Music is Medicine

 
Researchers are exploring how music therapy can improve health outcomes among a variety of patient populations, including premature infants and people with depression and Parkinson’s disease.

Music as Medicine

In this typical world with so many differences, there is platform for people to come together with their diversities and mingle to make one unified whole on no grounds of race, creed, caste, gender: and that is music!

From before life to the afterlife, there is nothing music cannot treat. There is an inner connection between music and the spirit. When language aspires to the transcendent, and the soul longs to break free of the gravitational pull of the earth, it modulates into song. “A language which the soul alone understands but which the soul can never translate.” It is, in Richter’s words, “the poetry of the air.”

So, when we seek to express or evoke emotion, we turn to melody. It is being essential to mobilize all means at our disposal in the 21st century; therefore there is a day for you. Oh didn’t you know? Mark the date, 21st JUNE! Scream and shout because it’s the world music day when your soul will sing, your spirit will sour. As already mentioned, music has been used for different treatments and thus the term “Music Therapy” was coined in the modern times.

Music therapy has been practiced for decades as a way to treat neurological conditions from Parkinson’s to Alzheimer’s to anxiety and depression. Music can trigger the release of mood-altering brain chemicals and once-lost memories and emotions. The human brain is innately attuned to respond to highly rhythmic music; in fact, says Sacks, our nervous system is unique among mammals in its automatic tendency to go into foot-tapping mode. Music triggers networks of neurons to translate the cadence into organized movement.

 

Music to treat pain and reduce stress

While the sounds of such life-saving equipment are tough to mute, a new study suggests that some sounds, such as lullabies, may soothe pre-term babies and their parents, and even improve the infants’ sleeping and eating patterns, while decreasing parents’ stress. While music has long been recognized as an effective form of therapy to provide an outlet for emotions, the notion of using song, sound frequencies and rhythm to treat physical ailments is a relatively new domain. Active music engagement allowed the patients to reconnect with the healthy parts of themselves, even in the face of a debilitating condition or disease-related suffering.

The rhythmic pulses of music can drive and stabilize this disorientation; it is believed that low-frequency sound helps with these conditions. Music has extraordinary power to evoke emotion. Faith is more like music than like science. Science analyzes; music integrates. And, as music connects note to note, so faith connects episode to episode, life to life, age to age in a timeless melody that breaks into time.

Here I have got a life changing secret for you, if at all you are human then you can totally relate to the worst nightmare, the painful torture of injections. Playing music during painful medical procedures is a simple intervention that can make a big difference. So plug in your earphones and escape the doctor’s room into the rhythm. There is a map of holy words, and it is written in melodies and songs.