This article introduces us to a new surge of 5000 community music therapists. Along with these musicians who go through a post-college study for certification, neurologists are trying to determine exactly how their music affects one's mind, so that we can utilize that information to further improve the effectiveness of music therapy. The author provides a lot of insightful supporting data and examples of successive therapy to prove how music has affected the many aspects of an individual's wellbeing, such as speech, movement, reading, memory and even weight gain of babies in the womb.
This reading interested me, because I myself often seek music to help me wind down or relax. I have also seen the good it does for people who otherwise have no excitement in their lives when I went to an elderly home with the high school choir to sing to them. Also, music is such a fundamental joy in our cultural lives that when it is used for therapy, it doesn't seem to bring about that brooding sensation that you are treating someone with a solution, because that person is ill. Instead, music therapy seems to have the power to make patients sincerely enjoy the situation.
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