7 Ways To Use Music To Transform Pain, Isolation and Grief

Solveig’s post on using music to transform grief was featured on the blog, Jungle of Life:

I have lis­tened to, com­posed and per­formed music my entire adult life. In past 18 months, how­ever, music has become even more impor­tant to me. I lost two peo­ple to whom I was close, peo­ple who meant a lot to me. Music has helped me chan­nel my feel­ings of loss into some­thing pos­i­tive and productive.

In the field of Music Ther­apy, cre­den­tialed pro­fes­sional ther­a­pists use music to help patients alle­vi­ate pain, man­age stress, pro­mote heal­ing or moti­vate par­tic­i­pa­tion in phys­i­cal ther­apy. In addi­tion to these clin­i­cal appli­ca­tions, though, music is being used every day to help peo­ple like you and me to cope with loss and grief due to ill­ness and death.

Here are seven ways I have directly expe­ri­enced the pos­i­tive power of music: [more…]