The Echoes of Atlantis: Sound Healing's Resurgence This Year

0:00 What if sound itself isn't just something you hear, but something that shapes reality itself. Ancient cultures believed entire civilizations were built and destroyed by resonance. Today, sound healing is back in a spotlight, but few are asking the real question why. Now Tonight we explore the forgotten science, the lost history, and the echoes of Atlantis that may still be vibrating through us today. Welcome we well do Bara True?

0:59 What up everybody? And welcome it to a brand new episode of Paratruth Reborn. My name is Eric and I'm justin now. Before we get going here, we just want to give a shout out to Catboard from Paranormal Heart. If you haven't checked out her show, it's amazing and encourages people to share their paranormal stories. She'll be out for a few weeks due to cataract surgery, however, keep her in your thoughts and prayers so that she heals up and gets back to you, guys. Quick check her out every Tuesday at six pm Eastern Standard time. Now, you guys have heard us talk a little bit about this over the last few weeks, so I'm sure you've probably heard about sound baths or singing bowls, maybe even dismissed them as trendy, I suppose. But what if I told you that these practices are rooted in profound, ancient wisdom backed by groundbreaking science. Prepare to have your perception shattered as we reveal how resonant frequencies from indigen indigenous chance get to be in bulls genuinely impact your entire being.

2:16 Have you ever had a sound bath? I have not had a sound bad specifically, I have heard of them. I have seen videos of them and whatnot. They looked pretty cool, they looked fun. I have done it. I myself and Shelley did one with acupuncture. It wasn't like a full acupuncture. They just put needles into certain points, So yes, acupuncture. I mean it wasn't a full session where you're you're kind of covered from head to toe. It's just a fish which you putting needles in us and enjoyed the pin And.

2:56 It actually isn't painful, to be honest, it was actually shocking. However, it is very hard to relax with ten to twelve different other people in there, especially when an old woman above you, meaning's right next to me, above my head is sitting. There and snoring and farting. Yeah, a couple of bads that day. Yeah. So, And I've said this multiple times over the past couple of years here or a couple weeks here, is that I don't I cannot get deep enough to meditate, especially if there's a bunch of other people around me. Now, so, yeah, I would try it again, but the place that we want went was not the greatest.

3:54 I see. See. I would prefer the song back obviously if I was just alone. No other people are so too just you know, and then I could play music really loud. I kind of worry about the cat's ears because I always wonder how he doesn't get affected by the TV that I play, because I can't hear the TV, so I blast it, I know, like their ears have to hurt, right, I don't know. All the dog too when I bring him in the car. I mean, I'm not playing the radio like super Low or anything. Well, either way, sound baths are something that seemed to have been up and coming over the last year or so.

4:34 They're becoming more popular amongst a number of different types of people. So let's go a little beyond the buzz though, And because This actually stems way back into ancient times as well. But when it comes to today, like what has sparked the modern fascination with sound healing versus its deep historical roots. Well, now, this is something that I have pondered for a while. But you know, the modern fascination with sound healing is driven by a search for non evasive stress relief in a high tech world, bolstered by emerging scientific validation of ancient practices. Now, while today's trends focus on sound bass for wellness, it goes way deeper than that.

5:28 It has deep roots in thousands of years of traditional medicine, ranging from Egyptian chants, Tibetan singing bowls, and shamanic drumming using I'm sorry used for spiritual and physical healing. Sound has long been considered practical by using certain found waves to net a healing vibrational current. I know it goes back well pass the Egyptians and ancient Rome and ancient Greek, but it was practice.

6:10 Yeah, for sure. Your mike just dropped out at the end there. I can hear you with You're very muffled again. But yeah, it does go back to Egypt in ancient Greeks, and it's something that you know, again, it is becoming so popular over the last couple of years. And you know, I see this stuff on TikTok, I see it on YouTube. You know, when I go to find chakra cleansing music or meditation music, there's always some sort of historical or explanational type of video about sound baths or the the the significance of a sound bad. So it's not surprising that more and more people are getting hooked on this, especially in such a high type world. We kind of find a way to release that that that energy that we have or those struggles, anxiety, the depression, the headaches.

7:02 Even have used for headaches, you know, music in general general, I mean, but yeah, you know, music is becoming and sound in general becoming very popular because a lot of us have headphones on anyway, why not you know, listen to something that helps our bodies right and our spirits. Oh, I mean, look at ultrasound. I mean, that's been a technology that's been used for a long time. But with all I said, can you tell us, like what has been the prevalence of sound as therapy across the millennia. Well, it's been used UH in a number of different methods, including voice, rhythm instruments UH to influence physical and mental health.

7:52 I've used binural beats before, and there's so many other things you can use. Historically, it has been used to induce altered states of consciousness, reduce stress, manage pain, which is fascinating to me, and promote relaxation, which is typically what I use for. Of course, it goes well beyond that. There have also been significant scientific studies that plants and animals also respond to music in either a positive or negative way, depending on the type of music or sounds that are played. Like we just mentioned, we're playing loud music or loud TV, but our animals aren't really responding in any significant way that we know of. But it may be stressing them out, they just aren't voicing it.

8:44 Now. When speaking of historical. Practice, however, sound baths actually have ancient roots and have been used for thousands of years for healing purposes. Egyptian priests, for example, use chanting incantations and instruments like the system to heal. The Egyptians even built temples acoustically created to amplify such sounds. Ancient Greek philosophy particularly from pythagorasts. If you know the Pythagorean theorem, same guy involved using music for healing forty thousand years ago or for over thirty thousand years ago. Shamanic practices have used drumming and chanting, and Tibetan singing bowls, mantras and chimes have been used in Buddhists and Hindu traditions to promote meditation and relaxation. Today, much of this still exists and is used as a form of sound therapy through binuural beats like I mentioned, sound bass which we've mentioned, and frequency therapies to promote, heal and treat anxiety, stress, and pain.

10:06 You notice a lot on YouTube that there is plenty of videos for for sound for animals, therapeutic sound for animals to help welse stress and anxiety, especially when they're their owners are away from the home that's when they're typically played. But also for plans I see those of all the time too. I can say with with with pretty good clarification, I guess that the music for cats now for beans, does tend to work. It seems to settle them down, and I can usually tell when he's like stressed out by sound versus when he's not. And of course that all comes down to just knowing your pet, right, that's that simple, the way he reacts. But with him, you know, pointing ears, tail changing either the way he holds his tail or buffs up or whatever. You know, you can just see his eyes are like normal and sleeping off of a sudden like what the hell is happening? Egg? Right, So it's yeah, it's pretty easy to tell. I will say I've never had success with plant music though. Plant therapy, well, I've.

11:14 Talked to plants, like when I was growing my garden the two years that I actually did it, I would always talk to them when I was either planting them or watering them, even when I was picking vegetables off of it. I don't think I ever sang to them. But something that there was a study, and it's not just sound, it's just I guess the sound of your voice and and kind of intention that you're you're putting out there does really affect plants. I've seen the different studies and it's really really fascinating.

12:00 Yeah, no, it's definitely fascinating. I do question, like you said, you only had your garden for a couple of years. Was that because it didn't talk back, and so no, it's just life just got busier and busier. And now I was just basically sharing a garden with my mother and father in law, and now my mother in law just plants what she wants or asks us if there's anything specifically want, and we'll plant it and pick it for us. Nice. Well, that brings us to an audience question here.

12:40 So I have a question for you guys. Have you ever experienced sound healing yourself or have you experienced frequency meditation? If so, we want to hear from you. We want to know what kind of sound healing or frequency meditation you're using or doing, and how it's affected you, how it's helped you row or heal, whether physically, spiritually, emotionally, mentally, et cetera. Let us know we're definitely interested in that. I will say that when I get depressed, when I'm anxious, when I'm frustrated, things like that. When I'm I might say when I'm tired, right, I don't sleep regardless, So but you know, I use music often for those things, and they do help. They really, at least they have helped me most times. There are of course occasions where just nothing breaks through the anxiety. Nothing can break through eno if I'm angry, love something, or I'm really really just overthaking. You know, I fall into be spirals. So it doesn't really help at times there, but I will still play it in hopes that maybe, you know, it's kind of opening a little trail, you know, to be away from this little spiral that I'm going down. But you know, I don't. I don't know if it's for everybody, but I think I think that there are certain frequencies, like if you do frequency meditation or therapy, I think there are frequencies that each of us resonate at differently.

14:05 Different frequencies actually help different things too, well, they do. Yeah, so I know that, But I mean I think that as a whole, there are certain frequencies that some of us will tune into that others don't like their frequencies that I know that I like that. I have friends who do not like that frequency. It drives them crazy. And I was actually just having a conversation about that earlier today because my friend gave I was leading work early to come home and do the show, obviously since we were working late. But it's just fascinating how how how our interests or the way we feel towards SERI frequency. It's fully dependent on who we are as people and how we live our lives.

14:50 I guess, do you know that there's a frequency that you can hear or you can't hear, but you can feel it, especially if you're sensitive. Yeah? I did, and I I don't know if I've ever felt that or not, you know. I I try to keep aware of those things I do notice, and this is this is I don't know if this is a thing or not, but I will notice that when I'm laying in bed at night, I feel a vibration of the bed and I can't figure it out. I don't know what it is like. I always think it's me shaking, like aren't like like no, I'm sure it's like like like uncontrolled muscle movement. I guess that's the only way I can think of it. But it feels like the whole bed is shaking. And I always think it's like my legs or something, but it is, you know, So I don't know if that's something that I'm feeling that isn't you know, like is it sound wave? Is it something else? I don't know. Maybe I'm just crazy.

15:48 I'm on a lot of me. I mean, I've always had an issue sleeping and then I jump like it feels like I was falling out of something and and on the bed that's all hard. I jump. But I don't know if I've ever noticed vibration on the bed at all. That's interesting. That's where I feel that almost every single night, and I don't know, I can't explain it. One day, maybe maybe I'll be enlightened. Maybe and let's say, you know, I'll learn that it's not it's just your body doesn't know what it's doing. It's just acting upon itself. Haylere zoundro dragon. I hope I'm pronouncing that correctly. Sun dragon. Soun's sun dragon. Maybe it's sun dragon.

16:38 Uh, there's that zes just throws me off. Okay, So question for you, I don't know. What are examples of ceremonial chants and vibrator show messin of indigenous culture. Uh, there's actually quite quite a few, and I think all of them more or less kind of have evil in some way that we use in the sense that we use them today. But one of the first ones is the Navajo scenes. These are healing ceremonies. Basically medicine. People used specific long form chants such as the Nightway, the Mountain Way, or the Beauty Way to restore balance to a patient. Another one is the akaros, the Amazonian shamanic songs sung by the shamans during I think it's the ayah Ayahuska mayahuasca ayahuasca. See, we all know how bad I am with with words.

17:46 I only know because I've seen it and have always been fascinated about it. If I ever try it, I better have somebody to guide me, because I'll probably go nuts. Yeah. Well, during these ayahuasca ceremonies, Uh, these were not merely sung, but more so received from plant spirits to guided visions, cleanse energy, black bridges, and facilitate deep emotional healings. And now we've talked about this a few times on the show. Actually where the idea of being out in nature, being around the spirit of nature kind of helps to revive people in many instances, whether it's by the ocean, or it's in the woods like myself, or in the mountains of the desert. So this idea of you know, receiving energy from plant spirits. I don't think it's so you know, so weird. This is something that's been studied.

18:39 We know that they're living things. They actually eat, they live, they breathe, et cetera, et cetera. So I find that really interesting. Another is the Sun Dance songs. This is by the Plane tribes. It's an intense, rhythmic and repetitive song or type of song. The These chants are usually used to offer prayers for the community, on our ancestors, and even seek blessings from the creator. Then we have sealing healing songs in Peru, specifically songs that are used for particular ailments, such as the why did why? If they did? I think it's create what he said, we're headaches and by had chided the gun. See that I got a swear word there, I'd reade that. We also have the sweat log songs or sweat lodge songs, which are sung during purification rituals to help participants release mental, emotional and spiritual toxins and vikings. Did that Yeah? They did?

19:56 They did do that a lot, and there are quite a few different try that have done it. In general, there's like what they call it, like I mean in a way like people say that singing in general, like if you sing, not just listen to music, but if you take the time of sing it kind of it is kind of purifies yourself, like your emotional state. It makes you happier. If you're depressed, you know, singing a song can help you come out of that funk. And that's something that's like studied regularly nowadays still. But when it comes to vibrational medicine of indigenous people, there are a couple of different things. This isn't nearly as expanded as the others, but there is the drumming or the heartbeat of Mother Earth. This is the rhythmic, steady and repetitive sound of the drum which is designed to induce a deep relaxation, promote emotional healing, and resonate with the human spirit. And we have scientific evidence that there seems to be a heartbeat at the center of the earth which resonates to the entirety of the earth. So this is something that ancient civilizations were doing already and already believed that this was a heartbeat of a mother Earth that they were following. And now we have here in twenty twenty six, twenty twenty five. Technically this scientific evidence

21:29 that shows that the earth does have in the sense a heartbeat. Then there's the rattles and the shakers. There you used to cleanse a personal's energy, a person's energy field, directing, removing or even shifting negative energy away from the body. Many of us still sometimes do that. You might use shakers it in your practice. Another one that we all or not all, but a lot of us ab use is smudging, right scent in various smokes. I want to be caramel here like smudging. I'm not saying I think a lot of people think you say smudging, You think white sage, that's what you put in the smudge with. But you can smudge with literally any scent that you want to smudge. Isn't necessarily a form of plant that you're using. It's just a practice. So in this case, smudging being a scent and smoke is though I would say, commonly associated with cleansing, which is the burning of four sacred medicines though sage, cedar, tobacco, and sweet grass. It creates a sacred atmosphere that acts as a form of vibrational and energetic clearing. The idea being that when you use smudging and especially these four Sacred medicines, you not only cleans the area, but you race the vibrational energy within that area. And that's the important thing for healing,

22:59 is raising vibrations. The lower the vibration, you know, the less likely it is to help healing. So you've got to we've got to kind of raise it up and bring that enlightenment. Uh. Then there's voice and breath work, and this is the act of chanting itself, or the use of breath such as a Navajo unraveling ceremonies, where Don's breath is inhaled and then acts as a direct vibration to alter a person's state of health. You might have done this plenty of times if you've done like yoga, and at the end you do the ums, you know, the feel that vibration. That's what we're talking about here.

23:42 And then finally there's a talking circles when it comes to vibrational practices, and these are gatherings utilize where the gatherings in which they utilize their vibration of collective focused attention and sound to build community support and emotional healing. All right, well, can you tell us what are those the sophisticated musical theories and therapeutic applications of ancient Eastern civilizations. Yeah, so, some ancient Astern civilizations, particularly China and India, had developed highly sophisticated musical theories that intertwined mathematics, philosophy, and cosmology cosmology or cosmology cosmologogy to create profound therapeutic applications. Now, these systems were based on the understanding that music, as sound, vibration, and frequency could harmonize the body's vital energy chi or prana, balance emotions, and heal physical ailments. Now, when it comes to traditional Chinese medicine, they often use or it was often used as music as a primary healing modality, summarized

25:12 by the phrase music before medicine, with the Chinese characters from medicine and music sharing a common root and naturally interesting because we kind of see that in more of the in some of the New Age works, right when we start thinking of reiki and various energy practices where instead of turning to medicine, he turned the energy and try to heal the energy in order to heal the physical. Now, there are five phases or elements in theory developed during the Yellow Emperor era, which is roughly twenty six ninety eight to twenty five ninety eight PC. The theory links that the pentatonic scale to the five elements, which is earth, metal, wood, fire, and water, and the five zang organs the spleen, along the liver, the heart, to the kidney, and the five emotions. Now, the application to these five phases of music therapy are as follows. There's a jew which is wood and liver, which characterized as bright and cheerful. It is used to soothe liver chy and treat anger or conversely to stimulate energy.

26:36 Then there's sea, fire and heart, which is warm and relaxing. This music regulates blood circulation and treat restlessness or anxiety. Then we have Gong, which is earth and spleen. This tends to be more mellow and heavy and used for improving digestion and stabilizing thinking. Then we have shang which is metal and lung and this is resounding and solve them often it strengthens the lung function. And then finally we have you. We need yes, how long are you waiting for that? Uh? So he represents water in kidney and this is a plaintive and gentle type of music which aids the kidney in consolid consolidating essence and relieving fear.

27:33 Now on top of that, there is the six healing sounds, which is the liu z ju a dis uh Chigong. Yeah, I'm gonna say chigong is it technique that combines specific vocal sounds, breathing, and movement to purge stale chi and balance internal organs. Now, in ancient India there's this raga, chikata and nada yoga. Now in Indian classical music, it's considered a type of music a divine form of energy. Basically, it's a specialized branch of the hyerveta that uses specific regas or melodic frameworks to clue mental farms are cure mental and physical ailments. And this goes on with like the applicat or I'm sorry, the theory itself as we were talking about earlier, which is the nata yoga and the russ, which is the system that focuses on nata or sound vibration and the eleven basic emotions of mood that music evokes. Regas are assigned to specific times of the day or seasons to align with the body's natural bi rhythms. So for example, these applications might be ragged

29:07 ragga darbari and ji, which is used to enhance focus, reduce stress, and aid in emotional regulation and introspection. Then we have the raga Shankara Baharanam I believe it is, which is used to treat mental disorders and soothe turbulence and restore harmony. Then we had the raga bega cherry which employed which is employed for treating anxiety, depression and insomnia. And then vibrational healing of course, which is the use of instruments like la vina or the blowing of account shell uh which is believed to cleanse the body's energy centers like the chakras in particular and even kill bacteria.

30:01 And then there are of course a couple of other traditions Eastern traditions. These are ones that are not as well known, but Mesopotamia to bet Nepal and even Ottoman Islamic regions have also used various types of Musicidopotamia in particular use uniform tablets, which showed the use of hymns and incantations accompanied by strength in Germans like leers to invoke deities or for healing. To back to Nepal used Himalanian Himalayan singing bowls, which were used for centuries in rituals to produce vibrations that promote deep relaxation and reduce physical pain. Then you have the Ottoman Islamic region, which influenced by Greek and Pretin traditions, physicians would typically use music modes to treat ailments like melanchola, uh, melancholia paralysis and insombia. That's it's it's a cat.

31:19 So we have another audience question here for you. Do you believe ancient civilizations understood science we've forgotten. I'll give a simple an through of yes. I think a lot of technology that was used back then has been forgotten today in uh lieu of the electronic age and the technology that we have in our hands uh and what we're using right now to broadcast as well. M hm. So obviously, it's like the idea of using music vibration is very intricate. It goes back very far in Mesopotamia and other you know, ancient cultures yep. And it goods thigs so deep that you can literally, like you probably get a college degree in this stuff. Which we don't have clearly. I mean, there are probably doctorates that are surrounded around sound therapy for but nonetheless, it's like you think about how far back this goes. I mean we're talking was it twenty six ninety eight BC, Like it's a long time ago, and here we are today, still utilizing the same concept in order to try to heal our bodies, our emotions, our spiritual beings, things like that.

32:49 And it's crazy to think that after all this time, science is just now starting to crack the understanding of how this works, of how vibration and music work, in particular with with with individuals and not just people, but also objects like plants and other living creatures like animals. No, there was even theories that, you know, the Pyramids were built by using sound technology to move the stones instead of humans. That would be interesting. I actually haven't considered that, Like gig sound waves like literally moved them to levitate them. Yeah, I can only imagine what kind of sound wave would do that without like killing everybody around.

33:39 Well, that's why it's a theory that the more popular theory is still you know, slaves had rope, like a rope and police. Yeah, some elephants, Yeah, giant creatures, dinosaurs. Well, so, I mean we've talked kind of pretty in depth here, but one thing we want to try to figure out is how exactly sound impacts a person. We have talked about it healing and potentially helping us in various ways, but we haven't really talked about the science we had it, like how does it happen? So while I take a breather here, can you justin tell the audience what the impact of sound has on matter and even on cells because it does go that deep.

34:32 Yeah, so sound can actually alter cells in a non evasive way and can be used to manipulate cells, tissue, and molecular states. Some ways that this works is by example, gene expression and behavior. This was research done by the Kyoto University, and they found that audible sound waves can alter the activity of over one hundred and ninety genes, specifically influencing cell adhesion and fat cell formation. Which is so odd to me.

35:12 Listening cells cells that possess. A mechano sensitive pathways that respond to acoustic pressure, a four hundred and forty hertz tone can significantly inhibit pread depostites. I thought some of yours were bad. Remember when they why do we do this? Let me pressnows do this every week? It basically it stops fat cells for forming that we'll go with that therapeutic potential. Sound vibrations have been shown to boost collagen production and aid and wound healing and influence neuronal maturation. Okay, it's really late. Cellular morphology studies on E. Coli show that high intensity sound can alter the physical length of bacterial cells, causing them to increase in size. I feel that would be a bad thing.

36:28 Impot pact on matter, resonents, and structures. Sound vibrations can reorganized matter with potential applications and creating new materials. Sound creates pressure waves that lead to micro vibrations, enabling the synchronization of molecular patterns as well. So I mean, and that's you know, to think that sound actually does create like these micro vibrations that can basically synchronize and in some cases even separate molecular patterns is kind of crazy because that's like to do things on a molecular level, like these micro vibations have to work pretty hard, and we're talking like much deeper than obviously just a typical physical state. It's the matter itself, but there is like specific beats or specific frequencies that actually shift mental states. Because one thing that a lot of people tend to listen to music for is obviously stress or anxiety. I think anybody who's just had a rough day or who's going through something, and even if they're depressed, you know, I know a lot of people.

37:54 I don't know why people do this. Listen to sad music when you're sad makes no sense, but how people do it? I mean I listened to angry music when I'm angry. I mean we did do an episode on something like this years ago about how different types of songs can sway an audience towards one specific emotion or another. Yeah, yeah, yeah sure. But by neural beats do shift mental states in a couple of different ways. But also there are specific frequency states that are used in order to manipulate our minds and kind of set us in a certain pattern. So how do binural beats and specific frequency shift those mental states? Though?

38:51 Well, and I've I've been working with binural beats for at least a year and a half now and help trying to help me balance by emotional state and even energy wise by neurobeats shift mental states by using brain wave and trainment, where playing slightly different sound frequencies in each ear causes the brain to perceive a third beat, which blows my mind and it aligns its electrical activity to it. This auditory illusion can induce states like deep sleep, which is delta, meditation which is theta, relaxed alertness which is alpha, and focus which is beta. So delta is zero point five to four HURTS promotes deep, dreamless sleep and relaxation, which fascinates me because I've always been told dreamless sleep is not the best sleep you can get.

40:01 You're not deep enough into sleep if you're having dreamless sleep. Yeah. Theta which is four to eight hurts uh linked to deep meditation are em sleep and improved memory recall. Alpha waves which is eight to thirteen HERTS encourages a state of relaxed alertness which can reduce stress and improve focus, and beta waves which is eleven to thirteen HERTS associated with heightened alertness and concentration and better problem solving. And these are things that are like, I mean, you can get these in an app on your phone for free that you can you can look about up on YouTube. Even, yeah, you can look up. I've got this app. I'm sure everybody's heard of it, called a Better Sleep. It's a really yeah app. I enjoy that one. But yeah, you know the I mean, all of these are very easy to find, and I suggest testing each of them out.

40:58 I do know that, like when it comes to like the beta, it tries you're crazy. I don't know. I don't like the beta. Example here thirteen to thirty hurts. I cannot stand the sound of it. It makes me on edge. So like pretty much does the opposite of everything it's supposed to do. But that's what always talk about the very beginning of the show, where something you're also a very anxious person. Well that's what it might be. The reason it could be. But you know, that's what I'm saying, is like at the beginning of the show, and I said that we all have kind of like this, this our own vibrational awareness, Like there are some vibrations that sync with us and some that just don't. Well for someone else, it might be the opposite. So it's just really all dependent on who you are, you know, what your mind is like probably like etcetera, et cetera.

41:50 But nonetheless, like this stuff really does I think the stuff really does work. If I have had success with the delta and the theta for sure. The alpha. I've not really messed with the alpha all that much. I know it encourages the state of relax alertness. But there's something about the words relaxed and alert that don't seem to sync from me. It doesn't make much sense at all, but apparently it does. But one thing that actually we don't ever talk about when it comes to sound is the vegas nerve. Now, the vegas nerve is something that I've actually I learned about actually not too long ago, and that says probably like three four years ago, last time one of the last times I was out there in North Dakota, because I had learned that you can actually stretch the vegas nerve, and at that time I give myself a migraine by doing it. Since then it has not done that. It's been very helpful. But the vegas nerve is actually really interesting to me. It is anyway, so just kind of briefly, like what is the biggest nerve exactly and what's its role when it comes to meditating in the body's relaxation response.

43:11 So I've actually seen a lot of research being done with the vegas nerve and dogs, and so if you have a very high anxiety or high energy dog, calming their vegas nerve is supposed to help with training and getting them to obey commands. The vagus nerve is actual cranial nerve x. It's the longest, most far reaching nerve in the autonomic nervous system, connecting the brain stem to major organs like the heart, the lungs, and the gut to regulate resting functions like heart rate, digestion, and immunity. It acts as a hyper highway of relaxation by shifting the body out of fight or flight mode, which is sometimes good to have, but you shouldn't always be in fight or flight mode. And a lot of people that are anxious all the time, their vegus nerve is overstimulated.

44:09 So that's what causes that. The vegas nerve plays a key role in the rest and they just response and auditory input can trigger it through specific mechanisms such as ear branch stimulation, vocal cord vibrations, and the social engagement system. Well, then that comes to our audience question then, because do you think that sound can physically affect the human body or have you had experience in sound physically affecting you in one way or another? If so, again, we want to hear from you. We want to know what type of sound they use and how it physically affected you, and whether it was a good thing or a bad thing.

44:56 I don't think I've ever had like a truly bad experience when it comes to sound physically affecting me. I think there are certain sounds. Well that's that's not true, because you just said, well, either waves make you nuts. So I mean, well I'm at bad as in like I'm tripping and it's like I got a headache and I'm getting sick, and you know, God knows. I mean, there has been more conspiracy than anything I suppose at this point. But there have been models in which there have been experiments done using sound waves in order to to make people ill, actually make people gag and get sick and like you know, six it. I mean, there's been experimentation that.

45:47 Was supposed to be supposedly they call it the brown note that's supposed to make you poop your pants. Okay, Like I'm gonna stay away from that one. So, I mean I've heard of that too, know who came up with that name? I mean it was brought up on a cartoon, but I looked it up and it is a real thing too, know. So we now we're two modern applications and clinical evidence. So what is some contemporary research on sound therapy for pain management, anxiety and PTSD.

46:31 Yeah, Well, when it comes to pain management, research indicates that sound therapy, in particular sound baths and by Nora beats, tend to reduce reliance on pain medication and it can actually lower pain scores, especially when integated intrigated, sorry, integrated with conventional care. And this is something that is actually being used more and more. Even doctors are trying to pull people off of medications and use music and other such things to help promote healing and better health without the reliance of medication. And then, of course, anxiety reduction.

47:15 Sound interventions typically include listening to nature sounds or soothing music, which reduced physiological markers of stress like heart rate or cortisol levels. Music therapy even has been shown to produce anxiety scores by about one point eighty seven points in patient populations. I know, like even things you guys already heard this, but like, since Binks is like our mascot here one of them listening to him per every night while I'm falling asleep, it actually puts me to sleep because a cat's purr resonates with the healing aspect of our bodies, and that gets It's incredible how it's just something like that, like you know, an animal that, you know, what shouldn't have been domesticated initially, I suppose, is capable of healing us, even to the point of actually healing like physical wounds precience, which is kind of crazy.

48:23 I was just looking at some of our some of our comments and the yeah there, so something that it has been I've heard a lot is what that girl brought up is like the noise from the lights in a store, and it's actually been proven that that is to get you out of the store faster, and it. Can cause migraines and stuff like that too. So I was like McDonald's, I mean a lot of I'm sure everybody has like a modern McDonald's around them now, but the old McDonald's, like when they had the red and yellow chairs, benches, yep. So I watched a documentary on McDonald's and they actually used those red and yellow ones because they didn't want people staying at the McDonald's to eat their food and because those colors are so distasteful, it would usually usher people away to take their food home with them. And it wasn't until you know, several years back, when they decided to remodel and make it the place where people are coming out. Not music related, but I thought it was interesting. Yeah, Now there are some studies that actually show that both individual and group music therapy drumming and listening in particular can significantly decrease PTSD symptoms, including anxiety, by helping to process emotions and regulate arousal.

49:59 So, what are some medical professionals or researchers and integrated sound into clinical settings. Well, this is kind of like more recent of a case. Some medical professionals have actually had researchers have actually integrated sound into clinical settings through diagnostic imaging, so like ultrasound, also through therapeutic treatments such as focused ultrasound surgery and a low intensity past to ultrasound, and then of course it advanced diagnostics using vocal biomarkers to detect diseases like COVID nineteen. I know, we're all sick of hearing it.

50:47 And then sound is also used for real time monitoring, but flow guiding procedures like biopsies and even potentially treating neurological disorders on top. Of that, and what are some innovative technologies for sound therapy. One of the most innovative is the I think it's a vibroacoustic therapy or BAT, which is a system like a sound oasis BTS two thousand. You guys know what that is, right, yeah with you? Yeah? Sorry, but there's a yeah, there's a system like called the sound Oasis WETS two thousand, which uses transducers basically in chairs or mats to deliver low frequency sound vibrations directly into the body, which basically stimulates the vagus nerve and reduces physical tension.

51:48 Sage based technologies actually offer sensory lounges that combine this particular technology with light therapy on top of it, which, like therapy, is a whole nother rabbit hole these therapies. Another one is the haptic in heartbeat synchronization, which is devices like one is called a their bodies, their mind, their bodies. They're a mind that's the whole bird, which utilizes entertainment, creating vibrations and audio that sync with or slower move slower then the user's heartbeat to encourage a calmer, slower heart rate. And this is something I mean, they have such a that's a very I don't know, like you don't need a divisect that I figure do it because they've had. This has been around a long time.

52:42 Like listening to a clock ticking, for example, can help lower the heart right now. I know listening to a quod dazed people crazy. It puts me to sleep personally, But you know those type of movements that tend to beat slower or about average or a heart rate that bringing that down. M then is a bimodal neuromodulation, which is Tonight's relief, which is fear as old as we are, we probably are dealing with tonight as I say, yeah, I need write this therapy out. Uh. Basically, a lanear, which is a device approved for Tonight's, combines sound therapy via headphones with gentle electrical pulses applied to the tongue to a train to retrain the brain's perception of sound. I would like to read more on this because I'm curious why it has to be on the tongue. Yeah, I don't know either. I mean now I don't know either. I thought I did. Maybe I thought there's a little bit of an enlightenment in there somewhere, But now.

53:48 I mean I know that them out and the scientuces are connected. So maybe that has to do with the hearing as well. It could be absolutely could be. Uh. There's some more things here that actually are pretty helpful. One is the three D spatial audio and Binaro b apps, which if you guys have seen those or if you know you, I get a lot of these type of apps that pop up as like recommendations just because I listen to a lot of these type of things regularly. But there is one to one in particular, such as the Ahead app, which is a h E a D app which deliver specialized immersive three D soundscapes to induce a specific brain wave state like delta sleep or theta meditation. And again these are things on YouTube that you can easily find.

54:39 And then finally there's the intelligent sound machines, which are modern sound systems such as those from in Harmony which integrate with apps to allow users to customize frequency based sessions for better focus or sleep or really whatever it is you need, you know. And so when we get to get to the end of like the modern applications, clinical evidence, which I mean clinical evidence is pretty broad at this point, Like there's a lot of evidence that support sound as being useful when it comes to therapy and healing. But there's also this thing that you have to exsider, which is your personal frequency and integrating sound wisdom.

55:33 And this is what I was kind of saying earlier in the show and a couple of times throughout the show, is how do we use it for ourselves? Because it doesn't always work for everybody, or certain things to always work for everybody. But justin I want to turn it back around to you. So, what are some practical or even accessible ways that viewers or listeners can explore sound for basically well being at home? Well, Eric, I never I thought you would never asked. This is the best part of the show, is how do you integrate into your life? Some things that are super simple are vocalizing, for example, hunting and chanting simply humming or chanting for two to three minutes creates vibrations that calm the nervous system. Vocal toning involves sustained vowel sounds to direct calming energy to different body parts. Something that Eric brought up is the olm, and that's actually something I learned in my one book that brought me into mediumship. You use that to actually clear the pineal land of calcification, so your third eye opens. There's active listening and soundscapes. They basically create a sound bath at your home by listening to recorded singing bowls, gongs, and chimes.

57:00 Actively focus on music or nature sounds rather than playing them in the background too deep in the experience. There's dy instruments where you can create rhythmic sounds by tapping on surfaces, using shakers made with household items, or running a wet finger around the realm of the glass. I've done that before. It doesn't always work if you're not doing it correctly, so make sure you research how to do that before you actually do it. Nature sound immersion listen to recordings of ocean waves, rain, or bird song to reduce anxiety. And then it's actually often used on the space shuttles well, the space shuttles anymore? Are they rockets now? Space shuckle?

57:52 Space shuttles, shuttle rockets whatever, the things that go in space if I around the Earth or kind of those things space chuckles, whatever. And the last one is we've we've mentioned it numerous times here binual beats. Definitely make sure you're using headphones when you listen to this, because these tones are meant to, uh create that third sound that actually isn't there, uh, which kind of helps synchronize brain waves for relaxation, focus, and sleep. I do you want to jump in like with the chat real quick, because I do see ah it's not dragged and that girl chatting over here. And again, like, it's just interesting how there are certain sounds that's like some people mind really relaxing or soothing, but those same sounds for somebody else isn't at all. And I don't know if it comes out of preference or what it is, you know, and I'm sure a lot of it is preference ultimately, you know. I mean, there's plenty of things that I like that you don't like, huh, But I do agree to dragging that single bols chimes, things like that are definitely sounds that soothed me as well. I love There are two things that I really love. Actually here, so I lived in a train track about a mile away is a a track, and so roughly every single night, like midnight or so, a train goes by, you know,

59:22 honking that horn. They honk, they do something with horns. But you know what I mean, a train a train whistle? Whistle do they whistle? Still? Maybe it is a whistle, it's not the whistle that. You really hear any or you know that you heard Back then it was still called a whistle. Yeah, yeah, you know those things because they're wonderful. Those put me straight to bed right away. The whistle was more of the steam engine era. Yeah yeah. But then also like wind chimes, like when a storm's coming in and the wind is blowing to tay those chimes not mine. I don't have any times, but I hear neighbors times. Those reflection love those sins. One thing I do want to mention here because I know we're kind of coming up to the end, but we just want to warn everyone, or at least guard everyone against misinformation when it comes to this stuff, and want to stress the importance of finding credible sources and practitioners if you're looking to get into sound therapy or vibrational therapy.

1:00:27 I mean I would say that about pretty much anything we talk about. Yeah, one hundred percent. Uh, you know, I think ultimately it's pretty safe overall, but you know, we never know. Right after doctor, right, that's what they say. Doctor will tell you your nuts and you should do regular medicines your nuts. Here's these bills like twenty a day good luck. I mean, depending on the doctor you go to. You But also we have a call to action because we want to incur urge you all to share your experiences and continue the conversation about sounds and during power in our Facebook group.

1:01:08 Justin tell us about our Facebook group. Yeah, you can find it on Facebook. I love it as per. It's the Paratruthers community. If you if you look up Para Truth, it should be connected to our Facebook page. But there's I believe thirty five members right now, and we love to hear people's thoughts and that's where we are now going to be putting the polls. If you want to be a part of the poll, you have to be in the group. We won't be putting it on our regular Facebook page. We were doing that before, but we really want to make it a close knit thing.

1:01:53 So if you're in our group, we will be sharing the answers of the polls on future episodes. You could also get war cards. Uh. Basically, it's just a front and back card image of specific things that we're talking about throughout the weeks to come. M I just I'm enjoying the chat over here. That girl on the hoof beats, Yes, those are good ones. I do that myself, you know the whole like when you have you the claps with your hand and like slap your knees to get the No, justin, we don't know about I know what you're talking about. I just don't care. You just don't. Oh wow, oh you're jealous, sucker now I understand the silence now, but oh a sleep Yeah, no, I feel that. I feel that dragon.

1:02:46 I will say that your cat flors clicking all flors clicking, cat's niles clicking on the floor. That's an odd one. You know what makes you cringe dolls When binks he just stretches and grabs onto the couch and just rips his claws nice and slow down the edge of the couch. Dude, Ernie does this teeth snapping thing. I think it's kind of a nervous tick. But he'll go and it's usually like he's. Trying to lick you, and then he's stopping himself. His foster dad had taught him to not do it, so I think that's his way of stopping himself from licking.

1:03:29 We have never not encouraged him to lick it. It's a natural dog thing, but there are a lot of people that don't like it. Even trainers tell you not to allow him to do it. But it's interesting. Well that was our episode, folks, lots of lots and lots of information. My mind is I'm like sleep well the night actually. Just from sharing all that. But no, like I mean, I've used sound therapy quite a bit over the last especially over the last year. I use it nearly every single night. I will say, also on top of it, like listening to a book while you go to sleep, I mean that that's helpful too. Sometimes it isn't about just the sound and the sound waves. It's about the voice, you know, I mean voices, one on one of them. Right.

1:04:23 So I've used ASMR lately and I'm usually not doing when I go to sleep. I'm listening to it at work, but I don't know why, but it's kind of calming. Yeah, one hundred percent. But yeah, if you guys have any questions, colins, concerns like us, don't like U say anything like that, let us know or don't. It's up to you. Yeah, we're not going to go where I was about to go. So anyway nice, Yeah, no, no it had Yeah, no it was nice. Well no it wasn't nice. It was. I know where you always go there when you say stuff there, I know exactly what you're gonna say.

1:05:06 Anyway, So until next week, where you'll find us, same time and same channel. My name is Eric and I'm justin. He's