Music therapy sessions usually take place through listening and listening to music. This can involve creating, singing, moving to, and listening to music. Moreover, music therapy relies on psychological specialties, such as dynamic, behavioral, and humane therapies.
Music can make you feel happy, excited, confused, or even sad. Music is an incredibly complex stimulus, and it is the most numerous facet in nature that the brain processes.
Listening to music involves several areas of the brain, including those that affect emotion, perception, sensation, and movement, so it stands to reason that it could also help address problems in all of these areas.
The idea that songs could have healing powers dates back to early civilization, where it can be found in the writings of ancient philosophers Aristotle and Plato.
Therapy was developed as a formal practice. Doctors treating veterans in the hospital noticed that their patients improved both physically and emotionally, after concerts by the community musicians.
Music, whether listened to or performed, can help relieve pain associated with a wide range of illnesses, and benefit people of all ages. It is an effective way of what experts call “procedural support,” or helping a patient navigate a procedure that causes anxiety or pain.
And many of the pathways that the brain uses to process music are the same as those that treat pain, so if the brain was focusing, for example, on the tune of a Mozart concerto, there wouldn’t be much room for pain messages coming from the needle stick. Melodies can also help you relax and feel less anxious.
In addition to relieving acute pain, music can also help reduce chronic pain caused by frequent bleeding in muscles and joints, as the brain releases endorphins – good chemicals – during a sweaty exercise session. Music stimulates the brain to produce the same endorphins.
The power of music to relax the nervous system:
Scientists have found that rhythm has a significant effect on the nervous system. Specifically, just listening to music has a measurable positive effect on the biological stress system.
And since our bodies automatically respond to the external rhythm, we can either increase or decrease the regulation of the nervous system, and we should not depend on external devices or substances for relaxation or increase our energy. And we can use music to do the same thing more efficiently without side effects.