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The Beach Boys enormous hit song “Good Vibrations” was part my childhood soundtrack.  That is the first time I ever consciously thought about vibrations.  Well, maybe making a Bronx Cheer (aka Blowing Raspberries) came first as a toddler!   I could feel vibrations:  touching the big stereo speakers or standing nearby on the floor, clapping hands, stomping feet on a wood floor, feeling my dad’s voice through my back when he held me on his lap to read “Just So Stories.”  These are vibrations I noticed as a small child.

Music is vibrations of sound:  We all communicate through crying as a newborn, and in 2019 researchers discovered babies cry in “different languages.”  They hear their mother’s voice and speech patterns, rhythms and melodies they hear in utero.  Over time, these cries develop into speech and singing  of their parents’ tongue.

From <https://www.purewow.com/family/babies-cry-in-different-languages-study>

I started piano lessons at age 5 and I loved to feel and hear the organ at church. When I was 8 years old, my sister asked me in church  “Do you experience God in church and how?”   “Yes,” I answered, “in the lowest organ notes vibration” was the only way I could explain it.   I loved how the organ filled all my senses in the sanctuary.  She did not understand my answer.   However, many faith traditions use specific frequencies  and vibrations to promote healing, connection and the experience of the sacred.

Vibrations occur everywhere.  Atoms vibrate from electrons spinning around them, forming the basis of life.  And I am fascinated by String Theory in Physics, which became a unified theory in 1984, years after my only physics class. String theory posits that the smallest units of energy are strings that vibrate.  They are so small they appears as dots, but “the different vibrations of the tiny strands in string theory were imagined to yield different particles of nature.” < https://www.britannica.com/science/string-theory/Dimensions-and-vibrations>

So that theory leads to the concept that everything vibrates, not just people, but all matter, including things that appear to be solid and immobile to humans in our frame of reference.  So boulders appear to not vibrate, but an earthquake or volcano demonstrates how the longer time frame of geological processes can give us the illusion that objects that big are stable.

Furthermore, cells that make up our bodies also vibrate, and everything from thoughts, emotions, digestion, sweating, shivering, and a heartbeat and pulse are all vibrating throughout life.  And thoughts and emotions are how the brain’s neurons communicate.  These are measured as electrical patterns:  gamma, theta and beta waves,.  Each of these has a specific number of cycles per second (hertz) and all species have these electrical oscillations.  And these brain waves may work together to create electrical brain patterns.  From that scientists surmise that  consciousness is organized, as Pascal Fries and the Ernst Strungmann Institute has explored the last twenty years. From <https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/the-hippies-were-right-its-all-about-vibrations-man/>

So, in the next few blogs, I want to explore vibrations and frequencies.  How can we create ones that enhance life, promote healthy emotions and deepen spirituality.  Stay tuned.

Christine C. Cantrell, Ph.D.
Licensed Psychologist
Prism of Possibilities Psychotherapy
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