Music Healing: Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Music healing and music therapy are increasingly well-regarded as natural paths to healing through activation of the body's own immune and self-regulatory potentials. Music therapy may be undertaken with a registered music therapist or on one's own with CDs, internet resources, or one's own musical abilities.

In its most basic sense, music is often used to relax the patient and activate the healing potential of the parasympathetic nervous system. Simply reducing the levels of stress hormones in a person's bloodstream has a substantially positive effect on short and long-term health. Additionally, music therapy and healing musical tones, harmonic frequencies, and therapeutic recordings are said to heal emotional turmoils and/or activate brain centers that can help address cognitive health issues such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's Disease, aphasia (loss of speech), dementia, mood disorders, etc.

Home Remedies: Music therapy and musical healing can have a substantial effect on pain control, stress reduction, and reduction of blood pressure. Music also stimulates the brain and can positively effect feelings of anxiety, depression, pain, and fatigue.