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The Sweet Sounds Of Healing
10-13-2006 -- By MICHAEL MARCIANO Editor

WINSTED — A Laurel City woman who has gained national attention using resonant sound waves to heal illnesses ranging from Arthritis to Depression and even cancer says she hopes people around the world will be able to share in her discoveries.
Alice Violet Richard, or Alice Violet, as she is known to her clients, lives just off Highland Lake in Winsted and has been expanding her healing service — A Unified Matter, or AUM — to health centers, spas and community fairs, where she demonstrates the use of Tibetan bowls and other instruments to create healing frequencies. The art has been so successful that it landed her on ABC’s "Good Morning America."
During an introductory session at her home Tuesday, Richard said numerous clients have reported positive results to her, including a young woman with manic Depression and an older woman whose arthritic feet were healed in one session.
"Any illness or pain is the result of a lower vibratory state," Richard explained. "It becomes a block or a Depression or a disease. Sound waves can pull it back — blood, bone or tissue — to its natural state."
While the idea of using humming sounds to treat cancer may produce skepticism, 75-year-old Dora Basso of Torrington said her disbelief was eliminated recently at her town’s Sullivan Senior Center, where Richard participated in a wellness fair.
"She straightened out my toes and helped me walk better through sound healing," Basso said by phone Wednesday, noting that she had recently experienced crippling Arthritis in her feet. "I had no circulation. She spent about an hour on my feet. It really was amazing because I didn’t think it would work."
Basso said she had been experiencing arthritic pain in her feet for years but that the condition had grown more severe in recent weeks. "I couldn’t stand walking," she said. "And it bothered me that I couldn’t get around like I’d like to. I’m too young for that. The age is there but I don’t feel it, especially after Alice did this for me."
Other testimonials have come from people with everything from back problems to psychiatric illnesses and the desire to quit smoking. Richard said it all boils down to "tuning up" the body and literally using sounds to "pull" its components into alignment. "Everything in the world has a natural frequency and sound can restore things to their natural state. It can literally rearrange molecular structure."
During a demonstration with this writer, Richard used a small beanbag as an eye cover to intensify the focus on sound. The client lays flat on his back on a massage table as the therapy begins. Metal bowls, tuning forks, jangling chimes, cymbals and a deep-bass tribal drum send vibrations through the body. Bowls are placed on the body and stirred and tapped to sustaining melodic hums. Richard relies on her own intuitive senses to relate her assessments and suggestions.
Richard said she fully believes sound healing can cure any illness and notes that numerous Web sites, including curezone.com, have documented countless natural recoveries. Ancient Chinese medicine suggests that certain frequencies actually burn cancer cells. At the very least, the experience can be extremely calming and spiritually significant.
"There are sounds that bombard us every day," Richard said. "There is noise pollution from appliances, traffic and other sounds every day that are not healthy. The things that are healthy are the human voice, instruments and sounds from nature. These things are in a frequency range that bring people back to a state of resonance."
After hearing about Richard’s sound healing work at the Mayflower Spa in Washington, Conn., producers at "Good Morning America" called her to come down to New York for a live demonstration in July. "It was very, very exciting," Richard said, noting that actress Uma Thurman was backstage and show host Robin Roberts was particularly impressive.
"Robin Roberts is just stunning. She is just so dynamic and has so much energy. I’m still waiting for her to call me for a session."
To learn more about sound healing with Alice Violet, visit aliceviolet.com.
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