Hand me a highlighter, hand me my laptop and all the journal articles you got - LET’S WRITE A RESEARCH PROTOCOLLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(I’m trying to make this fit in my head to “Hand me my dog, hand me my bag, and that American Flaaaaaaag!” but it doesn’t quite fit.)
In my continuing quest to find a good, short definition of music therapy, I found this article. There is a second part to it - its not just doing the music to help you with something else - doing the music is something in itself!
And behind us all, guiding and guarding us is the music itself, the art of music. Music, don’t forget music. It’s so easy with your thinking-this awful intellectual thinking we all have to go through because we’re living in that kind of an age- to forget the art of music, the beauty it holds, the force it holds, the stimulation it holds.
You must not only have faith to dare, and courage in your selves, but you must have this same faith and courage in music. This is your bread and butter, this is what you work with. Without music there would be no such thing as music therapy and music is an endless world waiting for all of us to discover it.
"I’ve been in a 9-5 weekend class yesterday and today, and will be in one again tomorrow. I finished today with that I’m-5-and-I’ve-had-too-much-birthday-party feeling of near tears and I wanna go home, combined with overtired giggles and a need to dance strangely (you know, that feeling). That said, this class is AMAZING. I’m learning so much, and I adore it all. Today I learned how to sedate people with music - watch yourself guys! I’ma make you fall asleep with my music*!
Also, my professor looks like an older Kristen Schaal.
*on purpose.
Mr. Robbins, with Paul Nordoff, designed a brand of music therapy for hard-to-reach children that is now used to help people with autism, stroke and Alzheimer’s disease.
The Nordoff-Robbins method takes as its philosophical starting point the belief that responsiveness to music lives in everyone, that music has deep power as a communicative tool and that the experience of two people making music together is an inherently empathetic one.
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Maya Angelou (via cambyo)
And telling our stories is, I think, the point of therapy and - the point of life.
(via fromonesurvivortoanother)
Today I listened to this song 7 times. Today I left my internship to go to another as-yet unknown one. Today I felt more optimistic than I have in a while.
What’s next, world?
This video is a very good, succinct explanation of my future career.
— Mary Priestley
The 5 most common regrets of those on their deathbed, written by a palliative care nurse, who spent the last 3-12 weeks with dying patients. Inspirational, and it reminds me how rewarding working with the elderly and those with little time left to live can be.
