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Music
as a Curing Power
Music provides comfort, relaxation
and pleasure. Most people listen to music every day. It is often used as a
stimulus for people with disabilities, as it provides an instant aid to
reminiscence in encouraging elderly people to remember past experiences.
Music can relax you ; you just sit or lie down and listen to music, focus
on the sounds entering your body, your soul, your mind and allow it to take you
on a journey of pleasure and peace.
Besides, music can help to cure many illnesses such as : fatigue,
stress, cold,constipation, overweight...In fact,
listening to relaxing music will help release
tension, slow down your heart rate, relieve constipation. It helps you have a
good sleep and regain energy.
It is frequently used in therapy and said to
have a curing power.
Music
Therapy:
Music
is used in a variety of ways. It is used in the medical field as a source of
research and as a sort of therapy as well.
The curing power of music is great and its benefits are acknowledged in
this domain. The use of music in medicine is called "Music Therapy" which is a
kind of treatment that uses music as a medium to heal the feelings of stress or
physical pain of some people.
People have used sounds, particularly musical sounds, naturally and
therapeutically through the centuries. The origins of healing by sound and music
can be traced into prehistory and beyond, into the realms of myth.
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A music therapist's education and training are extensive. Musical
interventions are developed and used by the therapist based on his knowledge of
music effect on behavior, it has been
used as therapy for seizures, to lower blood pressure, treat
mental illness, treat depression, aid in healing, treat stress and insomnia and
premature infants. The client's
strengths and weaknesses, and the therapeutic treatment goals like enhancing
communications and social skills, improving attention span
and promoting psychological health.
Music therapy is prescribed by members of the
client's treatment team. Members can include doctors, social workers,
psychologists, teachers, case workers, or parents. It is the primary
therapeutic tool. Music is administered by a trained music therapist. He works
on improving the client's physical and mental functioning through
carefully-structured activities.
Contemporary medical experiments have established the beneficial
influence of peaceful classical music in the recovery process of patients.
This has been expressed by Dr. Clyde L. Nash Jr. a surgeon with the
St.
Luke
Hospital in
Cleveland,
Ohio. Another doctor, Dr. Mathew H.M.
Lee, director of Rusk Rehabilitation Institute at
New York
University
Medical
Center, said the following:
"We've seen confirmation of music benefits in helping to avoid serious
complications during illness, enhancing patients' well-being and
shortening hospital stays." "Of course" says a musical therapist from
Cleveland Deforia Lane, "music is
not a magic, but in a hospital or at home, for young people or older ones,
it can be a potent medicine that helps us all" (See "Music's Surprising
Power to Heal," in Readers Digest, Aug. 1992).
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