Music is everything we liken it to be even more and it has gradually in a subtle way formed a major part of our everyday life that we as individuals can't do without. The global world undeniably has it diversities but at the tune of music, we all speak one language, moving our legs and body in a rhythmic way that sync with the sounds and beats - In short, everyone forget their sorrows and worries at the sound of a beautiful song, choosing to enjoy the moment and pend brooding as later duties.
As a growing child in a small village in the Western part of Africa, have seen and now we tell, how music healed and still healing many. Foremost, before I dive into that, I'll like to shade more light on the notion "How music heals". Healing can be from anything not necessarily from physical wound, it could be from traumatic experience, depression, grieve, emotional pain, betrayal etc.
"To the "then" ways of how music heal".
At the set of the sun, the men would return from the farms and their women from market. As usual, everyone had already apportioned duties in preparing the dinner like every other nights. The children would help with minor chores, the mothers, would sit on a wooden small stool as the widely spread their fleshy thick thighs around the traditional stove made of three stones, blowing air with an hand- fan made from bamboo fronds, so as to get the cooking done on time.
The "Baba" would keep their legs crossed while laying on a wooden armed stretcher chair as they listened to "Juju" or "Apala" songs buzzing from their stereo radio. They would sing or hum along the songs coming off the radio thereby, calming their spirit, soul and body as they drew strength from it for the morrow.
"The now".
We all do have a way of expressing our emotion and feelings especially the negative ones like frustration, sadness, low vibe etc. Music is not far fetched among the ways we tends to relieve ourselves from these feelings, we all emote through music.
A musician who sings is expressing his or her thoughts, feeling and deepest emotions through music and on the other hand, a listener who get to listen to the song could relate to the same song leaving both, to feel the same feeling and find healing through the song.
Music is life and through it we all have been able to live productively and healthily.
© Medemausi
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