10/04/2025
✨ There’s no such thing as a “bad” sound ✨
A few days ago, I offered a private group Ceremonial Cacao & Sound Meditation session. After the session, one of the participants shared something deeply personal. She told me that during the meditation, the sounds from the street reminded her of her parents arguing when she was a child. It brought her back to a realization she had made at a young age, that her parents couldn’t support her in the ways she needed. This memory, and the emotions that came with it, surfaced gently during the session, triggered by the traffic sounds.
During the same session, another participant began to softly snore, a sound that’s often labeled as “bad.”
Interestingly, this snoring became an anchor to the physical world for someone who was having a deep experience with the Source and the Divine. A few weeks earlier, she had received assisted psychdelic therapy, and this session was part of her integration process.
(I’ll share more soon about how different healing modalities can work together with sound.)
Snoring is one of those sounds that tends to have a bad reputation, but in this moment, it became part of someone else’s healing.
It’s a powerful reminder to stay open. To soften our judgments. To meet each sound not with labels, but with curiosity.
What if sound is just neither good nor bad and our healing comes from the way we listen?
For a long time, I’ve worried about external noise during sound meditations. I’ve tried to find ways to soundproof the room, to create a bubble where only the healing instruments are heard.
But that’s not real life, is it?
Life doesn’t happen inside a bubble.
We are constantly surrounded by sounds, sensations, and experiences that we can’t control. And this experience showed me something beautiful: that even the “unwanted” sounds, the motos, the vendors, the aliveness of the city, the soft snore of another human, can become part of the healing process. They can awaken something within us, invite a memory, stir a feeling, or offer insight.
🔸 There is no good or bad sound. Only sound.
The question becomes: How do we react to it?
What does it awaken in us?
Sound healing works on many levels. On a physical level, vibration penetrates deeply into the body-relaxing muscles, calming the nervous system, increasing circulation, and even helping regulate hormones. It supports the body’s natural healing processes and soothes trauma on a cellular level.
But it doesn’t stop there.
Sound also affects our bio-energy field-our chakras, meridians, and aura. These subtle systems influence our emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being.
Healing can happen on every layer: body, heart, mind, and soul. And sometimes, it’s the unexpected sound that brings the deepest insight.
I’m learning alongside my students and clients, always.
Your sharings are so valuable to me. I don’t want to just be a facilitator, I want us to co-create the space, to grow and inspire each other.
As facilitators, we’re not here to perfect the experience, we’re here to stay present, to be real, and to open to whatever arises.
If you’d like to explore your relationship with sound, here’s a little exercise from my training with the Sound Healing Academy. It’s simple, but very powerful:
🌀 Listening Practice
Find a comfortable place to sit or lie down where you won’t be disturbed. Set a timer for anywhere between 5 and 30 minutes. Close your eyes and simply listen to the sounds around you, both near and far. Let the sounds wash over you without attaching to or judging them.
Afterward, journal:
What sounds did you hear?
Were you aware of any sounds you hadn’t noticed before?
Try it. You might be surprised at what you discover.
With love and sound,
Myrto ✨🩷
