Sound and Vibration

In the same way that organs in the body pursue amalgamation, seeking to create perfect communion with every new cell, so the body in its entirety seeks harmony with its environment and the surrounding world of which it is a part. Increasingly, this is becoming harder to do.

Today’s lifestyle unfortunately entails living with noise. The etymology of “noise” derives it’s meaning from the word “nausea”, and we all know what it feels like to be nauseated. Everyday, we are bombarded by stress-inducing sounds. Loud “obvious” noises include lawn mowers, construction trucks, airplanes, ambulance sirens, police sirens, and crowded bars. Other subtler noises such as the buzzing of your computer hard drive, a faulty rheostat or overhead florescent light, cycle at frequency below audible range (16,000 cps) and are considered by some to be “dirty noise”.

Dirty noise has become the newest form of stress causing frequencies. These are the vibrations and sounds that we cannot hear, but do feel. Research has concluded that exposure to these (very low) frequencies for long periods of time can cause depression, anxiety, nervous tension, and irritability, not to mention headaches, nausea, and sleep disorders. Noise pollution is among the most pervasive of toxic pollutants to which we are exposed.
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