GRAD STUDENT RESEARCH PAPERS
Each semester students at Globe Sound Healing Institute design and execute their own research papers.
This is the database of over 250 students papers.
There is also a place to provide feedback on the papers so
others can easily find papers they would like to read or download.
The grading system is as follows.
Overall Grade – 1-5 stars.
Interesting – 1 – Blasé 5 – Mind Blowing
Practical Application – 1 – Theoretical 5 – Extremely Useful
Well Written – 1 – Hard to Read 5 – Clear and Concise
The papers are organized based on the following categories:
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“The Joy of Aliveness” is a poetic and meditative essay exploring a deeply personal and universal experience of presence, vitality, and inner joy. Drawing from a moment of profound connection in nature, the piece invites readers to soften, breathe, and remember a natural state of being that transcends effort or achievement.
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My paper explores how combining repetitive healing music, guided meditation, and personal mandala creation forms a powerful, multi-sensory approach to self-healing. It explains the neuroscience behind brainwave entrainment through sound, how meditation deepens emotional integration, and why drawing your own mandala helps process
and embody subconscious shifts. By engaging the auditory, visual, and tactile senses at the same time, this method calms the nervous system, supports trauma release, and leaves a tangible record of the healing process.
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This paper explores how the brain predicts and processes its own voice through the corollary-discharge mechanism, bridging thought, sound, and identity. By aligning intention with external vibrations (voice, instruments, or vibroacoustic tools), we can entrain the nervous system, activate resonance, and promote self-healing. Using tools like HRV and EEG, we gain measurable insight into our biofield and learn how to consciously shape it. This is where spirit meets science, transforming sound into a tool for coherence, clarity, and cellular healing.
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My personal encounter through the summer intensive course where I experienced a field of resonance that triggered my cellular memories through words, sounds, music and cohesive field that was generated by the fellow students and instructors. A series of synchronicity and my own activation through exercises and self-clarity by the program led me to arrive at the resonant frequencies where I recalled a vivid memory of talking to one of my soul mates whom I was able to recognize fully, who was a fellow student, sitting in the class (I won't reveal who for privacy). It was more than simple memory from other lifetimes. It was about finding my true resonance that creates a new reality that I was yet to acknowledge and aware of up until now.
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This paper explores how thoughts are powerful vibrations influencing and shaping both our personal experiences and collective reality. It discusses the energetic nature of thoughts, their role in attracting circumstances, and their impact on our well-being and collective consciousness. By understanding the vibrational power of thoughts, we can consciously harness this energy to create positive change and deepen our connection to our true self and the universe.
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The use of vibration on the body to heal disease and injury is currently being embraced in the medical field. Yet, vibration and sound heard auditorily as a healing modality in sports has not been as embraced in comparison. Incorporating both modalities when healing a sports injury can be highly beneficial for an athlete and their performance.
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Menopause is often described as a natural stage of life. But for many women, it does not feel natural at all. Sudden hot flashes, sleepless nights, anxiety, emotional swings, and a foggy mind can make daily life feel unfamiliar and overwhelming. These symptoms are not only physical, they affect a woman’s sense of identity, control, and connection. Beneath the surface, profound hormonal changes are taking place that impact nearly every system in the body.
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Language, sounding, and intuitive esoteric speech are various ways that humans have been able to tap into the powers of vocal inspiration for millennia. Is formal language as a human invention the highest form of communication, or is there a more pure form of expression that we have always been able to tap into, but with the advent of formal language in society, have had to re-learn as we shift into a new epoch of development? We study a few different perspectives, from modern academia, to channeled information, that shed light on our ability to reclaim this innate ability for our own well-being.
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The vagus nerve is a cranial nerve that has been gaining popularity in a wide variety of health and wellness industries from yoga studios to medical facilities and everything in between. The reason for this is the discovery of the important role the vagus nerve has in activating the parasympathetic nervous system (rest and digest) and regulating the sympathetic nervous system (fight or flight). These two functions of the autonomic nervous system are both needed in order for us to respond to our environments appropriately as well as maintain the normal functioning of our body when we are at rest. Healthy functioning is when the sympathetic and the parasympathetic are in equilibrium with each other, alternating states of alertness and rest as we respond to stimuli in both our internal and external environments. It is when we experience circumstances, both real and imagined, that keep us hyper alert or immobilized (or oscillating between the two) for a prolonged period of time that we ...
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This advanced sound therapy study examines the transformative effects of a 10-minute sound meditation featuring 40Hz binaural beats, designed to entrain Alpha brainwaves. Layered with healing instruments, the composition was created to resonate universally—regardless of age, gender, or meditation experience. Thirty-five participants provided qualitative and quantitative feedback both before and after the session. Their responses revealed powerful therapeutic outcomes, including enhanced relaxation, mental clarity, and emotional ease—demonstrating the ability of 40Hz binaural beats and carefully selected instruments to facilitate deep states of well-being.
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The relationship between sound and human physiology has been explored across cultures and throughout history, from traditional healing practices to modern medical applications. While contemporary medicine has established clear therapeutic uses for sound in specific contexts (such as using shock wave lithotripsy for kidney stones (Dai et al., 2019)), there remains a significant gap in our understanding of how similar sound interventions can be used to treat or prevent individual health issues.
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This study explored the effects of a short immersive sound lounge session-with and without the addition of the Miracle iCube-on participants' physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being. The goal was to assess whether using the Miracle iCube meaningfully enhanced the therapeutic experience, particularly in areas such as grounding and presence, spiritual openness, inner peace and joy, relaxation response, and creative focus.
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Board Members: David Gibson, Randy Masters, Jennifer Catalano, Lisa Lippincott, Jackie Miller, Anders Christensen