As a Certified Music Practitioner®, I am certified to play healing music at the bedside of ill and dying patients.
Therapeutic music is a service rather than entertainment, and can enhance the healing process, as well as providing many benefits, among them the following:
* reduces blood pressure
* stabilizes heart rate and respiration
* provides relaxation and relief from pain
* provides comfort
* reduces need for pain medication and/or anesthesia
* relieves anxiety and stress
* accelerates surgical recovery and physical healing
* elicits emotional catharsis
* fosters a sense of safety & well being
* sharpens mental focus
* provides distraction and companionship
* helps induce sleep
*helps lift depression
* provides a healing environment
* helps with the transition of birth or death
Those helped include the chronically ill, critically ill, children and premature babies, birthing mothers, the elderly, dementia patients, those undergoing surgery and anesthesia, unconscious and comatose patients, and the dying.
