Somatosensory Music Therapy and Health Care

Since the 1940s, with the change of medical model and the development of psychomedicine and rehabilitation medicine, music therapy, as a unique art therapy, has attracted more and more attention. Modern research shows that music therapy can be used not only in clinical treatment, but also in life, to regulate mood, improve health and prolong life. As early as 2,000 years ago, Chinese medicine had the theory of music health preservation. In the traditional system of Chinese medicine, five tones correspond to heaven and man, and five elements of yin and yang are combined to form a somatosensory music therapy with Chinese characteristics.

Modern Music Therapy

The use of music to alleviate or eliminate patients'pain is called music therapy or "psycho-music therapy". Since the 1940s, with the change of medical treatment mode and the popularization and development of psychomedicine and rehabilitation medicine, music therapy as a unique art therapy has entered millions of families and attracted more and more attention. At present, music therapy has been used in the treatment of reducing blood pressure, relieving insomnia, relieving pain and relieving tension. Especially with the pressure of various ways of modern life and work, leading to mental fatigue and physical exhaustion, causing some chronic diseases. Modern music therapy can prevent, alleviate or eliminate the suffering of patients.

Modern research shows and practice proves that music therapy can be used not only in clinical treatment but also in life, to regulate mood, improve health and prolong life. Why can music cure diseases? And why can it play many unexpected roles? Although the mechanism is not yet fully clear, researchers have shown that music is a kind of music, and the human body itself is composed of many vibration systems, such as heart beating, brain wave fluctuation and gastrointestinal peristalsis, so when human physiological rhythm and external sound, rhythm coincide, the two will produce resonance and adjustable. The rhythm of human beings makes the physiological functions of organs and tissues in a harmonious state, such as regulating intestinal peristalsis, heart rate, respiratory rate and muscle contraction.

Music Health Therapy with Chinese Characteristics

Music health-preserving therapy: In fact, Chinese medicine as early as 2,000 years ago has had the theory of music health-preserving, such as traditional Chinese medicine notes "Huangdi Neijing" in the five-tone therapy, "Zuozhuan" said that music, like medicine, has treatment, can make people sick, healthy and longevity. The traditional Chinese medicine system combines the five tones with the correspondence between heaven and man and the five elements of yin and yang. An orderly and coordinated Wuxing Sheng Ke can make the five zang organs energetic and energetic, and "Yin Ping Yang Secret" can be healthy.

The Taiping Jing of the Eastern Han Dynasty explains the origin and significance of music by using the theory of Yin and Yang. It holds that the development of music conforms to the law of Yin and Yang interacting with each other in the universe. As a basic thread throughout the whole TCM system, the balance of Yin and Yang is the basis of physical and mental health. For the classification of yin and Yang in music, it can be summed up as follows: high for yang, low for yin; major for yang, minor for yin; strong for yang, weak for yin; rigid for yang, soft for yin; golden leather for yang, silk wood for Yin and so on. Music health preservation is aimed at the imbalance of Yin and Yang of the body. It uses the Yin and Yang attributes of music to remedy the shortcomings and coordinate the balance of Yin and Yang. For patients with Yang deficiency and cold syndrome, Warm Yang and dispel cold can be used to enjoy active, cheerful, exciting and passionate music.

Wang Bingzhu of the Tang Dynasty said, "The horn means wood tone, and the tone is straight; the signification of fire tone, and beauty; the palace is local tone, big and harmonious; the commerce is gold tone, light and vigorous; the feather is water tone, deep and deep." "Spiritual pivot, evil guest" day: "The sky has five tones, people have five Zang organs; the sky has six laws, people have six viscera. This man corresponds to heaven and earth. Ancient Chinese music is a five-tone system, which is called Jiao, Zheng, Gong, Shang and Yu. These five scales are endowed with the attributes of five elements by Chinese traditional philosophy: wood, fire, earth, gold and water. On this basis, combined with Yin-Yang theory, Chinese medicine believes that five tones can infect and regulate the five records, and then affect the five records. In listening, let the tune, mood and dirty gas resonate and interact, so as to achieve the function of turbulent blood, unblocked spirit and heart.

1. Horn sounds into the liver: Horn sounds are the rejuvenation of the earth, and all things germinate. The melody is full of vitality. The melody is round, long and clear, and has the characteristics of "wood". It can relieve both depression and rage. For those with poor spleen and stomach and depressed mood, it can soothe the liver, regulate qi and eliminate depression by listening to angular tunes. (Nu Sheng Si) These kinds of music include Mou Shou Ah Mou Shou, Hu Jian 18 Pais and so on.

2. Into the heart: Zhengyu music is warm and cheerful, lively and relaxed, euphemistic and fluent. It has a distinct structure and a cheerful atmosphere with the characteristics of "fire". It can regulate blood vessels and shake the spirit. For people with panic, chest tightness, insomnia and dreams, listening to tunes often can make them feel happy, energetic, invigorate Qi and calm spirits, and improve the quality of sleep. (Happiness makes sorrow) These kinds of songs are: Birds to the Phoenix, Heart and so on.

3. Gong Sheng Entering the Spleen: The style of Gong Music is melodious and quiet, pure and solemn, as broad and solid as "earth". For obesity, constipation, loss of appetite, indigestion, often listen to uterine regulation can invigorate the spleen and stomach, dissipate food accumulation, eliminate thinking, light body fat. Such as: Ambush on the Ten Sides, Long Friendship, etc.

4. Shang Yin Into the Lung: Shang Music has a high and solemn style, magnificent, bright and quiet "golden" characteristics, which can stimulate people's hearts and vent pessimistic mood. For people with yellow and white complexion, cough and asthma, low immunity and other people, often listen to quotient tune can nourish yin and lung, moisten lung and remove phlegm, beauty and improve immunity. (Sorrow wins anger) These are: Yangchun White Snow and Walking to the West Pass.

5. Feather sound into the kidney: feather music style is pure, light and clear, desolate and soft, running clouds and running water, with the characteristics of "water", which can arouse reverie, enlighten the mind, promote growth and development, nervous weakness caused by irregular emotions, ecstasy and sadness, as well as weak waist and legs, gray complexion, mental depression, memory. For people with hypoxia, listening to feather tone often can invigorate kidney and strengthen body, nourish yin and strengthen yang, improve vitality and increase memory. It's like "Three Lanes of Plum Blossoms" and "River Water".

In addition, it has meridian tropism, ups and downs, cold, hot and cool, and has various characteristics of Chinese herbal medicine. And the music needs to be processed, the same music, you can use different instruments, rhythm, strength, harmony, and so on, to match each other, just as there is a difference in the prescription of traditional Chinese medicine. According to the principle of "first near and then far, first in order and then in opposition", we can combine the ways of music health preservation.

Applicable symptoms: excessive stress, anxiety and burnout, physical and mental exhaustion

Music Prescription: Listen to lively music more, can make people happy, cheerful, have the effect of reducing the pressure of life and eliminating anxiety.

Ingredients: Three national orchestras,

"Dragon Race for Championship" - the performance of the Dragon Boat Race scene, it is joyful and exciting;

"Jasmine Flower" - a music with unique Jiangnan style of water, fragrant jasmine, refreshing;

"Yao Dance Music" - shows young Yao men and women dancing in costumes under the moon on festive night, bringing a relaxation and joy.

Music therapy embodies to a great extent the principle of treating diseases with seven emotions in traditional Chinese medicine. Music therapy combines with traditional Chinese medicine theory organically and forms music health therapy with Chinese characteristics.

The Conditions of Music Health Therapy

Music health-preserving therapy should vary from person to person and from disease to disease. Only when it is used properly can it play a better role in health preservation. Therefore, music health care should not only pay attention to the selection of tracks and their collocation, but also to the environment and volume control. Special attention must be paid to the volume control, usually 40 to 60 decibels is the most appropriate. Music health needs a comfortable and elegant environment. Appropriate environment is essential to the coordination of mood and body. Ouyang Xiu said, "In Yiling, green hills and green waters at present, there is no tired of revival, although the piano is not good, meaning is self-release". Because we need to concentrate, calm and feel the positive dissipation of music, so the general environment should be selected in a quieter place, no one disturbs. For example, a lazy and idle bedroom, a study out of the dust. If we can get out of the house and walk into the nature with fresh air and the fragrance of birds and flowers, it is also a good place for music health. In fact, as long as the environment is comfortable and reasonable, the restaurant and dining hall beside the noiseless, leisure office can become a place for music health. Traditional Chinese medicine pays attention to local conditions. North, South, West and East, different climatic and regional characteristics, human physiological status and temperament will also be affected. Southern climate is relatively hot, so the music of silk and bamboo, Jiangnan Xiaoqu and other fresh and elegant music is more suitable for Southerners to enjoy. The northwest is mostly desert grassland, spacious and harsh, so that kind of golden leather thick, broad and lofty music is more suitable.

Although music has the effect of health care, everything has relativity. Excessive stimulation of intense music, crazy beat and deafening volume can make people distracted, palpitated and breathless, and even destroy the operation of the heart and blood vessels, which is not conducive to health. Similar to the modern voice of exhaustion, it is particularly inappropriate for patients with heart disease and hypertension. Music is not good or harmless. Therefore, we should make good choices and feel happy and pleasant. How unfortunate is human beings? Natural disasters and man-made disasters are all over the world. Secular troubles happen all the time. How fortunate is human beings to enjoy natural music and live in various treasures of nature. Let music become an indispensable bottle of multi-vitamins in our life. Take one out every now and then to chew it, and eventually keep fit and live longer.