Voice Activated Healing

by Caroline Lusky

Like fireworks, quick splashes of brilliant reds, blues, whites and silver explode in my third eye. The sounds of the solar winds and planetary rotation are resounding between my left and right ear. I am lying on a giant vibrational sounding board that encourages every cell of my body to respond with deep relaxation. An LSD experience? No, merely synapses firing and neural pathways connecting in my brain, the result of using the vibration of my own voice to heal, a revolutionary sound therapy.

The concept of healing using your own vocal resonance combined with specific sound wave patterns was introduced to me at the Center for Inner Knowing in Sandy Springs. The question was posed, “Can you make a time commitment to yourself and to correcting damaged stress responses in your nervous system?

I am interested in non-invasive preventative health care and prepared to make the time for myself. “Yes” was an easy answer. I love music and I use music when teaching. You know that old saying, “Music calms the soul and tames the savage beast.” It's true. Music has been used for thousands of years for meditation, relaxation, and healing. Profound changes in blood pressure, handling stress, boosting the immune system and feelings of well-being are well documented. This sound therapy uses physical vibrations from your own voice combined with digital technology, electronic keyboards and computer programs to heal your body.  The sounds created can come from nature, instruments, or the human voice.

Phase I Neuroacoustic Behavioral Sound Therapy takes a minimum of ten weeks. It consists of office sessions where each week a specific CD is custom made for you. There are five brainwave frequencies for healing which can be calculated as octaves of your Fundamental Healing Tone. Each session works on a different level of balancing and healing body, mind, and emotions. During the session in the office you have a specific sound frequency and brainwave entrainment frequencies play through your body and ears while lying on a specially designed sound table. These sounds and frequencies are transferred to five CDs to be used at home in an intensive. Each CD has instructions on how to use it and builds information in the brain in layers. The CDs are dosage timed and each work with a different brainwave frequency. At home, listen to your healing program every day.  The CDs average around half an hour. It's mandatory to invest in a high quality pair of headphones that have a right and left ear cup because the sounds you hear will not be the same in both ears at the same time. The reactions and experiences can vary from one person to the next.


There are four distinct steps in developing the correct music for the CDs...

1). Find your Fundamental Sound Frequency to balance your body. This is as simple as making a tone into the microphone. You'll probably be nervous so this is done several times to obtain your accurate tone. The chanting of one's own tone resonating through your own vocal cords goes to the root of consciousness.

2). Find key Brainwave Patterns associated with states of consciousness for healing physical, emotional, and mental levels. Everyone has their own signature brain wave activity. There are four basic waves that have their own rhythm and pattern using Beta, Alpha, Theta, and Delta frequencies of varying levels throughout the day. These waves are measured in hertz. It's the number of times the peak appears in one second.

Here is a general understanding of what kind of brain activity occurs in each brainwave state. Take a look at the chart to see the different speeds of activity.

Beta waves range-13 to 40 HZ. This brain wave indicates that your conscious mind is in control. You are very alert, awake, active and doing.

Alpha waves range-8 to 12 HZ. Good mental resourcefulness, relaxation and meditation are acquainted with Alpha. It is a state where the central nervous system reduces sensory input to protect from overload.

You experience a liberating sense of peace and well-being. This is excellent for creativity, problem solving, finding new ideas and using creative visualization.

Theta waves range- 4 to 8 HZ. Theta rests directly on the threshold of your subconscious. It's known as the twilight state, near sleep.  This is ideal for super-learning, reprogramming your mind, dream recall, and self-hypnosis. Here we are receptive to information beyond our normal conscious awareness. Because it is an expansive state your intuition and other extrasensory perception skills may awaken.  You may feel your mind expand beyond the boundaries of your body. A few side notes. This brain wave is dominant in children of age 2 to 5.

Your brain cells reset their sodium and potassium ratios in this brain state. A brief period of 5 to 15 minutes can restore normal balance and relieve “mental fatigue.” Delta waves range - .05 to 4. Dreamless sleep. Deep relaxation. Delta is the slowest of all four brain wave frequencies. Certain frequencies in Delta can trigger the release of Human Growth Hormone that is beneficial for regeneration and healing the body. It can also access your unconscious activity and help information flow to your conscious mind for clearing and for empowerment.

3). Hear and feel sounds through a specifically designed Vibroacoustic Sound Therapy table. The high tech equipment and specially designed table can produce profound experiences as the result of direct cellular vibration stimulation. What you hear, you feel and what you feel, you hear. The sound generating equipment can accurately divide musical intervals by 100 steps - that's 100 divisions of sharp or flat between two notes. Many of the sounds you don't even notice. Certain tones have the power to awaken deep levels of recognition in the subconscious mind.

Everyone's experiences are quite profound and individual and although it is a challenge to put my personal experiences into words, I want to share them to give everyone a taste of what transpires in the sessions. Notice in the general brainwave information the Beta wave has a relatively low amplitude and is the fastest of the different brainwaves. Delta is the slowest wave and is divided into three access frequencies in this sound therapy system.

First is Delta 1 - I had my first Bio-Tuning session making a toning sound into a mic. Several times. That tone was blended with music and the computer program. As per directions, I listened to my CD every night before bed for a week.

Two experiences come to mind. 1 - I did some detoxing. I had a skin rash on the front of my leg that went away. 2 - I watched fabulous bursts of vibrant colors slowly wander past my mind's eye and small floating white pyramids. That was fun.

Second is Delta 2 - I toned again. My directions this time were to tell myself “this is me” or “this is my voice”. This session was very profound for me. I could feel myself gently falling into a deeper level of relaxation. The sensation was like being in an airplane when it hits an air pocket, but not as abrupt. I also had the strangest feeling that I was being watched. You know that prickly feeling you get that raises the hair on the back of your neck?  I had to lift up my head and take off my eye mask and look around the room.

Third is Delta 3 - This is the final somatic healing or body state that concludes the brain's transition into deeper sleep patterns. It also uses the personal mantra tone in the blend. This is a lighter sleep state than the other two. As I listened to this pattern of sound my awareness traveled over my body- left shoulder, right thumb, etc. - doing an inventory of every place that held pain or discomfort.

Fourth is Theta - Think about what you'd like clarity on when you start. It provides a state where you can find answers to emotional issues, and receive insights into questions or concerns. Gratefully I experienced much needed clarity on my father and money issues. The rules change with a CD in the fact that you can listen to it twice a day, anytime of the day.

Fifth is Alpha - This is for ease of stress caused by anxiety, creating a highly desired relaxed state and the optimum meditation brain state. The CD makes you feel in a good mood and is best to listen to before getting out of bed. I'm not known as a morning dove, excited to see the dawn. This really helps.

The profound results are deeply felt. At the very least, the specific Brain Entrainment experience gives you the ability to choose relaxation over a reactive stress response.  I continue to use my CDs anytime I feel the need or desire to bring myself relaxing and uplifting experiences.

Caroline Lusky is an instructor/consultant of Brain Gym, Educational Kinesiology, Usui/Karuna Ki Reiki and Founder of Scentergy Custom Oils Blends in the Roswell area. Available at 678-662-9450.