Sound has been shown to help reduce pain, increase neural connectivity, and improve the quality of life.

Studies on the effects of singing bowls on human health found that people attending singing-bowl meditations or sound baths reported a reduction in pain symptoms as well as less anxiety, tension, anger and feelings of sadness."

Dave Rabin, MD, PhD, a board-certified psychiatrist and neuroscientist, explains further: "Music and sound impacts us all the time by literally changing the rhythms of our physiology or the organ systems in our bodies, which change naturally without us thinking in response to the rhythms of sound," Dr. Rabin says.

This change typically takes place in less than a minute.

"Sound impacts us in these rhythmic ways very, very quickly and usually without us noticing it or being aware that our bodies are changing and our heart rate is changing and our blood pressure's changing."