Singing bowls are also known/referred as Tibetan Singing Bowls which also called as healing bowls. It can be traced back to Asia as early as 2000 BC, Tibetan people introduce to singing bowls to the west, but it was never made in Tibet. The origin of bowls are from, Mongolia Tagoo, Indian and Chinese Jala Tarang, Kashmir Noot, Indidan 1 hatam, Himalayan Kitchen Bowls.
They are made of an alloy of seven different metals, connected to seven astrological planets, which create a range of different sound and overtones. Those seven metals are:
- Gold as Sun
- Silver as Moon
- Mercury as Mercury
- Copper as Venus
- Iron as Mars
- Tin as Jupiter
- Lead as Saturn
The older bowls are hand-beaten but modern versions may be fully or partially machine-made. Every bowl is unique, and the sound quality, pitch and resonance depend upon a variety of factors including the combination of metals used, the thickness of the bowl, its shape and its size. Due to their increasing popularity, factory-made bowls are now being produced for the tourist market, but these tend to be of inferior quality.
Singing bowls are used worldwide for meditation, music, relaxation, personal well-being. They are used by a wide range of professionals, including health professionals, school teachers, musicians and spiritual teachers. Singing bowls are used in health care by psychotherapists, massage therapists, cancer specialists, and stress and meditation specialists. They are used to help treat cancer patients and also for post-traumatic stress disorder.
The vibration of the singing Bowls stimulate the body to recreate its own harmonic frequency and help produce the alpha waves that is present in the brain in deep relaxation. Singing Bowls are of all sizes are said to clean the atmosphere around us of negative energy and emotional blockages.
There are usually five basic techniques for playing the bowls: Beating, Encircling, Adding of water, Adding of toneless bowels and Spinning.
