From a leading neurologist, neuroscientist and practitioner of Ayurvedic
medicine, comes a rigorous scientific investigation of the healing power of
sound, showing readers how they can use it to improve their mental and physical
wellbeing.
Why does a baby's cry instantaneously flood a mother's body with a myriad of
stress hormones? How can a song on the radio stir up powerful emotions, from joy
to anger, regret to desire? Why does sound itself evoke such primal and deeply
felt emotions?
A vibration that travels through air, water and solids, sound is produced by all
matter, and is a fundamental part of every species' survival. But there is