MELODIES FOR MIGRAINE
At the 1986 meeting of the American Psychological Association, psychologist Janet Lapp, Ph.D., of California State University, Fresno, reported the findings of a study which showed that restful or pleasant music could be successfully substituted for the autogenic phrases used in conventional biofeedback training.
By merely listening to popular tunes or to any kind of pleasant, relaxing music, participants in the study actually had fewer migraine headaches, and they could abort a migraine more swiftly than those who used verbal phrases and suggestions.
Listening to music, combined with deep relaxation and visualizing a pleasant scene, is believed to stimulate release of natural endorphin painkillers in the brain. By using music, there is also less need for monitoring equipment. And music also works well for tension headaches.
In another study at Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, classical music worked so well as a painkiller that many terminal cancer patients were able to stop taking analgesic medication. Interestingly, the authors of this study found mat the more you enjoy a piece of music, the deeper and more slowly you breathe and the more relaxed you become. A tempo close to your heartbeat rate can be very relaxing. Disturbing music like rock’n'roll is useless. But soothing New Age music, yogic chants, dreamy Hawaiian songs, or classical or popular tunes seem to work well.
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