By Christy Kay, Cosmic Healing NW
Today is World Singing Bowl Day!
While I now use Quartz crystal as well as metal singing bowls in my practice, with great results, I first learned sound healing using Nepalese 7 metal bowls.
I have deep gratitude for the Nepalese and Himalayan peoples who have carried on creating hand hammered singing bowls, a tradition and ritual handed down through families for thousands of years.
Most western cultures are familiar with mass produced singing bowls, often mistakenly called Tibetan singing bowls, as a tool for meditation. And that’s great, they do work in that way, singing bowls can be calming and relaxing.
But, there is much greater benefit available from these wonderful instruments, especially when they are created using the proper energetic practices of the Ancients. Singing bowls were first know to be used in Mesopotamia before making their way to the Himalayan and Indian cultures, who continue to use them in the traditional ways.
I prefer to use only 7 metal hand hammered Himalayan singing bowls as part of my sound healing practice for their amazing abilities to create perfect notes and vibration, needed for deep healing. I honor their lineage and give thanks before each healing session and sound bath.
Playing singing bowls is a skill that requires practice to be mastered. I often times hear them overplayed, meaning they are hit too hard or rung past the point of benefit, and this actually produced the opposite effect of what most are looking to create. Overplaying a singing bowl can cause dissonant sound which will produce agitation and is often why some people find they have an aversion to hearing them, they’re just being played wrong.
Singing bowls are now being studied by scientists for their healing benefits and they are finding truth to what the Ancient cultures already knew, they truly heal! For instance, in a fairly recent study of autistic and non verbal children out of Ireland, it was shown that over 70% of participants have had benefit from weekly sessions with singing bowls. These sessions have helped lessen the agitation and violent outbursts of frustration many of these children were exhibiting and some even began to speak for the first time.
I first used singing bowls for my own personal healing when I was suffering from a traumatic brain injury, and I often attribute my recovery to them. Before sound healing, I had memory issues, trouble speaking and comprehending when being spoken to, and I was often dizzy and fell regularly. But with continued use of sound for healing, I have eliminated all of these symptoms.
In my office, I often play singing bowls around the body or directly on the bodies of my clients, as part of my sound healing. Using the bowls in this way, I have clients who have been able to sleep for the first time in months, or have their back pain greatly reduced. Some clients have had greatly reduced symptoms of irritable bowel and Crohn’s disease with regular sessions. I have eliminated coughs and colds in one session. I even had one client walk out of my office without the cane they came in with.
Sound healing is an important healing modality and Himalayan singing bowls are a big part of that.
If you would like to schedule your own personal healing session to see how it might benefit you, or join in one of my healing sound baths, please reach out! I would love to share their amazing healing benefits with you.
Healing for All!
For more information about Christy’s singing bowls and healing sessions, go to – www.cosmichealingnw.com
