Music as a healing tool: Documentary Alive Inside

[Marina9]

I wanted to share with you guys this amazing documentary I saw recently. Don't want to spoil it but it talks about the importance of music in our lives, as it has been talked in the forum, the really powerful tool it can be to create connections in our brain. It's a very informative and heart touching piece to see :D Hope you guys enjoy it.

Another important thing mentioned is the over medication in the cases of elderly people, and they say that it should be totally forbidden to medicate his people with antidepressives or anything else.. and well, we know not just elderly people, no one should be medicated.

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Also some articles in SOTT I found interesting:

https://www.sott.net/article/308340-
https://www.sott.net/article/155849-
https://www.sott.net/article/316581-

 

[Alana]

I found this one on Netflix by accident and watched it with my husband, and I want to thank you very much for the recommendation, Marina. I recognized the title because you had mentioned it, otherwise I might have skipped it. It was very heartwarming to watch and brought back a lot of memories for me too, seeing music therapy in action.

One could think that people would have known it just by being alive themselves and their own experiences that music is so powerful and so very necessary in our lives! Well, I do hope that this documentary helps more people remember. And I hope people who feel tired and disheartened with this world watch it too. There are some people out there who are fighting to right the wrongs of the world in their little way, and it takes very little Giving to make a difference in a person's life.

 

[Marina9]

I found this one on Netflix by accident and watched it with my husband, and I want to thank you very much for the recommendation, Marina. I recognized the title because you had mentioned it, otherwise I might have skipped it. It was very heartwarming to watch and brought back a lot of memories for me too, seeing music therapy in action.

One could think that people would have known it just by being alive themselves and their own experiences that music is so powerful and so very necessary in our lives! Well, I do hope that this documentary helps more people remember. And I hope people who feel tired and disheartened with this world watch it too. There are some people out there who are fighting to right the wrongs of the world in their little way, and it takes very little Giving to make a difference in a person's life.

I'm glad you liked it Alana and that it brought back nice memories to you! How wonderful would it be if hospitals, nursing homes, shelter homes, and all the other places were people are in need of love, empathy and compassion had this type of therapies? I believe it could make big big changes..

 

[munaychasumaq]

I watched the documentary by parts some months ago in sott and really touched my soul.I cried watching Henry and Denis recovering their memories with the music and made me think how we make this society where we send our Babies to the kinder gardens and our Elders to nursing homes far away of their beloved,because we have to "work".

Thanks Marina9 for the information.I found this interview with the director of the documentary Michael Rossato-Bennett and Dan Cohen.They tell us why they made Alive Inside.

https://youtu.be/XQ_54g6PxRI

 

[Marina9]

I watched the documentary by parts some months ago in sott and really touched my soul.I cried watching Henry and Denis recovering their memories with the music and made me think how we make this society where we send our Babies to the kinder gardens and our Elders to nursing homes far away of their beloved,because we have to "work".

Thanks Marina9 for the information.I found this interview with the director of the documentary Michael Rossato-Bennett and Dan Cohen.They tell us why they made Alive Inside.

https://youtu.be/XQ_54g6PxRI

Thanks for sharing this munaychasumaq, when I first saw it I was caught with Oliver Sack's work, and started reading his book "Musicophilia," much recommended if you like this type of topics :)

http://www.oliversacks.com/books-by-oliver-sacks/musicophilia/

Musicophilia
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does–humans are a musical species.

Oliver Sacks’s compassionate, compelling tales of people struggling to adapt to different neurological conditions have fundamentally changed the way we think of our own brains, and of the human experience. In Musicophilia, he examines the powers of music through the individual experiences of patients, musicians, and everyday people–from a man who is struck by lightning and suddenly inspired to become a pianist at the age of forty-two, to an entire group of children with Williams syndrome who are hypermusical from birth; from people with “amusia,” to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and pans, to a man whose memory spans only seven seconds–for everything but music.

Our exquisite sensitivity to music can sometimes go wrong: Sacks explores how catchy tunes can subject us to hours of mental replay, and how a surprising number of people acquire nonstop musical hallucinations that assault them night and day. Yet far more frequently, music goes right: Sacks describes how music can animate people with Parkinson’s disease who cannot otherwise move, give words to stroke patients who cannot otherwise speak, and calm and organize people whose memories are ravaged by Alzheimer’s or amnesia.

Music is irresistible, haunting, and unforgettable, and in Musicophilia, Oliver Sacks tells us why.