Healing Vibes - Sound therapy is the latest old-yet-new way to improve your mental health.

Sound therapy is the latest old-yet-new way to improve your mental health. Clinical studies suggest that listening to sound at certain frequencies, or tempos, can help you enter into a meditative state or even an altered state of consciousness.

- By Kathleen Hou - illustration by Dror Cohen

There's a new machine for good vibes (and it's not your iPhone or vibrator). It's shaped like a piece of cavatelli pasta, and I am crawling into the middle of its embrace, ready for my life to be changed in just minutes. Although my body may be still, my mind will be alive, and the machine, called Sava, will take me on a "Sound Journey"-a mix of unique sounds and sound healing music said to help calm the nervous system, relax the body, increase creativity and focus, and send the listener into a meditative, trancelike state. Sava is just the latest innovation in sound healing, a practice that some of its fans call the new "natural psychedelic." It's a gentle modality that uses music in a therapeutic manner, reportedly by "vibrating" the body on a cellular level. All things, including ourselves