Music Affects the Body

I will let the researchers among us find the proof of the following statements. This is something a. we can use in magick (though it may cross into harm), and b. we may need to protect ourselves from.

In the 1980’s, scientists discovered that music affects the heartbeat. Faster music speeds up the heart, and slower music calms the heartbeat. There is more to it.

A movie I recently watched revealed that a super low bass line causes a vibration which can cause nausea, vomiting, and eyesight damage. Just a movie? Maybe not.

I explored the idea of being able to hear the movement of the Earth in Unicorn’s Harvest at a very young age. After all, we can see the sun move every 7 minutes- unless the planet has indeed been speeding up as of late. This “planetary heartbeat” creates the maximum healthy speed of our bodies on this planet. If we exceed that speed for any reason, our stress levels rise, and our health is thrown out of whack.

Studies have also shown that listening to classical music can improve brain function. Further studies have revealed that slow music piped into stores causes increased buying. More recently, Albuquerque has been playing classical music on the streets because the homeless avoid such areas, creating peace zones.

Movie theaters and musicians use this information to stimulate elation, fear, and other emotions during the movie or songs. The super loud sound isn’t just so the hard of hearing can be included, but to hide emotional cues used to enhance the movie going or musical experience.

Long term (several hours a day for several months) effects of such sounds can cause the body to shut down. Fine hairs in the ears which vibrate to help push sound along the ear canal can be damaged, causing hearing loss. Emotions are no longer under a person’s control. Digestion slows or ceases, causing IBS and weight gain. The circadian rhythm is thrown out of sync so a person cannot sleep. Allergies are heightened. Muscle tone is weakened to the point of becoming incapable of doing much of anything. In people already weakened, the heart actually hurts and can go into arrest. Eyesight can be permanently affected or damaged. Mental capacity is reduced as nerves are pushed to their limits. Hormones get out of control, which may lead to mental health issues. Hunger and thirst diminish to the point of creating other shut downs. Skin tone becomes much less elastic, causing ease of damage, bed sores, rashes that don’t go away, etc. In time, internal organ shut down is assured.

Meditation can help reveal sounds which are out of synch with the body. Escape may be the only known way to allow the body to return to health.

I’d like to challenge us all to come up with ways of protecting ourselves from sound damage. Any ideas?

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I agree, I think music has a strong effect over our minds and bodies! :notes:

I suppose my first two choices would be the obvious: either changing/turning off any harmful sounds, or moving oneself outside the reach of the sound waves.

If neither of those options were possible, I’d try to protect my ears: perhaps with sound-cancelling headphones or earplugs.

I wonder how effective overpowering the harmful sound would be? Would playing relaxing music cancel it out, or would the double, dissonant sounds be more damaging? :thinking:

Lots of thinks to think about here - this is a very thought-provoking piece! Thank you for sharing it with us, Georgia, and I hope you’re doing okay :people_hugging: :heart:

Blessed be!

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The truth is that we cannot escape sounds, especially if we live in the city or work in loud noise enviroment.

The best we can do is other avoiding the loud sounds or taking precautions. Maybe this article will help.

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Don’t forget that the bass boost in movie theaters, car stereos, and home entertainment centers is below normal hearing range, but causes vibrations which are not kept within the confines of walls or doors, but still affect the health. These vibrations are caused by sound, but are felt rather than heard. This is why hospital areas were legally made into quiet zones- so auto stereos wouldn’t jar heart patients.

On the mend, after a year and a half of unknown causes and strange illnesses. I finally found a translator and a source.

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I understand what you mean, but the truth is that I try to avoid them as much as I can, not going to the cinema or night outs in places that blast every thing. I am very sensitive to sound and vibrations, and it might sound weird, but in cases I cannot avoid it I have learned to “read” them and tune in with them? I had to because of dancing and music (I used to be in a band etc) so I interpret everything as rythms :woman_shrugging:t2:

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I’d like to learn how to do that.

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I believe I owe that to dancing. I started when I was 3yo with ballet, and even though it was on and off I have been into dancing for 20years now. You get to link sounds with body movements.
Also in music, espesially in a choir or on a stage you actually cannot hear clearly what it is played but you can understant the rythm and some times the pitch by the floor vibrations or the echo. It does take practice.

OR (jokingly this :rofl: :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:) maybe it is all because I was exposed to stuff like this since I was an embryo xD

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Thankyou for this, very interesting. Explains the stringed orchestra in my head (I have an orchestra of tinnitus :rofl:).

As far as protection, my advice, stay away from headphones, all types (apart from the special sound cancelling ones my asd clients use, they’re different). I’ve used headphones all my life for music (80s Sony Walkman started it all off), now my tinnitus is sooooo loud. On the up side, I’m used to it, and when I went deaf for 3 months due to an ear infection, I actually missed it lol. :sparkling_heart:

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I have no sense of rhythm. When I was young, I took a CPR class. They had to make me stop counting “seconds” between breaths because I counted too fast in an attempt to “save” the plastic dummy! :rofl:

Saying "one thousand between numbers only caused me to talk faster! :rofl: They gave up on me, but gave me a certificate of completion anyway.

Some say to count to your heartbeat, but I have never been able to hear my heartbeat. Ever. Unless I have high blood pressure, which messes up the heartbeat, too.

Did you see the Fantasy Island episode where a deaf person wished to learn to dance? Roarke set it up that long poles were banged on the floor so she could feel the vibration and learn rhythm. I thought that was cool.

The way they make movies now a days, if I don’t use headphones, I can’t understand the (whispered) dialogue unless I crank the volume (not allowed in an apartment complex), and then I get blasted by the music in the next scene. It’s not healthy in any way. I still want to honor the artists who wrote and acted, but recording companies are making it harder and harder to do so.

I also wear headphones at night when I do my meditations so Albus can get his beauty sleep. If he doesn’t sleep well, he gets “eyebrows” in the morning when I clean his cages.

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I laughed when I read this, :rofl: how many times I’ve jumped when the music or the adverts come on, even the dog gets startled. It’s so true.

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Honestly, the only thing I can think of is wearing earplugs or some sort of noise-cancelling device :woman_shrugging: I have tinnitus from playing in the band when I was in school as well as using loud music as a coping mechanism during really bad bouts of mental health issues. I’ve always wanted to get some of those Loop earplugs but they’re not cheap :laughing: and having things in my ears eventually gives me a headache.

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@MeganB

I closed all doors between myself and the shared wall, but I couldn’t get away from it. The whole apartment vibrated. Ear plugs did nothing because it isn’t sound. Fans didn’t cover it. It’s a vibration. There is nothing to hear except an occasional laser blast from the movie.

I guess all I can do is move, but everywhere I go, someone has bass boost- cars, home entertainment centers, live bands in an apartment! Even senior living is not immune! I’m tired of running. There is nowhere left to go! I cannot take care of property, and I do not believe in owning land- too much work and expense for a disabled senior living alone without transportation. You’ll find out what it’s like someday.

Frustration has taken over. I’m sorry I ever brought it up. I’ll go.

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Ahh, I get what you’re talking about now :sweat_smile: I’m not even sure what can be done about that kind of vibration…? You could potentially create your own energy shield that filters out the vibrations, but the shield would most likely need to be powered by something other than your own energy because that would be draining.

One source (https://www.aulart.com/blog/soundproofing-low-frequencies/) says that you can help reduce the low-frequency vibrations by installing some sort of soundproofing. Some of it is expensive, but I have seen those large moving blankets used as soundproofing and work well. Of course, those are also not on the cheaper side of things… :thinking:

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