![]() ![]() These patterns seemed to mimic astrophysical, geological, biological, or atomic events, and Jenny photographed thousands of shapes as they were unveiled in his research. Using powders, liquids, or pastes, Jenny found that vibration caused material to take on a life of its own-and in its dance, beautiful symmetrical patterns would take shape. In the twentieth century, Hans Jenny, MD, became so intrigued by Chladni patterns that this Swiss physician/musician/researcher/artist spent fourteen years studying shapes sculpted purely by sound. As a result, he’s often referred to as the father of acoustic research because of his work on the mathematics of sound waves. He showed that geometric patterns could be formed on a metal plate covered with sand when a violin bow was drawn on the edge of the plate. How standing waves can create patterns and shapes was demonstrated by a German scientist, Ernst Chladni (1756–1827), more than two hundred years ago. It is the standing wave that gives each instrument its own signature sound. For instance, when a string of a guitar is plucked, the vibrations are reflected from the top and bottom boundaries and create a standing wave. By definition, a standing wave is a wave and its reflection energy is transferred back and forth between its two parts. Many other kinds of vibrational therapy, including massage, make use of the therapist’s ability to tune into the client’s natural rhythms.Ī standing wave is a special type of harmonic resonance. ![]() By inducing wave-like motions in the body, Trager work sets up a harmonic resonance, resulting in standing waves, which vibrate at the body’s natural frequencies.ĭuring a Trager session, the practitioner enters into a calm, all-accepting, all-loving state called hook-up. Therapists whose treatments are based on touch, heat, light, aroma, and sound are using resonance and vibratory energy to heal.Īfter I graduated from the Swedish Institute of Massage in New York, I studied with Milton Trager, MD, and learned a simple yet profound approach that uses gentle, rhythmic waves to produce new sensations of lightness, freeness, and softness. The living matrix of the human body is wonderfully capable of absorbing different kinds of vibratory energy and responding with harmonic vibrations. ![]() Every other organ is listening and responding.” 1 In this sense, every one of my organs is like a radio station, broadcasting through various wave mediums in and around me their current news, commentary, weather, and sports. And they are interactive with all the other waves they encounter and with all other sources they contact. This concept is poetically expressed by Deane Juhan in his book Touched by the Goddess: “Waves emanating from a source are precisely expressive of the activities of that source. The human body itself is a natural resonator, with each organ, tissue, bone, and fluid generating and responding to harmonic vibrations that ripple out in waves. Nearby tuning forks that produce the other notes of an octave (D, E, F, G, A, B ) will not vibrate because their resonant frequencies are different. When a middle C tuning fork is struck and begins to vibrate, a second middle C tuning fork nearby, but not touching, will also spontaneously begin to vibrate. Resonators have the ability to transmit as well as respond to their resonant-frequency vibrations, something easily demonstrated with tuning forks. This sympathetic vibration is called resonance, which literally means to re-sound, to echo. Anything that vibrates has a natural resonant frequency and will spontaneously begin to vibrate in response to external vibrations that share the same or a similar resonant frequency. Resonance is an amazing phenomenon that occurs throughout all of nature-from the smallest subatomic particles to huge galaxies at the edge of the observable universe. In other words, it helps to re-tune the spine. A new kind of vibrational therapy, bone toning, makes it possible to restore the natural resonant harmonics of the spine. When the spine is out of tune, movement becomes stiff, uncomfortable, and, too often, painful. When the spine sings well, it moves effortlessly and harmoniously, with all parts of the body working as an integral unit. The spine sings a song, but sometimes it sings out of tune. ![]()
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