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Music therapy

Music therapy exists all over the world from a very long time. It is one of the ancient healing therapy. The pitch from a pitch pipe itself gives a kind of peaceful feeling. Music therapy today, is used by professionals to treat their patients who generally suffer from stress.
Traditional Indian music is known to be therapeutic. The ragas and talas of Indian classical music are known to give peace of mind and help release the stress from the body. This is called as raga chikitsa (treatment from ragas). Many of my friends say that old Hindi songs make them feel better. For me it isLata Mangeshkar 's mellifluous voice that makes me happy. The vocals, notes, pitch, tune , rhythm patterns, all these are analysed for a particular person for music therapy.
Many doctors and musicologists have done extensive studies on music therapy. Not only humans benefit from music therapy but one can reap a good harvest if a farmer plays music in the fields which is simply amazing!
Jahnavi

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  1. Susan A EamesApril 15, 2016 at 10:13 AM

    I agree that music can be very therapeutic although I'm talking about music that I'm familiar with. I'm afraid I have very little knowledge of Indian classical music.

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  2. JanviApril 16, 2016 at 8:53 AM

    Any type of music which we are familiar with has positive points

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