Today, the Singing Bowl is often used in conjunction with meditation, relaxation, healing and energy work, including work that involves opening and balancing the chakras. In some healing traditions, the tones of different sizes of Singing Bowls are thought to correspond to the frequencies of the various chakras, with lower tones interacting with the chakras lower in the body and higher tones attuned to chakras in the upper body. Some forms of alternative therapy assign a Singing Bowl to each chakra, using the unique tonal qualities to attune these energy centers of the body, improving energy flow and supposedly accomplishing energy balance through the body and assisting healing. Music from a Singing Bowl also can be heard in numerous New Age music pieces designed to help the listener achieve relaxation or move more deeply into a meditative state.
These Singing Bowls are excellent tools for sounding, sound healing work, meditation, and chanting, as well as musical accompaniment. A rich, resonant tone exudes from these crystal bowls by striking gently or rubbing them with the accompanying mallet. Theses tones move through our body in vibrant waves, calming, aligning, and healing our energy centers. Excellent, growing medical research is validating the powerful use of these bowls in balancing and healing the human body, mind and spirit. Frosted bowls are the more traditional, and heavier, thicker bowls for deepest, strongest resonance. Clear bowls are lighter weight, easier to hold or travel with. Ultra light bowls are a blend of these traits, lighter than frosted, richer tones than clear.