Scholar-Journalist
Music is therapy!
Published
3 months agoon

Music is not just sound. It is a slow unravelling of the soul, a quiet medicine that slips in through the cracks where words fail. It enters not through logic but through feeling, wrapping itself around the mind the way autumn light clings to a windowpane. Sometimes it hums, sometimes it roars, but always it lingers, reminding us that healing doesn’t always come in prescriptions or remedies, but often in the notes of a song.

There are days when silence feels too heavy, when thoughts echo against the walls of the mind like restless footsteps in an empty hall. On those days, music arrives as a companion. A soft piano piece can slow the pace of your heartbeat, like rain easing into soil. A violin can draw out emotions you had pressed deep within yourself, the way leaves are pressed between pages of an unread diary. A familiar voice, carrying the warmth of an old song, can soothe you like a blanket thrown over shivering shoulders.
Healing, after all, is not always about erasing the ache. Sometimes it is about sitting with it, giving it space, letting it breathe until it softens. Music teaches us this art. It doesn’t tell us to move on; it tells us to feel. To feel fully, deeply, until the weight begins to shift. It gives sorrow a rhythm, joy a melody, and confusion a harmony. In doing so, it translates emotions into something the mind can finally understand.
There’s a quiet ritual in listening to music. Maybe it’s slipping on your headphones and letting the world fade into a muffled hum. Maybe it’s sitting by a window, curtains half-open, as an instrumental swells in the background. Maybe it’s humming to yourself while stirring soup, the steam carrying notes into the air like little prayers. In these moments, music transforms the ordinary into something almost sacred. It reminds us that healing doesn’t have to be grand—it can be as simple as finding comfort in a melody
Music is one of the most human things we have. It belongs to no single language, no single place. A flute played centuries ago in a different land can still touch us today, because feeling has no expiry. This universality is healing too—knowing that somewhere, someone has felt what you feel, and left behind notes to prove it. Music makes us less alone
Music does not claim to solve everything, but it does offer gentleness for the soul to somehow, HEAL!