Sonic Healing
Curated genre-defying playlists for mental health healing
Sound is a transmission of energy, creating waves of vibrations of the molecules in air. Music is organized sound. How music and tone impact our emotions is still being studied, but its centrality to the weave of human experience cannot be denied. A substantial body of neuroscientific evidence has shown that music has healing properties.⚕︎ Neurophysiological responses (heart rate, respiratory rate, and neural activity) and neurohormones (serotonin, oxytocin, dopamine) are stimulated by rhythm, melody, and harmony, which then have a powerful influence on mood and emotional experience.⚗︎
⚕︎. McCaffrey, T., Edwards, J. and Fannon, D., 2011. Is there a role for music therapy in the recovery approach in mental health?. The Arts in Psychotherapy, 38(3), pp.185-189. ⚗︎. Schneck, D.J. and Berger, D.S., 2005. The music effect: Music physiology and clinical applications. Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Lotus
as a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in the world, raised in the world having overcome the world, live unsoiled by the world – Siddhartha Gautama
Strings
to facilitate fuller and freer vibration at each node of this series, cultivating and amplifying the idiomatic freedom of each instrument to sing through the chorus of musica humana, to surf the waves of the weave– Adam Blum, Peter Goldberg, Michael Levin, Here I’m Alive
Nature
via the Climate Mental Health Network
“Sound is the the medium of self-aware sentience, the mutual sensory opening of life and the world.”