A quick nervous system tutorial

Your autonomic nervous system (ANS) is the peripheral part of your nervous system that controls automatic responses in the periphery of your body, controlling automated bodily actions such as heart rate, breath rate, digestion, dilation of your pupils, and where blood is shunted as needed.

One part of the ANS is the Sympathetic Nervous System (SNS). This arm of the system, otherwise known as fight or flight system, is in charge of reacting quickly, it saves our life when needed as it gets and keeps us out of harms way by increasing heart and breath rate, pupillary dilation so we can see well to get to safety, shunts all blood from the digestive system to the skeletal muscles to make it possible for us to MOVE to safety.

In contrast we have the Parasympathetic Nervous System (PNS) otherwise known as rest & digest arm of the ANS. The parasympathetic system shifts all bodily actions towards rest and digest: pupils with normal dilation, blood is shunted to the center of the body for digestion; heart rate and breath rate is slow/normal. Our emotions are calm and we can easily fall asleep when the PNS is dominant.

Key takeaway: These two arms of the nervous system are inversely related.  This means that when one is dominate, the other quiets. When you activate the fight or flight response the rest and digest response will go quiet because they have equal and opposite jobs in the body.

Ideally, the parasympathetic nervous system will dominate our existence upwards of 90% of the time. For many, if not most of us, we do not need to be in flight or fight. We don not need to be in survival mode as we live out our lives.

Due to many factors such as extraordinary busyness of life, over scheduling, over worked, and an over stimulating environment, our nervous system’s have shifted from being in rest and digest to being in a chronic state of flight or flight.

A chronic state of stress has huge implication in the health of the body including the following big hitters:

• Diabetes Type II,
• Heart Disease
• Digestion Complications
• Autoimmune Syndromes
• Sleep Disorders
• Chronic Pain
• Anxiety

Deep breathing is the key to access health, calmer states of being and ultimately to be your best self, living your best life.

It’s a Matter of Physics…Water + Vibration + Sound

Everything in the universe is vibrating

• Physical matter
• Thoughts
• Emotions
• Everything!

Everything in the universe has its own frequency at which it vibrates (this can be measured by science).

Though it has been proven by science it is sometimes very challenging to imagine that sound vibration can have an impact on the cells of our body.

Take for example diagnostic ultrasound used in the soft tissue of the body; ultrasound techniques used to break up kidney stones, and ultrasound you might receive to facilitate rehab of a tissue injury by your physical therapist. These are examples of inaudible sound as healing or diagnostic modalities.

Sound Vibration & RESONANCE

Resonance is the ability of one thing to cause another to vibrate.

Sound & Vibration Experiment with Water

Taking a large quartz sound bowl and fill it about half way with water The bowl has its own natural frequency a specific note and when played will sound that note, let say E.

The vibration that is produced through the solid quartz when the wand rubs the bowl produces a vibration. This creates water movement. The vibration produces waves, which move the water.

First it looks like shallow rippling waves. With consistent playing over a few minutes, the waves begin to bump into each other and off the walls of the quartz creating what looks like sparkling water with waveforms.

As the water increasingly vibrates, it spits up, effervesces and bubbles as long as the wand on the bowl is producing the vibration. At the same time, an actual sound is being produced, the E note that is the resonant frequency of the bowl.

The bowl and the water resonated. This is the basis in which sound can facilitate health and well being and even change cells from challenged to healthy states.

“When properly mobilized, sound can specifically entrain the human organism toward greater harmony and homeostasis that it requires to remain vibrant and to regenerate after injury or illness” ~ Mitchell L. Gaynor, MD

Entrainment is when one rhythm causes another to synchronize.

Resonant Frequency

Remember that everything has a natural inherent frequency

• Everything vibrates at its own natural frequency.
• You vibrate at your own natural frequency.
• The chair you are sitting on
• The car you are driving
• The bed that you sleep on, and
• Every cell in your body has its own natural frequency.

In effect your body, and its natural frequency, is made up of the compilation of the vibrations of every cell in your body and is impacted by the following two laws:

1. Resonant Dominance is the law of resonance that a stronger vibration will overcome and entrain a weaker vibration into the same vibration of the more dominant frequency.
2. Transformative Resonance is the law that a stronger vibration can actually transform the resonant frequency of an object so that its resonant frequency becomes that of the dominant frequency.

Sound Therapy uses the law of resonant dominance and transformative resonance to shift cells, organs, and the body as a whole toward its inherent natural healthy resonant frequency.

Sickness/Dis-ease/is essentially a result of some part of the body becoming out of tune with its natural frequency

In shifting from sickness, or dis-ease, it is a matter of resonating with the healthy frequency of that part of the body, helping it to return to its natural healthy vibration where it can once again resonate at it’s natural healthy frequency.

In Sound Therapy we entrain the body part with dis-ease and retune the body part to its natural state of health.