Goals for the wellness model is to focused on universal needs such as decreased isolation, increased community development, increased empowerment and communication skills, enhanced creativity and quality of life, an outlet for expression of feeling, positive changes in mood and emotional states, and opportunity to interact socially among many other things. Even thought music therapy can do so much for people that are sick as well as for those that are in good health; music therapy is still struggling for recognition as legitimate and valuable part of the health-care system. Deepak Chopra demonstrated the affect of music by asking participants to take the pulse of the person on the right, and the left. A woman singer then sang a melody that specifically balanced "Vata-dosha, a stimulating, exhilarating, cheerful, optimistic, and flexible function of the body." The pulses all dropped below normal. After a second that the melody got quicker, the pulse increased again, by a clearly noticeable amount. The Gandharva melody that the women had sung seam to manipulate the bodies response through sound. Chopra states that even playing Gandhava music continuously even when the person is not in that room is very useful because "it charges the atmosphere with happy vibration." (p.102).
It was interesting to see that music therapy can do so much and that so many people are skeptical. After reading this article and reading the conclusion of some of the studies done and there result I was amaze. Because just to see studies that prove that music boost immune response, it can help you sleep better, and help with digestion problems as an example of the therapeutic quality that music have. I would have tried it al least. Especially if I was ill, because music is something that not going to hurt you there for it would not hurt to give it a try. Doctors should welcome these procedures more often because there patients don't have anything to loose.
