Vibroacoustic Therapy

The four consequences of sympathetic nervous system activation

Craig breaks down the four physiological responses when the sympathetic nervous system is triggered: cortisol and adrenaline flood the bloodstream, rational thinking turns off, digestion stops, and the immune system shuts down. These responses were designed for life-threatening situations but get triggered by everyday stressors.

"The second is the brain turns off rational thinking. So even though we're making decisions, we're not thinking rationally. The third thing is it turns off digestion. You no longer need energy diverted towards digestion. The second most expensive behind your brain from an energetic perspective, you simply need to fight or flight."

Viktor Frankl and elongating the space between stimulus and response

Craig references Viktor Frankl's concept of the space between stimulus and response, explaining that vibroacoustic therapy elongates that space. In a calm parasympathetic state, you can rationally process stimuli rather than reactively triggering a stress response.

"We're basically elongating the amount of space that you have in between a stimuli and our reaction. And the great example for me is we've all consoled a friend that went through a breakup and we all know that right after it happened, they're distraught and broken up, but how do they feel a week later?"

Mechanoreceptors create an immersive three-dimensional sound experience

Craig explains how the mechanoreceptors in the skin send vibration signals to the brain while the auditory nerve sends the same frequencies, creating an overwhelming three-dimensional immersive experience that naturally guides the mind into meditation without effort.

"your brain is receiving signals from every mechanoreceptor in your body. It's also receiving the same frequencies and the same signals from the auditory nerve. This creates a little bit of an overwhelming three-dimensional immersive experience that begins to unfold where your brain is processing all of these similar inputs"

Combining Roxiva light and vibroacoustic therapy for brain state shifts

Rafael Gianfrancesco describes his protocol for rapidly shifting brain states: lying someone under a Roxiva flickering light device on a powerful vibroacoustic surface to achieve deep coherent states within an hour, without psychedelics.

"If you had one hour to shift someone's brain state as much as you could, without psychedelics, what would you do?"

How vibroacoustic therapy uses sound to create physical movement

Rafael explains that vibroacoustic therapy uses sound frequencies to create physical vibration patterns in the body, similar to cymatics where water placed on a speaker creates geometric patterns, harnessing the principle that everything has a vibration.

"The words say it all really, it's, it uses sound to create movement. And so I don't know if you have ever watched the videos of when they put water on a speaker, and vibrated and the water makes all these gorgeous patterns and simatics."

Vibroacoustic devices deployed with US Air Force pilots

Rafael reveals that vibroacoustic and light-based entrainment technologies are being studied and deployed with US Air Force pilots operating high-value aircraft, pointing to serious institutional interest in these modalities for human performance.

"They're studying these technologies, vibroacoustics, light-based entrainment. With the pilots, we've got several of these devices placed with the U.S. Air Force. And you have to imagine these pilots that are piloting these $150 million planes."

The body as a saltwater antenna constantly resonating with frequencies

Craig explains that the human body is a saltwater antenna constantly coming into and out of harmonic resonance with surrounding frequencies. He describes how you can feel the energy when you walk into a room where something terrible or joyous has happened.

"your body is basically a big antenna. You're constantly coming into and out of what's called harmonic resonance with the frequencies that we're presented with. You're either being conscious and cognizant around those frequencies"

InHarmony app lets you select emotions and specific frequencies

Craig describes how the InHarmony app coordinates with the hardware to let users select specific frequencies by megahertz, target specific chakras, or simply pick emotions like grief or anxiety. The app has an entire catalog dedicated to different life experiences.

"one of the most interesting things for lay people that may not be quite as ingrained in the vibration frequency part of life is that you can pick emotions. Because obviously, emotions are energy and motion. So if I'm grieving, there's an app for vibration"

Creating psychedelic-like altered states without substances

Craig discusses SoundSelf, a biofeedback experience using an InHarmony bed to create psychedelic-like altered states without exogenous chemicals. He shares his extensive experience with psilocybin and reports achieving similar downloads and perspective shifts from the sound lounge alone.

"SoundSelf is a biofeedback experience that uses an InHarmony bed to create a psychedelic experience, an altered state in the brain without the exogenous chemicals"

What vibroacoustic therapy actually is and how it works

Craig explains that vibroacoustic therapy is the study of sound and frequency on physiology, anatomy, and neurology, with a body of research going back 40-45 years. He describes having his first sound lounge experience and realizing how stressed he was without knowing it.

"So I basically practice sound and vibration. And the body of research goes back about 40, 45 years. And it's basically the study of sound and frequency on our physiology, on our anatomy, on our neurology, and how it impacts our day-to-day and the function of our body and that sort of thing"

How the body constantly resonates with surrounding frequencies

Craig explains that the human body holds a vibratory frequency and is constantly coming into harmonic resonance with surrounding frequencies including electricity humming at 60 Hz, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and other people's energy fields.

"Their vibration, human body, holds a vibratory frequency as well. So to do so many others, like right now I'm sitting in my home here in Las Vegas, Nevada, and there's electricity pumping through the walls. It hums here in the United States at 60 hertz. My body is coming into harmonic resonance with that on a subtle level. Wi-Fi, Bluetooth."

Six of the top 10 causes of death in America are born from stress

Craig shares a striking statistic that six of the top ten reasons Americans die are born from chronic stress and anxiety, arguing that removing stress and anxiety would eliminate those causes of death entirely.

"And without digging too much into the science, when you are hearing the same things that you're feeling, it creates this three-dimensional, fully immersive sound experience. It makes you feel as though you're inside the music, very much like sitting in the backseat of somebody who's got one of those incredible sound systems with all the subs in the trunk and the tweeters in the top right, right? And the mid and the six by nines in each door and it's just perfectly tuned and you just feel like you're inside the music, right? We do the same thing with way less wattage, way less power. But since you're connected to it, it's a direct transfer. There isn't a loss, if you will, of that signal. I don't have to send that pressure wave out from that car. I mean, look, in some cases, you can be 100 feet away from that car and still feel the bass that's thumping. That's not the case with our technology. In fact, if you're not sitting on it, you might hear a little bit of a murmur, but you're not going to feel it as much as you would if it were obviously a speaker, which is designed to project that sound pressure wave."