Sound Healing and the Origins of Ohm
 
By Marjorie de Muynck
Aligning ourselves with the Earth is one of the most important things we can do at this time in our history. By connecting with the elements and observing the natural rhythms and cycles of the Earth, we can find homeostasis, balance and grounding.
Homeostasis is the balanced environment of our body and its automatic tendency to maintain this internal stability in the presence of external stimuli. Not an easy task in this fast-paced world! Nonetheless, a balanced environment is key to the healing process and to our overall well-being. Listening to the ohm tone and feeling its vibration directed on the body through music, tuning forks, or bowls in an ideal way to find that calm center, or still point, where healing begins.
After working with numerous cosmic and diatonic frequencies over the past 30 years, my research now is extensively focused on the ohm frequency. In my clinical experience, I find ohm to be incredibly therapeutic and have chosen it as the fundamental tone in my healing practices.
While I live in the country now, in an adobe house built of mud bricks, I was once an urban dweller, touring the world as a jazz musician and living a nocturnal lifestyle. With certainty I can say that connecting with the Earth isn’t only for rural residents – the laws that govern our universe as apparent even in the most densely populated city. Resonance with the Earth through ohm can be as simple as watching the violet sky at dusk, observing the changing phases of the moon, or following the cry of a hawk as it circles a summer sky – it is all Earth, and it is all ohm.
Why ohm?
In the realm of sound healing, I am often asked, “Why ohm?” My answer is really quite simple. Ohm is our home tone, our spiritual center, and a place of safety. It is a temporary refuge from the intensity of the world.
Ohm is also spelled om and aum, however, I spell ohm with an “h.” Traditionally, the “o” represents birth and the “m” represents death. By adding the “h,” the intention is to add the element of breath – to infuse this ancient world, mantra, and frequency with added healing potential for use in therapeutic applications and settings.
Ohm is an ancient and sacred tone that is universally recognized, scientifically based, and spiritually upheld. Its roots are in a natural cycle, based on the elliptical orbit of the Earth as it travels around the sun through four seasons, which explains why I consider ohm to be our musical center of gravity. Our body in its natural intelligence can assimilate ohm and all its overtones and utilize these healing properties on a vibratory level.
Experiencing the ohm tone can:
Restore balance and clear stagnant energy in a room
Strengthen the body’s immune system
Stimulate the body’s healing process
Relax tight and sore aching muscles
Promote the flow of energy in and around the body
Enhance massage and other bodywork therapies
I often liken the power of sound to that of homeopathy. Both work through resonance on an energetic level, and both homeopathy and sound through vibration, direct the body to find its healing way. This approach to sound healing is based in a fundamental trust in the body’s natural proclivity and ability to heal itself.
Listening to the ohm tone helps us to temporarily neutralize or clear the bombardment of daily external stimuli such as computer emissions, electronic devices, and radio wave frequencies. When we use the expression “reset your vibrational motherboard” we are using a technology metaphor and applying the same concept to our own nervous system. We all know what it means to blow a fuse. When we go to the breaker box to flip a switch, we attempt to clear and reset the circuits. Working with ohm is like flipping the switch. The ohm tone has a uniquely grounding quality, which makes it an ideal sound frequency to work with in the healing arts.
Resonance and Entrainment
The Earth’s continuous and steadfast elliptical orbit connects us to the seasons, rhythms, and cycles of our planet. When an organism is out of balance, it becomes weakened and vulnerable. Resonating with ohm reconnects us to the Earth, which positively affects our biological rhythms and circadian clock. We begin to sync or entrain with natural cycles, which enable us to find our balance. Once homeostasis is attained, profound healing is possible.
Resonance is the intensification and prolongation of sound, especially a musical tone, produced by sympathetic vibration. To demonstrate this principle, simply activate one tuning fork and hold it close to another unactivated tuning fork of the same frequency. The unactivated tuning fork will begin to vibrate. This shows how one like body or vibration is drawn to another, causing both to share a sympathetic resonance.
Entrainment is similar to resonance. Physicist Christian Huygens coined the term entrainment after he noticed, in 1666, that two pendulum clocks had moved in the same swinging rhythm. This example of entrainment shows the process whereby two vibrating systems fall into synchrony.
The individual and the earthly body are naturally entrained in a state of good health. In contrast, when individuals are put into dark, isolated rooms, they are disconnected from the natural environment and lose a sense of time and place. As we are deeply connected to Earth rhythms and cycles, loss of this connection can lead to physiological and psycho-spiritual illnesses.
Through ohm, our physical bodies can find center and balance by syncing with the vibration of the Earth. Entrainment with this cyclic, natural, intelligent life force through the sound-healing tools and music tuned to ohm is an excellent way to achieve balance, where healing begins.
The Earth And Us
Because our physical bodies are composed of the same elements as our planet, it is essential to our individual and collective healing that we continue to heal the Earth. To recognize the close affinity that exists between the human body and the earthly body upon which we live is to understand why would choose to resonate with ohm.
Both human body and the Earth are largely composed of water, which is a great receptor and conductor of sound. In fact, the closer we examine the organic nature of our bodies, the more evident it becomes that our physical body is a microcosm of the earthly body we inhabit. The Earth has many rivers, streams, lakes, peninsulas, and oceans, as are our bodies traversed by a network of mineral-laden liquid meridians. We are so much like the Earth in our physical composition that it makes perfect sense we would find ourselves reflected in her landscape.
Think of the parallels between a forked wooden branch used for intuiting underground waterways and a tuning fork placed on the body. Both have a mysterious quality as they divine energetic pathways, using vibration and resonance to run the channels and meridians in search of the energetic flow.
In divination for water, it is thought that the xylem and phloem within the wood resonate with the watery meridians beneath the surface of the Earth. Perhaps, much of this ancient practice was intuitive and directed by the douser’s familiarity with a landscape and her or his intention. The use of tuning forks and other sound-healing tools on the body is governed by the same factors: an understanding of resonance, knowledge of the body,
intuition, and intention.
Frequency of Ohm
136.10 Hz is the numerical representation of the vibrational tone of ohm. The ohm tone is based on the measured frequency of the elliptical orbit of the Earth as it travels around the sun through four seasons. For this reason, we consider it to be our musical center of gravity.
There’s No Place Like Ohm
In an age where technology reigns, individuals are increasingly influenced by electronics and frequencies emitted from wireless living and work environments. The ringing cell phones, the whirring of computers, and the constant buzz of lighting and heating and cooling systems create a cacophony of dissonant and disruptive sounds. As our world grows noisier, the vibration of ohm, once heard and revered by the ancients, will become more sought after and treasured. By listening to ohm, we connect with something sacred and familiar. Dorothy almost had it right: “There’s no place like ohm!”
About The Author
Author, composer, musician, educator, and sound healer, Marjorie de Muynck (pronounced de Monk) is the creator of Ohm Therapeutics, a sound-healing system that features the healing resonance of the ohm vibration. Currently in the masters of music program at Boston University, de Muynck is working on a new musical composition, In the Key of Earth, and writing a book, Ohm, Overtones, and Sound Healing. This is copyrighted material and Tools For Wellness is pleased to present it here with the author’s permission.
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