Does Music Have Healing Powers?
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We do not need music to live: we cannot breathe it, it is not food or drink, it does not keep us warm. Or maybe it would be more exact to say that our bodies do not need music. Our brains do. Music is like all arts just another human act of creation. But since it appeared, and more than that, it became extremely popular, it is clearly that music is the result of a necessity. This art is thought by many to have a powerful effect on our souls, on our brains to be more exact.
We should start searching for the links between music and our health in those dark times when people lived in caves and when treatment meant both ritual and cure and ritual was always accompanied by music. Or we can search it in that story we all know with the seek emperor who was cured by the beautiful songs of a nightingale.
Among the pioneer studies on this topic was the one made in the 1970s at the Colorado College in Denver. Those in charge with this study concluded that plants responded to music and even had preferences. Musical styles such as classical music, jazz or Indian music caused the plants to grow larger and healthier and even pointed in the direction of the music source, just as they do with the sun. Hard rock or heavy metal caused the plants to grow slower and away from the music source. During the experiment the quantity of music seemed also important: plants exposed to music for 3 hours a day evolved a lot better than those exposed for 8 hours a day. These results made some say that plants are a lot more sensitive than we believed them to be and that they are capable of having preferences. Still, other scientists think that plants do not have preferences and that they respond rather to vibrations’ frequency than to musical types.
Animals also seem to respond to music. An experiment held in the zoo of the Chicago’s Lincoln Park showed that even the fiercest animals find comfort in music. They all stood still and listened when the rhythm was slower and they changed a bit their reaction when more rhythmical music was played.
These days many scientists encourage parents to play music for their babies even before they are born. They also encourage us to learn how to play an instrument (the PRS guitars for example). These are thought to improve some of our abilities. But does music have healing powers? It can surely influence our moods. Until scientists will agree on such difficult problems we know for sure that music sounds great when we are happy and can comfort us when we are sad.
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