Turns out “sound healing” can be actually, well, healing [QZ.com]
“I heard a gong for the first time 15 or 16 years ago,” says Jamie Ford. She’d heard a gong strike before, obviously—“I’d seen the Gong Show”—but this gong, in a 2000 kundalini yoga class, was the first one she’d ever heard. “I heard it and I was just—I went to another place,” Ford tells Quartz. “I was calm. I could travel. Everything just expanded.” At the time, Ford was a biologist studying the desert...