Music is a very wonderful and powerful force of nature; it creates visceral, primal connections to the body, mind and spirit. Music can bring out the most authoritative of responses of all kinds of emotion from sorrow to love to desperation to joy and anything in between. Music has been proven to have healing effects for a person’s soul. According to medical experts, music has been also considered as therapy for treating psychological disturbances. Those people who enjoy quality music regularly are believed to be happier than those people who do not listen to music.

Music affects every person differently. It brings out a very personal experience, and what is strongly affecting one person, may have absolutely no effect on another person whatsoever. It can make a person laugh out loud with joy or bring one to tears.
Many people have been using music for healing. It can soothe and calm, energize, rejuvenate, relax, restore and inspire. Music has had amazing transformative effects in harmonizing a listener’s body systems. Actually, studies have shown that people who use music with the intention of healing normally bring about positive effects on their endocrine, nervous and immune systems.
For centuries, music healing has been a very powerful force and is able to promote harmony and well being. For centuries Native Americans have been using music healing in the forms of singing, chanting and drumming as part of their healing rituals.
Relaxing sounds have the ability to reach into the soul, and help listeners to connect with their true selves and also to restore to health from within. One of the greatest gifts is the sound of the voice, and one of the greatest forms of music healing is through toning or chanting. Some music which is very useful for healing the body, mind and spirit are Gregorian chants, some New Age Music, drumming ( like the heart beat, drumming has a regulating effect on the body of humans that is hypnotic and soothing), singing bowls and much more, and all these produce audio vibrations.
Experts in the field of sound therapy and music believe that audio vibrations affect listeners in various ways. One profound way is known as entrainment. Entrainment is an experience where the mind and the spirit become in sync with music as the listener’s body becomes aligned with the melody, rhythm and lyrics of the song being played. Have you ever felt a nostalgic feeling after hearing a song which brings up a memory that has been stored deep within your psyche? Filling you up with intense emotions of the past, feeling it entirely flood into your consciousness on each and every level? Such is entrainment.
The natural link between healing and music is a great resource for connecting family members. Whether there are professional drums or just pans and pots, or whether a person has the voice of an accomplished singer or he is tone deaf, the outcome of intent healing will not be different. One also does not need any form of musical background or training-and the more one practices, the better he gets!
You can give it a try by assembling your friends and/or family in a circle, alongside their drumming instrument of choice. Have every person start by actively sustaining a continuous simple basic rhythm between them; allow time to pass until everyone feels a sense of belonging that is, rhythmic entrainment.
After that, allow yourself to instinctively release “your” sound. Any pitch, note, timbre or frequency will do. Do not to judge yourself, knowing the cacophony which comes out of the vocal chords is the greatest sound for you and your band member’s healing process.
You can also experiment with sacred chants like Om Shanti where one sing Om with one long breathe then followed by Shanti x3. This is a meditation chant from both the Buddhist and Hindu practice. Om is a sound which represents reality and usually translated as the past, the present, and the future, and Shanti just means peace. When you repeat Shanti 3 times it is believed that you are chanting for absolute peace within your mind, body and spirit.
So, anyone who wants to change the resonating frequency in his body, music is the best tool to use. And it is fun too!