In many developed countries of the world, music is a human art that is used to heal many physical and mental disorders and is also popular as a therapeutic method of disease prevention today.
According to Buddha’s teachings, when people cannot experience relaxation, many problems arise. Accordingly, the enjoyment you get from the music you love brings relief to your mind.
Today, music is used as a therapy for mental and physical ailments and its results have been confirmed by research.
In corona (Covid 19) epidemic has scared the hearts of people all over the world and trapped society at home. To get rid of mental and physical stress and get well and get relief from diseases, music therapy has contributed to relief.
Today, modern medical research has proven the benefits of music therapy.
- What is the Music Therapy?
In 1991 defined it as “an interpersonal process in which the therapist uses music and all its elements to help patients improve, restore or maintain their mental health.”
Letter, in 1998, offered an alternative definition, saying that music therapy is a “systematic intervention process”
According to the encyclopedia Britannica, music is defined as “the beautiful melodious sounds made for the emotional expression of the impulses of the mind, as well the sound of voices and instruments.”
Music has been used as the basis for healing mental disorders because it has a special ability to motivate the existing mood and generate new positive and enjoyable moods by directly addressing the mind and heart of a person.
A research paper published in 2011 by Canterbury Christ Church University in England, “Singing provides relief for people with mental and physical health problems.
The researchers noted that “even people with serious mental health problems can benefit significantly from group singing.”
It would be great if you could gather your loved ones and sing songs using your favourite musical instruments in the morning, evening or night. Here, if you don’t have a musical instrument, you can creatively use household equipment. Through singing, your family’s happiness and harmony will grow, mental stress will be removed and family bonding will grow.
Psychiatrists say that when a person listens to music, many physical and mental changes are removed by centring the mind.
It is said that the survival and survival of man depend on the harmony of medicine and music science and according to the number of decibels in the rhythmic waves used in music, the earth’s atmosphere as well as man’s is protected.
Human music occurs in two ways.
- Sentimental tranquillizing music
Its plays an important role in the mental and physical health and survival of man. This music brings mental restraint, balance and refreshment through some enjoyable inspiration while listening.
- Sentimental provocative music
Its causes great damage to human health and survival. This style of music consists of loud rhythmic and tonal combinations.
- Sleep & Music
As with all illnesses, sound sleep is one of the most priceless gains in mental and physical recovery. A very busy lifestyle affects not getting a comfortable sleep, but today there is no such busy lifestyle. Due to mental and physical depression conditions and restlessness, sleep has become somewhat distant. It is also a reason for the deterioration of healthy life. Sentimental tranquillizing music will be a great help as the best medicine for sound sleep.
The physical activity of “singing” releases hormones called endorphins in the body. It is the hormone that helps create happiness in the mind. At the time of singing, we have to breathe deeply and thus the speed of blood circulation increases throughout the body. Endorphins increase as a result.
Also, listening to beautiful music brings many beneficial results to human beings.
Especially soft tone combinations and non-loud rhythmic patterns relieve human stress. The min is freed by the reduction of tensions. Blood pressure is balanced.
Thus, the music enjoyed by the person directly affects many activities of the human body.
- Music Associated with Yoga Philosophy
At present, while practising yoga exercises that bring about physical and mental relaxation in the yoga philosophy, the sound of tidal waves, flowing streams, the sound of rainwater, the sound of birds, musical instruments (Violin, Harmonium) etc. Various mantras such as “Om” and Gayatri are used, as well as bhajans and kirtans that cultivate devotion to God through bhakti yoga, which are also used to awaken the energy of the mind and strengthen the mind.
- Effects of Music on Body Immunity
It has been found that listening to sweet music in the evening and at night increases the amount of nitrogen oxide produced by the peripheral nervous system, which increases the body’s ability to cope with various bacterial and viral infections, that is, the body’s immunity increases.
Music therapy is used to control hormonal imbalances in the body. It has been found to be effective in calming body temperature and controlling impulsive thoughts the angry traits mentioned in medicine.
- Pregnancy and Music
Do you know? Making your little one listen to music in the womb has positive results.
An astronomer and engineer at the University of Nottingham in Britain used the classification of the BLOD effect in an MRI device to study the effects on unborn children. It is possible to see the vision of oxygen in the brain of the pregnant child.
You can listen to your baby’s belly and hum in a gentle tone. It is also very effective.
Pregnant women, they can sing and hum for the baby in a gentle tone by touching their belly and Medication techniques, listening to verses, and singing hymns so that the baby can hear them in the womb.
This low-pitched music is very suitable for children’s minds.
Therefore, in this season you stay at home with more freedom than usual, so you can use these tricks for the mental health of small children.
Music therapy can be used for mental illnesses that are commonly heard in today’s life, and non-communicable diseases such as depression, migraine, sinusitis, asthma, epilepsy, diabetes, high blood pressure and heart disease. Medically proven to be an excellent effective treatment.
It is said that music is helpful in creating physical and mental balance in the body and for the proper functioning of the body, digestion, blood circulation, energy retention, growth and protection of the body various musical techniques and sound combinations as well as through rhythmic movement activities, humans, as well as the surrounding environment, can be affected a lot.
Music is a universal language. The quality of healing not only for humans but also for the trees, vines and four-legged animals of the earth is embedded in the musical patterns that nature evokes.
Therefore, it is up to you to make good use of this wonderful music and achieve good health for the earth and yourself.
This is the best time for that. In this way, you can lead a healthy life through music therapy regardless of age.