88. Nate Martinez: The Healing Power Of Sound And Music
The Life Stylist
Luke Storey
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2017
⏱️ 84 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever thought about why your favorite music makes you feel so elated, while jackhammers on the street outside probably have the opposite effect? Did you know that sound vibration can not only change your consciousness, but that it can also heal your mind and body? It sounds like a bunch of woo woo nonsense right? Well, it turns out that there is a lot of empirical and anecdotal evidence to support this theory. There is also a massively exploding interest in sound therapy in the current yoga and meditation scene. Sound baths or sound 'experiences' are becoming ever more popular these days at retreats and workshops the world over.
Our guest Nate Martinez is a multi-faceted musician, who has not only made a living playing secular music with legends like The Grateful Dead's Bob Wier, but has also become a popular fixture on the New York new age circuit as a sound therapy practitioner.
Using a wide array of rare and strange musical instruments, bells, rattles, whistles, gongs, crystal bowls, and even his voice, Nate has become widely known for his ability to drop sound bath participants (including your faithful host) into the void of blissful stillness with his mind-blowing sound meditation sessions.
In this episode, Nate talks to us about the spiritual nature of noise, and how it can be used to soothe the nervous system, and even facilitate spiritual revelations and experiences. It turns out there is a lot more to music than meets the ear, and Nate Martinez is just the guest with which to explore this fascinating area of spiritual research and development.
Please do yourself, Nate, me, and a lucky friend a favor by sharing this episode with your favorite music lover.
To your ears,
Luke
- What sound healing means
- Peer to peer musician chat, and his participation with Bob Weir
- What's the difference between sound baths/sound meditation and musical performances/concerts?
- How sound impacts every moment of our lives and how often we're manipulated by it?
- Why are we drawn to sound/music and why does it play such an important role in our lives
- How we listen and the intentions around structured, commercial music: exploring our individual dietary needs for sound
- How music affects memory recall, and the effects it has especially on Alzheimers patients
- Brainwaves, sound frequencies, binaural beats and the concept of brain entrainment
- The mystery and conspiracy of A440 tuning
- How sound influences and can shift our brainwaves and assist in achieving meditative states
- Some of the instrumentations used in sound bath
- How our subconscious memories of music influence our moods and emotions
- How we can incorporate sound therapy techniques and gain a better understanding of our environment to distinguish unhealthy sounds and learn to avoid them
- Finding ways to use sound as a tool for mindfulness
- Lifestyle recommendations
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| 0:00.0 | The Lifestylist, Episode 88, featuring Nate Martinez. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm Luke Story, a former celebrity fashion stylist and founder of School of Style. |
| 0:28.9 | For the past 20 years, I've been relentlessly dedicated to my deepest passion, designing the ultimate lifestyle based on the most powerful principles of health and spirituality. |
| 0:40.4 | The Lifestyleist podcast. |
| 1:09.0 | I was so excited to finally, after over a year of doing the show, |
| 1:13.1 | finally deliver unto you an episode about sound and music that I decided to bust out the old |
| 1:18.5 | acoustic guitar and play this here track. It's probably running underneath my voice as I speak at this |
| 1:24.7 | very moment if Dustin, my sound editor, figured out a way to put it in there. |
| 1:29.1 | I forget sometimes that music has played such a crucial role in my own life. |
| 1:33.7 | I mean, I think in episode one, Return of the Jedi way back when, I talked about how |
| 1:37.5 | when I first heard Jimmy Hendrix, it was like the first spiritual experience I had. |
| 1:41.4 | I must have been seven, eight years old or something. |
| 1:43.8 | And I sometimes |
| 1:44.6 | forget because I don't really play music professionally anymore that that was a huge part of my life and my |
| 1:49.8 | own self-expression. You know, that's what I really found as my first true creative outlet. And then, |
| 1:55.3 | you know, lo and behold, here I am talking for a living a lot of the time, which is interesting |
| 1:59.9 | and not doing a lot of playing, at least for other people. However, every once in a while a lot of the time, which is interesting in not doing a lot of playing, |
| 2:01.4 | at least for other people. However, every once in a while I bust out the guitar, even though |
| 2:05.7 | actually I'm a bass player, so don't shoot me if my guitar playing is not the best. I'm definitely |
| 2:10.3 | no Jimmy Hendricks, but I have fun with it. But every once in a while I busted out on the show |
| 2:14.4 | and that I'll get an email or comment on Instagram like, hey, do play guitar more. |
| 2:17.7 | And I'd like to do that. |
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