Studies done by researchers including those conducted by the American Association of Music Therapy tell us that music has healing power. Its ability to alleviate pain, anxiety and depression are just the beginnings of what we are coming to understand about the power of the arts. Innately, the arts have always been a part of every human culture that is honored as something we seem to know is important although we may not fully understand the scope of its power.
Most of us know that music can lift our Spirits, calm our minds and lift our thoughts. But do we understand why and how to use it to for the most effective results.
There are two sources from which you mind gathers information to process into working thoughts. The first is the physical world through your physical senses: touch, taste, sight, hearing and smell. The second is through the divine senses of imagination, creativity, insight and intuition. What proves to be most interesting about the arts is the ability to reach the mind through both of these sources both divine and physical.
This ability to give us well aligned information is what fives music such power to move and change us. Imagine if you were struggling with conflicting messages in your life. Maybe you have the creative ideas of a genius just waiting to be manifested into the real, but the messages you see and hear through the physical world tell you that you can’t, it’s too difficult, you might fail and that should scare you. That’s the kind of conflict that keeps someone feeling stuck. The messages conflict and the mind becomes stuck trying to orchestrate them into harmony.
Now imagine that you were listening to a song. The composer wrote the music by divine inspiration and imagination and the preformer passed along both that as well as the physical sound. As you listen you are in an active communication with both the physical and the divine simultaneously. There’s no conflict in that message. Both sources delivering the same content, the sounds touching your soul, to inspire you and the physical touching your body to sooth or excite you. The spiritual message passed on by the composer and performer at a physical level. Whalla – you have synchronious harmony in both physical and divine and therefore a message that is capable of moving you at a much deeper level than either one could alone. This is how music moves you and the same is true for any other art form.
