No Talent “Musician” Influences Medical Future Using Sound
What did we forget to remember?
He disinvited me to his Sound Healing Conference declaring that I had no talent. He’s well-known in the “Music as Therapy” field but he lacked the vision to recognize that I have one of the most unusual musical talents on the planet. You see, my ears and voice are mutated allowing me to hear otoacoustic emissions (sounds coming from the ear) which are generally beyond the normal human hearing range; and in addition, that hearing ability allows me to produce pure sine waves with my voice.
The research resulting from this unique talent is the foundation of the multi-million-dollar genre of using Vocal BioMarkers through Vocal Profiling1 to confirm that people with similar vocal anomalies have similar, if not identical, physical and emotional issues.
This proven corollary has paved the way to identify and predict a myriad of wellness issues using vocal frequencies but only if a person’s voice is available for analysis. But could this be used with persons with no voice?
A Case in point addresses both issues:
Young Owen’s birth trauma left him with incurable Cerebral Palsy*. He is a cute 2-1/2-year-old with an engaging smile and a loving personality but he had no clear vocalizations. His parents were adoring and wanting only the very best for Owen.
When they were told about the work of the Sound Health Research Institute in Ohio, USA, they quickly applied to be a part of the unique research using sound as a potential investigative tool for Wellness Providers.
Since the research depends on vocal biomarkers, it was a problem providing a vocal sample to be used for analysis. Josh, Owen’s father, was determined that he was going to capture sounds from Owen that would provide the needed 30 seconds of frequencies. Sounds of laughing, babbling and gurgling were provided to the Institute allowing Owen to be accepted as a research subject. Would Baby Owen’s “sounds” contain enough variety to create an accurate evaluation?
Although the Institute now uses computerized analysis to acquire bioinformation, the technique has esoterical beginnings; using “tones” produced by my voice to make the connections between sound and health. We occasionally revert to what we considered, in the past, to be an unsophisticated mode of gaining frequency-based information. For example, when there was a comatose or otherwise non-verbal subject to be evaluated. Little did we realize that the technique of “toning” a person’s sound had been used for thousands of years and is now seemingly a lost art.
Could this little-known, quite unique, aspect of Sound Health’s past protocols be useful for Owen’s case study?
When Owen arrived at the Sound Health Lab, our quickest solution was for me to “sing” what the ancient called his “Signature Sound”. Before beginning work with Owen, I verbalized a tone but laid the information aside for later scrutiny.