THE
ESSENCE OF SOUND
A
laymans guide to the possibilities and realities
of using sound as a beneficial healing tool.
Sound
in all its various forms and styles is an endemic, and constant,
aspect and part of our lives. Sound surrounds us constantly.
No matter what we are doing, what we are thinking or where we
may be at any given moment; IT is always there, sharing
our space, our time, our very being.
When
people think of sound they do not, automatically, think of the
natural sounds of the world, sounds like the wind as it rushes
about its business going from one point to another. Sounds of
water as it perambulates its way through the undergrowth bringing
life and goodness to the earth as it passes on its way to the
sea. Then there is the sound of the earth itself as the minute
particles of soil migrate from a start point to another in order
to form larger and more complex conglomerations of stones and
rocks. Even the Sun and the Moon have a sound all their own
but their sound signals are so high in the frequency range that
we mortals have no chance of actually hearing them. However
we do feel them.
Most,
if not all of us, know what an automobile sounds like as it
passes us on the road. There again we will readily recognise
the sound of bird-song as it travels through the air, the roar
of an aircraft as it passes low over head and the rattle of
a train as it flies along the track at a break-neck speed. Whilst
it is readily accepted that we intrinsically know what sound
is from an experiential standpoint most of us do not, for one
moment, understand how sound itself can, and does affect us,
for affect us it does, and on a constant, repetitive basis.
Sound
is the result of two or more elements, man-made and, or, natural
interacting with each other, rubbing up against each other if
you like, the sound itself being produced by the severity or
otherwise of the manner in which the disparate parts are brought
together, the inter-connectivity of these 'parts' creating the
'sound' which we hear, as well as the 'sound' we feel. We
are looking very closely at the sound of the various ways in
which it can be used to assist us in the progress of our daily
lives and the above statement, viz; the sound we feel, is so
very positively linked to this concept That it is practically
impossible to separate it away from the origins of mankind's
being.
Author
Michael R. Holland, B.A. (Hons)
