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Writer's pictureLinda Nevin

Could Sound Healing Be Your Special Gift? Discover the Healing Power of Sound

Updated: Nov 3

Sound healing is an amazing way to bring peace, balance, and calm into your life. This ancient healing practice uses music, tones, instruments, and vibrations to ease your nervous system, giving you that deep rest and release you may not even realize you need. Through sound, we can work on our energy fields, our aura, and even the chakras. Sound healing helps realign and bring your body back into balance, tapping into frequencies that can have profound effects on your well-being. It’s so much more than music—it’s a journey into how sound can heal us on a whole new level.


Woman loving the sound healing experience

You might already be a sound healer and not know it! Or maybe you’re the kind of person who finds incredible healing working with one. Guided meditations with sound healers are so powerful—especially those who use their voices to connect and heal. These healers might sing, chant, tone, or play instruments, but here’s the thing: you don’t need all these skills to be a sound healer. So before you think, “I’m not a sound healer!” please keep reading. Sound healing is about more than just music; even using your voice to inspire and soothe others—like in guided meditations or public speaking—can be a powerful healing gift.


My Journey with Sound Healing

I remember one experience vividly: I was at a healing retreat in New South Wales, Australia, where our guide, Anandi, took us on a walking meditation through the bush. She led us to this massive rock and asked us to place our hands on it while she circled us, gently using her mallet on a large singing bowl. I could feel the vibrations travel from the rock into every cell of my body. It was so powerful, I felt like everyone around could feel it, like the sound was vibrating through the entire valley.


Each meditation session during this retreat filled me with energy and insights. I felt this amazing awakening happening, and my healing abilities and intution increased. After those meditations, I often found it hard to sleep because I was so energized and full of new awareness. This experience showed me that sound healing is a powerful healer for me—it’s a practice that resonates with my energy and healing journey.


Have you identified a healing modality that lifts your vibration and awakens the powerful energy within you?

An Online Sound Healing Revelation

Just a few weeks later, I enrolled in an online program that provided attunements for each of the key healing modalities. When I got to the sound healing attunement, the experience blew me away. I laughed, I cried, and I felt this boost of euphoria. It was like nothing I’d ever felt before. So, if sound resonates with you, I encourage you to explore it and see how it might fit into your own healing journey. It may be one of your primary healing gifts or it may play a supporting role in the way you heal or the type of healing you can do for others.


How to Know if Sound Healing is One of Your Gifts

There are so many ways that sound healing can speak to you, whether it’s through receiving intuitive guidance (like words of wisdom or phrases that pop into your mind at just the right time) or feeling an emotional release through sound. Some people, known as “auditory learners,” connect more deeply with what they hear. Here are a few clues that sound healing could be part of your own unique gifts:


Words and Sounds to Inspire You:

  1. Are you someone who loves quotes, affirmations, afformations, or incantations? These can lift your energy and help manifest what you want in life.

  2. Talk therapy or counseling might work wonders for you, as talking things out is how you process and find meaning. Your voice might even be your own tool for clarity.

  3. When you need a boost, do you turn to your favorite music? The right songs can quickly lift your mood and energy, bringing balance when you need it most.

  4. Are you drawn to guided meditations? If the music and voice create a deep sense of calm for you, that’s a sign sound healing works on a powerful level in your life.

  5. Maybe you notice that when you read your own writing aloud, it’s easier to spot what flows and what doesn’t. This is a clue that you connect with sound on a deep level.You may love the power of quotes, incantations, affirmations, afformations, and using ‘what if’ questions to lift your vibration and manifest what you want in your life.

Exploring Different Sound Healing Treatments

If sound healing feels like it could be a fit, there are so many ways to explore it:

  • Binaural Beats: These are great for helping you focus, getting into meditation, or even trying practices like Automatic Writing to tap into your intuition.

  • Toning: This could be a simple vowel sound, a mantra, or even a cry you let out, aiming healing vibrations at specific areas in the body.

  • Sound Baths: Using bowls, bells, and percussion instruments to surround you in healing sound.

  • Guided Sound Meditations: These can be incredibly soothing and take you to deep levels of rest.

  • Mantras and Chanting: Singing or chanting certain sounds can create shifts in your energy.

  • Tuning Forks: Placed on the body, these can help clear energy blocks and bring the body into alignment.


Sound Healing Instruments

Sound healers often work with various instruments like singing bowls, gongs, rattles, bells, flutes, drums, chimes, and tuning forks. Each instrument has a unique way of resonating with your energy, helping to bring balance and release.


Surprising Research About Sound Healing

Here’s something cool: did you know that listening to birds can improve your mood for up to eight hours? Research from King’s College London in 2022 showed that simply seeing or hearing birds can have a profound impact on mental health, helping both people with depression and those without. Birdsong relaxes the body and calms the mind, which is why it’s even used in places like airport lounges to help travelers unwind before flights. So next time you hear a bird, take a moment to soak up the sound and let it lift your mood.


If you want to experience this connection to nature, check out my Nature Walk Energy Infusion, where you can tap into the healing vibrations of flower essences, herbs, aromatherapy, and color therapy while listening to birds in their natural environment.



Healing your body and mind can be simple and enjoyable – it’s all about taking that first step. Ready to start your healing journey?

  • Explore My Healing Courses – Discover courses designed to help you tap into your natural healing abilities and experience real transformation.

  • Experience an Energy Infusion – Head over to my YouTube Library for a variety of Energy Infusions to boost your energy and bring more balance into your life.

  • Grab Your Free Gift – Scroll down to access a FREE Guided Colour Healing Meditation to restore and revitalize your energy.

Take a moment just for you – let’s get started!


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