There’s a long history of music as a healing agent. As Confucius taught, “Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without.” But it’s more than pleasure. It’s like medicine. One of the founders of western medicine, Hippocrates, treated mentally troubled folks he called “frenetic” by bringing them to temples to listen to healing symphonia. According to Chad Woodford, who writes on music technology, “When we listen to harmonious music, we are attuning our entire being to something beyond itself: our minds, our hearts, our bodies, + our souls. He calls this energetic chiropractic adjustment in the sense that it is restoring order and wholeness to a system out of alignment.

SOME SOURCES

Listening To Music As Spiritual Practice, Chad J Woodford - July 6, 2023
https://medium.com/atha-yog%C4%81nu%C5%9B%C4%81sanam/listening-to-music-as-spiritual-practice-d373ecbb0be

Music As Medicine by Daniel Levitin review – musician, heal thyself
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jan/14/music-as-medicine-by-daniel-levitin-review-musician-heal-thyself

Howard Gardner
https://www.howardgardner.com/howards-blog/the-intelligences-of-making-music-a-personal-exploration
https://www.simplypsychology.org/musical-intelligence.html

Why I love Music, Spiritual Experiences, J. C. King
https://medium.com/real-stories/why-i-love-music-1d4f14896e3b

Music as Spiritual Practice - September 2, 2021, Judi Neal
https://edgewalkers.org/music-as-spiritual-practice/

Listening To Music As Spiritual Practice, Chad J Woodford - July 6, 2023
https://medium.com/atha-yog%C4%81nu%C5%9B%C4%81sanam/listening-to-music-as-spiritual-practice-d373ecbb0be

Spirituality and Humanism, Jeremy Rodell
https://humanists.uk/humanistlife/spirituality-and-humanism/

Music seems to be everywhere - in the origins of the cosmos, the sounds non-human animals produce, and the habits and hearts of homo sapiens. Why is it so universal? Hugh Taft-Morales explores some of the sociological and evolutionary impact of music.

Let’s share the image of earth however we can this Earth Day. We must find more common ground - our time is running short. President John Kennedy artfully blended idealism with pragmatism, saying, "If we cannot end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal." The earth is our most basic common link - it is the common ground we share.