Emotional Healing and Sound Therapy

The music seems to take you back to the womb

Sarah suffered from severe emotional difficulties as a result of an abusive background, so she described her life up until the age of fifty as a constant daily battle dealing with deep inner turmoil, confusion, fragmentation and FEAR.

When she first heard about Sound Therapy, she said she instinctively knew it would help her, but did not expect such a transformative effect.

When she began listening, she had instant relief from her stress, fear and anxiety. Her sleeping pattern changed, giving her deeper, longer sleep. Her sore, weepy and itching ears, which she had since the age of 12 started to heal. She noticed that certain sounds were sharper and made her feel excited, particularly the birds, and she had a decreased appetite for sweet food.

Most of all what made the difference, she said, “was a strong feeling that I will be able to heal from the abuse – already I have had some very healing dreams and deep realisations, (pennies dropping). Yesterday, tears started to flow a little. And although I felt sad when I was crying, the sadness had a sweetness rather than a stifling desperation.”

Rafaele Joudry and her mother worked as a team to develop Sound Therapy into a portable method that could be accessed by people in their homes. Previously restricted to costly clinic settings, suddenly Sound Therapy broke free and was being used while jogging, sleeping, driving to work, watching TV, painting, gardening, teaching, or massaging.

While Tomatis was spurred on to his discoveries by his own traumatic and dysfunctional relationship with his mother, this later mother-daughter team used their closeness and creative collaboration to bring his work to the world.

“I believe this program to be invaluable for people suffering from childhood abuse or trauma,” says Sarah, “because, as it said in your book, the music seems to take you back to the womb and gently and lovingly caress you back to wholeness – that’s what’s starting to happen to me.”

“This type of healing is a gift of our miraculous nervous system, which is wired up to enable vibrational energy to deeply penetrate and impact on our very structure,” explains Rafaele. “Tomatis has said that the brain is built by sound, many brain pathways are formed in utero as the baby listens to the mother’s voice. These pathways are still open, so a rebirth through sound can be achieved at any time. We can access the entire nervous system through our hearing and bring harmony to our senses through Sound Therapy.”

The particular filtering processes used in Sound Therapy, based on Tomatis’s invention, the Electronic Ear, are the key to the profound effects of this therapy.

Dr Tomatis spoke of ‘the opening of the ear’, an occurrence which happens on the combined physical and psychological levels. This is achieved by using sound to exercise the middle ear muscles and rearranging of the route by which sound is conveyed to the auditory cortex so that there is more efficient relationship between the ear and brain.

The effect is greater receptivity to the re-charging effect of high frequency sounds. At this point, listening to Sound Therapy music will increase the energy levels of the listener as well as helping in many cases to resolve deep, psychological blocks.