When we hold on to the strong emotional charge that triggers a traumatic response, we create areas in the body where the charge is ‘stored’. That stored charge can cause contractions, pain, mood swings, restless sleep, nightmares, and many more seemingly unrelated symptoms.
The therapeutic application of sound vibration, as it travels through bones, muscles and fascia, can help bring movement to these stagnant or contracted areas, allowing trapped energy to circulate again. Instruments such as tuning forks and Tibetan singing bowls are particularly suitable for this.
If we think of our body as being made up of vibrating energy, we can imagine that each cell has its own characteristic vibration, like a specific musical note. Many cells together will resemble the many keys of a piano, each contributing a note, creating a kind of biological music. If one part of the piano is out of tune, the entire instrument will not function properly. In this metaphor, the piano is the individual and the introduction of an external, therapeutic sound vibration can have a similar effect to tuning an instrument.