This method of treatment saves from various diseases, but not everyone knows about it.

So how does that music affect our body?

Broad question, but I’ll try briefly. Music affects us in many ways. When we listen to music or perform it ourselves, the brain sounds like a symphony. If we watch the “live feed” of what happens in the brain while we play, we would see a beautiful symphony of lights. This means that all parts of our brain are stimulated. Even those who are responsible for our memory, language, movement, emotions, and many other things.

I remember my mother still telling me what are you listening to here? Any music by Beethoven or Mozart is creative. And what I’m listening to, it’s very heavy rock or metal, it’s destructive. Is there really some kind of magic music that makes the plants grow and the cows give more milk and is there some kind of destructive music?

Music has been shown to affect us in very different ways. If classical music works very well therapeutically for one, heavy rock, metal will work very well for the other, especially if we are talking about teenagers, young people. This may be the key to communicating with them. I definitely do not agree with the statement that one music is good and the other is bad. It also depends on what the person asks in childhood, youth.

Now I’m talking about a very simple perception of music therapy that is shown in movies when a person goes into a coma with a damaged brain, plays his favorite record, and begins to move, dance, remember. But really, after all, music therapy is much more.

In occupational therapy, the therapist is a mandatory ingredient. If a person can help herself, it is not music therapy, but the use of art for health. But if a person feels that they cannot find the resources on their own and needs help, they can turn to a music therapist to help solve the problems. In this case, both listening to music, dealing with various injuries, and active music therapy, when a person plays various instruments by herself, will apply.

So who can benefit from such music therapy? As I understand it, one of the uses is for emotions. Because Lithuanians still don’t like psychologists and psychotherapists, it is taboo.

Yes, in that case you can go to a music therapist and we will not talk but play. In this way, we bypass all the mysterious defense mechanisms that affect us when we speak. The circle of clients is very large, from the mother’s womb when we help the future mother to the escort out of this world, trying to calmly get out of this world. But there are also children we help with their development, adults, as well as people after various neurological injuries, elderly people suffering from neurodegenerative diseases. The circle of clients is very wide, which is because music affects us in a very individual way.

What’s even more interesting is that what you play during music therapy doesn’t have to be fun to listen to someone else.

Definitely not. And if we were to hear what is happening outside the door, it would usually be very strange. In therapy, we do not seek an artistic result. We simply use music as a tool to help a person solve any problem. If we work with a child, we can sing a song, but not to teach her to sing, but to encourage her language development. It is just a tool.

When it comes to treating chronic pain, the further, the more preference is given to non-drug treatment. But telling a person that they need to speak to a psychologist will accept it in a very discouraging way. But music can help.

I definitely can. <...> A person can use music to help himself. Describe pain and stress management. By learning various techniques together with a music therapist, a person can be successfully applied to living with chronic pain. Music can be helpful along with other treatments.

I have an acquaintance who gets tired after working as a doctor and exhausts while playing drums. I guess I wouldn’t want someone to hear him play them. But apparently there is no bad music that you are listening to or listening to, because anything can help, if you just like it.

Yes. The most important thing is not the result, but the process of what you experience, what your colleague experiences when he plays the drums after an intense day.

Where can we go if we want to do music therapy?

If we talk about professional help, I would recommend contacting the associations at this time: there is an art therapy association and a dance and music movement therapy. They all have their own websites. If people seek this help, this would be the fastest way.

And traditionally, what would you like to see on the show?

Don’t think that art is something inaccessible to us that only professional artists can do. Art is what we have at our disposal here and now. In everyday life we ​​can always create. I wish to create that earthly art as much as possible. We can take a pencil and draw something or take a pot and try to scrape it off.