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Mar 1 09 8:18 AM
Songs are connected to the instinct of survival. The very first beat can activate this The one that comes into my head is "Wait" in the Beatles Mr Postman Has this song from my youth trained me in some way to always expect the letter that never comes? The more melodic the music is, the more it help to reinforce survival memory - Waltzing Matilda is a good example - on the other hand rock music weakens memory. The lyrics and the tune have different effects
Another good example of lyrics in action is poetry engaging with survival
Finally the change in the lyric of the Abba songs from happy to sad and the after all these years back again to "Mama Mia" gives us all hope for the future and as far as tunes go the ones you matured with, me, Beatles and Dylan have the most effect If you want to connect someone to their fears play them the music of their adolescence, they should! enjoy it. If you want to encounter someone overly connected to their fears, listen to next door playing the same track over and over again. If someone fears for your survival they will lower the car window and blast you with their solution to your problems. There again your DSO isn't going to play anything that connects to his fears, is he/she, so a different approach is needed? The best option is to play NOT what you like, which is going to antagonise, but something along the lines of interpretable folk oriented music, which brings back Waltzing Matilda and the like into focus. If compiling a CD to play I would add a couple of more recent ones "True Love Ways" based upon audience reaction and "Imagine" for its calming effect As indicated its pointless looking at top 100 of all time lists, if your intent is to activate survival instinct What you have to do is to concentrate upon attaining a poetic stance To inspire anyone to recover, no matter what the illness is, even cancer, give them confidence. If the confidence comes from self therapy inspired within a group all the better. If all the DSOs were segregated by gender, put in a room and the doors locked with a few instruments and a pile of appropriate scratchy records, without doubt a high percentage would respond to the purpose of the medication immediately rather than allow it to create emotional havoc If someone isn't responding to medication they lack the fear of it (I don't want to take this but I'm going to have to take it), so they are taking it because they want to take it, but don't need to (Unmedicated they don't want to take it and don't need to). The medication still has the same effect upon its target, so in the latter case the lack of fear cannot respond to a medicated positive situation. If the intent of the medication is to correct differences by highlighting them, then rather than solutions, all that is created is a pile of differences that play on the mind. Since there is no fear for these differences (I needn't be married), they have to be explained away (I shouldn't be married). They want to be married, but don't need to be married, they want to love but don't need to love. Apologies for the end bit detracting from the thread
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