Love Hertz
An offering for changing your frequency
Today is one of those days where I sat for awhile to see what words I could offer readers who might be looking for something a bit different today.
Just yesterday I was the reader, the viewer, the listener, and seeker in search of something that could capture the vibration of a warm embrace while honoring my competing need for solitude.
I scanned my bookcase in my office before heading down to scan the spines on the larger shelf on the first floor of the house. Unsatisfied, I grabbed my phone and scrolled for something that might resonate. Finally I decided to return to a channel on Youtube where I can often rely on Travis and his bowls to sing me into calm.
I’ve been thinking about love in relation to calm. If something, someone, or some place makes you feel calm, you most often feel loved, comforted or held in the right way. Maybe that something is a frequency we can’t name but number. Maybe that frequency is what you need most today.
528 Hz is the frequency for Love.
They call it the Love frequency because of the way it positively changes your brain and calms your body on a cellular level.
Feel free to stop here and listen to this frequency or read on if you have the time, interest and capacity in learning more about sound healing, about Travis, sound baths, and the named and named things that often vibrate on their own frequency.
Sound frequencies have been used for centuries as a healing modality.
I believe sounds can heal just I believe the absence of certain sounds can cause pain.
I’ve known nameless things I can’t fully grasp that have disrupted something inside me and I’ve known the sadness of the named things I know I will never grasp again, like my father’s hand or that one day sitting on the sidewalk across from the mall laughing with a friend. There must be a sound frequency for that.
I’m sure you can speak to your own experience with pain as evidence of how some things vibrate inside you in ways only your body and your cells can explain.
But if you are someone who needs to know the science, or see additional proof outside your own experience, then there is research that supports how sound frequencies impact us on a cellular level.
Here’s a bit of what I found:
“Researchers exposed rats to 528 Hz sound waves and found that anxiety-related behaviours were reduced, which was linked to an increase in testosterone levels in the brain.”
“In a human study, researchers observed a variety of effects from listening to 528 Hz music. It showed that this frequency reduced cortisol levels (a primary stress hormone) and increased oxytocin (a relaxation hormone). It also lowered tension and anxiety, as well as overall mood disturbance, as compared to no significant change in these measures after listening to 440 Hz sounds.- Source.
More on Travis and his singing bowls
In the bio of the Healing Vibrations channel, Travis says he lives in the Pacific Northwest with his cat Perseus and his childhood best friend. His labor of love is creating sound bath videos on Youtube.
In one sound bath video Travis sits for over three hours tapping and tracing the outside of seven different singing bowls. He says he makes these videos for those who may be struggling “physically, mentally, emotionally, or spiritually.”
When I’m struggling to find something “other” or when I’m pierced with a memory of grief or sadness, a sound bath can be a calming way.to pause while I ease back into the water of acceptance all over again.
Maybe you’ll find a sound bath is what you need or what you can offer a friend.
More on singing bowls from Ten Thousand Villages
What Is a Singing Bowl?
“An idiophone is a musical instrument which, when struck, shaken, or scraped, produces a sound through vibration. Think of a bell or a gong: these are examples of idiophones, as is the singing bowl.
So, what exactly is a singing bowl? The singing bowl is a metal bowl often used in spiritual or religious settings to invoke meditation or relaxation through the resounding vibrations and pleasant sounds it emanates when played. These sounds can be very powerful; in fact, singing bowls can also be used in sound therapy to induce healing and treat various illnesses.
What is it about using one that impacts humans so greatly? The sounds the singing bowls produce are said to create a kind of energy that may center the frequencies of the body, mind, and soul. Playing these bowls has also been said to cause the left and right sides of the brain to synchronize together, creating a peace and calm during meditation.
Consider how water reacts to vibrations: dancing, and moving in choreographed and often symmetrical, concentric forms. The singing bowl utilizes these acts of physics to affect the physical body, and in turn the mind and soul. We now have computer technology to be able to slow down and observe how the singing bowl specifically affects water inside it. We can study how the sound vibrations may be shifting the water elements in our bodies into creative patterns.” Source
Perhaps …
Perhaps today what you needed was to learn that Love has a Hertz, a sound and frequency you can tap into when you need it most. Perhaps you have your own bowl that you sing to or a cat that gives you all the comfort and calm you need. Or perhaps Travis’s bowl can sing something to your heart in the way it needs to hear it right now. Either way, I hope you found something here you use for yourself or that you can share with a friend.
Thank you for reading.
I hope you find Between Grief and Joy a space where you find mirrors for your experience, windows to understand others and confirmation that your emotions are valid, your healing is supported and you are never alone.
-Yolande
P.S.
Here’s the link to the video I played while I was writing this post.
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