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Sharry Edwards

Host Intro: The human voice can be a thing of beauty.  Some people say it can also be a source of healing, and on that note, today, we?ll talk with Sharry Edwards about her upcoming workshop, ?Breaking the Sound Barriers of Disease,? which she?ll conduct as part of the International Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine Conference starting this Friday in Boulder.  The term Subtle Energies can be applied to EEG scans at a hospital, biofeedback to lower blood pressure, exploring healing through prayer, and the work that Sharry Edwards does.

Groups Featured in this report include: Sharry Edwards, (740) 698-9119, sharryedwards.com
International Society for the Study of Subtle Energy Medicine, 303-425-4625, ISSSEEM.org




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On her website, Sharry writes, ?Each person possesses unique harmonics of frequency that can be expressed through the voice. However, when these complex frequencies of the body become unbalanced, the voice primarily reflects this altered state, and the body manifests it as dis-stress or dis-ease at the structural and biochemical levels.?

While Sharry says she?s developed highly technical ways of studying the voice, she believes she was born with an unusual way of hearing things.  She says she can hear otoacoustic emissions, which are basically sounds which can be recorded in the ear canals of functionally normal ears.  She says her ability to hear these subtle sound vibrations has been helpful in developing a sound-based healing system.  To find out more, we dialed her at her home office, in Ohio, where she spoke to us amid the hum of her high tech equipment, which she uses in her voice analyses.


When she?s here next weekend, Sharry will do a presentation on the human bioacoustic vocal profiling and sound system that she?s developed to help people de-stress from disease.  Her method is basically a way to get a voice print from someone, make a health assessment based on the characteristics of that voice, and then offer back suggestions, along with sounds to hear, in order to help bring more health and balance to a person?s life.

We figured it would be good to see this diagnostics system in action.  To do that, we talked with a local healer who uses Sharry?s computerized sound healing device.  Her name is Christina Hildebrandt.



While Christina has been trained in the computerized bioaccoustic device that Sharry Edwards has developed, she?s also familiar with more traditional forms of sound healing, such as toning. Christina demonstrates by toning for the health of a woman we?ll call Sarah.

Here?s what Sarah thought about the tone:

A personal sense of sound is what Sharry Edwards says inspired her to create a computerized analysis system for the voice.  So before we go to Christina?s bioaccoustic device demonstration, we took a break as Sarah described a little bit about herself.  And then,  I asked Christina to describe the tones in Sarah?s voice.


The bioaccoustic device takes a person?s voice and makes it into a kind of brushstroke pattern on the screen.  It?s not quite like a sound wave file of someone?s voice in time.  It?s more like a rainbow spectrum pattern.  Kind of pretty, hard to explain . . . but the key thing is that, according to Christine Hildebrandt, that soundwave pattern helps a software program identify areas of balance and non-balance in a person?s energy pattern.  


To test the device, Sarah had to say a thing or two.

And Christina had to chart it.

After making that computerized chart, Christina asked Sarah what type of health analysis she desired?spiritutal, emotional, physical.  Sarah made her choice.

Based on Sarah's request for nutritional analysis, Christina printed a summary of what the computer had analyzed.  It had some things you might not expect.


Sarah says it?s all intriguing, and she?d like to learn more about it.  And when we talked with Sharry Edwards, back in her office in Ohio that?s filled with computers, Sharry said that even though it?s all complicated to a newcomer, those voice prints reveal some surprising things.


Sharry said people who have used her equipment have had some good success in reducing back pain and fibromyalgia.  And also in strengthening nerve connections.

We asked Sharry about what clinical studies have been done on her bioaccoustic device.  She gave an answer that?s common among researchers who don?t receive funding for developing pharmaceutical drugs.


Back with Christina Hildebrandt and our volunteer investigator, Sarah, we were ready to hear the tones made from filtered analysis of Sarah?s voice.  The microphone couldn?t pick them up as well as our ears are able to, but we found we could describe those sounds as basically, like the lowest notes that a big pipe organ can make, the ones that rumble.  Only without any melody. More like a rumble with a heart-beat kind of rythmn.

Christina started with a generic sound that Sharry Edwards says everyone tends to like.  

Christina then cautioned that a sound that?s right for Sarah?s well-being might not be right for another listener, such as me.  And in fact, a ?Sarah sound,? that Sarah thought was okay did not sound very good to me.


To use the sound feedback part of the bioaccoustic system, it takes listening to the special tones a few times each day, over several days or weeks, using a special sound box.  But Sharry Edwards says that for some kinds of healing, a person doesn?t even need a tone.  For instance, she says the nutritional analysis of a voice print can be useful all on its own.




I?m Shelley Schlender.  This has been For Your Health. Thanks to massage therapist Christina Hildebrandt, and thanks to her accapella group, Harmonia, for the singing that we?ve used as part of this program.  We want to extend our appreciation also to Sarah for helping us do a demo of the human bioacoustic vocal profiling and sound system.  The developer of that system, Sharry Edwards, will give a workshop about her system on Sunday, June 25th, starting around 3 PM, in Boulder at the Millenium Hotel.  She?ll be doing the workshop as part of the International Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine Conference, a weeklong gathering that starts this Friday and goes through Tuesday. You can find out more about Sharry Edwards at her website, Sharry Edwards dot com.  That?s sharry spelled S-h-a-r-r-y and the Edwards, dot com.  Or call (740) 698-9119.  To find out more about the Subtle Energies conference, check the International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine website, which is ISSSEEM dot org.  That?s I S S S E E M dot org.  Or call 303-425-4625.

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