Music Therapy: Understanding the Science of Sound

Music Therapy is a fast-growing field in the healing arts. As medical and therapeutic communities continue to explore integral approaches to healthcare and individuals begin to accept responsibility for their role in their own healing process, we gain a better understanding of the amazing resilience (and sensitivity) of our minds and bodies. Supplemental treatments can effectively support, and sometimes even replace, traditional medical treatments and psychological therapies, while holistic and elemental approaches lend a wholeness that pharmeceutical and surgical interventions cannot. Healthcare practitioners, therapists, and the general public can use music and sound as powerful holistic, elemental tools to improve physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being in a myriad of ways.
This book discusses the power of sound and music, how it works, and how we can use it to enhance our quality of life every day, and in recovery from traumas, illness, and injury. Sound and music function as a central, binding force that connects nearly every facet of our life experience in this three dimensional universe- including cultural evolution, consciousness, cognition, mathematics, perception, biology, physiology, and much, much more. This book is invaluable to the healthcare practitioner, music therapist, and any person who wants to augment their practice, improve their results, or enhance their quality of life.