Family members, caregivers, and friends can be
key ingredients to successful recuperation and rest
for their loved ones. While visiting nursing
homes and providing homecare, often there is a need
to seek opportunities to demonstrate caring,
eliminate stress, and provide a peaceful
environment. Focus becomes seeking ways to
express love while listening, intervening and
becoming attentive to their comfort.
Controlling sounds, whether in a hospital room or
at home, is essential for peace, comfort, and
harmony helpful to both the patient or homebound
individual and the family. Sound therapy is a way of
balancing sound waves and frequencies in the
external environment with the internal waves and
frequencies of the human body.
Intervention. Comfort, and Support
Sounds can affect individuals both emotionally
and physically. Distractions from extraneous
noise can be a source of stress and diminishes
comfort, creating restlessness and discontent.
Appropriate sound therapy promotes and rejuvenates
brainwaves, thereby promoting relaxation and
comfort. Proper use of sound therapy can also create
positive mental balance and promote harmony to
internal organs by using external instruments,
strategies and tools. Used properly, a variety
of sounds can assist in encouraging better sleep.
Improving Room Environment through Sound
Therapy
Because our bodies are composed of a series of
waves and frequencies, we respond to sound at
different levels of comfort depending on the type of
sounds. Sound therapy, therefore, can provide an
enormous benefit to homebound or hospital patients
and their families. In an environment in which
a variety of physical and emotional situations can
affect balance and harmony, introduction of sound
therapy becomes a beneficial tool no matter the age
of the patient or family member. Even in a
hospice setting, where lack of control of inevitable
death is ever present, sound therapy allows both
patient and family members to temporarily control
their environment.
Sound therapy can help eliminate mental stress
and worry while easing physical tension, shock, and
anger over situations that cannot be controlled.
Specifically, sound therapy:
- Reduces stress
- Relieves anxiety
- Encourages calm thinking
- Provides physical relaxation
- Encourages restful sleep
How Can You Provide Sound Therapy
Balance?
It is important to monitor and adjust the room’s
atmosphere. This can be accomplished using
such instruments as soothing sound machines and
relaxing music. Avoid overuse of television or radio
as the noise; information and tones can negatively
affect the atmosphere of the room. Their
content may also include abrupt loud noises and
sounds from commercials or other programs that can
negatively affect body functions and create mental
discord.
Family members and caregivers who are directly
involved in patient care can take an active role as
and be a positive source of harmony and comfort by
dealing with negative sounds, which are one of the
major causes of patient distress during a traumatic
time. Being proactive in this process will also help
family members feel a part of a wellness process by
actively participating in the care of their loved
one.
Controlling environmental sound is important for
peace, comfort, and harmony for
caregivers, patient, and the homebound family
member. Sound therapy is a way of balancing sound
waves and frequencies in the environment outside the
body with the internal waves and frequencies of the
human body. Sound therapy makes a difference
in the quality of life.
Theresa V. Wilson, M.Ed. is a
freelance writer and owner of a home based business
dedicated to providing products and resources for
grieving families and caregivers facing health
recovery and crisis related issues.
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