Yes. You can control the level of resonance you feel and the volume your hear individually. Also you will notice that the more you use Acoustic Resonance Technology the more sensitive you will become. In other words, as you begin to release more and more tension and/or body armor, you become more acute aware of the vibrations around you. You are exercising your kinestetic system. This is a good thing, in that it supports us in becoming more harmonically intelligent to and responsible to make healthy choices about our environment.

1. There is significant research shared by Dr. Andrew Weil and others that indicates that over 90% of all disease is caused by stress. In today’s modern society most of us have more or less forgotten how to relax. This is simply a tool to help you quickly, safely and easily relax and stimulate your body/mind own natural healing abilities.
2. Research in the growing field of vibrational medicine indicates that standing or sitting on a vibrational platform can help mitigate bone loss, and even in some cases reverse osteoporosis. See NASA and NIH articles for more information.
3. Research also indicates that when we bring awareness to various parts of our body, we naturally strengthen our immune system.
4. While using music to support the natural healing process is nothing new. Quantum Physicists and researchers are now proving what ancient seers & spiritual masters of many cultures appreciated for thousands of years. Music has a profound effect on your body and your mind. Therapists in the re-emerging fields of Music, Sound and Bio Acoustic Therapy are finding benefits in using music to help with pain management, ward off depression, relieve anxiety & calm patients during painful procedures, increase range of motion, movement and ease muscle tension.
5. Many people do not meditate because they do not understand it or have a hard time doing it. Meditation and/or Prayer is a healthy practice because among other things, it supports clarity of mind and more coherent body/mind communication. It is like cleaning out the hard drive of your computer so that it runs more efficiently and effectively.

The reason the ancient masters taught the practice of meditation and/or prayer is because when we practice meditation or go into prayer we focus our brain and body, and we increase our alpha and theta brainwave states.

This is known as the “magic window” for shifting our limited patterns of belief and awareness. In alpha we decrease our body/minds stress response which evokes our natural self-healing abilities. In theta our consciousness becomes more internally directed and the experiences seem vividly real…our nervous system interprets them as real and creates a significant movement of energy, thus healing.

Intelligence, Happiness, stress, pain, etc… is all a matter of perception. Our neurological networks begin to develop in our mother’s whom and our nerve cell locations determine functions and our perceptions. Which explains why feeling the music resonate through your body enables you to perceive things in the music and within your body/mind that you may have not ever have perceived before.

6. As people first experience the SO Chair, a common statement is, “Wow, now I understand what it means to meditate and/or what it is like to get into a meditative state”.

Brain science shows that our brains are operating within multiple frequencies all of the time. Using specially designed musical programs you can entrain the brain into operating in a more balanced state and /or target various states for desired consciousness to promote:

• Enhanced Creativity and problem solving abilities
• Releasing old negative thought patterns and habits
• Reduce Stress
• Induce deep rest and relaxation

1. Both use the same musical information to create the experience.
2. The subwoofer generally is a low frequency audio driver that is complementarily to speakers and is designed to produce audio (sound in the air). The SO SoundHearts are a completely different addition to an audio sound system because they add tactile (what you feel) excitement from the music/sound.
3. The range of the full system can be shown by the graph below.
4. A Subwoofer is designed to deliver music via the air (at the speed of sound in air) versus via mass (at the speed of sound in water). SO with a subwoofer you have to turn up the volume very high in order to feel the low vibrations. This is not healthy for the ears or for the autonomic nervous system of body/mind long term.

Introducing Acoustic Resonance Technology (ART) to augment the pure listening experience supports a sensory integration experience. We increase the bandwidth (frequency range) for receiving the musical information in a more comprehensive way. There are several other key things to be aware of in appreciating this as an augmentation to just listening to music:

• Numerous holistic healthcare studies indicate that as we become more aware of the sensing and feeling state of the body/mind, we naturally strengthen our immune system. Energy follows awareness. This is the basis of accupuncture, massage, carnail sacral practices as well as somatic therapy.
• In alignment with this is research around pain control. For example a study known as “The Theory of Pain Control” initially proposed in 1965 by Melzack & Wall (see link to articles). This research basically demonstrates that when one gently touches the body through massage or subtle vibrations we stimulate a neurological communication to the brain to stimulate the pleasure response of the body/mind. This actually buffers the pain response and begins to entrain the body back into a more balanced state of health and well being.
• Research conducted by NASA (see link to article) In short, it shows that standing or sitting on a vibration platform can help mitigate bone loss, as well as increase the flow of oxygen through the bones. As the bones begin to resonate, muscles and ligaments surrounding the bones begin to relax. Stress is reduced, flexibility and range of motion improves.

You can control the resonance created by the SO SoundHearts and the volume of the speakers individually.
Please do know that sometimes “less is more”. In other words, while you may not be as aware or perceive all frequencies being delivered at first, you are still getting the benefit.
As you use the SO Sound system more and more, you will notice that your level of kinesthetic perception increases. This is because as we “exercise” our brain and body/mind into more balanced states, we release muscular tension and stress which is what inhibits our ability to feel and we expand our consciousness awareness.