Music Therapy: A Cure for Physical and Emotional Pain

When experiencing certain physical and emotional pains, people often think that medication is the only cure. However, in recent years different ways of healing has broken through the old beliefs. One of these healing methods is music therapy. Music therapy is the prescribed use of music and melodies to help restore, maintain and improve the emotional, physical, psychological, and spiritual well being of an individual. Music therapy is a popular form of healing, it can affect our health in ways medicine cannot, and can also be performed at home when professional attention is unavailable. It is incredible that something used for leisure can be such a powerful healing agent.

There are different forms of music therapy that are used in the healing process. The first type is called improvisation. This is when a music therapist tells the patient to recreate his or her own music, perhaps a song. The patient is to write new lines of music based on their emotions, events, or situations, which are brought up during a session. The next type is composing. A patient works with a therapist to crea...