Entrainment

The following passages and quotes are from Simon Heather's wonderful and informative website: www.simonheather.co.uk

The German philosopher Novalis said: "Every illness is a musical problem. The healing, therefore, is a musical resolution. The shorter the resolution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor."

Rudolph Steiner said:" There will come a time when a diseased condition will not be described as it is today by physicians and psychologists, but will be spoken of in musical terms, as one would speak of a piano that was out of tune."

In 1665, a Dutch scientist, Christian Huygens 'discovered' the principle of "entrainment".

Entrainment is the ability of powerful rhythmic vibrations from one source to cause the less powerful vibrations of another source to lock into step and oscillate at the rate of the first source.

Itzhak Bentor illustrates this phenomenon in his book, Stalking the Wild Pendulum. He left a room full of grandfather clocks with pendulums all swinging at different rates. Twenty four hours later he returned to the room to find that the pendulums were now all swinging together!

Entrainment explains how sound healing works. A harmonious sound projected at a person who is in a state of disharmony will eventually bring them into resonance with the original sound. If a part of our body is out of balance we can retune it like tuning a piano. This is precisely what we do to the human body.

Jonathan Goldman in his book 'Healing Sounds - The Power of Harmonics' says: - "When we have learned techniques for harmonic toning, the human voice is able to create nearly every frequency, at least within the bandwidth of audible frequency."

Jonathan offers the simple formula: - "Frequency plus Intention equals Healing". If we can find the right sound frequency coupled with the right intention then healing will occur.