The Healing Sound Of Music
By Kate & Richard Mucci

  Continued...            

THE SAME HOLDS TRUE
 FOR OTHER LIVING THINGS.

Everyone has heard the stories of miraculous comebacks for houseplants which have had music played near them. You may even have tried playing Mozart for your own philodendron. It makes a lot of sense, if you understand that everything has its own natural resonating frequency, and that different musical frequencies have varying effects on all things. Scientific research has confirmed this fact, especially for plants.

In fact, a researcher in Minnesota found that agricultural plants, including corn, respond and grow at an amazing rate when they are exposed to the sounds of the sitar (a traditional stringed instrument from India).

Another researcher, in Denver, Colorado, compared the effects that different kinds of music had on plants. We found this research interesting.

Plants were placed in five identical greenhouses. Soil, light, and water conditions were all identical, and the types of plants were the same in all of the greenhouses. For several months, the researcher pumped different kinds of music into each of the greenhouses. In one, Bach was played, in the second, Indian music, the third, loud rock, and the last, country and western music was played. In the fifth greenhouse, no music was played at all.

The plants in the greenhouse where only heavy Rock was played did not do well at all. Their growth was stunted, and they would not flower. In the greenhouses with Bach and Indian music, the plants were green and healthy, with many flowers. The plants who heard country and western music grew the same as those with no music - at a moderate rate, and with a normal amount of flowers.

Now, it doesn't seem likely that the plants had an "emotional" response to the music. So it must have been something in the actual rate of vibration, the frequency of the sound waves that affected their growth.

If music has such a profound effect on relatively simple organisms, what must it do to more complex systems?

We've all heard of people being able to sing a note for an extended period of time, and being able to break a glass with it. When jets burst through the sound barrier, they cause a sonic boom that breaks windows for miles around. That is what happens when sounds create disorder on a visible scale.

Think about the disorder all those vibrations are creating inside our bodies, where we cannot see their effects. Are organs being scrambled? Are brain cells being jostled?

Consider all the things you hear every day. An alarm clock, airplanes flying overhead, trucks and buses rumbling by, the low-riders with megabass speakers waiting beside you at the stoplight. Televisions, phones, dogs barking, children playing, sirens, machinery at work. Just imagine all the different frequencies that those noises are sending out.

Now think of all the frequencies you cannot hear. The human ear has a very limited range of hearing. Sound waves above and below that range are not physically heard, but they STILL affect the rate of resonance in our bodies. One example of inaudible sound is the radio wave. These tones are audible only when you have a receiver with which to pick them up, but they are always there. Hundreds of thousands of them are entering and bombarding our bodies and individual cells every second, every minute, every day for our entire lives. The trouble is; many of these frequencies are damaging to the human body. They are literally altering the natural resonance of our DNA and changing our very cellular structures.

If you have ten tuning forks all tuned to the same frequency, and you strike only one, they will all begin to chime together. However, if you strike a tuning fork tuned differently, and place it near the others, they will all stop. Now, if these dissonant frequencies can stop the vibration of a simple tuning fork, what must they do to the delicate balance in our human bodies?