Singing bowls could be brought to hospitals and rehabilitation centers. For more than four years now I've been bringing sound therapy to a nursing home and rehabilitation center in Manhattan. Although I introduced myself as a musician – and that's how I was hired – the management is calling my program “sound healing”. Most likely I would not have been hired if I called myself a sound healer. My agenda was to bring the art of conscious listening and meditation to the elders. I knew, however, that the sound healing modality had no support or even recognition 

A vibration that recurring at regular intervals has its own "frequency". So what is frequency? Frequency indicates how FREQUENT the cycle of motion is happening within a fixed unit of time. Vibration with no periodic activity has no frequency.
In what units is frequency measured?
The measuring units of frequency are Hertz (Hz). One Hertz equals one full cycle per second. For example, when a honey bee makes one full motion of its wings in one second, the frequency of this movement is 1Hz. 

It's very common to see sound healing practitioners using three singing bowls set placed around the head area. Left, right and crown. This is called A HEADSET. 

Does it have something to do with the Third Eye Chakra and the Crown Chakra? The answer is -  maybe, but there is something else, that is more obvious than the speculative assumptions that it is somewhat good for chakras.

The late '80s brought to the New Age community a very interesting instrument with angelic tone - crystal singing bowl.  

Crystal singing bowls are called "Quartz Crucibles" and they originated in the solar industry.

The crystal bowls are very popular these days and are a really good sounding instrument. Not many sound practitioners know how these bowls are being manufactured.

In this article, I would like to talk about striking the singing bowls. I will make it really concise! 

Please don't use the singing bowl as a marching drum! The singing bowl is a very delicate instrument. It's fragile and requires a lot of respect! A good quality bowl will sound as soon as you rest the mallet against its wall. If you want to experience the whole range of overtones, simply use a firmer mallet and gently tap your instrument with it.

Sounds can be molded into music. Music is an art of ordering tones in combination and relationship to produce beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion. Much as one could consider music as an art, it is also a discipline of science. Any harmony that we can recognize in music has a mathematical foundation.

In music, notes are the building blocks, and each note has an assigned frequency (depending on the system of reference). There is a series of eight notes, each having its own name (except for the eighth note), creating an "octave". 

One of the most important criteria in explaining the sound characteristics of a Himalayan singing bowl is the speed of its pulsations (its modulations, or “beats”).
The key point is that each Himalayan singing bowl produces several “wavy” fluctuating tones at the same time and that each tone within that complex creates — and is affected by — every other modulation! 

Let's call these modulations “beats,” or "the pulse of the bowl". Several pulsating layers of a different pitch

The most important aspect of sound healing is to harmonize the energetic field and physical body of the person you are treating. It doesn't matter if you are a sound healer or if you are just using sound as a tool for meditation, all you want is to align yourself and your client with the sound you choose. So why not choose the HARMONIOUS source of sound?!

In my practice, I use different combinations of tones - consonant and dissonant. It all depends on what goal I would like to achieve with the client.

I used to need to pick up alcohol or pills to soothe my incredible discomfort. I've never really learned to self soothe and nurture myself and have had difficulty with self love and self acceptance. I find the process of playing and listening to singing bowls a wonderful remedy to that awful state that I have been in for too long. It has given me a newfound sense of hope and inspiration that I can overcome those things that have prevented me from living authentically and living my life's purpose.

Some manufacturers still follow the old tradition by hand hammering singing bowls and in some cases, the results are pretty amazing. Other manufacturers produce singing bowls by pressing, casting and cutting on turning machines, but the work they do pales in comparison to the work of the alchemy masters of the past.

The alloys used today are quite different from those used traditionally. Centuries ago singing bowls were made out of bronze with traces of other metals that the main two ingredients,