Music therapy

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Each disease process is a result of getting out of balance; it means that a process has gotten out of hand. Since the organic is not separated from the spiritual, a seemingly pure organic disease process also has more or less obvious correspondence in the mental-spiritual area. This fact creates a prerequisite for a music therapy. This field of activity is primarily the mentality in contrast to the medications that are effective in the body. The person is active: self-designing, observing, sentient. The therapeutic exercise specially designed for the patient is fulfilled with the help of special instruments, singing and often moving, it should have a regulating and organising effect on the organic and functional processes due to the rhythmical repetition.

The music therapist must possess the art to perceive the disease process and the patient in his individual disease situation and experience it with the help of music. This is a starting point to look for a way together with the patient. Different musical elements (tones, rhythms, sounds, tone systems), therapeutic tools differentiated into percussions, wind instruments, string instruments and singing serve him as therapeutics.

The patients react to this therapy with curiosity and sympathy first. When the “wave of horror” of having to play an instrument or sing yourself is overcome, a musician and medic, which is more or less deeply hidden in each person, begins to unfold its healing effect.