Music Therapy: Got the Blues? Play Them
Posted: 05/25/11 07:43 AM ET
"Softly, deftly, music shall caress you,
Feel it, hear it, secretly possess you..."
The gorgeous song -- like all good music -- could stroke that tender place within me that words couldn't get to.
Everything with a beat moves my spirit. Even Yanni, with his long hair blowing in the wind (I saw a video once... and the image unfortunately stuck). But especially the classics. I can't get enough of Bach, Beethoven and Mozart, because I think so much better when these guys are playing in the background. (Consequently almost everything I publish has been written under their influence.)
And apparently I'm not alone. The website of the American Music Therapy Association lists 57 pages of research articles chronicling the successful use of music to help treat a host of different illnesses, including depression, anxiety, substance abuse and chronic pain.
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