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“Modern physics has taught us that the nature of any system cannot be discovered by dividing it into its component parts and studying each part by itself... We must keep our attention fixed on the whole and on the interconnection between the parts. The same is true of our intellectual life. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.” – Max Planck
DR. MIRIAM BURGER Physician, Sound Medicine Expert, Musician, and Ayurvedic Coach VIEW CONTRIBUTOR’S BIO
SOUND & HEALING FINDING INNER HARMONY AMIDST THE CHALLENGE Tools that we can individually use to master change are numerous. Powerful ones are music and sound. Music can move our soul - respectively the structures we consider to be soul-like. Science also has investigated how music impacts us morphologically and functionally, yet it affects not only the nervous system and psyche: music also shapes our cellular environment through diverse pathways, with different theories on how it translates into cell reprogramming. Not only do modern sciences apply sound and frequency technology, ancient cultures inherited sound rituals as early salutogenetic and empowering methods. Across diverse cultures, spiritual leaders, creatives, and exceptional individuals – they all have used techniques of inner coherence to master change. Coherence can be reached through meditation. And if meditation is taking the stairs, Sound Meditation is taking the elevator. Sound will entrain brain waves within minutes when you’re trained. You may know from listening to your favorite music,“healing sounds” or rhythms how impactful music can be for your body. Music impacts the flow of “Qi”, “Prana”, “Kundalini” in your energy system, and fosters creative as well as deeply recreative mental states; it supports you in physical activity, overcoming addiction, growing nerve tissue, reviving overall cognitive functions. Even reconstructing long-forgotten lifelines to recall one’s identity is possible. From the premature born up to the centenarian – the restructuring and energising power of music impacts many aspects of our existence, and beyond.
Photographer: Katharina Weins
