Chakra Tone Study
Bit by bit, I’ll be adding my research papers to this site. This one is perhaps the most important, so I’ll start here.
It is broadly claimed that the C-major scale (C, D, E, F, G, A, B) corresponds to the common 7-chakra mapping (root, belly/sacral, solar plexus, heart, throat, 3rd eye, crown).
This study was designed to test that claim. Not surprisingly, the claimed correlations didn’t hold up to scrutiny.
Yet, surprisingly… there were interesting and relatively consistent patterns.
Perhaps the most interesting and unexpected result was that the patterns were independent of the sound source. Those who used loudspeakers (which tangibly vibrate the body) and those who used headphones (which do not tangibly vibrate the body) reported feeling the sounds in the same places, on average.
Here you can find the original video used in the study, another video summarizing the results, and the paper summarizing the study (which was meant to be a draft, but I’ve never gotten around to revising it. Full of typos, largely from unfortunate PDF transfer errors, but nothing crucial.).
The paper can be downloaded (upper right corner of this page) or read below.
PLEASE share the PDF file ONLY with my explicit written permission.
On the other hand, plz share the link to this page far and wide. THANK YOU!
- TOA