AIM to Get Better through Healing Sound Therapy
Understanding Healing Sound Therapy
The calming and healing effects of music have been recognised for millennia, and in the UK, health services have employed music therapists for decades.
There is a wealth of evidence showing that certain types of music therapy can reduce distressing symptoms of depression, anxiety, trauma, dementia, and sleep disorders.
Studies have shown that Healing Sounds Therapy can help to reduce blood pressure, decrease inflammatory chemicals, boost the immune system, and increase “feel-good” chemicals in the brain.
How does it work?
Stress, anxiety, panic, agitation, restlessness, anger, and aggression are all symptoms of our sympathetic nervous system – our “fight or flight” response being triggered.
This response is not under our conscious control; it is an innate survival strategy to a perceived threat. Modern imaging techniques have shown that when this response is triggered, the conscious, rational part of our brain shuts down, or goes into “snooze state”, and our language centre switches off.
At the same time, our emotional brain goes into overdrive, making our behaviour and emotional outbursts appear irrational to those standing by.
You cannot help a person in this state by rationalising with them or trying to talk to them (because those bits of the brain have shut down). So, what can you do?
Telling the brain's threat-response it can 'stand-down'
The most effective way to help is to trigger the parasympathetic nervous system, which switches off the “fight, flight, freeze” response, sending messages to the body and brain that the danger has passed and they can “stand down” from the perceived threat.
This can be achieved through a variety of interventions which help to control breathing, promote relaxation and restore a feeling of safety and wellbeing.
Healing Sounds Therapy is one such intervention.
Specialist Healing Sound Therapy (Sound Baths) for people living with neurocognitive conditions.
Specialist Healing Sound Therapy (Sound Baths) for people living with stress, anxiety and individual trauma.
Specialist Healing Sounds Music Workshops for people living with neurocognitive conditions (participants can play specialist instruments to music designed to help them
relax and experience wellbeing).Specialist Healing Sounds Music Workshops for people living with stress, anxiety and individual trauma (participants can play specialist instruments to music designed to help them relax and experience wellbeing).
Specialist African Drumming Circles for people living with neurocognitive conditions.
Specialist African Drumming Circles for people living with stress, anxiety and individual trauma.
Our Healing Sound Therapy Services
We are excited to offer healing sound therapy (music and sound baths) for everyone to benefit from.
Our services include:
We are also currently working on recording healing tracks specifically designed to help people in distress return to wellbeing.
To get in touch, please email maryjoy@aimtogetbetter.com or complete the contact form below.
Experience the transformative power of Healing Sound Therapy for yourself!
We are available for conferences, retreats, wellbeing events, staff development and team-building days. Choose from one of our services which we can adapt to suit the attendees at your event:
Healing Sound Therapy (Sound Baths)
Healing Sounds Music Workshops
African Drumming Circles
