Sound Healing: Mood, Emotional, and Spiritual Well-Being Interrelationships
Psychosocial stress, tension, and depression are quite common in many parts of the developed world. Integrative medicine techniques which may potentially increase spiritual and emotional well-being may be useful in combating chronic psychosocial stress, as well as challenges with depression and exce...
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| Tipo di documento: | Elettronico Articolo |
| Lingua: | Inglese |
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MDPI
2022
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| In: |
Religions
Anno: 2022, Volume: 13, Fascicolo: 2 |
| Altre parole chiave: | B
Spirituality
B sound bath B Well-being B Depressione B sound meditation B Anxiety B sound healing B Tension B Spiritual well-being B Stress B sound therapy |
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| Riepilogo: | Psychosocial stress, tension, and depression are quite common in many parts of the developed world. Integrative medicine techniques which may potentially increase spiritual and emotional well-being may be useful in combating chronic psychosocial stress, as well as challenges with depression and excessive tension. The present observational study examines the effect of singing-bowl sound healing on emotional and spiritual well-being and particularly examines interrelationships between changes in spiritual well-being with changes in tension and depressed mood post-sound healing. Participants experienced a sound healing environment of vibrational musical instruments such as singing bowls (bell-like instruments), gongs, and other vibrational instruments. Sixty-two participants were examined in an observational study using singing-bowl sound healing. Emotional and spiritual well-being were examined by utilizing standardized questionnaires. Results revealed significant correlations between improvements in scores of spiritual well-being and reductions in scores of tension and depression post-sound healing. Moreover, effects varied by age of the study participants. Specifically, the association between spiritual well-being improvement and depression improvement was strongest for ages 31-40, while spiritual well-being improvement and tension improvement associations were strongest for ages 51-60. Implications for applying sound healing meditations as a potential low-cost, low-technology therapeutic technique are discussed for emotional and spiritual well-being. |
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| ISSN: | 2077-1444 |
| Comprende: | Enthalten in: Religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3390/rel13020123 |