Friday, November 26, 2010

Drum Therapy

Title: Therapeutic Effect of Drumming by Michael Drake

Michael Drake is a famous writer and recording artist. He has discover that the therapeutic rhythm techniques have been used for thousand years in create and maintain physical, mental and spiritual health.



There are many benefit in drum therapy:
-Release tension, anxiety and stress: Drum therapy can greatly helping release tension with its rhythm. Medical research shows that group drumming can help in high-stress occupation in release the tension.

-Help control chronic pain: Drumming can distract our attention from pain and grief. Furthermore, drumming helps to promote production of endorphins and endogenous opiate which function like a painkiller in helping control pain.

-Drumming boost immune systems

-Produce deeper self-awareness: Drumming candroduce self-awareness in ourselves by inducing synchronous brain activity.

-Drumming induces natural altered states of consciousness

-Drumming creates a sense of connectedness with self and others

-Drumming helps us to experience being in resonance with the natural rhythms of life

-Drumming releases negative feelings, blockages, and emotional trauma

-Drumming places one in the present moment: Drumming helps alleviate stress that is created from hanging on to the past or worrying about the future. When one plays a drum, one is placed squarely in the here and now. One of the paradoxes of rhythm is that it has both the capacity to move your awareness out of your body into realms beyond time and space, and to ground you firmly in the present moment.

-Drumming provides a medium for individual self-realization: Drumming helps reconnect us to our core, enhancing our sense of empowerment and stimulating our creative expression.

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