Music is a universal language. It is sure to bring healing to one’s emotions, like meditation. If you are tired from the endless work of the day, if you get away from it for a moment and listen to a melodious song, there is no doubt that your stress will really go away. When the sun rises in the early morning, the world that has been running for a while stops for a while, and the night is free and alone, you will probably enjoy the sound of a song that you love for a moment.
Every work of art in this world is a medium of expression. Or in any aesthetic medium, with the expression of one’s feelings through design, the fellow is spiced up. Poetry, song, drama, writing, painting, sculpture, knitting, and any form of creation to express the happenings.
By such means the people who align themselves with it entertain some mental pleasure. What we call healthy people is physical, mental, social and spiritual health. People who have these four factors in balance are healthy people. It is not possible to accept a person who has broken even one of these factors as a healthy person.
Among modern medical therapies, music therapy is a very popular therapy. Although it has a very long history, it is now a subject that is gaining popularity around the world as a health that can clearly be shared between people.
As in the West, there is a greater tendency for it in Eastern countries as well. In this therapeutic method, we should think of the child’s embrace as a child in the arms of the mother. It is a wonderful sight to see how a baby is healed in a moment and is embraced by the sound of a soulful song. This is how music is a medicine for the human heart and mind. According to the signal that he draws into himself through the five senses of man, some spiritual energy takes hold in him. Then, it is normal human nature to exclude all the emotions that make him tired and select healthy emotions.
The ‘stress’ that man is constantly suffering from, reveals the way it causes many diseases and calls the existing diseases a serious state. High blood pressure, diabetes, gastritis, depression, heart disease and many other diseases are given a strong boost by ‘stress’.
Although medical treatment drugs must be given for a heart attack or any other physical illness, a lot of work is done to alleviate the ‘stress’ of those illnesses. Stress is a must-have condition for a normal person to function. However, it is unfortunate situation that people’s illnesses are aggravated due to excessive stress. It is a speciality of doing this music therapy for mentally ill people without using any other treatment.
In some ancient countries, people follows their own belief methods, in some countries, folk dances performed throughout the night by singing poems in the form of a drama act were a therapeutic method of healing the mind of the patient. In some research, researchers found that it seems that this therapy has a very long history.
Thus, apart from healing the soul of man by using music as an expressive therapy, music therapy has a powerful ability to change the behaviour patterns of many people in society. Community Music Therapy Social music therapy plays a great role in this.
Some doctors, who were communication experts who prioritized community music therapy and sought its roots by fulfilling a mission to society, dedicated their work to such a mission. They did not use loud music in any way for this purpose; they got an expert musician to use more than 25 song creations to allow a large number of people to listen to the songs at the same time. Among them, a large number of people from different social levels and professions have participated. Accordingly, many people who came to the show’s end did not hesitate to tell what their mental problems were. Because of this, saying that they are able to rebuild their life by getting rid of their mistakes as well as errors in their personal life, and understanding their strength of it.
For this, they used certain emotional songs about parents. In the lyrics of that song, they had lined up the lyrics to represent the entire social level. There, it was mentioned about the fathers who worked on the threshing floor, the field, and the hay, as well as all the songs. Among the responses received at the end of the program was a certain senior official. He said that he visited his father once in 3-4 months because of his busy schedule. But he has said that he will visit his father every fortnight after that. He also says that he got to know how many estrangements in married life can be reconciled through these programs.
Even if you don’t know the language, there is no doubt that music is a universal language, just like the time of a song, there is no obstacle to the achievement of the respective purpose by the music and the voice of the singer. People enjoy old songs without knowing the language. But let us enjoy its enchanting taste. Some music is embodied in those songs. This can be done using the human voice as well as a musical instrument. If not, symphonies can be used for music therapy by using a large number of instruments.
In this way, music is an art form that heals people’s hearts. There is no doubt that it has great healing potential. It allows people to heal physically, mentally and spiritually and live as good people in society.
There is no doubt that music spreads over many human generations like a healing herb and fulfils a great social mission to bequeath those with sensitive hearts to the world.