I found this fascinating. I am living proof that music can be used to control pain. I have been singing and playing all kinds of music. I was classically trained in both piano and voice. As I have an unusually low voice, I have traditionally written my own harmonic vocal parts with all types of music, and go fully into flow when even just singing. If I play as well, a bomb could go off and I wouldn’t notice until the piece was finished.
Music and reading speculative fiction are my two pain remedies.
Mozart, Handel, Fauré requiems, cello quartets, rounds, madrigals, Beethoven’s 9th, Bach Ode to Joy, hair metal, blues. It all works if the musical quality is there. The older music is much higher quality.
I don’t take any medication. I haven’t for almost ten years. I am a lot healthier for it.
Thank you for the kind words. It IS hard to think when in pain. I actually have various tests during the day to check my level of function in different areas. Numbers, patterns, puzzles, etc. I plan activities accordingly.
This is what neurodivergence and engineering school will do for a person.
It was simply a matter of necessity. I had to find a way to function. You learn many life lessons from being in consistent, severe pain for decades, if you pay attention.
So timely Marc! Earlier today, I was talking with a friend about modern-day music and literature compared to the works of the 18th and 19th centuries—timeless, powerful, and still healing even today.
Why doesn’t today’s music come close to that level?
I found this fascinating. I am living proof that music can be used to control pain. I have been singing and playing all kinds of music. I was classically trained in both piano and voice. As I have an unusually low voice, I have traditionally written my own harmonic vocal parts with all types of music, and go fully into flow when even just singing. If I play as well, a bomb could go off and I wouldn’t notice until the piece was finished.
Music and reading speculative fiction are my two pain remedies.
Mozart, Handel, Fauré requiems, cello quartets, rounds, madrigals, Beethoven’s 9th, Bach Ode to Joy, hair metal, blues. It all works if the musical quality is there. The older music is much higher quality.
I don’t take any medication. I haven’t for almost ten years. I am a lot healthier for it.
Thanks again.
I'm super impressed at the way you tap into the power of your mind!
Thank you for the kind words. It IS hard to think when in pain. I actually have various tests during the day to check my level of function in different areas. Numbers, patterns, puzzles, etc. I plan activities accordingly.
This is what neurodivergence and engineering school will do for a person.
It was simply a matter of necessity. I had to find a way to function. You learn many life lessons from being in consistent, severe pain for decades, if you pay attention.
simply paying attention in those circumstances is a fantastic accomplishment... it's hard to concentrate on anything else when you're in pain.
So timely Marc! Earlier today, I was talking with a friend about modern-day music and literature compared to the works of the 18th and 19th centuries—timeless, powerful, and still healing even today.
Why doesn’t today’s music come close to that level?
it will take a few centuries to see which of todays composers/lyricists (if any) stand the test of time in the same way as Mozart
I am no Nostradamus but … I dare to make a prediction .. none!