Music therapy is for anyone. Although it can be used therapeutically for people who have physical, emotional, social, or cognitive deficits, even those who are healthy can use music to relax, reduce stress, improve the mood, or to accompany exercise. There are no potentially harmful or toxic effects.
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Music Therapy: How Did Music Evolve as Therapy?
Music can take an individual faster into meditative states.
Music allows us to transcend the everyday states of consciousness and travel to places that we either have a memory of or create in our imagination. This process of transcending the mundane evokes psycho physiologic responses when people shift to altered states of consciousness.
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Music Therapy: Treating Alzheimer’s Disease With Music Therapy
A music therapy programme raised melatonin levels and improved behaviour and sleeping problems in 20 male Alzheimer’s patients. Jule Klotter, writing about this path-breaking experiment, says that the Alzheimer’s patients underwent music therapy for 30-40 minutes, five days a week for one month. Blood samples were taken before the first session, at the end of the four weeks of therapy, and six weeks after the study’s conclusion.
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