Expert: Sounds can help you heal

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Whether it's your favorite song on the radio or a jackhammer on the sidewalk outside your window, we know sound can affect our mood. What you may not realize is that certain sound vibrations have been found to have a healing effect on the body.

Pamela Julien, PhD, Licensed Clinical Psychologist, Magnified Healing Practitioner, and advanced Holographic Sound Healer, will demonstrate how this works at "Embracing Wholeness: A Sound Healing Meditation" on Thursday, Nov. 13, in the Backus Hospital Medical Office Building Lobby.

This is the third offering in the four-part fall oncology series, "Awakening the Inner Healer." The series is geared towards people living with cancer and those in recovery.

Ms. Julien said sound healing is a form of energy medicine.

"The human body is a biochemical, electromagnetic energy system, and sound produces a vibratory feeling throughout the body," she said. "Certain sounds have a healing influence because they affect the geometric patterns and the organization of cells and living systems." She said each person's body has an energetic blueprint.

When you are healthy everything works according to the blueprint, but it can be disrupted by trauma, disease and toxic experiences. The sound waves act almost as tuning forks to assist the cells natural wisdom in returning to their healthy, vibratory pattern.

"Sound healing is very soothing and allows the individual to reach a profoundly relaxed and peaceful state of being," Ms. Julien said.

Ms. Julien has a set of quartz crystal bowls that produce a specific sound, which she uses along with her voice and sometimes a drum to lead a guided meditation to enhance selfhealing.

"Sound vibration used with intention is a very powerful medium that releases blockages held in the physical body and energetic field," she said.

If you want to go

  • What: "Embracing Wholeness: A Sound Healing Meditation" facilitated by Pamela Julien, PhD
  • When: Thursday, Nov. 13, from 6-8 p.m.
  • Where: Backus Hospital Medical Office Building Lobby located at 330 Washington Street (entrance at the right side of the hospital)
  • For more information: The series is free and registration is required for each workshop in the series. Call CHI at (860) 425-3877 for more information or to register.


The Fall Oncology Series is offered by the Center for Healthcare Integration (CHI) and made possible by the generous support of the Backus Foundation's Breast Cancer Survivors Fund.