James Barry and Speaker A explore how sounds can trigger trauma responses and also heal them. Speaker A describes a conch shell sound that first caused anxiety but later brought relaxation, suggesting the same sound that unsettles you might unlock healing. Barry explains how sound vibrations can help stored trauma surface and be processed.
What sound can do is bring things to the surface that are ready to either be seen, felt, or released. Oftentimes people will have reactions where they feel really anxious all of a sudden, or a sound is triggering for them. I had this experience myself because I had a teacher that would play a conch shell, but when he would play it, I would have this really visceral reaction. He pointed out, well, then that's kind of what you need. Sometimes the medicine is the thing that triggers you, is the thing you need to heal that. I remember he played it again, and I still don't like the sound, but I was able to let it relax me.
It sounds to me almost like certain sounds may have the resonance of, let's say, a trauma that you have in your body. If that instrument or that sound vibration is tapping that trauma, that is sometimes what you need to actually access the trauma to work through it. What effects do you see happen in the human body from this sound therapy?
