Music Therapy and Your Emotional Wellbeing

Posted on July 27, 2010
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Besides its vast uses as a method of pain control by cancer patients and other people who suffer from chronic painful health conditions, music therapy can also be used for the treatment of emotional disorders. There has been particular use of music therapy in the treatment of mental disorders like anxiety and even in dementia patients, a disease that causes both mental and physical symptoms.

Dementia is not the only disease treated with music therapy because of its multiple effect symptoms; cancer patients often experience a great deal of anxiety, and their symptoms are often relieved, if only briefly, by music therapy. It is important to remember that music therapy is never the sole treatment prescribed to treat any disorder, emotional or physical; however, since the therapy doesn’t work against traditional therapies, it is safe to use in conjunction with them.

Music Therapy and Your Physical Wellbeing

Posted on July 19, 2010
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Music therapy has become more and more popular over the last few years in part because the medical community is giving it more attention that it had before. Many hospitals actually have professional music therapists on staff who help admitted hospital patients with their symptoms through the practice of music therapy. The fact that music therapy is available through hospitals shows that the medical community is taking the practice much more seriously.

Music therapy, like many alternative therapies, has limited scientific proof of efficacy; however, the research that is available is complete and reassuring. Patients rarely if ever do worse after music therapy. But its rate of success depends largely on the personality of the patient. For medical purposes, music therapy is mostly used to bring pain relief to many patients who suffer from chronic conditions like cancer.

Music to Your Ears (and Mind, and Body)

Posted on July 11, 2010
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When you think of music therapy, what do you think of? Perhaps you think of a person sitting quietly on a park bench listening to their MP3 player. Or maybe you think of a sterile laboratory environment where a patient listens to different types of music and a technician or researcher uses electrodes to observe the patient’s physical changes. While both of these things are not out of the realm of possibility, they are neither of them exactly true.

Music therapy is much more serious a practice than just giving a patient an MP3 player and turning them loose in a park. But it isn’t as impersonal as many types of therapies performed in hospital-like conditions. Music therapy is actually a way of using music to help a patient’s mental abilities by producing calm, concentration, and comprehension. The therapy is applied by a professional music therapist and can be done in a variety of settings – such as a hospital or a home – for almost any illness, physical or emotional.

Meditating On Meditation

Posted on July 3, 2010
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Meditation is the practice of concentrating one’s thoughts and awareness on a specific thought. This concentration may not seem like something that could in any way affect a person’s health, but in fact studies and thorough research has shown that in fact meditation can help improve a person’s health.

The most interesting physical benefit of meditation is improved cardiovascular health. There are many theories about why meditation helps the cardiovascular system, but one of the dominant theories is that the calming effect of meditation not only relaxes the mind, but it also relaxes the entire body. Over time, regular meditation can help a person’s heart to be healthier. Since heart disease is prevalent in both men and women, meditation is helpful for everyone. Of course, meditation also helps a myriad of other ailments by the same relaxation method.

Alternative Medicine and Your Diet

Posted on June 25, 2010
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One of the things that practitioners of the alternative medicine industry push is the fact that what you put into your body has an intense effect on your health. Many practitioners will recommend herbs, vitamins and other supplements to assist the average person with occasional complaints, but for people with chronic or serious illnesses a special diet is often recommended.

There are many different diets that are commonly prescribed by alternative medicine practitioners for those patients with regular complaints. Patients with diabetes and acid reflux are often put on diets to help improve their conditions. For more serious illnesses like cancer, more strict diets are enforced. Many people have had incredible luck beating cancer by using a macrobiotic diet. Other people who have complaints of fatigue, weight gain, or just general poor health can often benefit from a detoxifying or cleansing diet. It is important to follow a medical professional’s advice when trying a diet, so be sure to check with your practitioner before starting any restrictive diet.

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