So you have a tuning fork. It's beautiful. You've tapped it a few times, held it to your chest, thought "huh, nice" - and now it's living in a drawer. This is the most common thing that happens, and it's not your fault. Most forks arrive with no instructions at all and that means people don't get the most out of it and give up. So here's what you can actually do with one. A quick note on what this is: I'm not trying to turn you into a sound healer. This is about having one simple tool you can...

A woman at one of my workshops pressed an unweighted fork against her shoulder, waited a few seconds, and said "I don't feel anything." She was completely right. She wasn't doing anything wrong – she just had the wrong kind of fork against her shoulder. The usual explanation is "weighted forks go on the body, unweighted forks stay off it." Half of that is right. Unweighted forks really are off-body only – there isn't enough behind them to feel. But weighted forks work both ways, and that's...

"But what's actually happening?" I get this question a lot, and I love it. Usually from someone who's just felt a weighted fork on their sternum for the first time, felt their shoulders drop, and now wants to know why. It's a good question. Here's what I understand about it – the parts that are well mapped, and the parts we're still figuring out. It starts with something very ordinary A tuning fork makes a real, physical vibration. Strike one next to a ping pong ball and the ball moves....