MUSIC HELPS TO HEAL.
A friend tagged me the other day, on a post about music giving solace to a cancer patient. Yes, it does help a lot as the saying goes that, Music heals". That articles about how music helps, took me down my memory lane, when I landed up in the hospital bed, right from my class room, where I had been teaching.
I landed up in the hospital as i felt my whole class was swirling around me. After doctor had examined me, when I got up, I had started throwing up and the whole room was going around as if I had been in a merry-go-round ride. My doctor had then advised me to take an x-ray of my neck to rule out spondylitis. She had then confirmed that it was vertigo and I was admitted there for a day.
The next day, I was discharged with an advice to see an Ear Specialist. In the evening I landed up at the clinic, where the specialist and his assistant examined my ears and made me listen to different sounds. After all that I was asked to follow the assistant to the next room, where he asked me to lie down. He told me that he would be injecting cold water into my ears to confirm vertigo.
The doctor went to the fridge and took out one ice cube, extracted the ice cold water from it and injected into my ears with a warning that I would feel the whole room swirling around me and to inhale and exhale through my mouth. He then went near the window, and picked up the guitar which was lying there and started playing such wonderful music, that I forgot all about my giddiness and concentrated on his music....I felt that I was no more feeling sick....then he repeated the same with the other ear.....
It was that day, I realized that music could divert your attention from your sickness and transport you to another world. It really eases your pain and makes you forget everything, that you feel relieved after listening to music. Even on my visits to the oncologist during my chemotherapy, the soft instrumental music played in his clinic, used to make me forget my pain and tiredness at least for sometime.
As quoted by Billy Joel, Music in itself is healing. It is an explosive expression of humanity. It is something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we are from, everyone loves music".
A friend tagged me the other day, on a post about music giving solace to a cancer patient. Yes, it does help a lot as the saying goes that, Music heals". That articles about how music helps, took me down my memory lane, when I landed up in the hospital bed, right from my class room, where I had been teaching.
I landed up in the hospital as i felt my whole class was swirling around me. After doctor had examined me, when I got up, I had started throwing up and the whole room was going around as if I had been in a merry-go-round ride. My doctor had then advised me to take an x-ray of my neck to rule out spondylitis. She had then confirmed that it was vertigo and I was admitted there for a day.
The next day, I was discharged with an advice to see an Ear Specialist. In the evening I landed up at the clinic, where the specialist and his assistant examined my ears and made me listen to different sounds. After all that I was asked to follow the assistant to the next room, where he asked me to lie down. He told me that he would be injecting cold water into my ears to confirm vertigo.
The doctor went to the fridge and took out one ice cube, extracted the ice cold water from it and injected into my ears with a warning that I would feel the whole room swirling around me and to inhale and exhale through my mouth. He then went near the window, and picked up the guitar which was lying there and started playing such wonderful music, that I forgot all about my giddiness and concentrated on his music....I felt that I was no more feeling sick....then he repeated the same with the other ear.....
It was that day, I realized that music could divert your attention from your sickness and transport you to another world. It really eases your pain and makes you forget everything, that you feel relieved after listening to music. Even on my visits to the oncologist during my chemotherapy, the soft instrumental music played in his clinic, used to make me forget my pain and tiredness at least for sometime.
As quoted by Billy Joel, Music in itself is healing. It is an explosive expression of humanity. It is something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we are from, everyone loves music".
1 comment:
A very enlightening subject. I had heard of music therapy and how music heals both the body and the soul. In the U.S there are professional music therapists who work in health care settings and serve as cancer management teams in hospitals.It seems it has been proved that cancer patients experienced less pain . more comfort and relaxation.Also eased the nausea and vomiting among the patients undergoing chemo therapy. And it sure is a huge stress buster !
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