The healing effects of sound and music

"If you want to increase the love and light inside you, you have to slow down your life rhythm," says Dr. Adnan Tönel during a workshop titled "Musical Therapy" at the Yapı Kredi Cultural Center, elaborating on the relation between brain waves and music and how to use the latter to cure various illnesses.
Tönel, who did his doctoral thesis on Turkish and Azerbaijani lullabies at the Baku Music Academy, explains that he started developing an interest in the healing potential of music when he realized the calming effect that mothers' voices and lullabies have on children. "Whenever the mother sings to the child, he starts to eat if he was not eating or starts to sleep if he was awake," he says, pointing out that some tonal systems can help children with diseases like autism and eating and speech disorders. He gives lectures at the State Conservatory of Turkish Classical Music at İstanbul Technical University.

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