By: kikaru kung
Submitted: 2010-07-18 22:12:49 | Word Count: 896
Oliver Sacks "Awakenings"
Music as a healing force goes back many centuries. Apollo was worshipped by the Greeks as the god of both music and medicine. Healing and sound were considered a highly developed sacred science in the Egyptian and Greek education systems. Soon after World War I and World War II, community musicians of all varieties, each amateur and skilled, serenaded veterans, suffering each physical and emotional trauma from the wars. The medical profession is currently embracing the worth of music in the healing or palliative care of a large choice of patients: the chronically or terminally unwell, the disabled, the neurologically impaired, and the mentally challenged. Music therapy programs are popping up in hospitals and treatment centers round the country.
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Heart disease is the primary reason for death within the United States. Those that suffer from heart disease either die prematurely or suffer a marked decrease in quality of life. Increasing proof is proving that music is soothing for the heart. Marconato and collegues reported in the Arq Bras Cardiol. in 2001, decreased stress levels and increased personal satisfaction, higher consumption of fiber-made food, lower cholesterol intake, and a better perspective on life in people on receptive music therapy . White within the American Journal of Vital Care in 1999 showed that in patients with an acute heart attack, music therapy was related to reductions in heart rate, respiratory rate, and myocardial oxygen demand. Guzzetta went further and reported in Heart Lung in 1989, that the incidence of cardiac complications was found to be lower in patients admitted to the coronary care unit with a presumptive diagnosis of heart attack, if they were subjected to music and relaxation therapy. Thorgaard and associates reported within the European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing in 2004 that specially selected music had a positive effect on the well being of patients and their opinion on the sound setting throughout invasive cardiac procedures. Other studies have demonstrated health advantages of music during and when cardiac surgery.
Music has different edges too. "Simply place, music can heal people." -- Senator Harry Reid, Nevada. As a therapeutic modality, music interventions are in a position to market wellness, manage stress, combat depression, alleviate pain, relax or sedate, express feelings, enhance memory, improve communication, and promote physical rehabilitation. Therapeutic music enhances a private's self-awareness and spiritual growth, brightens their perspective on life and this leads to increasing his or her quality of life
German author, Johann G. Seume expressed, "Music is the key to the feminine heart." Love is intimately connected to music. Henry Ward Beecher (1813-eighty seven), Yankee clergyman sang, "Of all the music that reaches farthest into heaven, it's the beating of a loving heart." Music helps conquer loneliness. Lawrence Pat Conroy, said," While not music, life may be a journey through a desert." Music will facilitate combat depression and anxiety. George Eliot (1819-80), British author announced, "There's no feeling, except the extremes of concern and grief, that doesn't find relief in music." Music has its non secular edges too. Every faith has incorporated music in its fabric. Basketball coach, Red Auerbach, who was elected to the basketball hall of fame in 1969, preached, "Music washes far from the soul the dust of everyday life." Music helps laborers lessen their burden and helps their time pass faster. It also acts as an uniting force in all aspects of life.
Musical therapist and teacher , Pastor Hal A. Lingerman, said, "Simply as sure alternatives of music will nourish your physical body and your emotional layer, therefore alternative musical works will bring bigger health to your mind." And as he properly remarked, not all music is made equal. Many studies have shown that relaxing music (Bach, Vivaldi, Mozart) leads to a significant reduction of heart rate and also a important reduction of heart rate variability, both benefitting the heart. The human heart rate tends to synchronize with the tempo of the music. Quick tempos drive up heartbeats, respiratory and blood pressure, and may be detrimental to the cardiovascular system. Relish slower tempo music and relax - and as the Yankee author, Henry Miller penned, "Music could be a lovely opiate, if you don't take it too seriously."
Guitarist Frank Zappa, winner of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1997 said, "Keep in mind, info is not knowledge; data is not wisdom; knowledge isn't truth; truth isn't beauty; beauty is not love; love is not music; music is that the best." Integrate music into your daily life regimen. It will enhance your life. And a lot of importantly, it may help soothe and even heal your heart. Therefore do not be surprised if your doctor says, "Hear two slow classical tunes and call me in the morning."
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