How Music Heals Our World

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We all love music. When we listen to our favorite song it makes us feel good. Familiar songs can turn a bad day around with just a few notes.

People love going to concerts to rock out to their favorite artist. It gives them a sense of community and makes them feel a part of something bigger than themselves.

Music therapy has ancient roots going all the way back to Pythagoras who recommended a daily routine of music therapy. The fact that music can heal is what music therapists and science have confirmed.

Music therapists work with a variety of patients including neurodivergent children. Music therapy has been shown to improve language and communication skills and has allowed nonverbal autistic children to speak to the amazement of their parents. Music therapist Ryan Judd utilizes instruments including piano and guitar to help his students learn to communicate by pointing.

Music calms and decreases angry outbursts in autistic children and young adults, and music can help them understand and handle their emotions better.

There are now preschools, kindergartens, and high schools for neurodivergent children that teach all subjects utilizing music. Some parents say that music therapists are miracle workers when they see the progress their kids make in such a short time.

Music therapy helps the elderly, especially dementia patients. It has been shown that even if they can’t remember their family members’ names, they will   remember their favorite song from when they were growing up. Music gives them a happier, better quality of life, and keeps them from feeling isolated.

Music therapy is also used for hospice care and stroke patients. Remarkably many patients with Parkinson’s disease have even been able to walk and dance again with this type of therapy.

Music therapists require college degrees in both music and psychology, and many are also professional musicians. They find their jobs very rewarding and are grateful that they can use their love of music and their musical talents to improve the lives of their patients.

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Science has shown that familiar music stimulates many parts of the brain. Music strengthens the language and communication parts of the brain.

It has been shown that the brain will synchronize itself to match the frequency of music. 40 Hertz seems to be a very beneficial frequency of music for the brain, especially for Alzheimer’s patients.

Music therapy is effective and can create outcomes that pills simply cannot. Music therapy and other frequency modalities are the treatments of the future.

Where a pill only treats the symptoms, music therapy treats the whole person, mind, body, and soul.