Want to find an effective way to quickly release stress and tension? Sue Wilhite shares what she has learned about the physical effects of stress, hypnotherapy, sound healing and biofield tuning. Visit her website. Or find her on Facebook and LinkedIn.
Emmalou Penrod
I’m talking to Sue Wilhite today. She is a business coach who uses sound healing. Sue, welcome.
Sue Wilhite
Oh, thank you, Emmalou. I am so thrilled to be here. I’ve listened to your podcast, and you have the most interesting and fascinating guests. And I am just absolutely delighted to be one of them.
Emmalou Penrod
Oh, yes. And you are delightful and fascinating. I want to know how you got into sound healing.
Sue Wilhite
Well, it was kind of a long and convoluted road. And I’ll try to make it short for the podcast. I frequently joke that I come from the Celtic storytelling background, where we all start 63 million years ago, the dinosaurs walk the earth, and then there was that ancestor and that ancestor. I’ll skip all that. And I’ll go to 25 years of, or actually, I think it was probably about the 15th year of working in Information Systems. And being what they called in those days management information systems. I started out as an operator ripping off reports on the printer, worked my way up to being a programmer, programmer analyst. And after several job changes, I ended up being the manager of what they called an IT department of a medium sized, just past startup. And that was absolutely wonderful. My boss was fantastic. And we never quite managed to get the budget for me to have more than me. So I was the IT manager and the department. So I was doing the management of all the hardware of the software, answering questions of paying customer support, doing programming, systems analysis, database design. I mean, I was doing all of it, researching new trends, all of that. And strangely enough with all of that, I ended up with an ulcer.
Emmalou Penrod
Yeah, I believe it.
Sue Wilhite
And yeah. Right. Because I was then and I am now very customer service oriented. And I would go to great lengths to make sure that my customers had what they needed to do what they needed to do, so that they could get their jobs done. And the ulcer was kind of a wake up call. But you know, it was kind of like, well, what else do I do? You know, I exercise. I try to eat right. But there’s stress. Well, after about a year of having the ulcer, a friend of mine dragged me to a hypnotherapy demo. And the guy who was doing the demonstration, who was her teacher, picked me out of the audience to do a whole bunch of demonstrations on. By the end of the evening. I had no more ulcer.
Emmalou Penrod
Wow.
Sue Wilhite
And I have not had any ulcer symptoms since then.
Emmalou Penrod
That’s amazing.
Sue Wilhite
That was back in 92 or three or so. I think it was 93. And I threw my pills away.
Emmalou Penrod
Yeah, yeah, very long lasting cure.
Sue Wilhite
Very long lasting, you know, results from from that. It was amazing. And I went, “I want to know more about this.” If after a year of taking these pills, where if I didn’t take them on time, I was in excruciating pain, to having no pain whatsoever. I wanted to know more. Yes. So I shopped around and chose a hypnotherapy teacher, and I took everything that teacher had to offer. I took hypnotherapy, clinical hypnotherapy, past life regression, hypno anesthesia, medical hypnosis. I took the entire catalog. Yeah. And it was about a year and a half of classes, and practicums and, you know, clinics and all those sorts of things. And I gave notice at work. Right after the end of the first class. It’s like, Okay, this is gonna be my next career. You need to find somebody else and took my first client in 1995 and never looked back.
Emmalou Penrod
Wonderful.
Sue Wilhite
And sort of fast forward a few interesting life issues. 911 happened. I had kind of an interrupt. I got the the opportunity to buy a bookstore. I joked that I didn’t have enough books, so I had to buy a bookstore. I ran that for a few years, ended up getting a job at another bookstore where I was the Event Manager for many, many years. And as the event manager, I was booking people to come and do talks at the store. And one of the people that I’d heard about but never actually got a chance to see was a man by the name of John Beaulieu, who was very, very, very influential in early sound healing, and particularly using tuning forks. And so I finally got the opportunity to see him. I had a very strange mystical experience. I won’t go into it, if anybody wants to know, they can sign up for a one on one with me. I’ll tell you all about it. But I had a very mystical experience that I then talked to John about afterwards, and said, “I think I’m supposed to do sound healing.” And he laughed and said, “Yeah, that’s about right.” So he gave me some pointers. I started working with the forks. I started doing work with my clients and having amazing results. The basic tuning forks that I use are from John, and they’re called body tuners. And the pair of them have a physiological effect that has been demonstrated in the lab. John got together with some folks at the State University of New York, and did laboratory testing, and found that what it does, and this is really important during this time when we’re recording this, we’re still in the middle of this pandemic. And stress is an issue. We can’t even say how big. It just is. Everybody is stressed, everybody. And what these body tuners do is when you hear them, the tonality triggers the cells in your body to release nitric oxide.
Emmalou Penrod
Wow!
Sue Wilhite
Nitric oxide is what your cells breathe. They take in oxygen, they exhale nitric oxide. When you hold your breath, and carbon dioxide starts rising in your body, your cells start hoarding nitric oxide. And that’s what triggers the stress response. So cortisol gets released, epinephrine gets released dread, the adrenals go off, all of the stress, your heart rate goes up. You start breathing shallow, and fast or you hold your breath for a while. And nitric oxide is building up in your cells. And until the nitric oxide gets released, your body continues the stress response. So what the body tuners do, and I’m going to name a figure that nobody is going to believe but again, talk to me, I can send you the link to the to the lab work. In five milliseconds nitric oxide is released from the cells and you stand down the stress response.
Emmalou Penrod
That is amazing.
Sue Wilhite
And I have literally had people slither off the chair because they’ve been holding stress for so long and their body is so into the stress. I ring the body tuners. All the stress disappears. And it’s like that was what was holding them together.
Emmalou Penrod
Oh, wow.
Sue Wilhite
And they just huh. And you can see it. I mean, one of these days when the pandemic is over, I’m going to get people lined up and we’re just going to ring these tuning forks. And you’re going to watch the people just go limp. Yeah, wow. Whoa, what was that? And it has nothing to do with expectations. You can sneak up behind somebody and do this. And it will have the same response. It’s a cell response.
Emmalou Penrod
You said, yeah, you said physiological so you’re right. It isn’t just what you think it’s okay.
Sue Wilhite
Yeah. So after using those and some other forks that you actually directly apply to the body, they’re weighted forks, and they create a vibration within the muscles and the bones and I love to put them on the ends of the shoulder caps. There’s a little bone right there at the end. And I love putting them on there. And it’s like getting a little massage, because it vibrates the bone so you’re getting a massage from the inside out.
Emmalou Penrod
Whoo.
Sue Wilhite
Yeah. And that’s also a stress reliever. It releases tension. It releases nitric acid, or I’m sorry, lactic acid, it just does this wonderful thing. So I have this whole half hour I call it the Sound Spa. And before the pandemic, I would do this in person, I would do the body tuners, get them relaxed, and I would put the sound, the weighted forks on the body on the bones and allow people to just kind of Hmm,
Emmalou Penrod
So can this be done remotely? You said, “that before the pandemic.”
Sue Wilhite
This particular technique cannot be done remotely. Now, the body tuners I’ve recorded, with John’s permission, I recorded the body tuners. And that is available on my website, https://sweetsoundofsuccess.com/ If you look under sound healing, there’s something called the sweet sound of sleep. Because what it does is it helps relax people so that they can go to sleep. That’s my major marketing of it.
Emmalou Penrod
So this is a freebie people can go to your website?
Sue Wilhite
It’s not free. It is an mp3, and I charge 20 bucks for it. But you know, they can get it at my website. Yeah. And it’s cheaper than sleeping pills.
Emmalou Penrod
Yes, yes, definitely.
Sue Wilhite
And you pay 20 bucks once.
Emmalou Penrod
No side effects,
Sue Wilhite
No side effects. You put on your little headphones. You listen for a few minutes. You get nice and relaxed. You go to bed.
Emmalou Penrod
All right, I gotta get that. I will.
Sue Wilhite
Yeah. So after I’d been doing that for about a year, another guest showed up at the bookstore. And she had written a book called Tuning the Human Biofield. And I was fascinated by the book. And I was delighted that she had applied to come speak, because I really wanted to talk to her and and see her technique in action. Her name is Eileen McKusick. And she created a sound healing technique called biofield tuning. And what biofield tuning does is it uses the sound not on the body, although there are things you can do on the body. But actually in the electromagnetic field that surrounds our body 360 degrees that is put out by the heart, the brain and the gut.
Emmalou Penrod
I’ve heard of this. Yeah.
Sue Wilhite
This field was measured by heart math, it’s been measured by millions of cycles all over the world. The field exists. But what Eileen is currently doing, she’s already got her master’s that shows that doing the biofield, the bio field is like your USB dongle. It’s like your USB thing that you stick in your computer that you move your pictures on to or your documents on to. Well, it turns out that the brain, the heart and the gut, are generating an electrical field. And part of that electrical field are your emotions, thoughts and beliefs.
Emmalou Penrod
Yeah.
Sue Wilhite
Right. Because everything that’s going on inside of our body is chemistry.
Emmalou Penrod
That’s true.
Sue Wilhite
And chemistry is nothing more than really, really detailed electricity. Right? It’s just ions going back and forth, this really cool dance. And so the electricity that is created by your thoughts, beliefs and emotions get written to your bio electric field. And what I Eileen determined is that by putting a coherent sound vibration in the field, you can release the energy of thoughts, beliefs, and emotions that are getting in your way.
Emmalou Penrod
That is huge.
Sue Wilhite
It’s huge. Now, there’s two ways that I like to talk about this and, and they work for different people. So I’ll do both of them. Kind of brief. Okay. So one of them is if you ever had a cramp?
Emmalou Penrod
Yes.
Sue Wilhite
Right? You get a cramp. And let’s say the cramp is in your hand. You know, let’s say that, we don’t really do this much anymore, but I used to get hand cramps when I’d write too much. You get a hand cramp and you just can’t move your hand. It’s like clenched and It’s just out there and you can’t move your fingers. And it becomes really ineffective way to get anything done.
Emmalou Penrod
Yeah.
Sue Wilhite
You can’t pick anything up with that hand. You can’t type, you can’t write, you can’t do anything. It’s painful. It gets in your way.
Emmalou Penrod
Yes.
Sue Wilhite
What biofield tuning does is it releases the cramp.
Emmalou Penrod
Okay.
Sue Wilhite
Okay. It doesn’t change anything. People talk about, oh, it converts negative energy to positive energy. No, it doesn’t. It releases the energy that has been held on into the rest of your system. And that cramp is no longer getting in your way.
Emmalou Penrod
Okay.
Sue Wilhite
And you can be more effective in what it is that you do. And that’s why I say that I’m a business coach with a side of sound healing. Because I use the sound healing to get these cramps, these emotions out of way, and sometimes they’re not even ones that you would have consciously known about.
Emmalou Penrod
Yeah.
Sue Wilhite
You’ve inherited from your family, from the media, you don’t even notice that they’ve come in, but you’ve internalized them. And they’ve written into your field. And they stop you from being effective.
Emmalou Penrod
Yeah.
Sue Wilhite
Right. Louise Hay talks about these kind of thoughts and beliefs. She has like four pages of them. And I love reading them aloud. I’m not going to do it now. But I love it when I’m doing talks on this. And I read some of these out loud.
Emmalou Penrod
Louise Hay. Now, correct me if I’m wrong, she has done a lot with EFT, tapping.
Sue Wilhite
Affirmation. Affirmation is her big thing. Yeah.
Emmalou Penrod
Okay.
Sue Wilhite
She was one of the biggest promoters of affirmations. And let me tell you affirmations absolutely work.
Emmalou Penrod
Yes, they do.
Sue Wilhite
But they take longer.
Emmalou Penrod
Yeah.
Sue Wilhite
It takes a long time. For affirmations to undo the cramp.
Emmalou Penrod
Yeah.
Sue Wilhite
Right. With biofield tuning, it’s like boom!
Emmalou Penrod
It’s instant.
Sue Wilhite
It’s pretty well instant.
Emmalou Penrod
Wow.
Sue Wilhite
And the other way that I liken it, speaking of instant, it’s like getting cataract surgery. So with cataracts, the eyes get cloudy, the vision gets cloudy, you can’t see as well. Colors actually shift, they go more yellow, typically or gray. And you just can’t see as well, you can’t do as much. You’re certainly going to miss opportunities. You’re certainly restricted in the number of activities you can do. My father-in-law, stopped being able to watch TV or read. You know, it’s terrible. But you go in, you get cataract surgery. It’s an outpatient thing these days.
Emmalou Penrod
Yeah.
Sue Wilhite
You go in, a couple of hours later, boom. Wow! I can see colors. Oh, my goodness, there’s detail. There’s all the stuff out here. And biofield tuning works the same way in that opportunities. Suddenly, it’s like, they were invisible before and suddenly there’s opportunities there. Suddenly, there’s interactions with people that you never knew were there. And it’s just amazing. I love working with biofield tuning. And yes, that can be done remotely.
Emmalou Penrod
That awesome. So biofield tuning.
Sue Wilhite
Yes.
Emmalou Penrod
I love it. So how do people contact you?
Sue Wilhite
Well, you can go to my website, which is https://sweetsoundofsuccess.com/. And there’s a wonderful headline that I’m starting to brand called “Get Your Mojo Back.” Because that’s what it is. You know, when these limiting beliefs, when these thoughts, these emotions, these emotional cramps and cataracts get in your way, your Mojo is gone.
Emmalou Penrod
Yes. you can feel it.
Sue Wilhite
Yes. And when it’s free, literally people have come off my table going, “Wow, I can walk. You know I can breathe.” Or what’s really funny is they’ll say, “Well, I don’t really feel all that different.” And then they call me 24 hours later and go, “Oh my god, I just got the most amazing job offer of my life!”
Emmalou Penrod
Yeah.
Sue Wilhite
So, you can also find me on Facebook. I have a Facebook page called, surprisingly enough, Sweet Sound of Success.
Emmalou Penrod
Hmm, love it.
Sue Wilhite
Yep. And I’m on LinkedIn. You can pretty much find me anywhere.
Emmalou Penrod
Awesome. Well, Sue, this is just exciting.
Sue Wilhite
Yes.
Emmalou Penrod
I love what you’re doing. You are going to help a lot of people and a lot of people need healing and help right now.
Sue Wilhite
Yes, they definitely need the healing and the help. And people who are trying to be entrepreneurs, who want to be entrepreneurs, who are working as entrepreneurs, no matter what level they’re at, whether they’re just beginning or they’ve been in business a few years, and they want to get stuff out of their way.
Emmalou Penrod
Yeah.
Sue Wilhite
Consider biofield tuning. Contact me. Let’s talk about it. Let’s find out if it’s a good thing for you. I would love, the more people that I can help the better.
Emmalou Penrod
Well, and you’re going to help a lot of people with that mp3 recording. They can try that and see how it affects them. Now they know how to contact you. I will have the link to your website and Facebook page on my post. Sue, thank you so much.
Sue Wilhite
Oh, thank you, Emmalou. This has been wonderful. Thank you for letting me talk about this.
Emmalou Penrod
All right, you have a great day.
Sue Wilhite
Thank you. You too.