What is resonance?
Resonance is not echo. Echo is sound bouncing back.
Resonance is the intensification and prolongation of sound.Think of a giant bell in the temples. When you strike the bell, the sound is becoming stronger and richer, lasting for a long time long after you’ve finished striking. The amplified and continued sound after the initial strike is resonance.
Resonance makes the initial vibrated sound become stronger, fuller and richer. The initial vibration in our voice comes from the vocal cords. It is small and weak. Without resonance in the cavities of our body, people can hardly hear us. The cavities in our body are therefore called amplifiers, as well as resonators.
The power of resonance in application
You may have heard a wine glass being shattered by sound resonance. In the movie, The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, there was a scene where the opera singer started a series of high notes and all the glass objects were shattered by sympathetic vibrations.
Sound healing is an application of resonance. Everything is vibration and has its own frequency. So is true for our body. When it’s healthy, it has a natural vibrational frequency. When it’s unhealthy and out of alignment, we can use sound frequencies to bring it back to alignment and into a state of harmony and health, hence avoiding the need for drugs or surgery. Sound healing has been used for thousand of years. Tibetan singing bowl is one of the instruments used in healing. Besides using instruments, other forms of sound healing include music, working with a sound healer, and the instrument with the vast potential that everyone possesses, the human voice.
The healing power of voice through resonance
The human voice is the ultimate healing instrument. Think about overtone chanting in Central Asia. It has a therapeutic effect on the human body. Singing, chanting and laughing are ways of healing the body through voice. No wonder we feel more relaxed and elated when we do either of them.
Accumulated tension and stress have made your body out of balance and alignment, and your voice restricted and closed. Laurel Elizabeth Keys, one of the pioneers in using human voice for healing, said, “If a person’s voice is whiny and has a sucking in or gasping sound, the person has a negative health condition and is often so discouraged or hopeless that self pity becomes the positive polarity (instead of health), and no healing can be effected until the person reverses his tonal pattern.” Our body has a resonant frequency. When you work on your voice and develop the full resonance, it’ll help you optimize your frequency and restore harmony.
Many of my male clients told me in the beginning of our coaching sessions, “I wanted to develop a voice that sounds like Morgan Freeman (American actor).” Morgan Freeman’s voice is grounded and comes from within. It sounds authoritative yet humble and pleasant. His voice is a great example demonstrating how a fully resonated voice sounds like.
When you are speaking with a fully resonated voice, you elevate your way of being. Not only you’ll sound better, but you’ll feel better physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. You emanate a better vibrational frequency that draws people in. You may feel more charismatic. The fact is that you ARE charismatic. It is the deeper truth of everyone, residing inside of us and waiting for us to uncover.
