Sounds of Healing Using the Harp | Musical Reflections

Sounds of Healing Using the HarpTami Briggs2022-01-14T15:25:10-06:00

SOUNDS OF HEALING: THERAPEUTIC MUSIC’S BENEFITS IN THE HEALTH CARE SETTING

Patients, families and health care professionals are seeking options for care and comfort during the heightened stress of serious illness.

Therapeutic music is an element of compassionate caregiving and contributes to creating a healing environment. This session focuses on the benefits of therapeutic music and offers creative ideas on how to integrate it into the medical environment to improve overall quality of care.

Tami Briggs, therapeutic harpist, weaves patient-focused experiences and her clinical training together, sharing powerful stories and live musical examples, which demonstrate music’s role in the healing process.

Participants will:

Explore research data and rationale for incorporating music in their health care system.
Define specific benefits of harp and therapeutic music (comfort, pain distraction, relaxation and anchoring).
Determine ways to incorporate music in the health care setting to improve overall quality.

What participants have said about the Sounds of Healing: Therapeutic Music’s Benefits in the Health Care Setting program…
• “You created a new way of thinking here.”
Lehigh Valley Hospital and Health Network; Allentown, PA

• “Very well done. I gained a heightened awareness of how important music is to the healing process.”
City of Hope Hospital; Los Angeles, CA

• “I have been bored in the past with presentations on music therapy and other complimentary or alternative therapies, but your presentation was excellent and very relevant to our work. Thank you.”
Lakeview Ranch (Specialized Dementia Care); Darwin, MN

• “Thank you so much for coming to our meeting today. They absolutely LOVED you. Everyone was just gushing afterwards. One woman told me that she had never heard harp music played with so much feeling. Another commented that you were not only entertaining, but your talk was educational and inspirational. You are the best!”
Holistic Health & Healing Summer Institute; Woodbury, MN

Program Structure	Presentation is experiential and includes: Lecture, interactive discussion, questions and answers. Meditative, live harp music as a self-care tool for stress reduction, relaxation and renewal.
Target Audience	Health care providers (eg., nurses, doctors, chaplains and pastoral care, social workers, etc.) Patients and families Caregivers Bereavement and grief/loss counselors Participants do not have to be musicians or have any expertise in music to attend.
Suggested Scheduling	National health care conferences State health care conferences Stress reduction/relaxation sessions Days of wellness or holistic health Workshops on self-care Recovery centers Spas and retreat centers Support and survivor’s groups
Length	One hour to half-day.

For more information about our presentations, or to schedule a presentation, please contact us.

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“David took a harp, and played with his hand: and Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.”

1 Samuel 16:23

“Surrounded by the right sounds, we all can be invigorated, energized, and balanced. It has been demonstrated clinically that music adds to our general health and well-being.”

John Diamond

“Music speaks straight to our hearts and spirits, to the very core and root of our souls.”

Charles Kingsley

“Seek out a wise player on a harp: and it shall come to pass…that he shall play with his hand and thou shalt be well.”

I Samuel 16:16

“Through vibration, harmony, tone, melody and meaning, music stimulates within us direct experience of expanded reality.”

Barbara Marx Hubbard

“Music is an extremely important instrument of the Divine.”

Hal A. Lingerman

“The human being is essentially sound, vibrations, and melody.…”

Holger Kalweit

“Music is the soundtrack of your life.”

Dick Clark

“Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don’t live it, it won’t come out your horn.”

Charlie Parker

“Art is more than important—it is central to how we see ourselves, what we believe about ourselves, and how we present ourselves to each other.”

Bill Ivey

“Music touches our innermost being and in that way produces new life, a life that gives exaltation to the whole being, raising it to that perfection in which lies the fulfillment of man’s life.”

Hazrat Inayat Khan

“Music has been called the speech of angels.”

“The more we cultivate great music in our lives, the greater will be our attunement to unlimited sources of the Creator’s power and direction.”

“…the time is fast approaching when Man will select his music with the same intelligent care and knowledge he now uses to select his food. When that time comes, music will become a principal source of healing for many individual and social ills, and human evolution will be tremendously accelerated.”

Corinne Helene

“Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible.”

Charles Munch

“I am Music….Even before life began upon this earth, I was here—in the winds and the waves….And when Man came, I at once became the most delicate, most subtle, and most powerful medium for the expression of Man’s emotions….For I speak to all men, in a language that all understand….I am the food of love. I have taught men gentleness and peace. I comfort the lonely. I am a necessary luxury to all men.”

Anonymous

“Music is God’s best gift to [humans], the only art of heaven given to earth, the only art of earth that we take to heaven.”

Charles W. Landon

“Music is the answer to the mystery of life; it is the most profound of all the arts; it expresses the deepest thoughts of life and being; a simple language which nonetheless cannot be translated.”

Arthur Schopenhauer