The ten frequencies / 963 Hz
963 Hz
The frequency of return
You did not come here to live small.
The highest of the nine Solfeggio tones, added to the original six after they were published.
What it is for
There is a state most people touch only by accident: at the edge of the ocean at dawn, in a forest that makes your worries feel small, inside music too big to hold. Psychologists call it awe, and research led by Dacher Keltner links it with wellbeing and with looking beyond yourself.
963 Hz is the highest of the nine Solfeggio tones. In my practice it is the tone of return: the personal story going quiet, and something larger coming in.
What it can feel like
At first, often just a deeper stillness. With practice, a spaciousness, the edges of you softening without any fear in it. Some people see light behind closed eyes. Some simply find the quietest stillness they have known.
Everyone’s body answers in its own way. Notice what yours does rather than looking for what someone else described.
What the research says
The tradition connects 963 Hz with the pineal gland. Nothing shows that the tone does anything to the pineal gland, and I will not claim it.
The research is on awe itself. In a 2015 study, Jennifer Stellar and colleagues found that people who felt awe more often had lower levels of a marker of inflammation. The tone is a way into the conditions for awe, not a source of it.
What the research shows about sound, breath and frequencyHow I use it
- Late in a longer session, after the lower tones have done their work.
- At night, as Day 5 of the course uses it, to fall asleep looking at something larger than your day.
- Fifteen to twenty minutes, with headphones.
Headphones carry the tone best. Never while driving.
In the course
This tone also plays on its own in Frequency Studio.
A question to take with you
If you truly trusted that you were part of something much larger than your individual story, what would you stop carrying alone?
From Chapter 19 of Frequency Shift, which goes deeper into this frequency.
Before you can heal anything, you have to feel safe enough to try.