You've got the hemispheres of your brain. “I thought I was just going to add something new to what I already knew about healing, but there’s just so much! You've got tuning. Valerie found a school in San Francisco and studied the theory of music therapy. So I just looked it up to see if that was a thing. I knew that every time I heard specific music or sounds or voices, monks or bells, it really moved me. That's what I'm meant for!’ But, I knew I wanted to add something to what I already knew. Then, I was like, ‘I need to get back into healing. I didn’t have any clients when I moved, so I ended up getting a regular job. I went to New York, and then came to Austin. After graduation, she worked in body-mind massage for a decade. She signed up and went to school for a couple years. So Valerie found a massage and energy school nearby called the Institute for Psycho-Structural Balancing. Soon, people started saying, ‘You should get paid for this.’ I thought, ‘You know what? I should!’” “I noticed just by relaxing somebody, easing the stress a bit, how much it shifted and they got more work done. The before and after changes in their mood was always so incredible. On sets, she’d help stressed out co-workers by giving shoulder massages. Valerie noticed the power of human touch back in 1999 while living in LA. That is how I found Valerie Bachman, a sound therapist based in Austin, Texas. Or, could it? That’s the question I set out to answer. But is sound doing something even bigger than that? Is Sound Helping to Heal our Grief? Within 3 hours, someone called in –– not just emailed! –– to tell us it was broken. In fact, the embed to the Spotify playlist we created from those songs stopped working once. That article is the most popular in our resources section. Classics to feel their connection again, to relive a memory.

Love songs to encourage the water works.

Head bangers to help release the anger.

Surprisingly, a lot of those songs were the same. We found these people in grief groups across the web and the moment we asked them if they used music to help with their grief, our posts became some of the most popular in those groups.Įveryone had an opinion.

In fact, last August, we first published a list of songs to listen to when grieving, as recommended by more than 140 people. It can be distracting, a couple minutes of a break from the deep work of grieving caused by loss. It can be relieving, like screaming it out to punk rock in your car. It can be nostalgic, like playing your wedding song. Music is the first place so many people turn when grieving. Healing with Sound Frequencies To Cope with Grief

Tuning forks healing frequencies