As a touring keyboardist, recording artist and song writer for over 30 years, I have been very sensitive to sound vibrations in various living and working environments. Traveling the world and sharing the gift of music in concerts, I have developed some ideas about how we can use sound to balance our health and enhance the quality of our lives. We tend to take for granted all that comes into our ears in the course of our daily lives; if we focus attention on the different ways sounds affect us, we can gain insight into how certain sound vibrations and levels can cause stress and disease in the body and mind. We can then begin to create and design our own sound environments, and, thereby, promote profound effects on our well-being and create a pathway to healing. I would like to share some of the research and insights that have been presented by a number of visionaries who deeply care for mankind and how their findings can serve to transform the planet. I will also discuss my views on how we can use music and sound to enrich our lives and the lives of those around us.

Japanese researcher Dr. Masaru Emoto, chief of the Hado institute in Tokyo writes extensively about the phenomenon of "Hado." He states that Hado is "the intrinsic vibrational pattern at the atomic level in all matter. The smallest unit of energy. Its basis is the energy of human consciousness." Dr. Emoto's landmark book, The Message From Water, contains revolutionary photographs of water crystals under high magnification illustrating that thoughts and feelings affect physical reality. When different written or spoken words are presented to the same water samples, the water appears to "change its expression." It is quite extraordinary to realize how our thoughts and feelings can have such a transformational effect in the physical world, demonstrating that the world thus reflects back to us just what we create within us. While I certainly am in awe of Dr. Emoto's discoveries, my interest extends beyond this particular use of Hado. Our application of the principle of Hado can be "reversed." By creating and maintaining certain sound vibrations in our everyday environments, we can transform our physical, mental and spiritual bodies, much like an expression of human gratitude is immediately reflected in water, as is demonstrated by Dr. Emoto. In essence, the basic principle of vibrational patterns from one source affecting those in another source in the universe is the same for both applications of Hado. I assert that we can transform our own lives by surrounding ourselves with certain sound vibrations to balance or complement our energy in a way that heals, energizes, soothes or promotes us in any way we may desire.

If the principle of Hado is universally accurate, could it be then that a regular diet of certain types of music or sound effects in our home, could, over time, shape OUR internal and external bodies as well as maintain or foster optimum health? My belief is that we are generally unaware of the effect music playing from our home or car stereos has on us, and that we possess a powerful key to creating radiant health as well as manifesting all that we desire. That key lies in the choices we make as we build our living environments in the home, the car, the workplace, etc. Programming the music we listen to for health may seem insignificant to many, but I have noticed very deep healing changes within myself and others from the daily practice of living with healing sounds.