Music as medicine for body, soul and mind

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Even fewer people are familiar with the field of sound healing, also practiced around the world, with its roots going back to the earliest records of ancient cultures and tribal healers. The Scientific Case for Music Healing In recent decades, the research around sound healing has established a scientific link between music and its ability to impact the body at the cellular level. Studies conducted in the 1990s at Bryan Memorial Hospital in Lincoln, Nebraska and St. Mary's Hospital in Mequon, Wisconsin reinforced the healing power of music.

Researchers concluded that music significantly lowered heart rates, eased blood pressure, and helped regulate respiration rates among surgery patients. Dr. Claudius Conrad, a senior surgical resident at Massachusetts General Hospital and accomplished pianist, has studied the effects of music on critically ill patients. His findings showed that those who listened to Mozart sonatas required less sedation when compared to a group that listened to no music. Moreover, they had lower stress hormone levels, blood pressure, and heart rates than the control group.

A 2007 study in Germany showed that music therapy helped stroke patients recover faster. Various additional studies suggest that music can benefit the immune system, improve the ability to focus, help control pain, create a feeling of well-being, and greatly reduce the anxiety of patients awaiting surgery. Music therapy can be beneficial for a person of any age group. It helps to fight against many psychiatric problems and medical problems. It also gives a psychological support to the patient. It improves the health and minimizes the poor health condition.

It also decreases all the problems that come generally with the growing age. It also used to magnify the learning habits. It pushes the body toward the healthier direction so that the immunity of body increases. And the result is the less attack of the harmful disease. This provides a psychological support to a patient. Music directly becomes attached with the emotions of a person.

The feelings are also a synonym of music. The good mood likes the music as well as the sad mood also like the music. Excitement needs music to be expressed and depression also needs music to overcome from it. People believe that music and dance are capable in treating mental illness. A mental disease named melancholia is treated with the help of music therapy. « mai multe referate din Engleza