With all her excellent qualifications, languages and good skills, she switched careers into a job she found very meaningful. She knew she could help people and at least bring some joy into their lives, She decided to take a job as a carer in an independant living care home. As smiley and serene as she is, she went throuigh lots of emotional breakdowns, especially while loosing her loved animals,
her "babies", as she calls them. The first time Souad has discovered the healing effect of sound was, during a sound bath session facilitated by Christine Heckel. The different tones and patterns enveloped her. She felt she was floating in the Universe. She saw "the light" for the first time during her meditative state and wanted to be carried away, further and further by the sound vibrations. It was then, when she decided to invest some more time and learn about the sound healing by studying in a Peter Hess Institute and become a sound massage Practitioner. Given that everything has a vibrational frequency, including ourselves, it makes sense that sound frequencies impact how we feel. That's why particular songs and types of music often bring about specific types of emotions from us. According to Eastern beliefs, man was made of sound and therefore is sound. It is said that sound healing can be traced back 40,000 years to when indigenous Australians used ancient didgeridoos for healing. Indigenous societies around the world have traditionally used sound in healing ceremonies, including drumming, hand-clapping, singing, and pulsating. The broad spectrum of sound therapy includes chanting, an activity long connected to healing and religion, and sounds of nature. Different sounds have elicited a variety of emotional responses and altered mental and physical states in people. Scientific research has revealed that each organ has its individual sound frequency and a change in this base frequency is among the first signs of illness or malfunction. Therefore diseased cells have a different frequency than healthy ones. The balance of our cells and tissues can be restored through the influence of appropriate sounds, in accordance with the resonance principle. One recent brain-imaging study found that spine-tingling music "lights up" the same parts of the brain that are stimulated by food, sex, and certain types of drugs. The connection between sound and healing was chronicled in 1896 when American physicians discovered that certain types of music improved thought processes and spurred blood flow. Water is of major importance to all living things. Up to 60% of the human adult body is water. According to Dr, Jeffrey Utz., Neuroscience, pediatrics, Allegheny University, different people have different percentages of their bodies made up of water. The cells in our bodies are full of water. Apart from hearing, sound waves also affect our somatic and sensory system. Human sound percetion ranges from 0 to 4oo Hz. Optimal sensory sound frequency for humans ranges from 150 to 300 Hz. Peter Hess therapeutic singing bowls produce exactly these frequencies of sound. They are sensed through skin (exteroception), and through the inside of the body (interoception). Interoception includes prioprioception (through muscles, tendons and ligaments) and visceroception(through sensory receptors). Sound massage was developed as a technique in the 1980`s by a physical technology engineer, Peter Hess. For many years, Peter Hess has been studying radiesthesia and did a series of investigations on places of force in Wales and Nepal. The sound massage therapy was formed on the basis of his research and experiences gathered while travelling around Nepal, Tibet and India. Currently, Peter Hess leads the Institute of Sound Massage and Therapy in Germany, where his method is continuously being developed. So, how does it work? Peter Hess singing bowls come in different sizes and each one produces a deep sound that relaxes and heals the mind. Because each bowl produces a unique vibration that works on seperate parts of the brain, different sized bowls are often used together. Ofcourse, they can also work on different parts of the body. Bowls elicit a light dream state, and can be placed on the body to promote healing. The vibrations of singing bowls projected onto and into a human body-through air or direct contact- promote a state of natural equilibrium called cell homeostasis, neutralising any physical or emotional strains. The timbre of singing bowls is exceptionally rich and has a broad range of frequencies, which slows down brain activity, syncronises both hemispheres and promtes transition from active beta state to state alpha (so-called wakeful relaxation) or even state theta ( deep meditation and sleep).
