Frequencies and Brain Waves

The concept of healing with frequency is not new. Frequency healers have been around since ancient times throughout the world. These early medicine women and men utilized healing frequencies through a variety of methods including songs, dance, drumming and chanting. For thousands of years, practitioners have utilized healing with frequency as a powerful tool to promote well-being. 

Ancient philosophers famously viewed music as "the medicine of the soul" (Gfeller, 2002), while Greek physicians traditionally used various instruments such as flutes, lyres and zithers to heal patients through vibration. 

Aristotle's influential work De Anima (323–373 BCE) discussed how flute music could help purify the soul and generate strong emotions. Additionally, scriptures from both the Old Testament and New Testament contain numerous references to the medicinal power of music.

Throughout many cultures, sounds and musical frequencies have been used when a person is sick and to help them bring balance to the body. These healing practices have endured over thousands of years and many different places, proving that sound frequencies are capable of real change. 

Healing frequencies can promote homeostasis in the body, which is essential for efficient healing. This happens when stress levels are reduced through listening or feeling the vibration of these relaxing frequencies.

Using sound frequencies as a means of healing is gaining traction across the world and is now gaining popularity due to its effectiveness in treating a variety of conditions.

Despite being lost for hundreds of years, the Solfeggio healing frequencies used by these chants would finally be recovered in the 1970s. Today, as shown by Dr. Horowitz, the 528 Hz frequency, which is the third note in the original Solfeggio, is used to repair DNA. This would explain why the Latin word for miracle is “mira gestorum”? Remember that 528 Hz is Mi on the original scale.

There is also the possibility that the scale was to some extent lost, which would not be surprising given the time period they were developed: Guido d’Arezzo’s lifetime fell right in the middle of Western Europe’s Middle Ages.

His death also came during a period of great contention between the Western Christian Church, which we know today as the Roman Catholic Church, and the Eastern Church, which we in the West now call the Eastern Orthodox Church.

This led to the Great Schism of 1054, a separation that still exists to this day.

So, while the Eastern Church and the Eastern Roman, or Byzantine, Empire was very active in preserving Western artifacts during the Middle Ages, they would have had very little reason to preserve a music scale created by the Western Church, especially since the Eastern Church had their own scale at the time, one with 8-tones called the Oktoechos.

In short, it is not impossible that the Solfeggio was actually lost in history, like so many other documents of the time.

In fact, the historical records place the introduction and rise of the twelve-tone scale in the century just preceding what most historians consider the end of the Middle Ages.

Among its many benefits, frequency healing can help to:

• Reduce stress 
• Relieve pain 
• Improve sleep quality 
• Free up the body’s resources to mobilize its ability to restore health 
• Brain health and increased neurogenesis
• Inflammation reduction
• Improved Mood

And much more.

The Solfeggio healing frequencies make up a 6-tone music scale, which was first used in religious music of the 10th century. Music tuned to the frequency of this scale is known to have healing properties and promote better wellbeing. Evidence of these frequencies existed as far back as early Biblical times.

Back in the 11th century, a Benedictine monk named Guido d’Arezzo introduced the musical scale we now know as the Solfeggio frequencies, though modern research contests that the scale dates back much further. The monks used the original six Solfeggio notes in their Gregorian chants, which we now know to consist of the frequencies: 396, 417, 528, 639, 741, and 852 (Hertz).

1. 396 Hz (UT): Turning Grief into Joy, Liberating Guilt & Fear

2. 417 Hz (RE): Undoing Situations & Facilitating Change

3. 528 Hz (MI): Transformation, Miracles & DNA Repair

4. 639 Hz (FA): Re-Connecting & Balancing Relationships

5. 741 Hz (SOL): Solving Problems, Expressions & Solutions

6. 852 Hz (LA): Awakening Intuition, Returning to Spiritual Order

 Additional Modern Solfeggio Tones

While the ancient Solfeggio scale tones detailed above are the most notable and enduring, having been used for hundreds if not thousands of years, Dr. Leonard Horowitz applied the same patterns in his research to uncover three more frequencies.

7. 174 Hz: Security & Comfort

8. 285 Hz: Cellular Repair & Immunity

9. 963 Hz: Higher Consciousness

Solfeggio refers to using syllables to note scale tones. Think “do-re-mi-fa-sol-la-ti-do”. Certain frequencies are necessary for balancing energy in order to achieve harmony between the spirit, mind, and body. 

Singing any note stimulates the vagus nerve which holds a number of healing benefits including:

• Mood improvement: In a 2018 study published in Frontiers in Psychiatry, researchers found that after just three months of vagus nerve stimulation, study participants suffering from depression saw a remission rate of 17 percent. And after one year of treatment, the remission rate rose to 33 percent.
• Better brain health: Studies in the Journal of Natural Science, Biology, and Medicine have shown that vagus nerve stimulation increases neurogenesis—the formation of new brain cells—in the hippocampus, a part of the brain that plays a critical role in learning and memory.
• Reduced high blood pressure: In another 2018 study published in the Journal of Traditional and Complementary Medicine, 54 participants regularly performed a vagal stimulation technique for three months, resulting in an 81 percent reduction in hyper reactivity (stress-induced blood pressure changes) and significantly lower diastolic blood pressure numbers.

• 174 Hz. This frequency releases pain and heals sick auras. It can reduce back, lower back, foot, and leg pain. The 174 Hz also takes care of migraines and stress. It soothes brain tissues and evokes feelings of love, courage, safety, and reassurance. 174 Hz targets chakras and the healing parts of the body.

• 285 Hz  This frequency can promote cellular regeneration and recovery of physical wounds like cuts, burns and more. 

• 396 Hz. This sound helps one who is strggling with guilt, fear and grief, while also helping balance the root chakra to help you feel more grounded. It is also known to turn grief into joy and give you the boost you need to help you reach your goals.

• 417 Hz. Listening to this sound is hailed for facilitating change on the physical level, including the physical body. It is also known to help dissolve feelings of trauma as well as any emotional blocks. It brings a start  of new beginnings, removing negative energy from the body, home and office. 

• 528 Hz. This frequency may help promote miracles, clarity, and peace, as well as transformations like DNA repair. It is often credited with helping to remove illness and disease. Called the “miracle note” and love frequency, it reportedly rids the body of any toxicity, ushers in love and confidence, and balances out both your heart and solar plexus chakras.  In a 2018 study, scientists in Japan showed that playing the 528 Hz frequency reduced stress hormones in the body in as little as 5 minutes of exposure. 

• 639 Hz. This frequency could help to heal and promote relationships and reconnection. It is said to produce positive feelings and encourage harmony and clear communication. It may also help you build a better relationship with yourself and help you reflect on what is most important to you.

• 741 Hz. Listening to this level of solfeggio frequencies is reportedly fantastic for finding various solutions while allowing you to fully express yourself truthfully and/or in new ways. It also improves emotional stability, allowing you the space and safety to tap into your intuition.

• 852 Hz. This frequency is said to help you connect to your intuition as well as the spiritual realms. Another perk? It might prevent you from overthinking and delving deep into negative thought patterns. As a result, your sense of self and inner strength are said to improve, and you reach a new level of energy and spiritual awareness.

• 963 Hz. This frequency wakes up your intuition and crown chakra. It is a great way to raise your positive energy and vibrations. To look deeper within yourself, 963 Hz helps you better connect to your inner self and reach your highest vibrational state. In the right mood, you may even reach oneness and journey to the spiritual world. This frequency balances you out and also brings you to your original and perfect state. It is also known as the God Frequency.

• 35-50 Hz These frequencies are not traditionally included in most resources about Solfeggio frequencies that heal. However, we include them here due to existing research on them. 35-50 Hz were shown in this 2013 study to improve bone healing in rats.

• 40 Hz In 2022, MIT researchers reported early-stage clinical study results of tests with noninvasive 40-hertz light and sound treatment. The novel treatment was observed to encourage increased neural activity and improve memory recall. This is believed to be due to the stimulation of gamma brain waves. Another 2015 study showed pain improvements for people with fibromyalgia using a 40 Hz treatment.

• 432 Hz. This frequency targets your heart chakra. The tone soothes your soul and encourages mental and emotional clarity and openness. Listening to this tone can help with your spiritual growth. Multiple promising studies from the last few years find 432 Hz music to cause improved health outcomes including: Reduced heart rate, Lower anxiety and stress, Improving sleep and Dental anxiety.

0.5–4 Hz - Sleep 

This is deep sleep. In delta, we can access higher consciousness directly, and may be out of the body altogether. When we return to lighter levels of consciousness, we have dreams translating those experiences. Dreams are vital to us. When deprived of dream sleep, people experience mental breakdown and eventually, death. 

4–8 Hz - Deeply relaxed, inward focused 

We pass through theta just before going to sleep and in the first moments of waking up. The deeper states of lucid dreaming, trance and visionary experiences become available at this level. 

8–12 Hz - Very relaxed, passive attention 

This is more relaxed. We slip into a light alpha state easily and naturally when we’re daydreaming, listening to music or staring out of the window. The EEG graph line has bigger and more rounded curves, which look like a peaceful rolling sea. Meditation or regression will take us to deeper levels of alpha. When we get there, we’re at the gateway to the subconscious. At this level we can access material that’s normally hidden from the everyday mind. Studies have shown that past-life information becomes available when brainwaves measure around 7 to 8 cycles per second – which is the medium-to deep alpha state. 

12–35 Hz - Anxiety dominant, active, external attention, relaxed 

This is everyday consciousness. We’re in a light beta state when we’re doing a routine task that requires our attention but isn’t too demanding. Medium beta would be when we’re studying, or trying to fix something. A more intense focus, like trying to hurry through heavy traffic for example, will take us to higher levels of beta. This level can also bring feelings of stress and anxiety. The beta line on an EEG graph is shallow and spiky, like a choppy sea. 

35 Hz - Concentration 

These are the fastest brain waves produced inside your brain. If a doctor were to put electrodes on your head and hook them up to a machine to graph the resulting electrical activity, a process known as an electroencephalogram (EEG), the waves would be at a very high frequency., They tend to measure above 35 Hz, and in fact, can oscillate as fast as 100 Hz. However, they can be hard to measure accurately with existing EEG technology. Gamma waves are evidence that you’ve achieved peak concentration. In other words, when you’re intensely focused and your brain is very actively engaged in solving a problem, this is when your brain is more than likely producing gamma waves. They help you process information.

It’s important to note: Between gamma and lambda brainwave states exists a higher level gamma state called, hyper-gamma. Hyper gamma brainwaves exist within the highest range of gamma, around the 100 HZ range. 

200 Hz - Oneness

These brain waves are a very high frequency associated with wholeness and integration. They're also associated with mystical and out of body experiences. Lambda waves oscillate at a frequency of 100 to 200 HZ. They're rarely seen in most people, but are present in the minds of Tibetan monks who can sit for hours meditating. Lambda state creates synchronization of the left and right brain hemispheres. This state is sometimes experienced as the “aha” state.

Hyper-gamma and lambda states of consciousness are associated with the ability of certain sects of Tibetan monks who can mediate in the Himalayan mountains in sub-zero temperatures wearing little clothing and maintaining a hot body temperature which melts the snow around them. 

These brain waves are a very low frequency associated with wholeness and integration. As with Lambda, they are also associated with mystical and out of body experiences. Epsilon waves oscillate at a frequency of below .5 HZ and above 0 HZ. The epsilon state of consciousness is a very low-frequency brainwave. Most electroencephalogram (EEG) devices are not able to measure below .5 HZ. This is the state yogi’s go into when they achieve “suspended animation”. In this state, western medical doctors will no longer perceive a heartbeat, respiration or pulse. Epsilon state, like lambda state, also shows synchronizing of the left and right brain hemispheres along with feelings of wholeness and integration.