Can You Benefit From Music Therapy?

Music is medicine for our souls and just as a gourmet recipe is written, music can be organized into musical prescriptions to cure a variety of disorders.

Music Therapy is not as simple as taking a CD, playing it and magically your cured. There are many disciplines involved in the study of the effects of music on the listener. Cognitive theory studies how music is perceived by the listener and how cognitive schemata (basic element of thinking) are activated when listening to music.

By itself music will not be considered medicine, even though a type of music called “Healing Music” can be soothing and provide many positive side effects which contribute to a better quality of life. For the person with very minor ailments healing music has been sufficient and its side effects have been very motivating.

If you consider yourself to have minor ailments you could experience such benefits as:

• Lower blood pressure to a healthy level
• Lower stress hormones
• Improvement in mood
• Weight loss

These are only a few benefits which you could experience, there are many more benefits to healing music.

If you are currently taking a medical prescription should you replace this medicine with music? Read more »

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This past weekend I was talking to some friends I hadn’t seen for a few years and through our conversation we somehow started talking about health issues. One of the things that came up through this conversation was one of my friends mother had been quite ill with rheumatoid arthritis.

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What Is Music Therapy and The Benefits?

Throughout the centuries, as far back as biblical times, there has not been proof found of a society without music. The history books do show there have been societies which lacked the ability to read, write, and even speak. Music has always Read more »