Different Healing Modalities Throughout The World

Music Therapy is used for many reasons and can be helpful in many ways. Music has been proven to be a therapeutic service to people because it’s helped people to contain themselves and even express themselves through the music that they listen to. This treatment is beneficial to many humans because it’s a good way to help one’s emotions without any medication (American Music Therapy Association). For example, music is used to treat pain and reduce stress. In Amy Novotney’s article about music therapy, she says, “The beep of ventilators and infusion pumps, the hiss of oxygen, the whir of carts and the murmur of voices as physicians and nurses make rounds — these are the typical noises a premature infant hears spending the first days of life in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). While the sounds of such life-saving equipment are tough to mute, a new study suggests that some sounds, such as lullabies, may soothe pre-term babies and their parents, and even improve the infants' sleeping and eating patterns, while decreasing parents' stress (Pediatrics, 2013)” (Novotney). Another example of how music is a reliable therapeutic resource is for people with autism. In Catherine Ulbricht’s article, she states that “People who have autism spectrum disorders often show a heightened interest and response to music. This may

Noise can be very distracting especially if someone wants to study, sleep, read, do homework, and do a project or anything else. I personally have experienced noise as a distraction and I would never intentionally try to distract someone from doing what they want buy making it hard for them to focus because of my noise.

Music therapy is not a new idea. In fact, it’s been used in thousands of civilizations throughout history. The Incan nation thought that a soul was connected to the gods through music and it determined the health, success, and future of every living thing (Stobart et al, 26). But most every nation, from Africa, to Asia, to Europe, has had a history of music being used as a healing tool. There is evidence of music therapy leading to an increase in emotional functions and motor control skills (Warner et al, 15).

Kleinman’s questions are more applicable to deaf people in general who are more in favor of and interested in improving their hearing through hearing aids, cochlear implant, and/or speech therapy. Therefore, they would be more likely to answer his questions even though they do contain the term sickness as these people are more to likely view deafness as a disability compared to people who strictly identify themselves as a part of Deaf culture. Also, Kleinman’s questions can be especially applicable for hearing parents with deaf children who want to raise them as hearing children. According to the ninety percent rule, ninety-percent of deaf children have hearing parents and ninety-percent of hearing children have deaf parents (Sparrow 141). Since hearing parents want to raise their children in the hearing culture, it is ideal for them to be able to utilize Kleinman’s eight questions as a means of providing a way for their deaf children to improve their hearing through hearing aids, cochlear implants, and/or speech

Traditional Indigenous healing is an ancient way of healing practiced among many Native American tribes in the United States. This way of healing may passed on verbally or through apprenticeship. Sometimes the healing gift is developed through dreams, or through a sudden change in a healer’s life. Many aspects of Indigenous healing are not documented, and never will be, due to the belief in the sacred nature of the healing process (Cohen, 1998).

Healthcare professionals have been trying to establish western healthcare in Haiti due to the increasing number of Haitians being infected by AIDS. However, Haitians choose to see voodoo priests instead of western medical doctors because religion is very important to them and voodoo priests provide the spiritual healing they seek. The consequence of western doctors not understanding the importance of voodoo religion in the treatment process is the biggest deterrent to Haitians accepting western healthcare. Instead of trying to make Haitians change their beliefs, healthcare professionals should work with voodoo priests to increase AIDS awareness. Undoubtedly, their role as a trusted spiritual advisor and healer would be used to influence

The Healing Hospital paradigm is a new aspect that many hospitals are now taking into consideration, although modern medicine has many branches which in most cases have based their principles on scientific medical attention that involved the use of drugs to achieve the desired effects needed for a patient’s revival or progress health wise. However with the inclusion of the healing paradigm, most hospitals are seeing a positive increase in patient response to treatment and faster recovery time. Healing as the Oxford English Dictionary states, is the process of making or becoming sound or healthy again

I knew someone who had this artistic mind from the day she was born but it all begun in a weirdest way. When she was in preschool she surprised her family of her uniqueness and this uniqueness includes hiding herself inside the room, sometimes finding herself inside a cabinet and what she was doing was just imagining things which do not exist. It was then noticed by her mom when she was five that her actions were no normal for a kid of her age. So from that very day her mother kept an eye on her and never a chance that her mom would leave her by herself because obviously it scares the whole family. Her family then decided to give her something that would divert her thoughts into something more productive.

When discussing the realm of potential applications of music therapy in various populations; a group that may be initially overlooked would be persons who meet requirements that classify them as members of the hearing impaired community. This initial negligence to recognize the hearing impaired community as as population in which music therapy could serve an influential role, could be due to the instinctual assumption of music as a phenomenon of auditory perception that is fundamentally accessible only to those without impairments of said perceptive auditory capabilities. Despite this seemingly natural assumption, it is important to first recognize that music is a perceptible phenomenon to persons with hearing impairments as well as those

There are many objectives that have been analyzed to determine the main causes of this particular idea. There are several individuals who think differently than others, such as doctors as well. Many doctors believe in different things, there is not one thing that all doctors agree with. According to a new study, they came to reveal that hearing loved one's voice induces excruciating pain in coma patients. (Baltimore1) This study was made highly to determine if hearing a loved one’s voice could actually do something in particular to the

Because noise is a result of sound and sound has the potential to be noise; a nuisance if a sound becomes noise or a pleasure as long as it remains a sound. If it is harmful to health of man or beast then it is always ‘unwanted sound’. It may be unwanted noise but it may well be necessary noise, for example industrial noise and it is also the noise of modern progress, as Gareet Keizer puts it in the title of his book, it is the “Unwanted Sound Of Everything We

All the sources cited listed numerous benefits they believe come from a Reiki therapy session. The Reiki Holistic Healing at Christal Center states that this therapy alleviates pain and acute conditions rapidly. They claim that Reiki encourages one’s natural ability for their body to heal itself, that it rids the body of “emotional poisons” while promoting a meditative state of complete relaxation, and that it can be useful in returning to mental well being. Reiki can also be used for more specific treatment needs. People have sought stress relief, relief from physical pain, help in stopping smoking, and ease of

Sound is an important input affecting the nervous system. The brain reacts to sound input because information signals are able to travel from the outside environment, across action potentials and through the neural

Reflexology is the theory that the human body can be healed from disease or imbalance through pressure to specific points on the hands, feet, and ears (http://www.doubleclickd.com/reflexology.html). This alternative form of healing is doubted by many, although there are studies that support its theory.

Alternative methods of healing have been utilized by non-western medicine for generations. The use of acupuncture to heal everything from seasickness to muscle soreness is well documented and widely used. Physical therapy is often a precursor to surgery and many times will prevent the need to undergo a more invasive procedure. A lesser-known form of alternative healing but becoming more popular is music therapy. In the late 18th century, scientists began to investigate the effects of music on the human body; however, using music as a healing medium dates back to ancient times. There are many forms and techniques of music therapy that aid a variety of disabilities having to do with communication, behavioral issues, the autism spectrum,