Music Therapy
Music Therapy
Music therapy is the prescribed use of music and musical interventions in
order to restore, maintain, and improve emotional, physical, physiological, and
spiritual health and well-being (Lindberg). So one finds the selections under the
New Age/Relaxation section of the record store about as relaxing as water
torture? Just because one's taste runs more to Sousa than to soothing doesn't
mean one can't reap all these relaxation benefits music is supposed to have.
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