Reduces anxiety
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Anxiety disorders cause symptoms such as racing and ruminating thoughts, extreme fear, frequent uncertainty, and worrying about the future.
Reduces depression
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Common symptoms of depression include low energy, feelings of hopelessness or worthlessness, and a loss of interest in or pleasure in preferred activities.
Reduces stress
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Music therapists may pair accompanying music with a technique called progressive muscle relaxation. In this technique, the therapist invites participants to tense and release specific muscle groups
Improves emotional regulation and processing
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Clients will often identify emotions in the song that are actually a reflection of their own inner experience. This then provides the opportunity to further process those emotions.
Promotes feelings of safety and security
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Music itself has unique elements that lend to safety and security. Music often exists within a structure; there is often a steady rhythm and a clear sense of a beginning, middle, or end within a piece
Improves attachment
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The relational dynamics of intermusical connections can build up positive attributes in the client and assist in developing healthy relationship capacities.
Promotes resilience
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Everyone experiences setbacks in life; our resilience determines how we move through those difficult moments and continue to live a life of meaningful experiences.
Physical Benefits
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The most common use of music therapy is to promote physical benefits, even in the area of physical rehabilitation. Music also elicits unconscious physical responses.