We all know about the power of music. Everybody has felt some time in life that music can change your mood completely. Music makes you happy, music makes you dance, soft music makes you calm and helps you relax. Different scientists have experimented with this value of music and how it works with your brains and nerves. I am glad to know someone who is effectively using all those benefits that music gives the body, mind and with that the soul: my friend, the sound therapist Thomas Meisenheimer.
I got to know Thomas several years ago as a musician and have in the following years visited many of his concerts of Sitar and Rudra Veena. He told me about the sound therapy work that he does at his school for handicapped children. These children suffer from various mental and physical problems and often have no possibility to express their emotions which is why they get stored up and show in aggressive behavior. When they come to Thomas however, they have the chance to relax. One sound massage session and they get visibly calm and peaceful.
Of course a sound massage has this effect not only on children! I had the pleasure of experiencing a sound massage myself in his “Klang Tempel”, the “sound temple”. Thomas welcomes you and invites you to lie down on the sound massage table, a tabe with strings underneath. Lying comfortably you don’t only hear him play the strings under your body but feel the vibration of each note streaming through your body from head to toe.
It is an incredibly relaxing experience. Feeling the sound running through your body like waves, deeper tones filling the space around you like a protective shield and higher tones reaching every pore of your body, makes you experience your body in a very different way. Your mind follows the gentle moves of the tones instead of jumping from one thought to another and you thus reach a state of deep meditation – simply by lying there.
I am really not a person who is affected much by stress or tension but I can very well imagine the big benefits people can reap from this therapy! Tension, stress and pressure will simply fall off your shoulders! I have witnessed it myself and many others have had great results, even in difficult situations as burnout and depression.
Sound therapy by Thomas Meisenheimer is something I can always recommend if you want to relax from a busy day, week, month or year! His website is currently in German and he usually offers his sound therapy at the Klang Tempel in Wiesbaden, Germany. But he regularly visits India and you can even enjoy his sound relaxation at our Ashram in India.
