Music's Healing Powers

Medicine for Oliver Sacks is a family tradition. There are many different emotions and experiences that come with music for different people, but in this essay music is medicine to help people heal quicker. Whether its excitement, calming, comforted, mystified or even haunted people draw attention to music and don’t realize the capabilities it has on healing the body. Current data suggest that’s voice training can be applied as a short-term stress management technique, as it promotes a different way of looking at oneself and the world. Voice Training as a Healing Power: A Pilot Study describes a study that explored whether improved vocal techniques lead to significant changes in well-being. The results from this study suggest that participation in voice training exercises can help individuals shift from guarded or impersonal registers to more authentic expressions of personality. This study also found that since voice training has a physical component, it improved participants’ physical as well as mental and emotional health. Ever since the 19th century North Americans has more time to pursue the arts Wiens, Harold said “Music training developed as a culture of its own, not merely to cultivate aesthetic appreciation and skill development, but also to promote therapeutic benefits.” Hunter (1998, 1999) believed that cultures around the world have long linked religious beliefs and rituals with music and its healing powers. Studies have found positive effects of music assisted imagery, voice training, music and physical excise, and voice training and breathing in various applications, including improving the auto-immune system, assisting expectant mothers during labour, treating post-traumatic stress disorder among adults, healing the wounds of childhood abuse, treating arthritis and lupus, and reducing pain using muscle-relaxation and music-mediated imagery. These studies found benefits of physical relaxation in voice training.
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