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Dr. Andrew Weil, author, lecturer and founder of the Program in Integrative Medicine in Tucson, Arizona, states that "The new science of psychacoustics -- the study of the effect of music and sound on the human nervous system -- shows that [frequency] can relieve pain, help stroke patients, and benefit other conditions."
Dr. Hans Jenny, a Swiss scientist who studied the effects of sound upon organic matter, called the work cymatics, or the study of waveform phenomena. Using various organic substances vibrated at different frequencies, he found repeatable patterns that represented cellular growth, mandalas, and microscopic life forms. From his work it has been proposed that sound creates form and changing frequencies affect form at a cellular level.
Energy healing processes are profoundly direct, effective and efficient. By creating a point of focus for the mind, sound forms an energetic grid through which previously blocked energy can flow. This creates a healing mechanism of resonance and vibration, allowing sound to move to those parts of us that are "out of tune," returning it to its natural rhythm and frequency. In Northern Middle English, the meaning of the word health is "to make sound." Sound, then, is the antidote.
Dr. Herbert Benson, M.D., of the Mind/Body Medical Institute at Boston's Deaconess Medical Center, having studied the effects of chanting mantras on human physiology, found that repeating a single syllable or word produced measurable changes in energy consumption, respiration rate, heartbeat, metabolic rate and pulse, as well as an increase in alpha brain waves.