Sound Bath by Sara Auster

Author:Sara Auster
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Tiller Press
Published: 2019-11-18T16:00:00+00:00

You are a function of what the whole universe is doing in the same way that a wave is a function of what the whole ocean is doing.

—ALAN WATTS

British-American philosopher (1915–1973)

8 / HEALING AND THERAPY

One of the many miracles of the human body is that it’s designed to heal itself.

Your body is constantly in a process of creation and regeneration all on its own—all fifty trillion to seventy-five trillion cells of you. Different cells in your body have life cycles of days, weeks, months, a year… and it all happens automatically, without any conscious work on your part. As you read this sentence, your liver is performing more than five hundred known functions simultaneously without your even being aware of them. You are constantly and miraculously evolving and changing. You are not the same person you were even a second ago, so imagine who you might be ten minutes, ten months, or ten years from now.

This knowledge provides us with an opportunity to adjust and create the optimal conditions for our own health and healing at any time. Just because the body can heal itself doesn’t mean you can take a passive role in your own healing. As an analogy, think about caring for a houseplant. You don’t just bring it home and watch it grow. You place it in a sunny spot, give it water, make sure it’s not caught in a draft, keep the pets from nibbling at it. The plant is doing the growing on its own, but you have given it the optimal conditions to be healthy, lustrous, and to live to its fullest potential.

Likewise, your health and well-being come from a series of lifestyle choices: you are in control of what you eat, how and where you work out, the conditions of your home and relationships, whom you choose to associate with, and the words you think and speak. You are creating the conditions to help facilitate healing and growth.

As a sound therapist, I aim to empower those with whom I work to embrace their role as participants, not merely recipients. When an individual shows up open and ready to activate and engage, a transformation occurs. I have experienced amazing healing with sound within myself, and I’ve seen it occur within others. In every case, the healing was accessed because of the willingness, engagement, and involvement of the participant.

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