tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77910972991462834782024-03-15T04:56:59.031-07:00Atlanta Sound HealingSound healing,
Atlanta Sound Healing,
Tibetan Bowls,
meditation,
Quantum Sphere Healing,
Spiritual coaching
Stefanie Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05766676818813579433noreply@blogger.comBlogger14125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791097299146283478.post-60373275911112546692024-03-06T07:36:00.000-08:002024-03-15T04:56:27.171-07:00Consciousness and awareness of programs<div><span style="font-family: times;">One of the most difficult parts of acknowledging and accepting that we are co-creatorrs with Source through consciousness using our thoughts, emotions and imagination is when our lives are a complete mess. It is easier to place the blame on circumstances - whatever those may be. The victim mode.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">It is difficult sitting in the consequences of your choices when things are bad. The conditions that we have created support our limited beliefs about our power to create. As you sit in them, they tell you - “See, you feel that way because it’s true.” </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">I first learned about creating your reality when I was about 12. My sister told me that my thoughts and beliefs can affect everything. I really believed her and soon tested it when I lost my contact lens in the dryer as I was doing laundry. I stood in front of the dryer and said, I want to reach in there and find my contact. And I did. I have never doubted it since.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">Does that mean my life has been fabulous and everything I’ve ever wanted has manifested? I would like to be able to say yes. Maybe next lifetime. Haha.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">I have learned a lot about myself by looking at what I easily manifest and what I don’t. Because it tells me what I really think and believe about myself, my world. So much goes into our beliefs about ourselves and our world and childhood sets the stage for a lot, particularly trauma. So many of us walk around with our traumatized, wounded child running the show. Our first programming. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">As we move into society, we begin to receive societal programs. They can be pretty straightforward and direct or they can be insidious and go almost unnoticed. Main stream media (MSM) run some of the most insidious programming on this planet, although recently, they seem to be getting very direct and aren’t even trying to hide it. And with the internet and social media, the programming can get pretty aggressive. Where does it come from? </span><span style="font-family: times;">It comes from the wounded child I spoke about before. So we’re being programmed by the traumatized children who are also programmed. Lucky us!</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">So how do we circumvent this? How do we shift and change things in the middle of a mess. The first step is to take responsibility for what is happening in our lives. Response to the ability to create and change. Earlier I spoke of the victim mode and it is a vicious cycle. I’m sure we all know someone who is constantly complaining or whining about people and events in their lives and eventually we realize that the one constant denominator is them! And that is when we recognize that perhaps they are responsible for all of the things happening to them. So we can turn that around and really understand and accept at a mind and heart level that what we are thinking and feeling is creating what we are experiencing. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">Please, do not be critical of yourself. Become curious. Become dedicated to listening to yourself. What are you thinking about through most hours of your day? Is it positive and something that you want? What are you saying? Are you saying affirmative positive things? Words are an important reflection of what we are thinking and often point out the programs that run without us even realizing it. So what programs are we listening to and running?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: times;"><b>So step one: Take responsibility and begin to pay attention to what you are thinking and feeling. </b></span></div>Stefanie Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05766676818813579433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791097299146283478.post-56501009929163569642023-05-20T10:14:00.002-07:002023-05-21T12:23:51.711-07:00Re-tuning Personal FrequencyWhat happens when you forget that you are a powerful being? What happens when you don’t keep your thoughts, emotions and imagination - your frequency - high? For myself, I become afraid. Fear is such a low vibration. What has lowered my vibration into fear? <br /><br />One thing for sure is what my incoming information has been. I don’t listen to MSM, but I do follow social media accounts. One in particular is from what I thought was a high vibration community. I believed that the information I would receive would empower me. Instead I have realized, it fills me with fear. Perhaps there is a lot to be afraid about. As more and more disclosure takes place, it gets scary. Regardless, the saying when I was in computer programming school was garbage in garbage out. So if I’m filling myself with scary and divisive information, I will create fear and mistrust. <br /><br />So do I want to put my head in the sand and be totally in denial that shit is happening? No. Perhaps there is something I would want to be prepared for so I can rest easy. I don't want to miss an opportunity to take an action towards a positive outcome. As in most things, the answer here is <b>balance</b>. No I don’t have to put my head in the sand, nor do I have to spend hours a day reading doomsday prophecies. A balanced level of awareness is sufficient to be alert and happy. <br /><br />Also I acknowledge that I have not been doing my <b>daily meditation</b> - my time to sit and connect with Source, with my Higher Self, with my powerful consciousness that can create at levels beyond imagination. I’m remembering where I was a short time ago. My frequency was super high. I was meditating daily. I was not afraid. I was filled with light, joy, love and a deep knowing that my ability to thrive and create what I want was steadfast.<br /><br /><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMl_SoBeYilqO0u41gg_20_JI6LM-ymm3LoJMFErZZtlPV3P0yk2WwFHHEydqS_S8u7HQuPfo9u8O7G9w4ERCQGQqKJrRikkXruIGR_bFtJMMy1WZr4YcnnpCtsQQvsWqoNA-__bP7rVfTwheCa3UIfL9Z75_OaGNRhb80ZQaQ5u1NmdqRAhMEHa78NQ/s3024/IMG_9905.jpeg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2966" data-original-width="3024" height="314" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMl_SoBeYilqO0u41gg_20_JI6LM-ymm3LoJMFErZZtlPV3P0yk2WwFHHEydqS_S8u7HQuPfo9u8O7G9w4ERCQGQqKJrRikkXruIGR_bFtJMMy1WZr4YcnnpCtsQQvsWqoNA-__bP7rVfTwheCa3UIfL9Z75_OaGNRhb80ZQaQ5u1NmdqRAhMEHa78NQ/w320-h314/IMG_9905.jpeg" title="Open Road!" width="320" /></a></div>For example, I was driving my father from Atlanta to central Florida. That interstate is notorious for traffic backups. So I spent the day before the trip <b>visualizing </b>an easy voyage without traffic delays. About midway we pulled into a rest area and as we went to leave, there was a police car blocking the exit. Apparently they had closed the interstate for something that they were doing - btw, something I had never heard of. Anyway it was fine as he said it wouldn’t be long and actually I wanted to walk my dog a little bit. It wasn’t long before we were allowed to exit and as we pulled onto the interstate, I realized we were the only car on the road! The stop we had made was right in the middle of the closed section and so there was no one anywhere! I started laughing out loud. Wow, I said to my dad, I just asked for no traffic back ups and here we are with our own interstate! </div><div><br />That’s conscious creation. The ability to affect traffic on the highway. I have a million stories like this, and even with all of the years of working with the power of consciousness, I sometimes get derailed. So today, I’m back to a daily meditation practice and I’m being very select with what information I'm consuming as well as how much time I spend on social media. I am clearing my channel and reconnecting to Source that resides within. </div><div><br /></div><div>I wanted to post this as a REMINDER to us all. Do what works for you to raise your vibrations. The two suggestions here are what work for me today. <b>Stay connected to Source, be aware but don’t be saturated with the dark information that abounds. If you’re off track, get back on. It happens to us all.</b></div>Stefanie Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05766676818813579433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791097299146283478.post-16748499233386386722022-12-13T12:57:00.000-08:002022-12-13T12:57:02.343-08:00Happy Holidays from Atlanta Sound Healing!<h2 style="text-align: center;"><br /></h2><p></p><div style="text-align: center;">Give the gift of a private sound healing session this year. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Gift certificates are available for $75 for a one hour session. </div><div style="text-align: center;">To order, email <a href="mailto:Stefanie@atlantasoundhealing.com">Stefanie@atlantasoundhealing.com</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">A great way to start the New Year!</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGp7R-DhFuNCqQ_a9FEQnBWB_zJkereIIIO7XhCbx4MTw5y-X3BRTd89tBMA6lwtk9hEDan_TGa7D-yI49W7siahj9-vFrZCS1BlvfkrvUUQFrrs-fzcmvHA-5vHXsXJV6i0HW5vZUfEYj2YuVpi7QtYmT4hMj4t44zWxMnNOZa_m-8CiJ12xlybVkDA/s2048/IMG_2871.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGp7R-DhFuNCqQ_a9FEQnBWB_zJkereIIIO7XhCbx4MTw5y-X3BRTd89tBMA6lwtk9hEDan_TGa7D-yI49W7siahj9-vFrZCS1BlvfkrvUUQFrrs-fzcmvHA-5vHXsXJV6i0HW5vZUfEYj2YuVpi7QtYmT4hMj4t44zWxMnNOZa_m-8CiJ12xlybVkDA/s320/IMG_2871.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;">Peace to everyone!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0DDMUGpDpi2VAfiqNh0fB8tvnkc-RAkA7qHSE0nd79JorYuxwBPQlDrHOBC86t-dI808f276o53CF8326vCXhW-hFCE5v4JMK6PA5hGCTXwdz-Z49-A5C9MpJBAMslnadc-4SswhN2uiXgcNhr18N2JtT-HLYG_RQNPhpZgTU0In521uVeNaavmzuJw/s376/bowl%20copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><br /></a></div><p></p>Stefanie Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05766676818813579433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791097299146283478.post-53073642630598908462022-08-05T10:41:00.003-07:002022-08-05T11:22:29.277-07:00Spiritual Coaching<h2 style="text-align: left;"><br /></h2><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I<span style="font-family: inherit;"> would like to share with you one of the services I provide - Spiritual Coaching. In the early 80’s I was a member of a new thought, consciousness-based church and started ministerial school with that church. Later in life I completed my ministerial studies and received a Master of Divinity from a Metaphysical University.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>I was introduced to Sound Healing in that curriculum and wrote my thesis on the topic.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When I started doing sound healing sessions I realized that often times a sound healing session brings up emotional content for a client and there is time spent talking about it. I began to feel that there was a need for more time for those conversations and I decided to further my studies to include a certification as a professional life coach. So I expanded Atlanta Sound Healing services to include Spiritual Coaching.<br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When the world shut down in 2020, everyone was affected. Some people prospered, some suffered. As we have returned to “normal” many of us have discovered new ways of living, new ways of thinking and new ways of relating to ourselves and others.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">These new ways are part of what I believe to be a planetary shift into a higher consciousness. I believe it to be an evolutionary change that has been heading our way for a long time and we are in the midst of it. As old systems and old ways are breaking down and making way for the new, there can be feelings of chaos, confusion, a sense that things have gone crazy. Really, those who have created and supported the “old system” are not going to go quietly or easily.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is reflected in our individual lives as we embrace new ways of being and thinking and connecting.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">We may be afraid, we may be distracted, we may feel hopeless.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">But we can use this time, this energy, this opportunity to remember who we are. We are Spirit, we are evolving, we are here to support this Shift. We can connect to our Higher Self and receive guidance. And we can also receive support from others, be it groups or individuals.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In essence my method of Spiritual Coaching is about supporting you through these changes. I want to help you develop a practice that works best for you. I studied with a Shaman for 11 years and she called it The Work. And that is how I approach it. What is your Work? </span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have a myriad of tools developed over many years of study and my own Work.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">I practice and teach perspective shifting, vibrational shifting, meditation, science of mind consciousness training. My goal with each client is to listen, to understand, to offer ideas and to support you on this path as you do your Work. </span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Peace and love. That is my Work. What is yours?</span></div></div>Stefanie Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05766676818813579433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791097299146283478.post-86571105508887838412020-04-10T09:23:00.008-07:002022-11-11T15:18:04.439-08:00Raise Your Vibration<br />
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isolation. What an experience. <span lang="EN">So where am I during this worldwide shift? Well, the mind
is quick to respond. It took about a week of strong fear-based thoughts to
realize that the most important activity for me during this time is my daily
meditation practice. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">In my meditation space I can decide what my vibration is going to be. We are Consciousness. I view consciousness as where I am emotionally, mentally
(thoughts/beliefs) and spiritually (relation to Spirit).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Where is my consciousness? </span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is important to practice the teachings
that help me feel grounded. Meditation is where I connect with my Higher Self
and shift into the bigger picture. Which part of mass consciousness am I going
to tune into? What is my contribution to mass consciousness, at this time?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">If you are unaware of your own vibration, you may be caught up by feelings
and thoughts that don't feel very good. Lots of fear, lots of separation, lots
of you vs. me, lots of blaming, and lack. It is vitally important to remember
at this time that regardless of what is going on around you, your consciousness
is yours to create and maintain. <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN"><o:p><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> </span></o:p></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">These choices have been here all along for you, but perhaps this unique
time has been given to you to awaken to some new vibrations. Do you have the
time now to start that meditation practice? Can you see clearly how what you
focus on can change how you feel? Can you be grateful for your life? Are you
able to be outside and feel how the Earth supports you? Can you shift your perspective to see different outcomes?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">It is easy to focus on lack right now as many struggle with financial
insecurity. There is also a rise in violence in the home. I get it. I have been
in some dark places in my life. The one thing that I had to discover and
remember was that my thoughts, my emotions, my spirit were mine. Yes, I was
affected by other's energy fields, other's beliefs, physical circumstances, and
possibly even mind control, but ultimately, I was and continue to be, a
Sovereign being, responsible for my own healing and growth. And that includes
asking for help. Remember, we are part of a society, and there are many in this
current experience who desire to help. If you want to read mainstream media,
read the stories about how people are helping their neighbors and their towns.
There are a lot of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don't want to
simplify serious issues that some people are experiencing. I have received much
help in the dark times of my life. But it was up to me to ask for it and to
receive it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Take the time today to check-in with yourself. Where are your
thoughts?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What are your feelings? Are you
feeling connected to Spirit? If you don't like where you are, can you imagine
moving into a different frequency. Can you imagine a shift in consciousness at
this moment? Can you imagine that what is currently going on may turn out to be
the best reset for this planet than anything prior? Certainly, this kind of
shift has not happened before in modern times. What can we create with our own
consciousness while adding to the planetary consciousness?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Can we be the change that we want?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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disruption in the political status quo. But the last few years have shined a light on some dark
places which, really, have always been here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And some big movements have taken place with the shining of that light. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Take this opportunity to raise your frequency, to shift your consciousness
and to bring light to what could be a dark time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Be the change you want. Remember the big picture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is an energy for big changes on this
planet, an opportunity to really raise the frequency, and even to move into a
higher dimension. I encourage all of us to be aware of our own gifts to this
change and our personal shifts into a consciousness that keeps the light shining.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">I am taking
appointments for Spiritual coaching sessions, which can include assistance in
starting a meditation practice. For these and sound healing appointments, please email me at this link </span></span><a href="mailto:Stefanie@AtlantaSoundHealing.com">Stefanie@AtlantaSoundHealing.com</a></div>
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<br />Stefanie Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05766676818813579433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791097299146283478.post-85875255491563060462020-03-22T07:53:00.000-07:002020-03-22T07:53:45.140-07:00What I do at Atlanta Sound HealingIt has been delightful to see sound healing becoming more and more popular. It's kind of like watching yoga as it became more mainstream. This year I was contacted by a company in NYC about performing a "sound bath" for a rather large business here in Atlanta. I prepared to do so, but quickly realized that the company wasn't too interested in paying for my time and energy.<br />
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And then I had to sit with what it is I do and come to my own understanding that sound healing concerts for large groups really isn't what I do. It is a choice I make. I am a musician and could easily buy all the instruments to perform sound healing concerts. Over the years, I have played my bowls for workshops and yoga classes, I have taught the bowls at the Cymatics Conference and at International Sound Therapy Association classes, I have given talks about sound healing, I have recorded a song with the bowls which you can find on Atlanta Sound Healing Facebook page. But what I really do happens in private sessions.<br />
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For me, the bowls are energy instruments before they are musical instruments. We are all energy and sound is one of the most powerful vibrational tools for working with energy. The set of bowls I have collected over the years are my tools for energy work. When a client comes to me, I spend time before the session connecting with them energetically and with their Higher Self. I ask permission from them to do this. At the beginning of the session, we talk about what their intention for the session is. Sometimes people are very clear about what their intention is and sometimes not. I assure them that their Higher Self will be guiding the session and that it will become clear for them during or post session.<br />
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The next step is performing a grounding ceremony with the client. This involves saging and standing on the Earth, connecting to her core and making a strong grounding connection. This is an important start to any energy work.<br />
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I like the description of our bodies being a symphony and when one instrument falls out of tune, it affects the entire song. To start a session, I use a bowl to scan the client and discover where the areas are that need to be brought back into tune. Clients who may not have mentioned physical ailments prior to the session will tell me afterward when I ask about certain areas that yes, indeed there have been issues there. So the bowls first serve as a diagnostic tool and allow me to adjust the placement of bowls on the body.<br />
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At this point in the session, I am pretty much channeling information from my Higher Self and the client's Higher Self about how to work with the client's energy. I may bring in energy, I may release energy - ultimately it's about balancing the energy. I never know what will happen exactly. I may use the rattles, I may use toning, I may be called to play a song while I play the bowls. Sometimes the session is just beautiful sound patterns bringing in light and healing. Sometimes it is strong,vital sounds removing blocks and creating bright flow.<br />
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I have had amazing things occur during sessions and they are all directed by the client and their energy. That is sometimes difficult for people who ask what happens in a session. When I say, well it depends on you as to what happens, I often don't get a call back. I guess we all would love for someone to just HEAL us, but without our involvement, without our willingness to open ourselves to our own healing capabilities, without taking responsibility for how that may look or what that may entail, we will continue to look outside ourselves and most likely continue the patterns we are wanting to change.<br />
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The bowls are able to help those who say "I cannot meditate" to lower their brainwave state and enter a space of consciousness and awareness that introduces and advances healing. Sessions certainly help lower stress and most people leave feeling peaceful and relaxed. Sound concerts can do that for larger groups of people as well but I prefer working with one person's energy at a time. When a session is drawing to a close, the sound field created by the session is a beautiful space for the client to bask in for however long they desire.<br />
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I am more than happy to talk with you further about sessions and I am glad that I finally wrote this. This way people who contact me have a better understanding of what I do. Including myself.<br />
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<br />Stefanie Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05766676818813579433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791097299146283478.post-5899468179663564782019-01-06T13:07:00.001-08:002019-01-06T13:14:53.764-08:00Welcome 2019!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnQYaR_cuNs4Pc1UfVQnS393mL93H-AIBqXPG8Zs2708kdU3h3jwivgCK_oEUezZy_ei-h3n8WWQaxIzg0r3HKQKjM-L1ZJs2V5Deud2hBnTKdCKCV8-gkRyYgk8FOnLcgC0YD9R-ERcdg/s1600/bowl+session.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="960" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnQYaR_cuNs4Pc1UfVQnS393mL93H-AIBqXPG8Zs2708kdU3h3jwivgCK_oEUezZy_ei-h3n8WWQaxIzg0r3HKQKjM-L1ZJs2V5Deud2hBnTKdCKCV8-gkRyYgk8FOnLcgC0YD9R-ERcdg/s320/bowl+session.jpg" width="320" /></a>Welcome to 2019. It's time to set your intentions for the new year. One of mine is to be less reactive and calmer when I respond to people, including my loved ones. It helps my relationships and it feels much better to me.<br />
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Also I am helping clients and myself either start or pick back up the art of journaling. When you focus on your everyday thoughts and feelings, you are able to see a clearer picture of the story you are creating and living. You may decide that this is the year to change some of your story lines. You also have a space for your creative ideas. So many creative ideas run through my head in a day and a journal gives me a place to put them and set goals around them if I want.<br />
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Whatever the new year brings for you, Atlanta Sound Healing is here for you - offering sound sessions, teaching you how to develop a meditation practice and personal spiritual coaching as well. Drop me an email and see what we can create together!<br />
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<br />Stefanie Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05766676818813579433noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791097299146283478.post-66432728238240366352016-02-24T16:32:00.000-08:002016-02-24T16:34:05.283-08:00SPRING EQUINOX EVENT<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;">The bowls have the ability to lower your brainwaves to an alpha or theta brainwave state. </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 21.3px;">In these lower brainwave states, you are able to access a meditative, peaceful state of mind </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 21.3px;">which has a powerful healing effect on your body, mind, emotions and spirit.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;">Mandala creation - represents wholeness, a cosmic diagram reminding us of our relation to </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 21.3px;">infinity, extending beyond and within our bodies and minds.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 21.3px;">This is a non-verbal healing technique that is designed to help remove distressing emotions out of the body. </span></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 21.3px;">People often feel more relaxed after one session, have increased focus, more clarity in their life purpose, </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "georgia" , serif; line-height: 21.3px;">more confident, and able to handle stressful situations with ease.</span></div>
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Stefanie Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05766676818813579433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791097299146283478.post-36950829451983015422015-12-03T16:48:00.000-08:002018-02-08T08:40:11.967-08:00Power of Silence I remember the first time I experienced total silence. Perhaps I had experienced it as a child, but as a conscious adult, this was my first time. I was visiting a friend in Southern California, in a home where I would soon be living. When I went to bed, I realized I had not brought my fan. I sleep with fans. Always have. The fan blocks out any noise that keeps me awake or occupied – i.e., loud neighbors, house settling, whatever. Well, not only did I not hear the sound of my fan, I heard nothing. <br />
NOTHING – as in SILENCE.<br />
It was a loud buzzing in my ear. Suddenly I was wide awake. The silence was everywhere. How did it make me feel? Scared. Uncomfortable. I thought of the song by Simon and Garfunkel: <br />
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Hello darkness, my old friend,</div>
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I've come to talk with you again,</div>
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Because a vision softly creeping,</div>
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Left its seeds while I was sleeping,</div>
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And the vision that was planted in my brain</div>
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Still remains</div>
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Within the sound of silence.</div>
Was I ready for a vision from the silence? I don't remember a vision. I don't remember what I did. I just remember the silence and a realization that silence is powerful. Many years have passed and I have learned a lot about silence since then. <br />
The most basic lesson around silence is learning to not speak. So often we feel a need to say something when really the most powerful response is silence. It took quite a few times of wishing I'd remained quiet to learn this. In the silence of a conversation, many powerful things can be felt and communicated.<br />
During my training for regression certification after completing my hypnosis training, the instructor regressed a student to when he was still in the womb. The student described hearing his parents argue as well as feeling a moment when his father kicked his mother. His father did not want a child. In the womb, the student experienced his mother’s feelings of powerlessness and sadness. When he entered the birth canal, he began to panic and started crying - not because of sound, but because of the silence. He thought that he had killed his mother. Yet, out of that silence, came his birth. <br />
Much of the healing that takes place in sound healing sessions takes place in the silence. When using bowls, voice or music, a field is created that stretches long past the sound and it is important for that field to be experienced in the healing process. When you are at a live concert, notice how at the end of a performance, the emotions permeate and if we didn’t clap, we could experience a continuation of the field created by the music. Clapping is our way of breaking the “spell”. Performers of healing music often request the audience to not clap for that reason.<br />
Today, I call silence the Void. From the Void comes my unrealized dreams and my unconquered demons. In my studies with a Lakota Medicine Woman, I have visited the Void many times. I have been rebirthed over and over. It still scares me at times. I wonder how many times I can be reborn in one lifetime. I wonder when I will become as comfortable with my creations as I am with my failings.<br />
As this was my next blog, I decided to attend a silent sitting with a Swami. I met her last week and realized it was no coincidence. It was comfortable, sitting in silence with others. I realized that I had come a long way in making friends with the sound of silence. <br />
I'll end with the saying on her website::<br />
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Silence is the final and ultimate teaching</div>
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and the final and ultimate teacher.</div>
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Stefanie Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05766676818813579433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791097299146283478.post-67437260119467423712015-11-10T12:12:00.003-08:002018-02-08T08:40:22.603-08:00Our Noisy World One day my sister came over to visit me. We sat out on the screened back porch on a beautiful spring day. As we were visiting, I watched my happy, chilled sister move into an agitated, unhappy individual. No, it wasn't the conversation. It was the noise of a leaf blower coming from a few houses down. I must say I was surprised that I didn't join her in her angst but for some reason that day, the noise wasn't bothering me.<br />
The fact is we live in a noisy world - airplanes, cars, motorcycles, leaf blowers, hair dryers, hand dryers, people talking on their cell phone, construction noise…the list is endless. What does that mean to us? <br />
James D’Angelo observes in <i>The Healing Power of the Human Voice</i>: “We can choose to turn off a radio but not to stop the sound of traffic on the high street. The sounds of our world have their own quality and their absorption into our bodies, minds, and spirits will produce either positive or negative effects which are often not detected.” <br />
I believe most of us are aware of the effect of loud noise on our hearing. But what about the effects we aren't aware of. The brain regulates our internal system through homeostasis. Homeostasis is the internal balance of a system and for humans the balance of this system is essential to good health. Homeostasis stabilizes our internal environment, including our blood pressure, heart rate, blood sugar levels and temperature.<br />
When we are assaulted by loud noise, our internal balance, homeostasis, is disrupted and even without our awareness, our body responds. These responses can include changes in our blood pressure, release of stress hormones, adrenalin, moving us into fight or flight. The activation of fight–flight and defeat reactions is thought to involve subcortical regions of the brain like the hypothalamus, which has inputs to the autonomic nervous system, the endocrine system, and the limbic system.<br />
So noise can throw us completely out of balance physiologically. When we don't return to baseline balance, we can suppress our immune system and create the beginnings of disease. When noise disrupts our sleep cycle it has profound effects on our health. And as we age, our ability to restore homeostasis becomes even more difficult.<br />
What about our emotional response to a sound. Everyone responds differently to noise. One person’s symphony may be another person’s cacophony. Emotional responses can be based on factors such as memory association, neurological conditions, or our current emotional state. For instance, the opening story about a leaf blowing irritating my sister but not myself on that particular day. Some days a leaf blower can drive me mad.<br />
Our world will continue to be noisy and perhaps get even noisier. I have been going to a retreat center in the north <st1:place w:st="on">Georgia</st1:place> mountains for about 11 years. I record a lot of nature sounds there and 2 years ago, realized that it is now in a flight path. The sound of planes is prevalent and I must say, it saddens me greatly. Noise is also disruptive to animals in our natural environments, both on land and in our oceans, as many of them communicate with sound.<br />
There is a discipline today called archaeoacoustics. Acoustic ecologists have begun archiving sounds of nature. Instead of images, they collect sounds “caught in the brief intervals of modern life before the cacophony of airplanes and jets, air conditioners and automobiles, music machines and gardening equipment kicks in.” Jeff Rice, a librarian at the University of Utah, is often up and recording a soundscape in the early morning hours, such as a moose stomping across a stream in Utah or the crickets in Range Creek, all helping to preserve an aural understanding of the world from an archaeological perspective.<br />
So how do we deal with our noisy world? We can incorporate noise in a positive way. Jonathan Goldman, a sound healer, describes doing a workshop on sound healing and the room where the event took place had a loud hum from the electrical system. He describes the initial frustration caused by it and how he decided to use that frequency in a toning exercise rather than being irritated by it. This is certainly an example of making the best of a noisy world.<br />
Awareness is the beginning. Awareness of sounds can change how we deal with them so that we can minimize negative responses. Realizing that loud or sudden noises create imbalance allows us the opportunity to consciously return to our baseline. We can do deep breathing, listen to some peaceful music if possible, chant or tone a soothing syllable. Basically, giving ourselves a moment to acknowledge and recover on a physiological as well as psychological level.<br />
I have chosen on more than one occasion to remove myself from a location because of noise. As I have become aware of how I am being affected by my sound environment, my choices change and when I cannot remove myself, or a sudden explosion of noise occurs, I make sure I allow myself the chance to acknowledge its effect and create some space to bring myself back into balance.<br />
Eventually I will hear my neighbor's leaf blower again. Beyond wondering whatever happened to rakes, I know that I will have some choices to make about its effect on my happiness. It is that awareness that can help grant us all some peace of mind and body in our noisy world.Stefanie Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05766676818813579433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791097299146283478.post-33356517896259056132015-10-07T06:04:00.000-07:002018-02-08T08:40:34.465-08:00Finding Your Voice In the previous post, I spoke of the power of sound through music, the singing bowls and nature. Sometimes though, these may not be available to us. But there is one sound making that is always with us - our own voice. The use of voice for healing and sacred communion is ageless.<br />
Humans make sounds all the time, for a wide variety of reasons. First, of course is the sound of the spoken word. A language to communicate to each other, and we not only use words, we use volume, accentuation, and cadence to convey emotion.<br />
Think about some of the sounds you make every day beyond the spoken word. When you hit your finger with a hammer, you yell. When you're settling down in your favorite chair after a long day, you sigh. When you're happy, you hum. When you're working out or doing a physical activity, you may grunt or groan. The list goes on. Sound making is part of our daily life.<br />
What we might not realize is that making sound with our voice can actually help our physical being. Studies show that chanting can lower our blood pressure, slow our heartbeat and brain waves. Toning is the elongated sounding of a vowel sound such as AH, OH, OOO or it can change into other sounds. It is not singing, it is more free form. There is no right note and anyone can do it. Toning utilizes breath and breath is life itself. Breath is a powerful tool for transformation. Often when someone is upset or stressed, deep breathing can restore calmness as it moves the life force throughout the body. With sound, we can learn to immediately relax tension, release stress and pain, restore homeostasis to the body.<br />
Not only can we create physical transformation with our voice, we are able to use sacred vowels and mantras with intention to connect to our deeper nature and experience Divine connection. Sacred sound is found in most religions, whether it be hymns, mantras, sacred vowels or chants.<br />
The beauty of our own voice as a healing modality is it is free and we have access to it all the time. I use humming a lot during a stressful moment to just center and relax. I had a client who was having difficulty after a minor car accident. She had to drive for her job and she was having mini-anxiety attacks every time she got in her car. We worked on her toning the AH vowel as she was driving. What happened is that she would begin to breathe, she would focus on making the sound and center her energy there instead of on her anxiety.<br />
As you begin to work with making sounds with intention, you can actually begin to move the sound throughout your body, focusing on areas that may be experiencing pain or blockage. Certain vowel sounds such as EEE focus in the head, AH in the heart and OM in the solar plexus. If you work with chakras, you can find several teachings on the sounds associated with each chakra.<br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-right;"> In meditation classes, I use the Tibetan Warrior Syllables from Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche. It has been interesting to observe how difficult it is for some participants to make sound. When they begin to use toning, they can get in touch with how they have "lost their voice" - perhaps in a relationship, in a work situation or within their own being. As they open to making sounds it often times translates into finding their voices in other areas of their lives.</span><br />
<span style="text-align: -webkit-right;"> I think about a room of 4 year olds. If you ask them, "How many of you sing?" most of them will raise their hands without hesitation. Ask that same group as adults, and maybe 2 or 3 will raise their hands. We give away our voice and the power of our own healing sounds for many reasons, but, regardless of the reason, today is a good day to rediscover this powerful healing modality.</span><br />
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<br />Stefanie Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05766676818813579433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791097299146283478.post-14705692578462229462015-09-22T10:25:00.001-07:002018-02-08T08:40:50.086-08:00The Power of Sound Today I was listening to Tom Kenyon, a sound healer based in Seattle, WA. Oh my, how moved I was. I was not surprised by this. The first time I listened to him was about 7 years ago and I lay on my massage table weeping. Which is to say, he speaks to me.<br />
That is the power of sound.<br />
It is likely that you have experienced the power that music has to support or change your mood or feelings. When we are sad, we play a certain song. It is a different song than the one we play when we are happy. There is a concept known to music therapists called the ISO principle. This is a concept according to which a patient's musical mood can be matched to help them become aware of thoughts and feelings. The aim is to meet the person where they are and then gradually work to redirect them towards a different feeling state.<br />
I worked with a client who was quite sad. For 15 minutes, I played a series of pieces on the piano, starting with one that I believe was entitled Melancholy. I ended with a rather upbeat beautiful piece and by this time, the client was smiling. It would not have worked if I had started right in with the upbeat piece we ended on.<br />
The bowls are quite adept at helping client's access their feelings. During a bowl session a client began crying and retrieving childhood memories and feelings and was able to get in touch with some long standing emotional content. During the post session, she talked about how the bowls sounded like church bells from her childhood which prompted her exposure to these deep seated memories.<br />
At this point, I want to address that everyone is different. What sounds good to one person may or may not sound good to another. I have started listening to music or sounds that were marketed as "calming, meditative sounds" and couldn't get my headphones off fast enough. When I give bowl concerts, I can sometimes watch someone who is actually being annoyed by the sound of the bowls, while the rest of the room is sinking into alpha and theta brainwave states. I had a person come up to me after one who said, "Oh my gosh, when you played that crystal bowl, I wanted to get up and leave. But I sat through it and then felt so much better when you played the singing bowls."<br />
These are just a few examples of the therapeutic use of sound and music. But, we are surrounded by sound all the time. It is speaking to you on some level, whether it is at a conscious or subconscious level. So if we look at how powerful the effects of sound are, it behooves us to become conscious of our sound environment and how we can utilize it to promote positive sound space in our lives.<br />
I think of the sounds of my home, my old dog settling down on his bed with his grunts and sighs. It makes me smile. At night, I sleep with an old box fan - for several reasons. I grew up in Florida and there was no air condition then, so everyone had a fan in their room. As an adult living in noisy metropolitan areas, I have found the hum of a fan not only a lovely childhood memory, but a way to block sounds that may keep me awake. I live about 3 miles from a railroad track and enjoy the sounds of trains clacking along. Something about that sound just makes me happy and content feeling.<br />
Last week I was hiking and I passed quite a few people with earbuds in. I understand that music can "pump you up," and so these people were definitely creating their workout mode. When I hike, I prefer to access a different mode. I am getting in touch with nature, I am grounding with Earth and accessing her voice. I heard a loud rustling of leaves and told my hiking partner, who was able to then see several deer run across the path and into the woods. She was so delighted to have seen them.<br />
We can't control the sound environment when in public places. I have left places because the noise or the music grated on me. But I have also spoken with restaurant owners and other places of business about their music and what soundscape they are wanting to create.<br />
Take the time to listen to your environment. Does it please you? Does it irritate you? Is there something you can change to help you feel better, happier, peaceful. Can you play music instead of having the television on? Can you open the windows and hear the sounds of nature?<br />
Right now I'm thinking of a Beach Boys song - Good, good, good, good vibrations. That one will be in my head for the rest of the day. Go ahead, find your favorite song and feel the good vibrations of your own soundscape! <br />
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</i></span></span> Stefanie Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05766676818813579433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791097299146283478.post-46034087339171745972015-03-30T06:24:00.001-07:002018-01-12T11:02:47.155-08:00Terminology I would like to introduce some definitions and terminology and also establish the difference between sound and music. Music is an arrangement of sounds with different patterns and constructs, including melody, harmony and rhythm. When you listen to a band or a song on the radio, you are listening to music.<br />
For sound healing, sounds are used that are not necessarily musical, although they can be pleasant and calming. When I use the term sound, I can be referring to a single tone created by my voice or the sound generated by striking a bowl. For sound healing, frequency can be used to describe a vibration that is not necessarily heard but felt through bodily application such as placing the tuning fork on the body.<br />
Basically, all music is sound, but all sounds are not necessarily music. For both, the following definitions apply.<br />
Sound is a wave and these waves are measured by how many occur during a specific time frame. Sound is measured in hertz (Hz) which describes how many cycles occur in one second and this is called its frequency. So a tone that has a frequency of 514 Hz is producing 514 cycles per second. (See diagram below)<br />
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The range of human hearing is approximately 20 Hz to 20,000 Hz. To give you a relative understanding, the sound of the average male speaking voice is around 110 Hz and the average female speaking voice is around 220 Hz.<br />
The lower the frequency, the lower the sound, and that introduces another term, pitch. Pitch is what most musicians use to describe the fundamental frequency of a tone. An interesting phenomenon of pitch is that it is purely a psychological construct, a mental representation of the frequency of a sound. Sound waves themselves do not have pitch, it takes our human brain to map them to the internal quality we call pitch.<br />
We use notes to represent the pitch of a tone. When you see the note A on a sheet of music, you are seeing a representation of a tone of 440 Hz. Tone and note are used interchangeably, but tone is primarily used in sound healing to describe frequency.<br />
An important component of sound is its loudness or amplitude. Loudness measures the intensity or sonic energy of a sound and is measured in units called decibels (db). The decibel level of a whisper is about 20 db and the level of a loud rock band is around 105 db. Continued exposure to sounds above 100 db can lead to hearing loss, which is something to consider if you listen to music at high volumes regularly.<br />
Earlier, I discussed music as having rhythm. Rhythm is a crucial part of what turns sound into music. Rhythm refers to the length of a note and the relationship between the length of one note and another and usually establishes a rhythm pattern. Rhythm and tempo are related concepts and often confused, as tempo is the pace of a musical piece or the rate you tap your foot to a piece of music. Tempo is also a major factor in conveying emotion. Typically, a song with a fast tempo is thought of as happy or exciting and songs with slower tempos as sad or pensive.<br />
Every tone has what is called a fundamental frequency. But there is also what we call overtones. When I play a note on the piano, for example A, you are actually hearing many pitches at once, not just a single pitch. The one with the slowest vibrational rate or lowest pitch, in this case A, is the fundamental frequency and is what we hear most easily. The other pitches are called the overtones.<br />
Overtones give us the timbre or tone quality of a sound and allow us to identify what we are hearing. Even if they have the same fundamental frequency, the sound of a lion roar and a human scream are different because of their overtones.<br />
In sound healing, when we talk about fundamental frequencies, we’re talking about resonance. A resonant frequency is the natural frequency of the vibration of an object. Every object has a fundamental resonance, each cell in our body, each organ, has its own resonant frequency. Resonance is the probably the most important principle of sound healing.<br />
Some important properties of resonance are: It is easy to get an object to vibrate at its resonant frequencies, hard to get it to vibrate at other frequencies. A vibrating object will pick out its resonant frequencies from a complex excitation and vibrate at those frequencies, essentially "filtering out" other frequencies present in the excitation.<br />
Through entrainment, we can affect the resonance of an object. Entrainment, or forced resonance, is when a vibrating object begins to vibrate at a stronger vibrational rate of an object near it, so that eventually, all are at the same vibrational rate. This term was first used by Christian Huygen in 1666 when he noticed that two pendulum clocks would fall into the same rhythm when placed side by side and that this continued to happen in subsequent experiments. Entrainment is the basis of sound healing.<br />
Sympathetic resonance, or free resonance, is when an object with the same vibrational frequency begins to resonate with a like vibration near it. This has been shown when two tuning forks of the same frequency are placed next to one another and one is struck, the other will begin vibrating even though it was not struck.<br />
Another example of resonance at work and a different application for sound healing can be seen when an opera singer is able to break a glass with their voice. If a singer can match the resonant frequency of the glass with enough amplitude, it will shatter the glass. <br />
In another blog, I will talk about brainwaves and how sound affects our brainwave states and the results of a small study Atlanta Sound Healing conducted on the bowls and brainwaves. Stefanie Butlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05766676818813579433noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7791097299146283478.post-32105122011050604212014-10-30T09:40:00.000-07:002014-10-30T06:39:53.818-07:00Introduction<h4></h4>I am excited to begin a blog on Sound Healing. I started Atlanta Sound Healing in 2009. I was working on a Master of Divinity from University of Metaphysical Sciences and one of my courses was vibrational healing. In that course, I read about Sound Healing for the first time and immediately began to read all I could about using sound for healing. In fact, I ended up writing my Thesis on sound healing.<br />
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I am no stranger to the power of sound. I have been a musician since a very early age and my first career was as a live sound engineer, first for the US Army Field Band and then with my own company in Washington D.C.<br />
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Alternative healing has also been a large component in my life. Today more and more people are understanding that a more holistic approach to good health is a better prescription than a, well, prescription. Long ago, I realized that any doctor I went to really just ran a test, prescribed a pill, ran another test.<br />
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So suddenly here was a healing modality that spoke to me. Or perhaps, I ought to say, sang to me. Sound healing is different though than the use of music. While I do use music in my practice, I am not a music therapist. Certainly one of my blogs will be about the differences.<br />
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The next step was to decide what sound healing modality to focus on. As I researched, I read about tuning forks, cymatherapy, drumming, music therapy and more. Truthfully, there wasn't a lot of information about Tibetan bowls. But the first time I heard a bowl, I knew that was my instrument for healing.<br />
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As I called around and talked to various people, no one had a "course" or a "class" on how to use Tibetan bowls. There were no protocols, no manuals. What I heard and read about though, was intention, listening to the inner voice, working with a person's energy.<br />
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The years have taught me much and I feel it is time to begin writing about all that I've learned and share information about my practice as well as other practitioners and healers I've had the opportunity to meet and work with.<br />
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Please enjoy.<br />
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