How Music Can Be Therapeutic

Music therapy is a therapeutic approach that uses the naturally mood-lifting properties of music to help people improve their mental health and overall well-being. It can involve: making music, writing songs, singing, dancing, listening to music, editing music, discussing music, and more. Music can aid depression and anxiety, many physical health problems, it overall helps improve the quality of life for all people. Anyone can engage in music therapy; you don’t need a background in music to experience its beneficial effects. We all need escapes from everyday life and stress, and music has been a long standing proven tool to express emotions, feelings, and more, and it is transverses listeners and creators into a place of relaxation and interaction with the world and human nature around you. Music and cannabis therapy go hand in hand, the psychedelic and euphoric cerebral effects combined with engaging music can be such a powerful personal therapeutic tool and communal therapeutic tool! Music can: activate regions of the brain that influence things like memory, emotions, movement, sensory relay, some involuntary functions, decision-making, and reward , it can fulfill social needs for older to younger adults in group settings, it can lower heart rate and blood pressure, relax muscle tension, release endorphins and dopamine, relieve stress and encourage feelings of calm and happiness, aid sleep disorders, strengthen motor skills and improve communication for anyone including those suffering with developmental or learning disabilities, or people with dementia or other memory-related disorders, or even cancer. Music Therapy can increase, induce, and enable positive feelings, calmness, euphoria, confidence and empowerment, emotional intimacy and understanding, self-expression, a deeper sense of connection to the self and an increased and stimulated imagination with heightened connectivity to sensations and memory! Music is a mysterious and magical tool for us humans who are everyday disconnected from ourselves in the hamster wheel of life we run, so I am very grateful for every breath and pause we get witha tasty joint and some sick music, my favorite medicine.