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What is "music therapy" to you?
I started music therapy while the dinosaurs were still laying eggs. It was actually for my speech defect. Therapists were finding that music and language work from different brain centers. I was being trained to sing what I could not say. This simple beginning grew into using live tones of musical instruments to reach and speak places words cannot go.
Simply listening is a wonderful experience, but it is not therapy. My own music therapy is highly interactive. Even songs I steal have to be thoroughly self-customized to the wounded places of my psyche. When it does, the sonic resonance seems to massage psychic aches and give them healing comfort.
But that is me...
What is music therapy to you?
I started music therapy while the dinosaurs were still laying eggs. It was actually for my speech defect. Therapists were finding that music and language work from different brain centers. I was being trained to sing what I could not say. This simple beginning grew into using live tones of musical instruments to reach and speak places words cannot go.
Simply listening is a wonderful experience, but it is not therapy. My own music therapy is highly interactive. Even songs I steal have to be thoroughly self-customized to the wounded places of my psyche. When it does, the sonic resonance seems to massage psychic aches and give them healing comfort.
But that is me...
What is music therapy to you?
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I haven't written in my diary on my computer since May because I thought that my computer was dying. I got away from writing but my computer is hanging in there. I think that I will start writing in it again. It's so therapeutic.
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First, I hope everyone is doing well, and continuing to fight that good fight! Keep up the great work on yourselves; I'm rooting for all of you!So, I started doing therapy at the beginning of the year, when I was in my most depressed state, but with my therapist, I made big changes and steps in the right direction. But, over a month ago, she couldn't take my insurance anymore, and I had to stop...
It has brought a new question to my PTSD/bipolar table:
Am I prone to musical psychosis?
I do tend to lose myself in my musical instruments when I am in crisis. I consider voice a musical instrument. One which THEY cannot take away from me.
Just thinking. For my son and his family I am evoking my "Ears open. Mouth shut" mantra.