what is impacting us? Yes!
This revives the ancient argument about free will versus destiny. Do we choose our emotions and thoughts or respond like robots to unseen vibrations? Inaudible vibrations substantially impact us – our body, mind, and emotions, and we are helpless to avoid the strong influences. Waves nearby combine – like it or not.
Because of this new knowledge, we should not take people’s emotional responses personally. Maybe their behavior is a result of some unheard sound vibrations or influence.
Finally, are there “Sound Stalkers?” Are people creating unheard blasts to thin the populations or at least make them ill, depressed, or angry? Given all the people creating computer viruses to wreak havoc… this action would not be hard to conceive. How many unscrupulous people are blasting us with unheard sounds – what kind of protection do we have?
Sound blasts can be used for good—for nutrition, for encouraging positive emotions, for elevating our consciousness and awareness, and more. How about educating people about how we ingest sound? We should monitor unheard vibrations and be warned of their effects. Ultimately, when are we going to take what we listen to seriously?
Plotinus of ancient Greece wrote: “Harmonies unheard create the harmonies we hear and wake the soul to the consciousness of beauty.” He suggested that subtle, unheard sounds (such as those coming from nature) are the sounds that influence musicians to create beautiful works of art. Whether or not unheard sounds (from tiny volumes or out of our hearing range) help or hurt us is not the biggest issue. All kinds of vibrations influence us without a clue to their influence. It is time to wake up and take control of our vibratory world!
Sounds for Nutrition
Plants respond to music, growing better while listening to classical music, but how does sound change the physicality of the plant?
Researchers in the book The Secret Life of Plants hooked plants to machines resembling lie detectors, revealing their response to threatening behavior. Wow! Plants possess an awareness of their well-being and surroundings. Even more startling, the plants reacted to their owner’s well-being, even if the owners were nationwide. This seems like quantum entanglement (when two energies link on the quantum level and affect one another, even at long distances). Maybe the plants have emotions and care about their owners.
If this idea is not delightful enough, researchers display plants “singing.” The plant’s tiny vibrations are too soft to hear but may explain why we feel uplifted in a botanical garden or calm in nature. Unconsciously, these “plant songs” lull us into harmony and a sense of well-being.
People have hooked electrodes to plants’ leaves and roots and then connected them to musical instruments, producing fairy-like music: a new genre. A Mexican named Aerial Guzik hooked cacti to lutes and used their tiny, energetic impulses to create strangely beautiful music. Another experiment at Damanhur in Italy showed plants connected to electronic instruments, producing exquisite music. You can listen to this concert in the YouTube video in the footnotes.[1]
Ancient stories of Atlantis suggest that highly psychic people telepathically “tuned” into the vibrations of the plants, asking the plants what they needed for optimal growth. According to legends in Central America, this “inside information” improved crop growth. The stories suggest that plants possess intelligence and consciousness.
The Kairos Institute of Sound Healing in New Mexico tested if sound vibrations enhanced crop growth. They played tuning forks and hand chimes over seedlings. The forks were tuned to the frequency made by Mars and Venus moving in their orbits, and other frequencies were found in space (raised octaves into hearing range).[2] Their findings showed that sound vibrations improved seed germination, quantity and quality of produce, production longevity, pollination, and plant size.[3]
Dan Carlson of Sonic Bloom noticed that plants’ use of nutrients spikes at dawn. Plants do not benefit nearly as much when fed at other times. He wondered how the plant knew when dawn was. He experimented with bird chirps, local to the plant's natural habitat because the birds’ choruses sing loudly at dawn. Carlson discovered that when he played local bird chirps at any time of the day, the plant acted as if it was dawn and utilized more nutrients. At least one way that the plants told time was with sound. Carlson sells plant food packaged with recording of bird chirps and boasts of a 100 percent increase in plant growth.[4] Once again, a link appears between sound and the plants’ well-being.
Joel Sternheimer, a French physicist, calculated the vibrations of the amino acids in plants. After calculating the tones of each, he organized the amino acids in the same way that they were in the plant’s protein. When he played the “plant’s song” back to the plant, the plants' growth nearly doubled with resistance to drought and disease.
What do we learn from all this? Plants are far greater beings than we expected. They are also exquisite musicians. Perhaps the biggest lesson is that sounds below our hearing range significantly impact living things: body, mind, and emotions. At the very least, in a romantic picture, we are bathed unconsciously in plant songs and lullabies of the stars.
Sound and music enhance the health of plants. Yet, we stubbornly believe that we are not influenced by sound in the same way. What would make us exempt? Sharry Edwards's science of BioAcoustics has shown that we can use targeted sounds to enable the body to heal itself.[5]
We can use the energy of sound in music in targeted positive manners. In the future, mankind will use sound to be more in control of their body, mind, and emotions, harnessing sound for benefits.
[2] They also used planetary gongs tuned to the “three cycles of the Earth: the four seasons, the Earth spinning on her axis, and the Earth going through its processional cycle.”
[3] Leeds, Joshua. The Power of Sound: How to be Healthy and Productive using Music and Sound, Healing Arts Press: Vermont, 2001, 2010, Pgs. 207-209.
[4] http://dancarlsonsonicbloom.com/
[5] For more information see the book, Secret Sounds Ultimate Healing by Jill Mattson at www.JillsWingsOfLight.com