Lynden Hill Clinic - music therapy

Music therapy - the profound relaxation experience

Music therapy is ……………..

Total immersion in the sound of music
Floating on a warm water mattress
Internal massage of every muscle, gland, organ, tissue…
Releasing embodied stress you didn’t know you had…

Stress And Music Bed Therapy
The human body is not designed for constant low level stress associated with modern complex lifestyles. It is designed for the well known “fight or flight” survival response in brief life threatening situations. Escape and relief from survival threat can transform distress into “eustress”, a term coined by famed stress researcher Dr. Hans Selye.

Unfortunately high achievers have learned to depend upon the “fight or flight” response on a daily basis (motivation by deadlines, using sugar or coffee as a “kick-start” and depending upon adrenalin rush) as an operating norm. Today’s achievers don’t even know how relaxation occurs. Treated purely as a passive experience, incomplete relaxation occurs “by accident”. Teeth grinding during sleep, jaw muscles are capable of exerting forty pounds of pressure, too many people awaken feeling more tired than they went to bed.

Stress thoughts produce muscle contraction, laughter causes muscle expansion (a relaxed muscle). Worry often becomes “embodied thought” expressed in muscle spasm until the concern is resolved or until “laughter breaks the tension”. As shown in a study at the University of Pennsylvania, such “embodied stress” can cost you your life. In post mortem exams of death between the ages of fifty and sixty, the study showed individual glands or organs had “aged at a radically different rate”. The cause appeared to be stress related constriction of the “life line” to the deteriorated gland or organ.

Music bed therapy can

Lower blood pressure, basal metabolism and respiration rates.
· Reduce physiological responses to stress.

Apparently:-

Increase production of endorphins (natural pain relief)
Increase Salivary Immunoglobulin A
Speed Healing
Reduce danger of infection
Control heart rate.
Pace labour contractions.
Reduce depression or chronic pain.
Restore responsiveness of cancer patients
Increase communication and co-operation, as well as a more positive response in cancer patients,
Reach unresponsive children, more than any other stimulation in : autism, emotional disturbances, mental retardation, learning disabilities.
Stimulate memory recall in therapeutic situations.
Produce significant pain relief.
Even induce a “recognition response” in Alzheimer’s (Anecdotal Evidence).

Medical evidence confirms

Music helps avoid serious complications, enhances patients well being, shortens hospital stay.
Of biofeedback and other relaxation techniques, music proves most effective for migraine, especially long term.
Half an hour of classical music is as effective as ten mg. of Valium in critical-care units.
Coronary care patients, unable to sleep for up to four days, slept deeply after a half hour of classical music.

Lynden Hill Clinic
Linden Hill Lane - Kiln Green - Nr Twyford - Berkshire - RG10 9XP
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