Sound Healing for Beginners: Using Vibration to Harmonize your Health and Wellness

by Joshua Goldman, Alec W. Sims

Learn how to energize and enhance your well-being on every level―physical, emotional, and spiritual―through hands-on exercises and guided meditations that provide direct experience with sound. As a therapeutic and transformative branch of energy medicine, sound healing offers powerful tools to tune up your health and wellness. Presenting a clear and solid foundation of core concepts, Sound Healing for Beginners shows how to apply innovative sound techniques to your daily life in order to balance your energy and manifest personal improvement. With chapters covering focused listening, the energetics of breathwork, activating your unique resonances and energy centers through vocal toning, using sound as a creative force for manifestation, and more, this accessible guide will help you harmonize your life with the remarkable benefits of sound healing.

336 pages, Paperback

First published June 8, 2015

About the author

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Joshua Goldman was born into the world of Sound Healing and has been working in the field his entire life. He is the son of Sound Healing Pioneer, Jonathan Goldman, and currently works with Goldman’s Healing Sounds as a facilitator at events such as the Healing Sounds Intensive. He also works as an Associate Director of the Sound Healers Association helping to organize events and spread knowledge through the sound healing community. He especially enjoys hosting toning groups and seeing people experience the direct effects of sound for the first time.

Reviews

[Sonic Catharsis · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an excellent introduction to sound healing. Having read most of Jonathan's Goldman's work, I was not sure what would be found in a book by his son and colleague Alec Sims. I was not disappointed. While I am not clear which author contributed which chapters, the book is beautifully written, I found myself enjoying the words as much as the content. As I have reviewed many books on this topic, I was happy to read about some new things in this book. If you are familiar with Jonathan Goldman's sound work, Joshua and Alec, while claiming to have written a book for beginners, have really created a continuation of Jonathan's work.

This book addresses the basic concepts of sound healing from a perspective rooted in shamanic healing. Drawing from the history of several shamanic cultures, the authors take us on a journey through shamanic healing sound. The book emphasizes several things which I think are important yet oft-overlooked components of sound healing, intention and breath. A significant portion of this book is dedicated to breathing exercises. Breath is the basis of life, without it there is no life. Yet many of us rarely breathe below the neck. The exercises in this book are excellently designed to bring awareness back to the breath and in doing so, opening up an entire world of possibilities as we combine the breath with the power of intention and travel on the sound of our own voices into other worlds.

Drawing from various cultures and esoteric practices, the authors weave together a magical book that bequests the reader to journey into the realm of sound. The entire second half of the book is dedicated to various traditions in vocal healing; chanting, humming, mantra, affirmations.

Sound+Breath+Intention= creation is the basic premise of this book

An excellent read for sound practitioners, energy healers, anyone interested in the power of sound. Particularly recommended for those interested in chanting, mantras and other forms of vocal sound healing. Beautifully written and very informative jumping off point for beginning sound healers as well as a continuation of the work done by Sound healing pioneer Jonathan Goldman.

[Acquafortis · Rating 5 out of 5]

Music has a profound effect on me. It can make or break my day. Literally. So this book captivated my interest.
The book starts by describing what is sound from various points of views. From the point of view of a physician, physicist, psychiatrist to linguist, magickian, healer, shaman and vocalist. They all give different facets of what sound is.
The book bases its foundation on opening our awareness to sound, be in and conscious of sound, expanding our consciousness through sound and reaching far, riding the sound wave we choose to be carried on. Fascinating idea isn’t it?
The authors go further with saying that we are not passive recipients of sound, we can also alter the energy way of that sound by our awareness and that sound is an energetic nutrient.
Sonic Transmutation is also an interesting concept of changing unwanted noise to wanted noise with huge benefits on health especially if we live in highly noise polluted environments. A concept I am working on.
The authors work a lot with breathing exercises which is the basis of all the exercises which will then be extensively illustrated in the book. Meditation through breathing, humming, toning and mantras reciting are all beautiful exercises to get in touch with the sound energy and slowly be enwrapped by its healing properties.
There is a lot of background of what is shamanism and how shamans have used sound to travel in between the worlds. There is also a detailed description of Brain Wave Rhythms and their effect on our brains.
I have experimented some of the exercises whilst reading the book and some of them had profound effect on me. They are not exercises that can be mastered in a couple of session.

This book is more of a textbook for exercising consciously with sound every day, becoming a conscious sound rider until slowly we can learn to shift both the sounds we hear and those we make in a transformative healing energy.

[Jenni Schell · Rating 4 out of 5]

I found this to be a very interesting read. I can't wait to try out some of the techniques for myself.