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Sophie and the Sound Bath



So I have just finished a sound bath for the first time. It was nothing like I thought it would be! Darren was very knowledgeable. He explained what was going to happen with the vibrations. He explained that people might be upset, et cetera, et cetera. When we started I felt very cold. I also felt as if I was anxious, and I didn't know how everybody else was asleep around me (confirmed by different levels of heavy breathing along with the occasional snore) and I was there absolutely brimming over with anxiety. I had absolutely no idea what was going on? I mean he hits gongs, which you'd think would be fine, why would that make you feel anything? But these gongs they got to you (as in me). The vibration was in and out and round and about. There was also chanting: lots of chanting, and the chanting was actually very nice. It made me feel like I was in a monastery and hearing all the monks. I think this might be because he has a good voice. In fact, it was the only part of the practice in the hour and a half that I did not feel anxious. I think I felt even more uneasy when everybody was snoring, like I was missing out on the relaxation part of the practice and I was there just thinking well, what am I missing? This is not relaxing, which obviously made me feel even more uptight and wound up. At the end of the session we were invited to come and stand in one of the bowls used to produce the sounds, curiosity got the better of me and my hand went straight up and I somehow found myself standing in a large copper bowl in front of a room full of people. Again, I said what am I meant to be doing? I was instructed to just relax. The thoughts that were now running through my mind were, how are you meant to relax when a big man is standing next to you with a mallet about to hit a singing bowl, which is basically just a big metal bowl. Anyway, well, I tried to relax. I think I was stiff as a board and then the mallet hit the metal,the bowl that I was standing in and he did some hand movements all over me. Apparently he was trying to read my energy. So he did a body scan apparently which was a lot of wafting and hitting, I’m not sure that he would be able to receive a true reading about my energy as everybody else had their eyes closed and I had my eyes open because, well I don't know, I did not feel comfortable with this. And he ended up telling me I was exhausted. Which is probably true. However, somebody did tell him before but I had three very small children so it's probably not a tall feat to put two and two together and come up with an answer which would suit anybody who has small children. I was feeling pretty good before the sound bath, not that exhausted, who knows if this is because I’m just used to running on empty or not. So I don't know if I have found any benefit from this. I suppose I can't tell two minutes after I've actually had it done as I'm driving home. However he said people find certain sounds hard to hear and uncomfortable to hear because they're the sounds that you need to experience to move your energy blockage. And if you think about it energy is sound and sound waves can be used to break things down. Think about ultrasounds. They are used as a medical diagnostic device so sound has properties that can obviously have an effect on the body. Think about how singing makes you feel. It can evoke a whole range of emotions. So I think there is something to it. But I'm just not sure what, definitely not relaxation for me at the moment.


So this man Darren, who I'm going to ask if he will come on our podcast, does one to one readings. So I don't really know what that will entail. Apparently he puts tuning forks over all parts of your body. But it might be interesting for me and Becca to have a one on one healing session with him and see what we can come up with because I reckon there might be some scientific basis behind all of us. I'm going to look it up when I get home and do some research on it. I probably should have done the research before I did it. But yeah, I found it interesting as I say, I wouldn't say that I found it relaxing or comfortable. But obviously it did do something that evoked a sense of anxiety in me,and there is something there that needs to be worked on!


So moving forwards I am going to give sound therapy another go in 2 ways, I am going to contact Darren and get booked in for a one 2 one session and see if he can get through the anxiety barrier and I am going to attend a sound bath carried out by a different practitioner who I already know and see if that alleviates some of my reluctance about giving in to the relaxation. This is therefore Part 1 of at least a 2 part blog so stay on the edge of your seat for the next exciting update in Sophie’s Sounds.



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