Our environment is becoming increasingly fast-paced and emotionally demanding. Music is not only a form of entertainment, but also a valuable resource for mental health care.
It’s no wonder that many people turn to a song to calm anxiety or find comfort. What everyday experience has long demonstrated is that music directly influences the brain and emotional balance.
Music therapy began to take shape as a professional discipline in the mid-20th century. Especially after World War II, when musicians visited hospitals to play for wounded soldiers. The positive effects observed spurred the creation of the first formal training and study programs in the United States and Europe. Since then, the practice has developed with increasingly solid clinical and methodological foundations.
In scientific terms, listening to music can modify mood, reduce anxiety, and promote emotional regulation. At a physiological level, certain melodies help lower heart rate, relax muscle tension, and reduce the production of cortisol, the stress hormone. Simultaneously, they stimulate the release of dopamine and serotonin, neurotransmitters linked to pleasure and well-being. In other words, music is not only felt: it also acts on the body.
Today, music therapy is applied in multiple contexts: from children with developmental disorders to older adults with cognitive impairment. As well as patients with depression, anxiety, or post-traumatic stress. Interventions can include guided listening, improvisation, singing, or composition. Always under the supervision of trained professionals.
Its use as therapy, without professional guidance, does not replace medical or psychological care when it is needed, but it can enhance it and open channels of emotional expression that are difficult to achieve through other means.
Recognizing the therapeutic value of music is, in essence, recovering an ancient intuition with modern tools. Consciously integrating music into clinical practice or daily life is not a trend, but a care strategy that, far from being new, has silently accompanied humanity for centuries.
by: Indira Vania López Samé
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