02/05/2025
We're loving the amazing breadth of modalities happening at TherapyNook these days - we even have a practitioner offering sound healing 🧘♀️🧘🧘♂️ (don't worry, we have amazing soundproofing, too!).
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If you would have asked me anything about sound baths, sound healing or meditation a few years ago, I know what face I would have pulled at you.
I was totally ignorant. Dismissive. No point denying it. I had dismissed possibilities without any evidence, and without any experience. I hadn’t explored the literature and I hadn’t opened my mind enough to consider different approaches to trauma and distress.
The sudden success, money and huge changes in my life that came with my books blowing up had such a negative impact on my life, that I spent most of 2020-2023 in utter turmoil.
I could feel my body attacking itself through sheer cortisol alone - and desperately sought a way to calm my nervous system down. Whilst the meditation was slow progress, I did feel my mind calm down and focus when I sat alone, focussing on the slowly evolving candle flame in a dimly lit room. It was simple, but it worked. The flame danced, and quivered, and I just watched it for an hour or so.
Sometimes I would journal and free-write whilst watching the candle flame, too. Some of my best writing and my most important revelations came to me that way.
The first mini sound bath I went to was by chance. I was in Australia in Byron Bay in 2023, and happened to come across a free sound bath at midday with my wife. We sat down, didn’t know what to expect, and just waited. We got comfortable, and closed our eyes as the woman began to play the quartz bowls.
The sounds seemed to be creating random colours and shapes in my mind. At first, they were blurry and unclear, but I didn’t mind, I enjoyed them - sort of like a blurry kaleidoscope. But as the sounds and vibrations continued, I found myself in a dark, cold cave…
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