Human Empowerment Services
Music therapy can calm anxiety, ease pain, and provide a pleasant diversion during chemotherapy or a hospital stay.
- Study by Harvard Health Publishing -
By utilizing volunteer music teachers, we can teach people of all ages how to deal with their traumas, emotional stress, and many other struggles in life. Teaching music allows the student to express themselves when nothing else works nearly as well.
Music opens doorways into our emotions, memories, and beliefs and allows us to analyze our thoughts to bring about changes to our current attitudes and heals the things we struggle with the most.
This type of healing puts the student in charge of their progress and goals.
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We currently offer:
- Guitar Lessons
- Voice Lessons
- Composition and Creative Writing
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More volunteers are needed. If you are a music teacher or a skilled musician who would like to volunteer to teach, please contact us from our contact page. Volunteers are needed for 1 hour per week.
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Music for Healing is a program run through a 501c3 provided by the Human Empowerment Service. To donate today, please visit our donations page by clicking the Donations tab or Click Here.
Learning to play an instrument, for example, sharpens how the brain processes sound and can improve children’s reading and other school skills. Stroke survivors who can’t speak sometimes can sing, and music therapy can help them retrain brain pathways to communicate. Similarly, Parkinson’s patients sometimes walk better to the right beat.
- By ASSOCIATED PRESS - Lauran Neergaard
DECEMBER 19, 2017