound mapping: During daily activities, notice which sounds feel harmonious versus jarring to your system. Some people find certain frequencies naturally calming while others feel agitating — this individual variation may reflect your body's current vibrational needs.

Your memory is faulty.

Your memories are fiction. Not metaphorically…literally.

It’s well documented that your brain begins rewriting your past the moment something occurs. A meal, an argument, a vacation. The instant after an event happens, the mind begins tampering with it, subtly altering its perception to make it more favorable for its larger narratives.

This isn't a flaw in the system; it's how memory must work in order to be useful.

Every time you recall something, your brain doesn't simply retrieve a stored file. Instead, it reconstructs the memory from fragments, fills in gaps with current beliefs, emotions, and knowledge, and then saves the reconstructed version over the previous one.

In other words, your complicated childhood, awkward high school years, and beloved wedding day have been modified dozens of times by your adult brain. Details have been added, emotions have been amplified or diminished, and entire scenes have been inserted or deleted.

This is why hindsight always looks different. Each time you open a memory file to retell a story, it changes. Not because you're lying, but because your current perspective literally reshapes how you understand what happened, which (as a result) subtly alters it.

In other words, rejoice! The painful memories you carry aren't accurate records of past events — they're current stories your brain tells about the past. And stories can (and will) be rewritten.

Meditate
​Bite-sized audios to help you become the master of your mind.

“If you ever start taking yourself too seriously, just remember that we are talking monkeys on an organic spaceship flying through the universe.” — Joe Rogan

Why do these flashing pixels on your laptop create meaning in your brain?

How is it possible that the entire human species can be traced back to one man’s orgasm?

What makes combining hydrogen (explosive) + oxygen (flammable) = something that puts out fire (H2O)?

Conveniently, the fact that every question has an answer can trap us into believing that reality is inherently ordinary and linear.

But looking closer you will realize that none of this makes any damn sense! Every answer always yields new questions, the insatiable (and impossible) quest to have it all figured out. And yet it will not — cannot — ever reach the bottom.

This recognition can free you. Instead of endlessly seeking explanations, you can realize the groundlessness of existence and rest in its blissful cloud of Unknowing.

Journal
​Contemplative questions on the nature of inner freedom.