Today is the sixth lesson in our series of “The Components of Healing Music.”\u00a0 Please remember that these components are not absolutes and are definitely open to interpretation.\u00a0 Music as a whole is very personal and each of us has our inner filters that we bring to our own interpretation of a piece of music and how it affects us.\u00a0 We each hear a piece of music in the context of what we’ve heard before.<\/p>\n
Think about it:\u00a0 if you grew up hearing classical music or country music or New Age music, then hearing a new piece or song in the genre you’re accustomed to might be new, but not startlingly new!\u00a0 If you grew up on country or classical, hearing your first piece in the NEW genre will likely be memorable and there’s a fairly good chance that you won’t like it.<\/p>\n
We all tend to like what we’re familiar with because there’s a comfort level that goes along with familiarity.\u00a0 We humans tend to like what we’re familiar with and that applies to music, food, people, climate, and on and on.<\/p>\n
In healing music, traditionally, you want to have a tempo that is between 50-70 beats per minute.\u00a0 This would be the range of beats per minute for the healthy, resting heart-beat.\u00a0 The tempo, or rate of speed, thus, is very important so that the music slows down and stabilizes a rapid heartbeat and helps the person to calm down and relax.\u00a0\u00a0 A person cannot really begin to heal until the body can relax and release stress and tension in the muscles.\u00a0\u00a0 Choosing music that has a slow, steady tempo will be very important to getting the most healing effect from music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today is the sixth lesson in our series of “The Components of Healing Music.”\u00a0 Please remember that these components are not absolutes and are definitely open to interpretation.\u00a0 Music as a whole is very personal and each of us has our inner filters that we bring to our own interpretation of a piece of music […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[306,171,17,1,3],"tags":[307],"yoast_head":"\n