Healing Harp Research

As a Reiki master/teacher and harpist, I know intuitively that Reiki and harp music are compatible. I play 10-15 minutes of grounding music (usually in the Dorian or Ionian mode) to help the client relax. I then perform a traditional head-to-toe, hands-on Reiki session. (I also have music-only Reiki podcasts on my website.)

My clients are clearly getting far more out of a musical Reiki session than one without harp music. They are able to relax more deeply, and the energy seems to seep in at a deeper level. Recently, I played as part of giving an attunement, and the attunement was clearer and stronger.

My right brain was satisfied with the intuitive connections between Reiki and the harp. However, my left brain wanted concrete evidence. In researching this article, I found Reiki and the harp, do indeed, have a lot in common: they both use vibration as a mode for healing, and they both use entrainment as the means for delivering the vibrational healing.

 

Vibrational Healing

Both Reiki and harp music use a vibratory model for healing rather than chemical, mechanical, etc. And vibrational healing happens most often in the electromagnetic fields of subtle body, also known as the Human Energy Field. Not so long ago, science wasn’t able to consider the Human Energy Field in healing. But as sensors and testing equipment have become more sensitive, science is more able to measure the subtle body and electromagnetic fields.

But what is vibration? At the most basic level, it is an oscillation between two points. It is a measurement of movement of a specific type and strength, through a specific type of medium. For example, sound waves, including harp music, travel through air. Ocean waves travel through water. Reiki waves travel through subtle, electromagnetic and physical bodies, as well as through media we cannot yet measure. The rate at which the waves wiggle, the direction they travel, and the medium they travel through tell us how the vibration will feel when it arrives and what effect it might have in healing.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next Month: The Vibrations of Reiki