Yes!!! Instead of turning to medication to combat chronic pain, depression or anxiety, some people are turning on the radio or popping a disc in the CD player. From Beethoven to be-bop, music is being used to treat a variety of ills, and new research has yielded some surprising results.
Becoming more aware of the music in your life and monitoring its effects on your well-being may be the most enjoyable prescription for good mental and physical health.
Music lovers everywhere can attest to music's power to affect the way they feel, so it seems only natural that
therapists would explore music's potential to improve mental health and treat mental illness.
The use of music to treat physical ailments has no less an impressive history. Martinus, a Renaissance singer, grew famous for his ability to reduce high fevers with his singing. As early as 1914, Dr. Evan O'Neill Kane
found that playing phonograph records during surgery calmed and distracted patients.
Learning with music
As reported in the best-selling book The Mozart Effect, classical music—particularly Mozart's music—appears to have a calming effect on both adults and children, and to improve their ability to concentrate and learn. Music therapists use Mozart's music to help patients with anxiety disorders and to help children with attention deficit.
New Age music were successful in treating insomnia
Classical to jazz to rock and roll or country
and western—to ease the pain of childbirth.
Apparently, music has the ability to raise the level of endorphins (natural pain killers) in the bloodstream.
Moving to the music
Music therapists in hospitals and nursing homes have discovered thMusic therapists in hospitals and nursing homes have discovered that physical therapy sessions accompanied by
lively music, such as Sousa marches, can encourage people with painful joints and arthritic limbs to get up and move around more. Handing out musical instruments such as drums, tambourines and triangles also encourages activity and improves the mental and physical health of all those who play along.
Music and rhythm to reduce stress and build community.The whole nature of playing music gets people focused. The drum is a communication tool, whether Iworking with families or developing team building and stress management for businesses.
In work with blind people, music has facilitated the development of better auditory perception.
Also as a means of physical therapy, the playing of instruments has been employed both for its psychological benefits, such as greater self-confidence, and for its physical benefits, such as the strengthening of weak mouth and lip muscles.
For many years, environmental sounds - the sound of a running stream, a water fall, the ocean surf, bird songs, or rainforest sounds, for instance - have been used by therapists and psychologists as a means of treatment. These sounds, it appears, can do much to relieve stress and lift depression.
Soft music and soothing sounds, used alone or with relaxation techniques, can effectively alleviate stress, relax muscles, and evoke a positive mood
2007-12-01 00:17:37
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answered by rosieC 7
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Yes,
Sound vibrations can change the frequency of vibrations in our bodies.
Here's a good article:
http://www.theosophy-nw.org/theosnw/death/he-sbd.htm
Look at this wonderful organization that uses this for seriously ill children:
http://musicforacure.org/
2007-11-30 23:13:26
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answered by Patricia 4
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2016-09-30 09:05:15
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answered by ? 4
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music always makes me feel great, if its the right kind you know happy music. my answer is yes
2007-11-30 23:32:09
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answered by jc skywalker 6
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yes it works....it cures colds, moles and sore ***- holes!
2007-11-30 23:07:34
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answered by chatticathi52 4
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