Indian Music Therapy

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The ongoing pandemic causing reduction in social interaction combined with fear, anxiety etc. has affected mental fitness. Scientific research has found that brain has special healing effect due to music. India has a formidable cultural heritage with both advanced classical music & spirituality. This unique combination of musical+spiritual knowledge that India has potentially makes Indian Music Therapy different from music therapies used in some other countries. When music is combined with spiritual knowledge, there is an integrated approach to healing combining music with yoga, meditation, Vedic astrology, Ayurveda etc. Indian music therapy also called raag chikitsa is a holistic music therapy that goes hand in hand with other treatments just like Ayurveda goes hand in hand with allopathy.