At the Chiron Centre, we have acquired a state of the art vibro-acoustic sound bed.
This is a heavily researched system that supports our health at a number of levels.
It is:

• Deeply relaxing
  
• Reduces stress
  
• Soothes tense muscles
  
• Helps release stuck emotional patterns
  
• Good for pain relief
  

We believe it is an important addition to our facilities here and can be used for either a stand-alone treatment or in addition to your normal therapy. It can help you integrate another treatment or prepare you for it by helping you ‘arrive’ and release the stresses of the day.

Treatment Fees

If you want to book a session, please call reception on 0117 9620008. If you want to find out more about this therapy read on!

What is vibro-acoustic sound bed?
The sound bed offers a multisensory experience that combines music and vibration to induce the relaxation response. The mat is designed to support the full body in a zero gravity position, recognized by NASA to relieve stress from the spine. Sound vibration is fed through the mat, sending vibration throughout the entire body and relaxing your muscles.

The Rest Audio music is specially designed with low frequency sounds to activate the vibration in the mat while the soothing music calms the mind with binaural beats.

The combination of these sensory components works with the brain and nervous system, inducing the muscles to relax and the mind to quiet for total mind and body relaxation.

Is it safe?
Trials have consistently shown it to be entirely safe and free from side-effects. We believe it is suitable for everyone although, to be absolutely safe, we do not recommend its use for those who are pregnant, have a pace-maker fitted or suffer from severe psychosis.

What is the Relaxation Response & Induced Relaxation?
Just as we have the "stress reaction" as a one of the body’s built-in response systems, so there is an innate “relaxation response”.

The relaxation response “undoes” the sometimes damaging effects that stress has on the body. The relaxation response helps decrease muscle tension, lower heart rate and blood pressure and create a deeper breathing pattern. It also calms the body and generates a peaceful, pleasant mood.

The problem we face in managing stress is that the stress reaction is more easily elicited than the relaxation response. A stress reaction happens automatically while the relaxation response must be purposefully sought.

“Induced Relaxation” is the unconscious movement into the “state of relaxation” by accelerating the relaxation response through guided stimulation of human senses: sight, hearing and touch. 

What are the therapies incorporated in this system?

Vibroacoustics
Vibroacoustics is defined as “the process of hearing sound vibrations through the body.” This is accomplished with special transducers designed to vibrate the body with optimal psychological and physical impact.  Vibroacoustic music (VAM) resonates the body directly through nerves, skin, and bones —the sound is not directed to the ears. Dr. Drew Pierson, a psychologist with electrical engineering experience says, “The body holds emotional events in cellular memory. The use of vibration from 4.5–1800 Hz has the effect of disengaging those resonant patterns that seem to run in loops and fixate themselves in the body. Vibroacoustics change the bio-electrical signature of the emotional imprint.”

Music therapy & Brain Entrainment
Music or sound therapy as it also called is not new. Ancient Greek philosophers believed that sound could heal both body and soul. Native Americans use singing and chanting as part of their healing rituals. The more formal approach to sound therapy began in World War II when the US Veterans hospitals began to use music to help treat soldiers returning from the war.

The manufacturers of our sound bed have taken some of the most effective methods and incorporated them in the REST Audio Sound Software that we have also acquired for you.

What are the benefits of the SMART Therapeutic System?
The often hidden effects of stress on the body can lead to sleep disorders, stress and anxiety. Activating the relaxation response through the vibro-acoustic bed can result in reduced blood pressure, better balanced blood glucose levels, slower breathing and lower heart rates.

Quoting Dr. Herbert Benson “Repeated activation of the “Relaxation Response” can reverse sustained problems in the body and mend the internal wear and tear brought on by stress”. all.

“The Beethoven Effect”: The Origins of Vibroacoustics
By Regina Murphy

The popular “The Mozart Effect” is an inclusive term signifying the transformational power of music in health, education and well being. It represents the general use of music to reduce stress, depression, anxiety, activate the body and improve memory and awareness. The original studies were focused on only Mozart’s music and its effect on many things. It began with focus, concentration and learning and then on other purposes with infants, cows and chickens and then the research grew to include other music as well. Vibroacoustics is a defined as “the process of delivering sound vibration into and through the body”

An analogy would be that you can enjoy and benefit from music by simply hearing it, however getting the cells to feel it is exponentially better, just as much as you can enjoy seeing and smelling food but nothing compares to tasting and digesting it. That being said, in the 90’s movie, “Mr. Holland’s Opus”, the turning point of Mr. Holland’s relationship with his deaf son was when his son figured out that he could feel music his father played by sitting on the speakers if the volume was loud enough. Beethoven’s Masterpiece, 5TH Symphony was composed when he could ONLY feel the vibration of the piano because he was completely deaf. He would put the side of his face on the piano as he played to feel the sound. Beethoven also believed he could instill his emotion and intention into his music. The “Beethoven Effect” is the greater effect of music when vibration is actually FELT. According to Dr. Candice Pert, Ph.D., human cells respond instantly to sound.

In the 1970’s, it was discovered that disabled children improved on all levels when they could feel music by putting speakers into the bean bags and playing music that calmed them with slow bass tones coming from the speakers in the bean bags. Since 1995 The National Institute of Health has treated and studied 750,000 patients with vibroacoustics and shows at least a 50% improvement in pain, other physical symptoms and anxiety.

Everything has a measurable frequency or vibration. Every musical note, flower, rock, animal, bug, person, every planet in the universe, microorganism, sound, color and cell in the human body has a unique frequency. At UCLA Medical Research Hospital, scientists use an atomic microscope to determine if the sound of the cell is healthy or not. Sound from tuning forks can kill unhealthy cells in a Petri dish; such as cancer.

Now that we have the ability to put sustained perfect frequencies into our bodies, via digital technology, we can treat our “OUT OF TUNE” cells with Medical Music. It sounds too good to be true and I am sure those of us “Addicted to Logic and Reason” will not understand nor accept this. Although allopathic and chemical medicine is sometimes the best and only solution to many things, it is not the only or best way to truly heal the symptom or the cause.

Even the Pharmaceutical Giants are hurrying to patent sound and light frequencies as they realize the immense power sound and light have on all biology; plant, insect and human. For example, sound is being used to double the growth rate of crops and totally eliminate the need for pesticides. Science is using sound technology for everything from forecasting the weather to weapons of mass destruction.

Since 1/3 of our brainstem is devoted to vibro tactile stimulation, receiving sound throughout our whole body greatly increases its effectiveness. What type of music we listen to is a double edge sword considering some of the types of music we listen to on our iPods or stereos. It is possible that the deterioration of music is directly related to the deterioration of society. The Chinese believe that the planetary tones used in China for thousands of years to tune their musical instruments is what kept the great civilizations of its rich past in tack for so long.

What’s the Real Reasearch Data?
In 1998, The National Institute of Health presented its findings; a 65% reduction is pain and anxiety in all individuals studied. Not bad. No “Side Effects” were found. These figures would put BIG PHARM in the red if individuals adopted them in their home health care programs, so there was not much of a fuss about these astounding initial results disclosed in news reports.

Vibroacoustics and Neuroacoustics at it's Best
One example of the effects of vibroacoustics was shown in the X- rays of a young girl with scoliosis: after two treatments on the vibroacustic bed the condition was reversed. There is research reflecting 80% improvement in autism, and remarkable improvements with many high blood pressure patients. I would continue on but I would simply sound like I was making this all up. Armed with your search engine and your curiosity, I implore you to Google the magic word “vibroacoustic”, with research on the disease of your choice and be prepared to be amazed.

The most important aspect of vibroacustics is that it is an extremely enjoyable experience: one rarely found in the health care industry.

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