International Journal of Emergency Mental Health and Human Resilience
Open Access

Psychological Meaning of the Sounds for Meditation and Healing

Seonhwa Lee¹, Myungho Han², Hyungjun Yun³ and Hyeon-Ku Park^4*

¹Department of Counseling Psychology, Dongshin University, Naju, South Korea

²Department of Architectural Engineering, Chonnam National University, Gwangju, South Korea

³Department of Early Childhood Education, Songwon University, Gwangju, South Korea

⁴Department of Architectural Engineering, Songwon University, Gwangju, South Korea

Copyright: © 2020  . This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

To read the full article Peer-reviewed Article PDF

Meditation treatments are applied as training techniques to improve a wide range of cognitive processes and self-regulation. To measure the effect of meditation, approaches have been carried out in a psychological and physiological way. This study focuses on the sound meditation, and aims to see what sound means in the sound meditation. Listening tests were conducted using five representative sounds for meditation and healing. 80 male and 104 female college students participated and 34 emotional expressions were asked for the test. The results were analyzed by factor analysis etc. The meanings of the sounds are characterized by four factors; stability, vitality, rhythm, and profoundness. The preference of sounds was expressed differently by the factors. The structure of the meaning of sounds could be utilized for the measurement of the effect of sound meditation and healing with various aspects and more accurately

Keywords