Chinese Health Theraphy

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The therapy of music has grown into a modern science, but in China it was first developed. China has sought the secrets of melody and rhythm of the universe for millennia.

The music therapy is a part of Chinese medicine, and both have a continuous relationship intermixed. The music, the theory of yin and yang and the five elements are interconnected. The ancients believed that the essence of music was the Tao — Change of yin and yang, the regulatory factor of life, the tone and mood of the universe.
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Music therapy has its origins in the mists of time. The first music therapists are shamans, witch doctors who begin to use tribal singing, chanting, whispers, and repetitive rhythmic structures to induce states of consciousness at the collective level cathartic and religious purposes. There is evidence of ritual use of music in almost all the great cultures of antiquity. The Greeks and Egyptians tell about the psychological effects of different musical scales and modes.
Similarly, Hindu, Chinese and Japanese antique recognized in their modes and pentatonic ragas, musical structures applicable to different activities and moods. From these traditions, in this century has been systematized the study of organic and psychological effects of music and has been recognized music therapy as a therapeutic aspect of particular value.

Music Therapy
Music therapy is the use of music and / or elements (sound, rhythm, melody and harmony) by a qualified Music Therapist with a patient or group, in a process designed to facilitate and promote communication, learning, movement, expression, organization or other relevant therapeutic objectives in order to attend to the physical, mental, social and cognitive skills.

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