Traditional / experimental practice
Chakra 1 · Root · 194.18 Hz
A 194.18 Hz tone (the Earth day; from Hans Cousto's cosmic octave set) with a rubbed, swelling crystal bowl at the same pitch and a soft drone an octave below. Chakra frequencies are a spiritual practice from various traditions; no scientific effect is claimed.
A traditional or spiritual practice, not a scientific claim.
How is it made?
- Pure tone · 194.18 Hz
- Drone · root 97.09 Hz
- Crystal bowl · 194.18 Hz, pattern repeating every 48 s
Sound is generated on this device in real time; no files are downloaded from a server. There is a 8 s fade-in at the start and a 1 min fade-out at the end.
Evidence
T · Traditional/spiritual practiceNo scientific claim is made; it is offered as a cultural or personal practice.
A spiritual practice from various traditions; not a scientific claim. The school behind the frequency set used is stated.
Evidence level T: Traditional/spiritual practice- What do we know?
- The chakra concept comes from spiritual traditions of Indian origin. Sets that assign frequencies to chakras vary between schools; there is no agreed list. The set used in the app comes from Hans Cousto's "cosmic octave" school: mostly octave multiples of periods such as the Earth's rotation, lunar phases and orbits (e.g. the Earth day, 194.18 Hz, for the root).
- What don't we know?
- The effect of frequencies on chakras has not been scientifically tested. There is no evidence that transposing a period into the audible range by octaves creates any connection to that phenomenon.
A session's level is the weakest of its linked claims; it is never raised by a strong but unrelated claim.
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