By Jim Mitchell — 2018
For thousands of years, the harp has been soothing the afflicted. Today, it’s producing some astonishing results in treatment.
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Being a ‘concerto’ of inaudible sound waves, the complicated human cerebral network of neurotransmitters associated with innumerable neurons and their connections identifies and transforms the energy from differentiated frequencies, resulting in the perception of music that indeed initiates...
Understanding harp therapy and how it has emerged as a complementary treatment of choice in the last two decades throughout the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Japan, Australia and Europe.
The harp’s beneficial properties may be connected to the way its different notes can resonate positively with different parts of the body, writes Anne Dempsey.
While the nation hyperventilates over health care, more sober souls in academia are contending that music may be as good as medicine, and at a fraction of the price.
Today, the harp is being employed as a therapeutic instrument at bedsides in hospitals, nursing homes, hospices, and other clinical settings, where it symbolizes and serves as a vessel for healing, end-of-life transition, and transformation.