music heals the soul
Please enjoy some quotes about the healing power and therapeutic effects of music from a variety of sources:
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“Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.”
-- Oliver Sacks, Neurologist
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"Instrumental ensembles can enhance cooperation, attention, and can provide opportunities for practicing various
leadership-participant roles. Playing instruments may assist those with prior musical experience to revisit previously learned skills, thereby allowing the individual to experience a renewed sense of pleasure and enjoyment. It can also develop increased well-being and self-esteem in those who are learning to play an instrument for the first time."
-- World Federation of Music Therapy
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"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from everyone loves music."
-- Billy Joel
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From the following research study:
The Impact of Music Therapy on Negative Affect of People with Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders and Mental
Illnesses: A Single Group, Pretest-Posttest Design
Susan C. Gardstrom, Jacklyn Neforos & Joy Willenbrink (University of Dayton)
"Music therapy group sessions had a positive impact on participant-rated levels of anxiety, sadness, and fear....Participants also frequently verbally testified within the music therapy sessions regarding the positive impact of music therapy on emotional regulation and expression. Music therapy was described as a means of stress relief, method of coping with anxiety, and medium for accessing concealed feelings and emotions."
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"Music is a therapy. It is a communication far more powerful than words, far more immediate, far more efficient."
-- Yehudi Menuhin
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Link to fascinating article about the current findings in neuroscience for how music can help to heal the injured brain:
http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=26122
Notable quote:
"What no longer requires confirmation is the premise that music in therapy works, in principle and in practice. It is a fact: Music shows promise for helping to heal the brain. Research has identified specific areas in which music is an effective therapeutic approach. Neurologic music therapy [a certain type of music therapy discussed in this article] now meets the standards of evidence-based medicine."
-- The DANA Foundation
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"Rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul."
--Plato
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“Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.”
-- Oliver Sacks, Neurologist
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"Instrumental ensembles can enhance cooperation, attention, and can provide opportunities for practicing various
leadership-participant roles. Playing instruments may assist those with prior musical experience to revisit previously learned skills, thereby allowing the individual to experience a renewed sense of pleasure and enjoyment. It can also develop increased well-being and self-esteem in those who are learning to play an instrument for the first time."
-- World Federation of Music Therapy
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"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from everyone loves music."
-- Billy Joel
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From the following research study:
The Impact of Music Therapy on Negative Affect of People with Co-Occurring Substance Use Disorders and Mental
Illnesses: A Single Group, Pretest-Posttest Design
Susan C. Gardstrom, Jacklyn Neforos & Joy Willenbrink (University of Dayton)
"Music therapy group sessions had a positive impact on participant-rated levels of anxiety, sadness, and fear....Participants also frequently verbally testified within the music therapy sessions regarding the positive impact of music therapy on emotional regulation and expression. Music therapy was described as a means of stress relief, method of coping with anxiety, and medium for accessing concealed feelings and emotions."
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"Music is a therapy. It is a communication far more powerful than words, far more immediate, far more efficient."
-- Yehudi Menuhin
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Link to fascinating article about the current findings in neuroscience for how music can help to heal the injured brain:
http://www.dana.org/news/cerebrum/detail.aspx?id=26122
Notable quote:
"What no longer requires confirmation is the premise that music in therapy works, in principle and in practice. It is a fact: Music shows promise for helping to heal the brain. Research has identified specific areas in which music is an effective therapeutic approach. Neurologic music therapy [a certain type of music therapy discussed in this article] now meets the standards of evidence-based medicine."
-- The DANA Foundation
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"Rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul."
--Plato