Private Sound Bath Meditation

Sound Bath Meditations can be an incredibly beneficial wellness practice.

Instead of guided meditation, which uses speaking to guide a person through a meditative state, sound baths use music and instruments such as gongs and bowls to provide the guidance. Not only are they a great de-stressor, but they can be the perfect introduction to meditation for beginners. 

In general, meditation is excellent for managing stress and improving your overall wellbeing. Sound has been shown to help reduce pain, increase neural connectivity, and improve the quality of life.

. "In one example, integrative health research psychologist Tamara Goldsby's 2016 study on the effects of singing bowls on human health found that people attending singing-bowl meditations or sound baths reported a reduction in pain symptoms as well as less anxiety, tension, anger and feelings of sadness."

Dave Rabin, MD, PhD, a board-certified psychiatrist and neuroscientist, explains further: "Music and sound impacts us all the time by literally changing the rhythms of our physiology or the organ systems in our bodies, which change naturally without us thinking in response to the rhythms of sound," Dr. Rabin says. In fact, he says this change typically takes place in less than a minute. "Sound impacts us in these rhythmic ways very, very quickly and usually without us noticing it or being aware that our bodies are changing and our heart rate is changing and our blood pressure's changing."

This natural response to sound is why sound meditation can be a great place for people to start who might be new to meditation, or for those who may be in a rut with their regular meditation practices.

 "As an adult, it can be very challenging to get into those [meditative] states. So using things like sound, whether it's delivered through your ears from instruments or from recording or whether it's through your skin like feeling bass sounds, the sound waves guide the meditation so they effectively calm the body," Dr. Rabin says. "They provide soothing stimulation to the body, and that soothing stimulation helps the body feel safe enough to drop into a meditative state quickly and deeply."

If you would like to learn more about sound bath meditations please check out the article below:

https://www.allure.com/story/sound-bath-meditation-benefits