MUSIC AND HEALTH

What is music? Vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way as to produce
beauty of form, harmony, and expression of emotion.

How best can we describe health?

 the state of being free from illness or injury.
 a person's mental or physical condition.

How can the two work together? Ask congregation, remember no answer is wrong or right

Many authors have done studies to show how music can be beneficial to our mental health. In
this day and age music therapy is being encouraged. Doctors use music during surgery to help
them concentrate. Basically, music is everywhere. Don’t you agree?

WORKS CITED

So how can we use music to better our health?

 Listening to soft classical music can improve your focus and allow you to get on with
your tasks.

 Music can be your words when you don’t know how to speak or what to say. (So to
young people if you are afraid to ask that lady out find a song that will do that for you
and ladies if your finding it hard to respond find a song to reply. But don’t forget you
will soon have to speak... heheh)

 Music connects people, in our church setting being in a choir with your peers, helps
you meet new people and learn new things from each other. This can also happen by
attending concerts and music gigs.

 Music helps us to become creative thinkers. What do I mean? Well find that music
that speaks to you or better, come up with your own music.

 Music helps us relax, that day when you have had a stressful day at work the right
music can definitely get you relaxed. Are you in pain or sad ,music can help you feel
better.
  Music is a great motivator, do you wanna clean your house, prepare for that marathon,
well no doubt that music will be a great help.

 Music can be used as a learning aid. In such cases as autistic Children music has been
a great impact on their learning process

 Research by Timothy Lyendo 2017: Says Music reduces stress, blood pressure and
post-operative trauma when compared to silence. It is good for both patients and
nurses. Due to this patient have positive results, in term soft their emotions.

 Most medical schools have begun courses that use music to shape the doctors
listening skills.

 Music helps reduce pain ,depression and disability in patients.

 Music improves sleep for those with sleep disorders

 It also improves the mobility of patients with Parkinson’s disease.

 Music can help the heartbeat and blood circulation

Spiritual health? This can be simply defined as our connection between myself and God.
So what does God say about music and what glorifies and edifies His name?
"Music can be a great power for good." —Testimonies, vol. 4, p. 71. "Music . rightly
employed, is a precious gift of God, designed to uplift the thoughts to high and noble themes,
to inspire and elevate the soul."—Education, p. 167. "Song is one of the most effective means
of impressing spiritual truth upon the heart."—Evangelism, p. 500. "Music was made to serve
a holy purpose, to lift the thoughts to that which is pure, noble, and elevating."—Patriarchs
and Prophets, p. 594.
Ok so our music needs to be pure, noble and elevating. Mmmhh well there is always two
sides to the coin, no?
But there is another side of the picture. We find that music, like everything else in this world
of sin, can be a power for evil as well as good. We find that music may "deprave the
imagination and debase the morals."—Testimonies, vol. 4, p. 653. It is "often perverted to
serve purposes of evil, and it thus becomes one of the most alluring agencies of
temptation."—Education, p. 167. "How many employ this gift to exalt self."—Patriarchs and
Prophets, p. 594.
So music can influence both good and evil. The right kind of music can speed up your
Christian spiritual growth upward and the wrong music may pull you downward to
destruction.

Ellen G. White says Music was made to serve a holy purpose, to lift the thoughts to what is
pure, noble an elevating.

Lets look at an example in the Bible.

David used sacred music in a therapeutic sense, as a cure for anxiety and depression.
(See Patriarchs and Prophets, pp. 643, 644)
Music that appeals only to the senses adds nothing to the individual's knowledge, expertise,
or awareness of beauty. On the other hand, music that has value appeals not just to the senses
but to the intellect as well. This provides an experience that is additive and communicable; its
repetition, because of the involvement of the mind, creates a more sensitive and musically
aware individual.
Two types of music
 Secular
 Sacred

Music--How It Affects The Whole Man

H. Lloyd Leno
-an associate professor of music at Walla Walla College at the time this article was written

The mature Christian does not live merely to please himself. He is concerned
about others and enjoys sharing his experiences. Ellen White (1913) reminds
us of the real meaning and purpose of musical culture. While we are to
develop all capabilities of the mind to the "highest possible degree of
excellence" she warns: "This cannot be a selfish and exclusive culture; for the
character of God, whose likeness we are to receive, is benevolence and love.
Every faculty, every attribute, with which the Creator has endowed us is to be
employed for His glory and for the uplifting of our fellow men." 12

CONCLUSION
Music as one of God's marvelous gifts to man will never be fully understood in
this life. Nevertheless, we do have access to scientific information, inspired
counsel, and life experiences that give us adequate means of under standing
its basic nature and purpose. For Seventh-day Adventists who read and accept
the writings of Ellen G. White the purpose of music is clear: to praise and
glorify God and to edify man. It is a means through which God can
communicate with man and reveal aspects of His divine nature. As such, it can
be used to promote the physical, emotional, and mental health of the
individual. Be cause music can be perceived by the brain (thalamus) and
enjoyed without being evaluated for moral content, it is easy to see how Satan
can gain access to the mind. In this way he is able to blunt the spiritual
perceptions as well as create or encourage certain emotional states.

in spite of cultural and educational differences, music is a universal language.

The basic elements of music pitch, volume, rhythm, and to a great extent,
melody and harmony affect the mental and physical processes of all peoples in
a remarkably similar manner. In addition, the way in which these elements
are combined results in a symbolic representation of life. Music is a product of
a culture, and in turn it influences that culture.

It is the right of every individual to form his own musical taste. However, in
view of the scientific evidence of the effect of music on the mind an ethical and
moral issue must be raised with respect to all who are engaged in furnishing
the public with any kind of musical material. Through teaching, live
performances, and the preparation of recorded music, those who are thus
engaged are shaping the taste and attitudes of thousands of children, youth,
and adults.