Most of Asia used the singing bowls as a means of meditation and spiritual religious involvement. Singing bowls produce a humming sound that allows listeners and meditative practitioners to enter a trancelike state. The monks believed that in this trancelike state the brain was healing the parts of the body that required a spiritual connection. These connections in the body are known as chakras. A chakra "Represents stages in our development, different levels of consciousness and spiritual maturity. " (Regula, 2010). There are seven different chakras that are attached to a pitch and each pitch is represented by a musical note. In Figure 1, the spots on the body represent a chakra. The circles around the body are the singing bowls that are correlated to the different chakras. The letter inside the white circles correlates to the note that is being produced by that bowl. Each bowl is acoustically tuned to match the pitch of that note and hits various octaves of that note. .
Therapeutic Sessions and Music.
The origins of music therapy are hard to come by until CNN's reporter Elizabeth Landau interviewed music therapist Brian Jantz in a Children's Hospital located in Boston. "Music therapy formally began in the 20th century after musicians went to play for World War I and World War II veterans at hospitals across the United States. " (Landau, 2013).
In a case study, a young boy named Joel entered a music therapy treatment in which he spent three hours with a therapist for thirteen weeks. This study came from Bonde, Pedersen, and Wigram whom investigated and created a guide for music therapy. Appendix A explains in detail the thirteen weeks Joel spent with a musical therapist. It also assesses the events of that week, the responses and interactions Joel experienced with the therapist, and the improvements that came from the events of that week. Joel's aliments consisted of Autism and communication problems.