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LinnaeaBorealis -> RE: Can Music Heal ? (7/27/2011 8:33:54 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Edwynn
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ORIGINAL: Charnegui
Because (and again my opinion) pharmacists and pill-makers invent diseases just to throw our money out of our pockets.
We are talked into it.
On the money, there.
Did 'Attention Deficit Disorder' just all of a sudden show up on our doorstep 15 years ago? Or rather did the drug to 'treat' it show up at our doorstep, and then soon after, so many teachers telling the kid's parents that they need to feed their kids slow-release speed (called Ritalin, et. al.) just because the child had an active and curious mind that the conventional classroom is designed to stifle and stultify at every opportunity?
I was listening to the radio the other day & there is now a new syndrome called, I believe, "shift work syndrome." And there is a medication that helps people sleep who, as near as I can figure out, are having trouble sleeping due to the shift that they work. WTF??? So this is a clear case of making up a syndrome to sell a medication, which btw has the side effect of becoming addicted.
As far as ADD, I saw a couple of clear cases of children with those kinds of problems back in the 70's. I'm not sure if it was ADD or Bi-polar or just what they had. But one of them grabbed a knife & threatened her mother with it. The children I've met today who've been diagnosed as ADHD, with only one exception & he is also bi-polar, tend to be normal little boys. Apparently there is no place in our world for normal little boys so they need to be medicated.
Now back to the topic. I'm not sure that music by itself can heal. I know that the body responds to certain vibrations, which I proved to myself when I was in labor for 2 1/2 days with my second child. I chanted & the vibrations that I set up in my body made it so that I didn't perceive the contraction pains.
I have Asperger's, which is a form of autism. Some people have mentioned the effect of music on autistic children, that it soothes but doesn't heal. My experience as an Aspergian is that music is the way that I get in touch with & express my feelings. It can also assist in my moods. But Asperger's isn't a disease, so it doesn't need a cure.
The mind-body connection is fascinating to me. I went to an event that ended with an 8' firewalk. I knew ahead of time that was something that was going to be done & had made up my mind that I wasn't going to do it. But we were put into what the leader of the group called "state", which was a sort of hypnotic trance & I believed that I could walk on hot coals & not get burned. I not only did that walk but a year later walked 40 feet without getting burned. One woman who was in front of me in the line for the 40 foot walk was laughing & joking & making fun of the whole thing & when I came off the coals, I saw her off to the side, crying & her burned feet being attended to. So I believe it had to do with the mental state more than anything physically. There are many theories as to how firewalking works, but that's my theory & belief. And what I learned from those two walks was that if I can put my mind to it wholeheartedly, I can accomplish anything. Another time, I was under hypnosis for teeth cleaning & apparently she nicked my gum & it started bleeding. She told me to stop bleeding & a few moments later thanked me for stopping it. Pretty cool shit, that!!
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