(An experience
of Music therapy with Dr. Chandrakant)
-Accountant
Japanese lady, Tokyo, (40ish)
Introduction
I first heard Dr. Chandrakant
Sardeshmukh’s CD ‘Pure Joy’ as I was lying
on the bed. There are no words which can describe what I
felt when I first heard his CD, however, it felt as though
an electric current was passing through my body, beginning
from my palms and feet and just continuing on and on, as
though without a particular part as its destination. I felt
as though I had gone numb, but in reality, this was not
so. I was normal, physically. Time after time, as I went
on hearing the CD, I started being able to breathe deeply
and could practice ‘ Pranayama’ a part of the
ancient Indian art of Yoga. I could actually feel the air
coming out and being sucked in as my diaphragm started getting
compressed and began expanding the way I never had experienced
it before. This made me feel very comfortable and so I kept
hearing it many times.
One day suddenly, this happiness
disappeared because of the same CD. On hearing the CD, I
experienced pain in my lower abdomen. This complicated my
situation and made it very stressful for me. I felt very
sad and stressed for three days. Usually, as I heard the
CD, I remembered the trauma that I had had to undergo twenty
years ago. I had not known the reason of the imbalance in
my body since that first trauma that I underwent twenty
years ago. It was the first time that I understood the reason
of this imbalance. That was the time when I experienced
the pain in my lower abdomen, which erupted every time I
heard the CD and then stopped as abruptly as it had started
on stopping the music. I could not control my feelings.
I felt as though I had been transported to the same situation
of twenty years ago, the trauma that had rocked my life
from its very foundations when I was 24 years old.
Music Therapy Experience
I started undergoing music therapy
from Dr. Chandrakant personally, instead of just hearing
the CD. As soon as he started playing the Sitar, I could
feel a kind of twitching in my lower abdomen that continued
towards my heart, throat and shoulder in succession. My
head and body started moving right to left unintentionally.
I started gulping and could practice Pranayama very well,
even better than while I was hearing the CD. I could stretch
myself and felt the stress evaporating from my limbs. My
sad, dark feelings disappeared by practicing Pranayama only
once. My hands started moving like a ballerina, in tune
with the rhythm of Chandrakant’s music. I was so comfortable
that I wanted to laugh. After the session, Chandrakant explained
that I moved my hands a lot, as music was removing blockages
throughout the nerves, veins and arteries in the top half
of my body. He said that the nerve centers in my trunk had
blockages and that’s why I had not moved my legs. I
was so happy at that moment that I did not feel like talking
to anybody. I felt happy on going home. My feet were warm
in spite of removing my socks and I slept very well that
night. The next day I had a headache because my entire body
had suddenly become warm. But on the other hand I felt unbelievably
light in the top half of my body as if I had no body at
all.
At the second session, my body
arched and my legs moved too. Things that I had been thinking
of all the while, suddenly disappeared and I felt absolutely
no stress. While going home, as I climbed up the staircase
at the station, my legs felt very light. At home, I saw
myself as a child in the mirror. After a few days, I felt
nauseous and felt as though I was throwing up all the stress
that I had been carrying for so long.
At the third session, I felt
as though I had a sore throat because of the nausea that
I had experienced some days back. Again, I felt a kind of
movement, not pain, in my abdomen. I could also feel something
move from my abdomen to the throat and I had to cough it
out three or four times. My head turned right, I bent my
knees and then my head turned left. My right leg shot up
in the air, followed by my left leg and I kept moving my
body in opposite directions. I lay facing the floor and
arched my body the other way round raising my legs high
up in the air. This movement was very quick, though it was
against my will; the movement was automatic and uncontrollable.
Later I joined my hands as though in a prayer. I turned
on my back again. My legs shot up again as though I was
doing yoga. Indeed, I moved a lot. Dr. Chandrakant explained
to me that my lower abdomen was becoming free of all blockages
when I first felt the twitching in it, but as a matter of
fact, when I touched my lower abdomen, I could feel that
it was very cool and that it had swollen up. Due to this,
it pained when I bent down. But, the pain disappeared after
the first therapy, however, my abdomen still felt cold.
Chandrakant said that this was because I had had stress
in my abdomen for a very long time. Thus music therapy removed
that blockage and soon blood circulation started taking
place normally. Following this, it started becoming warm
over there too. I felt that I had relaxed considerably after
the second music therapy, considering that I had had a constant
pressure on my chest before undergoing it. I felt that I
had become really strong mentally.
In the fourth session, before
undergoing the music therapy, I had pain in my lower abdomen
as it had swollen up. I also had pain only in my left leg
and so I bent my left knee and turned the leg outside in
order to remove the pain. I also practiced certain yoga
asanas. After this session, I felt that all my worries and
fears had simply evaporated into thin air, and I felt free
because blockages in both, my mental as well as physical
systems had been removed.
In the fifth session, Chandrakant
played the music that had earlier reminded me of the trauma
and made me sad, however, this time, I enjoyed it immensely.
I just could not believe the fact that the same music could
make me want to laugh out instead of mourning over my past.
My practice of yoga asanas also improved as my body became
more and more flexible. I was laughing for the entire duration
of this music therapy session and enjoyed myself a lot.
The innocence that my face reflected in the mirror surprised
even me. The happiness that I experienced was similar to
that when I had undergone the Ayurvedic Panchakarma Vaman
treatment. The blockages in my brain seemed to have gotten
erased automatically.
In the sixth session, my heart
had a twitching feeling and my head felt very light.
In the seventh session too, I
practiced Yoga asanas. It felt as though the music therapy
had given me some kind of massage, because the body ache
that I had had for a long time had miraculously disappeared.
There was no tension in my jaw and I felt my cheeks become
soft. My entire face was becoming softer and gentler and
did not reveal any tension now. My mental health had improved
by far, my body had become stronger and my appetite had
improved a great deal since I started the therapy. I observed
as I did my ablutions in the morning, that my constipation
had stopped. I also improved my agility.
In the eighth session also, I
practiced yoga asanas, pulled my hair simultaneously and
massaged my head. Now, my mental condition before and after
undergoing music therapy showed more and more stability.
I continued feeling very healthy both, mentally and physically
because things that had been haunting me for ages miraculously
stopped haunting me. I became increasingly impulsive and
passionate about my work.
In the latest session, the ninth
one, Chandrakant told me that I had not moved at all during
the session. He said that moving my legs and thus pressing
my lower abdomen was not good for my health. In this session,
I massaged my head and ears. Since five years or so, I cannot
hear low tones very properly. Chandrakant told me that as
there is a connection of ears with abdomen and it is in
the abdomen that I have the gamut of my problems, hence
I have constant tension in my abdominal area and also, I
cannot hear very well. Because my abdominal problems are
being solved due to Music therapy, I think my hearing is
improved now.
Impression of music therapy
On undergoing music therapy and
Chandrakant’s counseling thereafter, I came to understand
how stress and traumas had been damaging my body all throughout
these long years. Now after the music therapy sessions,
I experience none of the mental stress and sad feelings
due to traumas that I had been experiencing earlier. I feel
very happy, strong and have a positive attitude now. I recommend
music therapy for one and all, with or without stress, to
gain happiness and improve your psychological conditions.
Because of the relaxation felt, Chandrakant’s Music
Therapy is also recommendable to the disabled children and
their parents, as it helps soothe your nerves. I wish peace
and happiness for all.
