Science Summit at United Nations General Assembly (UNGA78)

The Background:
• People have been using Music therapy since time immemorial. According to Hindu mythology, music originated with the first sound ever to be heard in the universe, the Naadbrahma, or Om. Samveda is full of music and its use.
• Graet Tansen use music for a beneficial purpose.
• The Tibetans still use bells, chimes, bowls, and chanting as the foundation of their spiritual practice.
• Early Egyptian and Greeks used music to heal specific ailments, and Apollo was the God of music & medicine.
• In 400B.C. Hippocrates, known as the father of Medicine, played music to soothe his patients. Aristotle described music as a force that purified emotions.
• MT is evident in Biblical scriptures and historical writings of ancient civilizations such as Egypt, China, Greece, and Rome.
• Harp music has been prescribed instead of tranquilizers and painkillers for cancer
• Vincent & Thompson (1928) use radio and gramophone music to control blood pressure
• Dr Paul Robertson of Kingston University, Ontario, Canada, shares studies that show that a patient who is exposed to 15 minutes of soothing music requires only half the recommended dose of sedatives and anaesthetic drugs for painful operations.
• Shakespeare once wrote: "If music is the food of love, play on." Profound words are true, but the Bard failed to mention that music is not just nourishment for the heart but also for the soul.

Today’s hectic lifestyle and working stress create various types of health problems such as unusual BP, CVD, headache, depression, sleeplessness, nervous problems, etc. which are sometimes converted into serious problems. Nowadays in place to fight these problems most of us and teenagers are starting to use alcohol, smoking, and other unhealthy things to overcome the stress, tension, depression but they are helpful for the time being and become emerged itself as new problems after a time period and this will effect the working efficiency of your employee; ultimately the growth of a nation. Music has frequently been used as a therapeutic agent from ancient times. Classical music with its unique swara/note structure ensures a calm and cosy mind by exposure and subdues emotion-provoking situations. Music plays an effective role in subduing the so-called emotional imbalance.

Music therapy is also increasingly used in end-of-life care, with a growing number of music therapists being employed in hospices and hospital-based palliative care programs each year (Hilliard 2005). Data from a survey study of 300 randomly selected hospices in the U.S. indicated that the most popular forms of complementary therapies were massage therapy and music therapy (Demmer 2004). This is also true for the use of complementary therapies in Canadian hospices, according to a recently completed survey (Oneschuk 2007). Music therapists in end-of-life care work with a broad range of populations with many types of illnesses including cancer (Hanser 2005; Hilliard 2003; Magill 2001), HIV/AIDS (Lee 1996; Neugebauer 1999), congestive heart failure (Dileo 2005), dementia (Patrick 2005) and neurodegenerative disorders (Magee 2004; Scheiby 2005).