Sound, Music + Frequency as Healing in Pregnancy and Birth. And Life - with Adrian DiMatteo
What if SOUND HEALING (insert feathers and crystal bowls here) didn't have to be a big complicated thing, but was actually woven into your every day life? What if you could be constantly working with frequency and vibration as tools for health and balancing in your body, mind, and spirit?
Oh wait, YOU ALREADY DO!
I loved our talk with Adrian DiMatteo; musician, author, sound healer, and genuine, down to earth, hilarious, and insightful human. We explore some of the ways sound shows up in our every day lives, especially as pregnant women and mothers, and how we can very simply tap into that as a source of connection and healing.
This is so relevant to birth, and I am excited to see where this exploration leads us in the future.
We talk about:
- Utilizing sound as neurolinguistic programming - this doesn't have to be complicated, start by using different words to describe your experiences
- The different levels of sound//thoughts moving through the mind into the body and the spirit
- How music, mantras, movement, dance, rhythm, are all expression of sound - "Sound Healing" isn't this isolated event that happens only on the full moon in a yoga studio.
- How we can utilize this in pregnancy and birth, to overcome fear and re-program our belief systems
- “Sonic massage” - how we can intuitively use our body's vibration for healing for our families
- Applying musicality and mantra healing to the rhythm of everyday life. Vibration, frequency, rhythm isn’t something we practice outside of motherhood/pregnancy, it is inherent in our bodies and ready to be activated at any moment
- Vibration and the vagus nerve! Carrying vibration, movement, and allowing more oxygen to the cells for healing and pain relief. (SO RELEVANT FOR BIRTH!)
- How the natural sounds of the body are essential in releasing emotions, like a dog shaking off the day, we can allow our sighs, yawns, and stretches to reset our systems.
- How we could utilize our understanding of frequencies and the human body to curate your birth environment for this sacred ceremony - I'd love to see Adrian and Nikko Kennedy (from episode #33) to design a labor and delivery unit and NICU!
- The future of birth support - sound healing? Bringing frequency medicine into the birth space doesn’t have to mean you bring your guitar and know a thousand mantras. It’s the vibration of being calm, present, and in your heart, regardless of what you are saying or not saying.
- “Silence is the mother of sound”
- Approaching ultrasound technology from the highest possible frequency
- Integrating sound healing in the simplest ways - this is so accessible and so simple!
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Mentioned in the show:
Adrian's new book - Elements of Sound: A Full-Spectrum Exploration of Sound and Consciousness
His organization, Sonic Institute
Sound Healer Trainings - (I'm going to do it one of these days!)
And his music - While You Are Awake is the background music for this episode and the perfect addition to a birth playlist!
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