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Abstract
Music plays an unchallenging positive role on the mental patents. Not only the advance researches have proved its importance, but also the evidence of music treatment were found in the ancient times histories. Music is the part of every tradition for many years and nobody can deny its importance.
Today, the role of music repetition has proved a way of treatment for the mental patients for the therapy and disorder purposes. The researches of the neurophysiological have described the demonstrational impacts of music not only the patients but also useful for the basic emotional system of the body very easily and effectively. Not only the health experts, but also the public can experience the different effects of the musical therapy on the mentally disordered patients. Music directly affects the human emotions very effectively.
- Active Music Therapy
- Passive music therapy
- Functional music therapy
In everyday life, the use of music plays as an interactional process for the specific goals and objectives.
Many studies show that the music is not only the useful for the mental patients but also useful for the healthy minded people. Music influence the psychological systems of the human body. The patients of high blood pressures and the heart disease have seen miraculous results of the music on their health.
Researches on the healthy people through music have proved the positive changes in their minds, i.e. forgetting the old incidents, past accidents disappearance from their minds, etc.
Music reduces the anxiety level from the body. Stress level also reduces from the depressed people through different selections of the music playing. According to a meta-analysis report, music therapy has many techniques to relax the human body by reducing the cortisol level.
After knowing the miraculous effects of the music on the human body, a lot of music related strategies are adopting to cope the stress problem from the mental patients.
Music for the non-psychiatric disease has found the therapy treatment for the patients. Real life examples related to the music are such as; active effects of music on the motors, positive behavioural effects in the human and animals, and special effects in the Parkinson’s’ patients.
Introduction
Effects of Music
In the healthcare departments, sometimes the mental diseases are taken by misunderstandings. Mental problems need proper meditations and effective therapies for the cure with the help of music. Mostly, the Mental patients do not need to go the hospitals for treatment because the faculty of music therapy at home can care them effectively. There are a few types of music therapy to affect the mental patients and the other physical patients .
Effects of music therapy on the mental patients
The medical researchers have proved that the groups of mental patients have high ratio of improvements through music therapy rather than individual treatment.
In Tokyo, an experiment was conducted in a big psychology centre. In addition, the results of recovery were seen very efficiently compare to the small groups of people .
Meta-analysis for the Music therapy
In 2004, Gold ET established a meta-analysis experiment in different children and adults, who were the mental patients. It is clear that the metal patients, whether they are children or the adults, cannot communicate effectively through verbal forms of explanations. The experiment proved that the music therapy promoted the interactions behaviour with the people. The mental patients showed their emotions and expressions of feelings. Their verbal communication could also prove in response of music therapy .
The researches proved that the meta-analysis experiments utilize the music as a tool of treatment individually. The results of such kinds of experiments are ever positive in the form of group patients rather than individual patients. When the sample size of the metal patients is small for music therapy then the positive results ration is not highly effective. When the sample size of the mental patients is large, then the positive outcomes are very high .
Positive effects of music therapy on the Anxiety, pain in illness and the depression
Currently, the world is facing unexpected problems day by day. Mental diseases are spreading very vastly all over the world. Worldly problems have become the causes of mental and physical illness day by day in the increasing rate. The mental diseases are leading to the death related symptoms in the life. In 2008, Horne-Thompson and Grocke presented the music therapy idea with the effects of standard quality of therapy in terms of heart beat changings in the anxiety patients .
Positive effects of music therapy on the pregnant women
Mostly, the women find difficulties to manage the demands and physical changes during the pregnancy time. Many women are fearful of the pregnancy period, but music can play a positive role to decrease the fearful level in the women. In 2008, Chang established an experiment to know the music effects on the pregnant women. They found reducing stress level after the music therapy experiment in the pregnant women. There were positive changes in the women after the musical effects in their bodies.
Positive effects of music on the behavioural problems
In these days, the behaviours of the adults and children are getting very aggressive because of poor physical and psychological health. In 2007, Choi arranged an experiment to assess the effects of music therapy on the aggressive and self-esteem children. He used the behaviral and the cognitive techniques for the counselling and the meditation purposes. After a fifteen days continuously music treatment, the results showed very positive reactions in the experimental school of the children .
Positive impacts of the music on the Autism patients
The autistic disease is a brain disorder problem, which is linked to the variety of the growth problem and communication problems with the people. Autistic patientient do not interact with the society very easily. The problems of the autistic patients are actually the problems of ineffective communication, poor social interactions, unusual behaviours, continuously repetitive behaviours, etc. People having the autism spectrum disorders mostly respond very positively to the music. Music is an aid for them. They can learn many useful things through musical programs to improve the effective communication skills and the process of normal developments .
Positive effects of music on the Dementia patients
The dementia disease is actually the loss of the cognitive function. The dementia is due to the trauma disease most commonly. The changing process in the patients is sometimes quickly and sometimes slowly. The loss of cognitive functions in the dementias results in the personality changes, behavirol changes, communication problems, judgement problems, etc. Major result of the disease is the negatively affected the brain of the patients.
Many experiments on these patients with the music therapy have showed positive results very successfully. Music therapy changes their moods efficiently by reducing the heart and brain diseases in the dementia patients .
Positive effects of the music therapy on the depression patients
The depression disease influences the whole body of the depressed people. Mood disorder is the main sign of this disease. Depressed patients do not take interest in the daily life activities very happily. Their mood is ever off in every type of circumstances.
Music therapy has provided the evidences of the increase in the responsive behaviour of the depressed patients. For the elder patients, home based musical therapy can change their lives very happily through long lasting effects. For the depressed women, music therapy plays an important role by lowering the heart disease risks, reducing in respiratory rates, blood pressure problems, and the sad moods. Music therapy is better than the knee surgery for the depressed patients .
Positive effects of the music therapy for the insomnia patients
Sleep disorder problem is increasing day by day all over the world. Problem in sleeping or sleeping for late time can become a mental disease. Sleeping problem decreases the energy level in the human body, which results in irritation behaviour and the less concentrations in daily life routines. Sever insomnia problem can result in the severe mental diseases in the sleep disorder patients.
For the adults, music can change the habits of sleeping to live a healthy and energetic life. Music listening habits improves the brain skills of the children and infants through proper sleeping times .
Music therapy is useful for healthy lifestyle
Many health experts suggest adopting healthy lifestyle through the natural ways of living rather than taking medicines or going for health surgeries. Healthy diet, daily exercise and the music pills can leave a magnetic effect on the health. Changing the lifestyle leaves a positive impression on the human lives.
Mostly people love to listen music regularly, and they cannot change their habit of listening at all. Some people are used to listen music in the morning time to live fresh all the day and some are used to listen music during working hours. Many traditional stories have also the incidents of the music while cooking foods, meeting with lovers, taking showers, etc .
The melodies of music are linked to the human behaviours. Happy songs can change the moods of sad people, and sad songs can change the moods of happy people into sad mood. Music ever plays an energetic and heart touching effects on the listeners. The choice or selections of Musical instruments and melodies can describe the living standard of the people and their mind set too .
Above-mentioned effects of music are actually the therapeutic effects on the human behaviours. According to the Chinese medical research, there are five types of the internal organs in the human body by having the responding quality of the musical tones for the healing process. The Chinese theory actually describes the help of music for the healing process very easily.
Not all types of music have the same effects for the mental patients. Differentmusic have defend impacts on the health and minds. The neurology system does not evoke all types of the music. For example, the classical music relaxes and comforts the human body and the rock music discomforts the human body while listening these types of songs / music. Some experts stated that the music creates some imaginary pictures, which affects the human minds to recover in case of any mental illness .
What you did to try to solve the problem (covered in your methods section)
Advantages of the music for health
Music has the magnetic power to change the emotions of the people. It is a powerful to change the world from sad to happy mood. All the scientific and health experts have proved that the music have healthy effects for the mental patents. There are many advantages of the music on the human body, such as ;
Importance of music
The activities of the listening the songs or the music effects the nerves of the brain. The brain has directly links with the eyes, ears, and the whole body too. Dr. Victoria Williamson, the professor of the psychology stated that there is a direct relationship between the brain nerves and the music in terms of reactions. These reactions are very good for the light, food, sex and the social life in terms of happy and positive behavioural changes in the society.
Boosting of the mood
Music boosts the moods, which a positive affect of relieving the tensions. In 2011, a Canadian study showed the results of a publication that the music has an effective quality to change the mood very efficiently, which is very useful for the mental health patients.
Help in concentration the projects
Music improves the quality of focusing the projects or activities. In these days, a modern “digital tonic” is a downloadable software in the smartphones to listen for the improvements of the brain skills. This software is used to increase the concentration and focusing powers of the people by energise them positively. The process of this this digital tonic is to hear the useful beats to stimulate the brain activities efficiently.
Picking up the pace
During walking or jogging for the exercising concerns, music helps to run fastly. A study has proved that the music increase 15% more efforts for running fastly. Listening songs during the exercise helps the people to use energy very actively.
Music for better mental Health
Music helps to improve the mental growth very efficiently. Music therapy can use through two different tools of; through effective communication or the self-expression ways of communications.
Successful stories of the brilliant musicians
After reviewing the thoughts of different researchers, it is found that the music is very helpful for the mental patients. Mental diseases can destroy the lives of the patients but with the few help of the music therapy, they can live a healthy and happy life. However, proper meditations is the necessary point for the mental patients but the music also have the effective healing powers for the patients. There are several stories of the successful musicians, who changed their lives from a patient to a healthy living in the world. These successful musicians are the moral example for the mental patients to fights with the diseases successfully.
Brian Wilson started his music career since 1968 through a music band. That time he was used to sleep day and nights. Taking drugs was his bad habit. He was found a schizoaffective disorder by causing him to listen voices in the head. He could cured after taking many medicines and therapies. Then he found himself better by taking part in the musical activities very efficiently. Music changed his life.
Daniel Johnston was a severe depressed child during his young age. He was fond of becoming an artist in his early age. He did fights with his mental disease and became successful musicians by reaching the peaks of the career heights.
Syd Barraett was a bipolar disorder patient and had many physical diseases. He struggles with his mental diseases and became a popular and successful singer through music healings.
What you think your findings mean (covered in your discussion section)
After reviewing the effects of music effects on health, it is concluded that the music has majestic effects on the human body to cure. All the scientific and medical researchers have proved its positive effects on the health. Music is not only helpful for the patients, but also increase the healthy peoples’ efficiency of work in the daily lives. Successful stories of the musicians have proved the importance of the music in the real life disease solutions.
Music therapy plays an important role to reduce the negative symptoms n the body. Music therapy increase the abilities of social activities very efficiently. The isolations of the mental patients decreases with the presence of the music therapy. Music therapy has no side effects, stated by the physicians.
It istrue; music is useful for the health. However, in case of extra listening’s or the loud listening can be harmful for the health.
Human body have some soft tissues, which can damage in case of high voiced music. Blurring and rock music can also be one of the cause of bad health and severe depression I the youth. The noise pollution is harmful for the health, so the over louds of the music can be harmful for the human health
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