Inner Sounds Academy Blog: Sound Baths + Science + Mysticism.
Can't Sleep? Take this Sound Bath Medicine
Many of you know, we've been busy getting ready for our
AMAZING
Level 1 cohort!
Moving gongs and bowls,
setting up for multiple camera angles and microphones,
reviewing slides, updating notes, etc
It is a TON of work and very EXCITING!
Which means….
I will probably…
most likely …
get ZERO sleep.
NOT because I'm stressed or there is too much to do,
this is our 4th year of teaching, so we are pretty solid,
it is because
I AM TOO EXCITED!
YES, I'm one of those people who STILL
can't sleep the night before Christmas.
It's like, Geez lady, you are 45.
You already know half of the presents you are getting.
I get SO excited
I can't sleep.
And… when I can't sleep,
what do I turn to?
A Sound Bath with a side
of Melatonin Gummy.
Sound baths have been a HUGE help
with sleep issues
for both myself and my partner.
My partner, Jason,
suffers from bi-phasic sleep,
which means he wakes up at 3 or 4 am
for a little while.
This isn't unusual, there has been plenty of documentation
as far back as the middle ages for the “second sleep”.
For a millennia, people would split up their sleep and
use the 2 am wakeful period to be productive,
get romantic, get spiritual, etc.
Those that had physically demanding jobs
would enjoy a first sleep to revive the body
and, then, wake up, and do some chores.
For us 2023 folks, if you keep waking up over and over again
in the middle of the night, instead of it being a welcome break,
it can create sleep anxiety.
As in, you worry about not sleeping
which causes you to definitely not sleep
some more.
More worry.
Another hour passes.
Even more worry.
We have all felt this from time to time.
Many people who have bi-phasic sleep,
end up with sleep anxiety.
It may ease some of your sleep anxiety,
to know that this form of split sleeping
was not considered bad or a form of insomnia,
it was literally the way people lived.
So, when Jason wakes up at 3am (for no reason),
he gets up for a bit,
drinks some water,
reads a bit,
and then
pops in some ear buds
and listens to a sound bath.
He literally starts snoring within a few minutes
EVERY time.
This is due to how the crystal bowls
interact with your brainwaves, especially certain combinations
which create very slow sound waves.
Did you know that listening to sound baths
regularly,
can actually create BETTER sleep
patterns and deeper sleep.
Better sleep is literally the #1 reported benefit
I've heard again and again,
over the last ten years of facilitating sound baths
digitally and live in-person.
SNORING is also the #1 complaint
I've heard again and again
at live in-person sound baths.
I barely start playing the bowls
and people immediately
start SNORING.
It isn't the snoreres fault,
blame those pesky crystal bowls
for inducing deep Delta Sleep
Brainwaves again and again.
This isn't just true to my sound baths,
there is growing research that supports
sound healing as sleep medicine.
Know a sleep researcher? I would be HAPPY
to assist with conducting research for sleep science.
calls sleep our superpower.
I call
sound baths
our sleep superpower.
If you also have
bi-phasic sleep,
consider becoming a member,
and when that 2 am wakeful period arrives,
be like the Middle Ages,
get up, do a couple things and then
pop in your ear buds and listen to a sound bath.
Need a 2 am Middle of the Night
xoxo,
Melissa
Psst… Level 1 Sound Healing Training SOLD OUT within two weeks but we are starting a SPECIAL Waitlist for our next cohort.
Want to get on it? Email me
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