04/09/2026
✨ A thought that came to me this morning… ✨
I was thinking about music and instruments this morning and suddenly wondered…
Do different instruments speak to different parts of our body and energy?
This is purely my own observation and something I’m becoming really curious about, but the more I thought about it, the more it made sense.
🎻 String instruments — the Heart
The violin, cello, guitar, harp…
There’s something about strings that seems to pull emotion from us. They can make us feel love, longing, sadness, nostalgia or even bring tears without a single word being spoken.
And then I thought about the phrase…
“It pulled on my heartstrings.”
How interesting that we even use that language.
Could strings somehow invite us into the heart space — helping emotion rise, move and release?
🥁 The drum — the Root
This one feels completely different.
A deep drumbeat brings us down into the body.
Grounded. Present. Connected.
Almost like the heartbeat of the Earth beneath us.
For me, it feels very connected to the Root chakra — safety, stability, grounding and coming back into the physical body.
🎺 Brass, bass and those big powerful sounds
These make me think of the Solar Plexus.
Energy. Power. Confidence. Movement.
Think about jazz and how a trumpet, saxophone or strong bass line can suddenly make your body want to move. There’s a completely different energy to it.
🎹 And then there’s the piano…
This one fascinates me.
The expression comes through the hands and fingers, yet somehow the piano can seem to travel through the whole body.
Depending on what’s being played, it can make us want to dance, cry, become still or completely lose ourselves in the music.
🔔 And those beautiful high sounds — chimes, bells and delicate higher tones — seem to do the opposite of the drum.
Instead of pulling my awareness down, they seem to draw it upwards.
They make me think of the Crown chakra — spaciousness, stillness, connection and something beyond ourselves.
What made this thought even more fascinating was discovering that there is actually research around where people physically feel music in their bodies.
Studies have asked people to map the bodily sensations created by different types of music, and researchers found that different music can create different patterns of sensation throughout the body.
Tender and sad music, for example, was often strongly experienced around the chest and head, while happy and danceable music created more sensation throughout the body and limbs.
Research into musical timbre — essentially the unique quality or “colour” that makes a violin sound different from a trumpet even when playing the same note — also suggests that timbre can influence the emotions we perceive in music.
Now, that doesn’t mean science has proven that “violins activate the Heart chakra” or “drums activate the Root.”
It hasn’t.
That part is my observation and intuition.
But I find it fascinating that science is showing us something I’ve always felt through sound work:
We don’t only hear music.
We experience it through the body.
And perhaps our bodies understand sound in ways our conscious minds don’t even need to explain.
This is exactly the kind of thing we’ll be exploring and discussing in our Inner Wisdom course — learning to notice what your own body tells you rather than always looking outside yourself for the answer.
Because maybe our inner wisdom has been speaking all along…
We just need to learn how to listen. ✨🎶 fans
