“Music therapy is a discipline that is recognized for its adjunctive (supportive) role in many fields of medicine. Sounds and rhythms effect many physiological functions such lowering or raising blood pressure, calming or aggravating the mind, contributing to mob mentality in crowds or keeping people peaceful in crowded situations. Movie and theater productions use music and sound to enhance the performance. How scary or suspenseful would thrillers be if the movies were silent?
We rarely pay attention to our sound environment. But it does have profound effects on us. Have you ever noticed how loud the clock ticks at 3AM when you cannot sleep or how much worse a headache pounds when rap “music” or acid rock with dissonant jamming is playing? These sounds and rhythms just don’t seem to help the pain go away.
As a musicologist with experience playing in large arenas before tens of thousands, Wayne Musgrave observed how music influences the throngs of fans at the concerts. In the hospital setting, creating music for individuals with psychiatric illness or traumatic injury or medical maladies, Mr. Musgrave observed more directly how music can contribute to healing.
Over the past 50 years, we have learned a lot about how rhythms entrain our minds, how sound energy impacts our emotions and physiology, and how to use tones, rhythms, harmonics and sound energy for therapeutic as well as for detrimental purposes. Combining Mr. Musgrave’s creative genius with the science of sound, Nuphonics™ has created CDs that can help you sleep, find calm in a turbulent world, focus when you might normally feel distracted, enhance your physical performance, or in what may be his finest gift, find peace in dying.
I use the Nuphonics™ CDs in my medical practice. Many times, patients report how much better they sleep with the Deep Sleep CD. There are many stories of people with severe insomnia who find that for the first time in a long time, they are able to get the rest they have been lacking. What are the issues with chronic insomnia? Besides being overly tired the next day, when one lacks adequate sleep, they are unable to release many of the healing hormonal influences that occur in sleep such as the release of growth hormone. In adults, growth hormone no longer makes you taller, it helps your tissues recover from damage of the previous days labors. The accumulation of incomplete repairs leads to more aching and limitations to proper function. Sleep helps you metabolize cholesterol better. Chronic poor sleep increases your risk for heart disease or sudden death. Using drugs to sleep can lead to dependence on the drug and alterations of neurotransmitter function. More synthetic chemicals added to an already toxic body never fixes the problems. Sleep drugs may help one fall asleep easier but they distort the normal sleep cycles. Often, they don’t work for the intended purpose and there are side effects that are intolerable for many patients. By controlling your audio environment, you have an added level of control over your health.”
Bryan Turner, M.D.
http://www.jordanhealth.net
