The Healing Power Of Music

Healing through music is a powerful way to help individuals treat, cope, and transcend physical, emotional, cognitive and social challenges. Music helps lower heart rate and blood pressure as well as cortisol in the body.

Scientific evidence suggests music causes extensive activation of the brain, promoting the repair of motor and neural systems helping the recovery in stroke patients, reducing symptoms of depression, improving memory, dementia, Alzheimer’s, cardiac conditions, substance abuse, pain management, and even healing from injuries/surgery.

Music eases anxiety and fear and can help improve self esteem and mood. Music has a way of opening our hearts and helping us feel more connected to others, to ourselves, and to the world around us. As a result, it is a direct line to our emotions and state of being.

Music can be a portal. It can rekindle memories and make new ones. It can create a point of focus that, in effect, lifts a person into another way of seeing and experiencing life and the world around them. It can help manage pain and ease fear. It can help one process and navigate heartbreak, grief, and other complex emotions. It can lift spirits and can be a profound avenue for creativity and self expression.

Music can become one’s legacy.

People Who Need Healing with Music Most:

Terminally Ill

Autistic

Dementia/Alzheimer’s

Trauma Survivors

Veterans with PTSD

Depression/Anxiety

Chronic Illness

At Risk Youth

Handicapped

Incarcerated

Elderly

Harvard Health

Healing Through Music

By Beverly Merz, Executive Editor, Harvard Women’s Health Watch

The San Diego Tribune

Music Brings Healing Power to All Walks of Life

by Beth Wood

NY TIMES

The Healing Power of Music

By Richard Schiffman

Instruments of Healing

Music Heals The Soul

“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain”

—  Bob Marley