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I'm so glad you mentioned music, as I wasn't sure if it could be included in this particular discussion.
Music functions in so many ways. It can be like an amazing sonic world to escape into and just not think about anything.
Yet if, like me, you listen to it analytically, thinking intensely about it, it can be equally amazing! Music is invisible and intangible and occurs only in time.... Yet it feels like an object, or a place - as if it existed in space. And so full of details and nuances.
How can something so powerful and expressive yet so mysterious not be therapeutic?!
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@ricm58 I couldn't agree more! Music is very therapeutic and it takes you to another time and place. It is a space to lose yourself like a refuge from the problems of the world. You can change your mood and brighten your day with music and art.
We have another discussion here:
"Music Helps me"
https://connect.mayoclinic.org/discussion/music-helps-me/
I have a friend who is a music therapist who runs camps for veterans with PTSD. He uses songwriting in assisting the veterans to co-write songs to tell their stories, helping them process and heal what has happened to them. They are given a guitar and they perform their songs. This therapy saves lives.
https://musictherapyoftherockies.org/