Can a sound bath help with back pain? Let’s look at the evidence…

Can a sound bath help with back pain? One of the most common ailments we suffer from as a nation? REALLY!?

Quite simply, yes, it can.

I’m serious. And there’s plenty of research as to WHY…

Chronic back pain is linked strongly to our mental and emotional health. And that’s the reason why many people react differently to back pain. You can have two people, who’s body scans look exactly the same, and one will be reporting severe pain and mobility issues, and the other will not feel anything at all. They might not even know they have a ‘back issue.’

The answer as to why, therefore, lies BEYOND the physical, and in the emotional and mental body.

The emotions most strongly linked to our lower back in particular are anger, fear and instability or safety.

And this is unlikely to be short term emotions sat in there. This is most likely to be long-term, even generation, anger at challenges, life situations, a person in your life.

Perhaps feeling the fear of money or instability in your life, or coming from a family where the fear of money was ingrained from a young age.

Or the emotional impact of instability or not feeling safe growing up, perhaps not having a stable home life, or made to feel like things weren’t stable. Even sudden grief and loss in the family affecting its stability...

There are so many angles you can look at this from, and there’s no one-size fits all, or magic wand to get to the bottom of it.

So how can a sound bath help with back pain?

The most recent research suggests that live music which induces relaxation, activates the amygdala in the brain to help your brain process emotions stored in the body.

Basically, live music is helping you to process those surface level and long term emotions, and helping you release them from the body.

So if your chronic back pain is linked to a deep-rooted emotion, which many people are only just starting to recognise, a sound bath can genuinly help you to process that emotion and therefore release the physical pain, bit by bit.

This isn’t a ‘take one sound bath and feel amazing’ stance. This is a recognition that music helps us process emotions, and most physical pain that’s chronic is linked to an unprocessed emotion in some way. Sometimes, we don’t even know it!

You can join me for a general sound bath within my communities, from as little as £10 per session. See the schedule here to get yourself booked in.

Or you can book a 1:1 or 1:2 at your home if you’re in Nottinghamshire / Derbyshire/ South Yorkshire from just £65 including travel. You can book those here.

There is some pain that is genuine physical only pain, but for the majority of us, our stress responses, emotional health and mental health play a huge role in how we feel pain and how it impacts our life.

Something to chew on over!

Becky x