Wednesday, March 9, 2011

MUSIC THERAPY

What kind of music do you like? Everyone has different tastes in music and I believe that everyone has their own favourite song. I am the one who really like listen to music. I always listen to music in my free time. Moreover, I am a musician as well. I think that music has a lot of advantages. For example, music is used for intelligence stimulating creativity by creating channels of neurons in the brain. Research has proved that music tunes the brain to higher planes of thinking. Music is not only has a role to entertain and to relax the listeners, it has another role as a therapy as well.

Music therapy is an alternative medication emerging arena of health care in which music is used to heal patients fighting cancer, children with reading or writing problems and others. Many health care facilities also make use of music to help patients fight depression, cope with pain and ease muscle tension. There are plenty of other advantages associated with music therapy as music impacts the mind and body in many ways that are powerful. Studies have shown that music with strong beats can help bring alert thinking and better concentration there by promoting calm and a meditative state. Many experts suggest that it is the rhythm of the music or the beat that has the calming effect on us although we may not be very conscious about it. They point out that when we were a baby in our mother's womb, we probably were influenced by the heartbeat of our mother. We respond to the soothing music at later stages in life, perhaps associating it with the safe, relaxing, protective environment provided by our mother.

Music therapy is largely used to counteract the damages caused by chronic stress and thereby leads to promotion of all-round health. Music helps to create a positive bent of mind and helps to stay away from depression. This can lead to better levels of optimism and creativity and a lot of other benefits. Because of all these advantages and positive effects physically, many view music as a crucial factor which helps the body to fight diseases and to stay healthy.

For me, I am familiar with music especially, Thai traditional music since I was young. I love playing instruments and like listening various kinds of songs. I also use music as a therapist as well. For example, when I cannot sleep at night, I will listen to music so that I can sleep well. I like to listen and play music after serious examinations as well. Moreover, sometimes I feel down, music can make me feel better with a lyric that can encourage me. I think that playing music is meditation for me making me more relax and clam. Therefore, my life cannot stay away from music. It can be said that “Music is my life”. So, let’s listen to music together.

5 comments:

  1. I agree that music can help curing some health problem. For me, I really like listening to electronic songs especially trance sensation style and my favorite artist is Tiesto. Trance sensation is a kind of electronic music. Tran means the feeling of doze. I like this kind of music because it is fun. There are both fast and slow rhythm in one song and it is called trance because of the slow rhythm. The slow rhythm will give you the feeling of trance. When listen to trance sensation music, it can relieve my stress or when I am tired, I will listen to trance sensation music for relaxing. If you are interested in electronic music, there are many different style of electronic music such as house, trance sensation, ambient, breakbeat, chiptune, disco, jungle techno, etc. Or if you can mix songs by yourself by downloading songs mixer program from www.virtualdj.com. You can also practice to be a Dj by playing this program

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  2. Well, I believe that music plays a vital role to reduce stress and stimulate the relaxation throughout the body. When the mind is clam and relax, the body will be relaxed too. However, we must select the proper music to use for the musical therapy. There are various sub-categories of music type, if we were unaware and chose the improper music (For example, Rock music for people who suffers from insomnia.), it would make the thing worse than before. As for me, I do not have the favorite kind of music. But I'd love listening to my favorite singer.

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  4. I agree with the music therapy because I am in a bad mood, I listen to music I like and sing along. It really helps me to feel better. I think music also helps us to concentrate. After that we are ready to do or to learn some other things. Our emotion can be changed according to each type of music. Besides, playing music can keep young people away from drug. It could be an inspiration for creative activities. It is a great hobby for everyone. However, some music or songs can have bad effects such as Gloomy Sunday, a song which causes people to commit suicide over 200 people around the world because of its dark melody and sad lyric. Some songs contain violent content. So, we should carefully choose the type of music to listen and give advice to young people as well.

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  5. I absolutely agree with her. Music can release our tension. How lucky we are, being a human. Music becomes a medical tool, healing and recovering patients. Mental is always a big influence on our physical strength. We can call that if your mind is good then, your health is probably quite excellent because it produces some good hormones.

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