MELOTHERAPY AND THE ANCIENT CIVILIZATIONS

Abstract

Ever since their birth, people bring music into the world -the sounds of a baby’s cry sounds of release and enchainment – music that accompanies them, throughout their whole lives. Music has a direct influence upon people’s psychic and upon their good or bad physical state. People have intuitively understood this ever since ancient times, when they used sounds and noises produced by the human voice or by instruments, in order to overcome day-to-day hardships and to cast out various spirits and diseases. Ancient healers used to cure the ill with the aid of magic incantations. In the ancient Western culture, music was a way of putting order into thoughts, attaining inner harmony, maintaining one’s good disposition and state of health. To the ancient Eastern civilization, music was very important to man’s emotional, physiological, physical and spiritual state, as they considered that music helped maintain a good balance between body and mind.