Vibration Over Medication? A Sound Healing Moment
The other night I had one of those experiences you just can’t make up—the kind of miracle that sneaks up in the middle of real life and reminds me why I do this work.
I had a floating sound bath scheduled at a private pool, and Hudson came along to help me inflate the rafts. He’s fifteen, tall and strong, and usually happy to be my helper. But the day before, he had broken out in hives for the first time in his life. I gave him Benadryl, rubbed hydrocortisone cream on the spots, and sent him to bed. By morning he was clear. I figured it was a fluke.
On the drive over, I noticed him scratching his arms. By the time we finished inflating floats, he lifted his shirt and showed me—covered in hives again. Worse than the night before. Solid welts across his stomach, sides, back of his neck, arms, everywhere. He was miserable and scared, asking me to take him home, asking if he needed a doctor.
I wanted to leave and take care of him, but I also had guests already there, waiting for a sound bath. I set him up in the Jeep with the AC blasting, then brought him out to the pool where I could keep an eye on him. The women in the pool gasped when they saw his torso. We tried more cream, but it wasn’t helping. I told him to try not to scratch and to let me know if he had any trouble breathing, so I could stop the sound bath and take him to the ER.
So I started my sound bath like I always do, by telling everyone to set a positive intention - what they’re hoping to get out of the sound bath. I said to them, “For example, if you’re Hudson right now, you wouldn’t want to set your intention as ‘I want to stop itching.’ The body only hears the word “itching”. Say instead, ‘I want clear skin by the end of this sound bath.’”
Hudson perked up when he heard that. “Wait - Mom. Would that work?” I said, “yes, absolutely, if you put your phone down and focus on it, yes, it will work.”
He looked doubtful, but he agreed to try. I started playing. He wiggled around in the lounge chair for a while, scratching, restless. Then halfway through, he went still. I thought he had fallen asleep.
At the end of the sound bath, he stood up, lifted his shirt—and every single hive was gone. His skin was completely clear. The women gasped again, only this time in disbelief. Hudson looked at himself, wide-eyed. “I thought you were full of it, Mom. I can’t believe that actually worked.”
The next morning, he woke me early, broken out again—arms and legs this time. He had already taken medicine, showered, slathered himself in creams. Nothing worked. He asked me for a private sound bath before his volleyball game, and said he didn’t even want to go to the game with the hives itchy and embarrassing for him. “Can you make these go away so I can play? We have to leave in 30 minutes.”
We set the intention together: clear, healthy skin, this time to stay clear. I recorded the whole session. Thirty minutes later, he was fast asleep, breathing deep. When I woke him again, his skin was perfect again. He went to his game smiling, completely fine.
Why Did This Work?
Here’s where the science of sound healing comes in. Crystal singing bowls don’t just make pretty tones. They produce pure frequencies that interact with the body on multiple levels:
Nervous System Reset: The steady, resonant tones entrain brainwaves into alpha and theta states—those deeply relaxed, healing states where the body can shift out of fight-or-flight and into rest-and-repair. When the nervous system calms, histamine responses (like hives) often calm too.
Vibrational Coherence: Every cell in the body vibrates. When you’re stressed or inflamed, those vibrations are chaotic. The bowls send out consistent, harmonious frequencies that help the body’s cells re-organize back into balance.
Intention Amplification: Pairing sound with clear intention matters. Instead of focusing on “itching” or “pain,” we shifted to “clear skin.” The subconscious takes that as instruction, and the sound provides the energetic fuel. Together, they create a focused healing field.
Is this a replacement for medical care? No. We’re still taking Hudson to get tested and find the root cause. But as a bridge, as a way to give him relief in the moment, the bowls have been more powerful than any cream or pill.
The Takeaway
This experience reminded me of something I’ve seen over and over: sound baths open a door for the body to do what it already knows how to do—heal. Sometimes it looks like calm nerves, sometimes like better sleep, and sometimes, like Hudson’s story, it looks like hives disappearing in front of our eyes.
If you or your kids struggle with allergies, asthma, or skin reactions, try listening to the recording we made. Set your intention clearly—positive and specific—and breathe deeply as you listen.
Listen to the Allergy Clearing Sound Bath here.
Sometimes healing looks like medicine. Sometimes it looks like sound. And sometimes, when the bowls start to sing, it looks like a fifteen-year-old boy lifting his shirt and realizing his mom’s magic actually works.
