Soundhimalaya.com in association with Tuladhar Handicrafts have more than 25 years of experience of working with singing bowls and sound healers, and as per our expertise, we have never had any complaints regarding side effects of singing bowls and sound therapy from any of our customers.

We do not feel that singing bowls are dangerous and as per feedbacks taken from our customers; people do feel a certain impacts or changes in them within few hours after sound healing. When people present negative feeling and negative emotions towards any of medications, they do get negative results, and if they do not believe in sound therapies or trust the process, the results could be in-effective for them.

There isn’t any proof that singing bowls causes serious damage mentally or physically to any individual nor are there any incidents regarding such, Therefore, singing bowls cannot be considered dangerous. However there are certain groups of people who might reconsider singing bowls and sound therapy because of following reasons:

• Singing bowls are purely made of metals, some people tend to have skin and respiratory reactio towards metals, if one has such allergies they might want to use singing bowls after confirming the metals used to make it. People who are allergic to certain types of metal should avoid putting the bowls on their bodies and limit it to hearing the sound from 80-120cm away distance.
• If individuals are going through certain health procedures like heart pacemaker, coronary stent, cardiac shunt, artificial heart valves, implantable cardio-verter defibrillator (ICD), assigning bowls may impact your heart beat rate, therefore they might take suggestions from their doctors beforehand.
• If people have  inflammatory skin disorder, such as hives, psoriasis, eczema or its variant weeping eczema, singing bowls should not be placed on your body directly but can be used above cotton or light clothing without allowing the metals to touch the skin.
• People with metal inserts, metal implants, or metal staples inside their body, might avoid placing singing bowls on body parts as singing bowls when played have chances that the vibrations could shake or disturb the metal inside of you, causing it to dysfunction.

• Pregnant women might want to avoid playing singing bowls, as during pregnancies hormonal levels are misbalanced and vibrations from the bowls may have negative effects, especially if they’re placed on the body.
• People with epilepsy should also avoid this form of therapy because in rare cases, the music and vibrations can both cause seizures. If they want to try they should start with only one singing bowl and see the reactions initially before moving on with sound healings or singing bowls above their body or near to body.
• During sound therapy sessions, it may become uncomfortable if the singing bowl aids in bringing out strong emotions or painful memories. Some people feel the need to cry or take a break from talking to people for a while which is a part of the emotional stability and healing process.

The major takeaway to question “Are singing bowls dangerous?”  is that in overall of cases, singing bowls can be used for all of the people without placing singing bowl on their body parts or near to body parts which causes absolutely no harm.

As per Science of singing bowls, they have positive health and well-being effects. The sound from the singing bowls help react with brain waves that make you feel relaxed as music therapy generally reduce levels of the stress hormone in the body and when your levels of cortisol are lowered, you feel more relaxed. While receiving sound healing or sound therapy it is highly suggested for you to prepare yourself for some traumatic experiences to resurface during your sessions because such healing process awakens you physically, mentally and spiritually as well.

All the living beings in this world, by nature, are meant to move and experience different components of earth. People travel to gain new understandings about different place, culture, food and people. The most essential while travelling would be of course money and passport, but the other most essential travel needs is “correct mindset” with hopes of beautiful experiences ahead.

As Nepal is rich in natural beauty with highest mountains, beautiful trekking destinations, fast flowing rivers, and exciting activities, most of the tourists in Nepal, seek for adventurous experiences like hiking, mountain climbing, paragliding, rafting, sight-seeing, to see the rich culture Nepalese hold, beautiful heritage places  and many more exciting things to do in Nepal. Alongside this, numbers of tourists, trekkers, and Nepalese travel within Nepal seeking spiritual peacefulness.

Bipashna, sound healing, yoga, meditation within the hills of Nepal is extremely famous worldwide, where numerous Europeans, Asians, Americans and celebrities like David Beckham, Prince Harry, Selena Gomez have experienced the spiritual peacefulness in Nepal.

Singing Bowls are one of the most used instrument for sound healing and during Bipashna meditation as it rings positive sound waves and help stimulates all the happy hormone creating glands that are connected to pituitary gland.

Travelling with singing bowl is an excellent idea for trekkers, hikers, and all the travelers as it is handy, price worthy and helps give correct state of mind whenever played. Travelers in Ancient times used to travel with instruments like flutes as it is light and keeps away from boredom, singing bowl acts as a travel buddy when travelling alone or with other people.

Although it is folk saying, ancient travelers believe that playing singing bowls in the woods attracts positive energy and keeps away negative energies and mis-happenings. Spiritual travelers instead of gadgets and speakers, enjoy the harmonious sounds of nature like waterfall, birds’ singings in the woods, wind blowing in the hills along with vibrating sound of the singing bowls. Singing Bowl is not just an instrument but a travel buddy to go on road-trips, and trekking with.

Meditation is a process where mindfulness is achieved, by training our self-awareness techniques to keep control on our chakras. If we notice carefully, we unrecognizably practice the shortest meditation on us by breathing calmly and slowly every once in a while, during the most anxious moments or after completing a long project or every once in a while. It gives our body, mind and soul a break to rejuvenate. Now imagine how much goodness and beneficial would practicing meditation every day for a few minutes routinely would result on our body. Our body is our home, and giving it rejuvenating breaks to restart is the most wonderful way, to make the best out of our day.

You might have gone through a lot of playlists of relaxing music, studying music, concentrating music, and many more throughout your rough days. You might have burnt numerous of scented candles which surely gives relaxation. But as per the tradition practitioners the most helpful way to calm the mind and body is by meditating to the sounds of ringing bells and singing bowls and nature’s sounds along with burning incense that are made with withered flowers and herbs which in combination helps a lot in releasing negative energy of the body and therefore helps in awakening your mind.

So next time, if you’re looking for ways to relax your body, mind and soul, go for a meditation to the sounds of singing bowls along with lightened flower herbal incense and feel the magic of all the earthly, traditional energies awakening your soul and balancing your chakras.

If you ever need to find your spirit and your demons to keep it in control, the energies that will extract it out are just near somewhere deep rooted in all these earthly matters. It’s all in the earthly energies. Every matter, every item, and every feeling is a form of energy that rests in the earthly matters. And when we have control in what we need to absorb, we can achieve limitless positivity from these earthly energy.

Singing Bowls, also known as ‘dabaka’ in Nepal, are made using seven earthly metals: tin, zinc, lead, copper, silver, mercury and gold which are believed to give minerals to our bodies, and energy that comes from it is positive and advantageous to us. These same metals are used to make bells in the temples, churches, and Gongs in monasteries that rings the inner soul and brings out all the goodness from within. These metals were widely used to make jewelries and armors because of its beneficiary factors.

Singing Bowls when strike with a wooden stick, gives a reverberating peaceful sound, which when rubbed by the wooden stick continues the hymn and the vibration of all the metal mixtures gives out the energy that will touch your skin, that will awaken your all seven chakras of the body and ring your inner peacefulness to come out. Ancient Tibetan and Nepali Buddhists believe that this sound energy heals your body, cleanses your body aura and creates a shield to protect the body from worldly negative energy- at least for a day.

Singing Bowls when played alone connects the body with earthly metal energies along with the energy of air, as sound travels through the air, and when played with water in it, gives energy of watery vibrations too. Singing Bowls can be used in many ways for many purposes.

Handmade singing bowls are made by melting the mixtures of metals in high fire flames, then is beaten and handcrafted to make a perfect bowl, when water is kept in the bowl and played along it gives the most pleasurable vibrations, connecting your mind and chakras to earthy energies. Machine made singing bowls has high importance in making rhythms and are played along with gongs, flutes, keyboards to make music that can helps in stress-free study, or paintings or reading books which help mind connect to a particular subject or an object to focus on.

Singing Bowls are much more than handicraft, sovereign, showpiece or hobby. Mainly purposed for sound therapy and sound healing to treat anxiety, stress, insomnia, Singing Bowls also help in achieving mental clarity and emotional stability. Himalayan singing bowls, which are mainly crafted in the Himalayas of Nepal are believed to have the highest positive energy transferring capacity.

Singing bowls are used for different purposes like meditation, sound healing, sound bath, chakra healing, music and more. Everyone has a different perception regarding the benefits of singing bowls. Singing bowl benefits in different levels physical, psychological and spiritual.

The keys to unlock the benefits of singing bowls are belief and trust. First of all, you need to believe that the bowls are going to do good for you and you need to trust the singing bowls as everyone does not feel the energy of singing bowls for the first time they try the bowl. You may need some time to realize the energy. The vibration and the sound do not make any difference until and unless you are connected with the singing bowl. The connection can only be created when you believe and trust. You will require a lot of patience as you choose the singing bowl; the singing bowl has to choose you too. The physical and psychological benefits are interrelated to one another. Once you feel the energy of the singing bowl you can meditate to the sound of the singing bowl.

Meditating to the sound of the singing bowl will help you to be calm, improve concentration and reduce stress.

Singing bowls helps to relax migraine headache and body muscles. Put the bowl upside down on the head like a cap or helmet then slowly strike the bowl do not strike too hard. The vibration of the singing bowl will help to relax the headache. (30 cm diameter size singing bowl is recommended to play overhead.) If there is any pain in body muscles you can rest the bowl over the area where you feel pain and strike the singing bowl with drumstick, do not touch on the rims of the bowl as it will kill the sound. The vibration of the singing bowl will help to relax the body muscles.

The spiritual benefits of singing bowls are: it helps in chakra balancing, reduce anxiety, depression, emotional balance and many more. Chakra balancing or healing help to relax the body and the mind as singing bowls play a role as a bridge between body and mind.

The energy of the singing bowls helps to connect the four elements of human body air, water, fire, and earth. Cosmic energy flow through human body then the four elements are in balance.