Sound Medicine: How to Use the Ancient Science of Sound to Heal the Body and Mind

Available instantly

Audiobook
$0.00
with membership trial

Hardcover
$16.49

Paperback
$16.01

Your audiobook is waiting!

Click above for unlimited listening to select audiobooks, Audible Originals, and podcasts.
One credit a month to pick any title from our entire premium selection — yours to keep (you'll use your first credit now).
You will get an email reminder before your trial ends.
$14.95 a month after 30 days. Cancel online anytime.

Learn more about membership

Sold and delivered by Audible, an Amazon company

List Price: $19.79

By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible’s Conditions Of Use and Amazon's Privacy Notice.

Sold and delivered by Audible, an Amazon company

Sound Medicine: How to Use the Ancient Science of Sound to Heal the Body and Mind Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Kulreet Chaudhary (Author), Soneela Nankani (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher)

4.6 272 ratings

See all formats and editions

From a leading neurologist, neuroscientist, and practitioner of Ayurvedic medicine, comes a rigorous scientific investigation of the healing power of sound, showing listeners 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 a hidden power within sound that has only just begun to be investigated. Sound Medicine takes listeners on a journey through the structure of the mouth, ears, and brain to understand how sound is translated from acoustic vibrations into meaningful neurological impulses. Renowned neurologist and Ayurvedic expert Dr. Kulreet Chaudhary explains how different types of sound impact the human body and brain uniquely, and explores the physiological effects of sound vibration, from altering mood to healing disease.

Blending ancient wisdom with modern science, Dr. Chaudhary traces the history of sound therapy and the use of specific mantras from previously unknown texts - traced back to the Siddhas, a group of enlightened yogis who created a healing tradition that served as the precursor to Ayurvedic medicine - to explain the therapeutic application of sounds for a wide range of conditions. Sound Medicine offers practical, step-by-step lessons for using music and mantras, whether you're a beginner or searching for a more advanced practice, to improve your health in body, mind, and spirit.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

Listening Length

7 hours and 26 minutes
Author

Kulreet Chaudhary
Narrator

Soneela Nankani
Audible release date

March 10, 2020
Language

English
Publisher

HarperAudio
ASIN

B07T8JVH3B
Version

Unabridged
Program Type

Audiobook
See all details

Report an issue with this product or seller

Read & Listen

Switch between reading the Kindle book & listening to the Audible audiobook with Whispersync for Voice.
Get the Audible audiobook for the reduced price of $12.99 after you buy the Kindle book.

People who viewed this also viewed

Page 1 of 1Start OverPage 1 of 1

People who bought this also bought

Page 1 of 1Start OverPage 1 of 1

Product details

Listening Length	7 hours and 26 minutes
Author	Kulreet Chaudhary
Narrator	Soneela Nankani
Whispersync for Voice	Ready
Audible.com Release Date	March 10, 2020
Publisher	HarperAudio
Program Type	Audiobook
Version	Unabridged
Language	English
ASIN	B07T8JVH3B
Best Sellers Rank	#23,298 in Audible Books & Originals (See Top 100 in Audible Books & Originals) #3 in Audiology & Speech Pathology (Books) #166 in Physical Illness & Disease #190 in Alternative & Complementary Medicine

Important information

To report an issue with this product or seller, click here.

Customer reviews

4.6 out of 5

272 global ratings

How customer reviews and ratings work

Reviews with images

See all photos

Sort reviews by

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

HO Joyce

Look like new

Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2024

Verified Purchase

Very good content, very good condition!

Helpful

cassie clanton

Amazing read!

Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2023

Verified Purchase

I love this book! It includes wonderful mantras.

2 people found this helpful

Helpful

Stephanie

Mind blowing

Reviewed in the United States on May 2, 2021

Verified Purchase

I can’t express how mind blowing this book is. Between the personal stories and the science, I’m so happy I bought this book. The last chapter about mantras and meditation tips was incredibly helpful to me as well. Thank you so much.

11 people found this helpful

Helpful

Mattie Hornsby

5 Stars!!!

Reviewed in the United States on February 17, 2021

Verified Purchase

Dr. Chaudhary gives a powerful story of her own journey to becoming a doctor and discusses the emerging science of sound medicine! It discusses mantras, chakras, and how to determine what Dosha you are in ayurvedic medicine. Phenomenal read!

12 people found this helpful

Helpful

Bernie Gourley

The science (and speculative pseudo-science) behind the benefits of mantra and chanting

Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2020

The Longfellow poem “There Was a Little Girl” has a line that says, “…When she was good, She was very good indeed, But when she was bad she was horrid.” That’s kind of how I felt about this book. At its best, it reports findings about how practices involving sound (i.e. mantra chanting) effect health and well-being, and lends insight into why sound sooths. At its worst, it tries to sledgehammer the square peg religious / spiritual practices into the round hole of quantum physics and foundational physics, often engaging in leaps that are at best wildly speculative, while presenting them as though they are as likely as not.

My favorite professor from undergraduate studies was a folksy Religious Studies Professor who cautioned against two opposing fallacies. The first he called “the outhouse fallacy.” This is assuming that because people of the past didn’t have indoor plumbing that they were complete idiots. Let me first say that, until recently, yoga (and other complementary health practices) suffered its fair share from this fallacy among doctors and the scientific community who felt that it couldn’t possibly help with health and well-being because it wasn’t rooted in the latest scientific findings. However, there is an opposing fallacy that my teacher called the “firstist-is-bestest” fallacy, which assumes the ancients figured it all out and we are just bumbling around in the dark hoping to stumble back into what they once knew. Scientists are prone to the first fallacy and the second is rife among religious folk. As a medical doctor who turned to siddha yoga (a form that puts a great deal of belief in superpowers and magic), Chaudhary had a rough road to not fall into one of these fallacies and, in my opinion, she falls more into the second -- sounding at times like the ancient yogis knew more about the subatomic world and consciousness than science ever will. Most of the time, she words statements so that a careful reader can recognize what is well-supported and what is speculative, but she’s rarely explicit about the degree to which speculations are such, and I don’t remember an instance in which she presented an alternative that would undermine her argument. (i.e. The unstated argument seems to be that mantra is special among practices, that its usefulness is embedded in the fundamental physical laws of the universe, and, therefore, that it works by mechanisms unlike other meditative / complementary health practices [i.e. by engaging the parasympathetic nervous system so the body can make repairs using established biological mechanisms.])

In a nutshell, there is a “god in the gaps” approach to the book that says, look we don’t understand consciousness or all the the “whys” of quantum mechanics, ergo there must be supernatural explanations. I don’t think that because we’ve used EEG since the 1920’s and fMRIs since the 1990’s and still haven’t yet unraveled the hard problem of consciousness that we need to say that god / supernatural forces are where we must look for explanation. The gap is ever closing, slowly but surely, and there’s no reason to believe it’s reasonable or useful to cram commentary from Vedas (or any other scriptures) to fill the gap.

It's not only the science where Chaudhary presents a belief as though it is established truth without alternative explanations. Early on, she states that colonization is the reason for the decline of meditation in India. Don’t get me wrong, I’m as accepting that colonization resulted in a great number of evils as anyone, but it’s a leap to say that – therefore – every negative a society faces is because of its colonizer. I would point to Thailand, a society that was never colonized (except a brief period by the Burmese) and which is primarily made up of Theravadan Buddhists (a system for which meditative practice is considered central,) most of whom also do not meditate regularly today. I suspect a more logical explanation for the fact that most Indians don’t meditate today is that: a.) it’s hard work and time consuming (as a productive endeavor it’s not bread-winning and as a leisure time activity it’s laborious,) and b.) the majority of Indians (like the majority of Thais) probably never mediated. (When we look back in time, we often want to create this wholesome and uniform image that what we have writings about was how everyone lived, and that probably never reflects the truth.)

So now that my rant is over, I should say that I didn’t think this book was horrible, by any means. It has a lot of good information, and some of the speculative bits offer interesting food for thought. As long as one reads it carefully and with a healthy dose of skepticism, it’s a beneficial consideration of sound and vibration in health and well-being. It’s just that when I compare it to, say, Davidson and Goleman’s “The Science of Meditation” (which I reviewed recently) this book is far less careful about presenting the science, eliminating pseudo-science, and letting the reader know what is controversial and speculative versus what is well-supported by sound and rigorous investigation.

84 people found this helpful

Helpful

S Anyo

Love this Book

Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2020

I first was introduced to Dr. Kulreet Chaudhary, through her first book The Prime. I loved that book so naturally I was excited to read her second. The Prime is full of easy to follow natural advise to reduce inflammation. Her second book, Sound Medicine, is not that. That being said, it is just as significant book as her first. It really explains the importance of sound, vibration, and mantras.

I did notice that the other review referenced the cultural bias of the book, but then again she is Indian. It only make sense (to me at least) that this would be her perspective.

I do have to say, that I do have a personal bias as I am a big believer in meditation and mantras. Go ahead and read it... You won't be disappointed!

20 people found this helpful

Helpful

Nettie Sonn

Chant a mantra.

Reviewed in the United States on December 12, 2021

Verified Purchase

So very disappointed in this book. Should have been titled Mantra Medicine. She talks about history of sound medicine, quantum physics, Ayurvedic medicine, yoga and chakras. The only sound healing she talks about is chanting a mantra. I just bought a set of tuning forks and was eager to learn more about the use of them. Also I’ve seen a number of Hz frequency soundtracks I wanted to know if they worked. What about sound baths. Could I listen to sound bath recordings or would I have to hear in person. So many things I was hoping to learn that weren’t even mentioned. Title is very misleading.

44 people found this helpful

Helpful

Jane Frank

Horribly written

Reviewed in the United States on July 15, 2022

Verified Purchase

I’ve been studying sound medicine for a decade and never have I come across such a poorly mediocre written book!! This person knows nothing of the subject. It was so bad I returned the book!

10 people found this helpful

Helpful

Top reviews from other countries

Avid Reader

Very Informative

Reviewed in Canada on July 10, 2021

Verified Purchase

Excellent Read!! Very Rarely one comes across a book that is well written and easy to understand. The depth of the book, the spirituality and the way it is explained is very powerful. The author accurately compares western and eastern interpretation of health issue and general heath and the way the physical and subtle body energies work towards wellness.
Impressive read!

2 people found this helpful

Sammie Venn

Edication

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 30, 2024

Verified Purchase

Great education in the medicine of sound healing! Love it worth the wait as I think it came from America

V D

One of the best books on holistic healing

Reviewed in India on July 14, 2020

Verified Purchase

This books gives you the answers to so many questions why western medicine has so many incurable diseases. The fact that the author herself is a neurologist and passionate about Ayurveda Sidha meditations and mantras she takes a complete neutral and scientific approach on what works and why it works and the way forward for the future of healing. The topic human bio field was simply eye opening. Highly recommended to all holistic doctors healers and those interested in mantras chanting and quantum physics.

3 people found this helpful

Fully packed with information

Reviewed in Spain on June 26, 2020

Verified Purchase

I'm only halfway through reading it, and I'm learning a lot. I really like her writing style too.

Alison King

Excellent book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 11, 2023

Verified Purchase

Well researched, very helpful insights.

Can be used as a reference and source book.

Both spiritual and meaningful. Thank you x

See more reviews

Sound Medicine: How to Use the Ancient Science of Sound to Heal the Body and Mind Audible Audiobook – Unabridged

Read & Listen

People who viewed this also viewed

People who bought this also bought

Related to this topic

Product details

Important information

Customer reviews

Reviews with images

Top reviews from the United States

There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later.

Top reviews from other countries