Music for Healing

A Service Provided by Rita Schrimpf CMP

Benefits of Healing Music

• Distract the patient
• Provide respite from cares
• Stabilize heart and breathing
• Normalize body temperature
• Reduce blood pressure
• Stimulate digestion
• Equalize brain wave activity
• Provide emotional relief
• Calm anxiety and fear
• Reduce stress
• Increase endorphin levels
• Reduce muscle tension
• Improve mobility
• Help with the transition of death
• Provide release of emotions
• Facilitate grieving
• Reduce the need for medication
• Augment pain management
• Facilitate healing
• Boost the immune system
• Brings families together
• Ease delivery of child birthing
• Enhance neurological function
• Aid mental focus
• Evoke memories
• Provide time for contemplation
• Stimulate a feeling of well being
• Promote joy and healing

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, gaiety and life to everything. It is the essence of order and leads to all that is just and good and beautiful.

— Aristotle

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