Healing Heartbreak, Music Notes as Medicine: a List of 5 Music Prescriptions for Healing Emotional Trauma!

Perhaps, many people do not know. In the field of psychology, there is a technique called music therapy. In the discipline of psychology and musicology, there is also a discipline called music therapist. But at present, there is no recognized music therapist in our country. However, the relationship between music and psychology is also inseparable.

Clinical studies have shown that music intervention therapy can effectively alleviate depression, with psychological counseling and intervention methods, it has an auxiliary effect on the treatment of depression.

Different songs have different effects on the treatment of emotional trauma. Here, we recommend a list of 5 music prescriptions for the treatment of marriage, love and emotional trauma, hoping to improve your mood.

Jay Chou’s “Chrysanthemum Terrace” — — Love and Marriage Trauma

“Chrysanthemum Terrace” is a song written by Fang Wenshan, arranged by Zhong Xingmin, and composed and sung by Jay Chou. It is also the ending song of the film “Curse of the Golden Flower”. The song uses a lot of images and metaphors to express the prince’s love and hate for the queen. It expresses a kind of grief and nostalgia for the lost love.

Pu Shu’s Birch Forest — — Love and Marriage Trauma

“Birch Forest” is written and composed by Pu Shu, and sung by singers Ye Bei and Pu Shu respectively. It is a folk song of the former Soviet Union, originating from Ukraine, during the Soviet Patriotic War. It was inspired by the story of a Soviet soldier during World War II.

The lyrics describe a sad, beautiful and simple rural love story about the cruelty of war. It explains the mood of the male and female protagonists in this song who are crazy about love.

Jay Chou’s Fireworks Are Easy to Be Cold — — Love and Marriage Trauma

“Fireworks are easy to be cold” is a song written by Fang Wenshan, arranged by Huang Yuxun, and composed and sung by Jay Chou. The lyrics of the song originated from a fictional story:

With the city of Luoyang in the Northern Wei Dynasty as the background, the men and women in the story fall in love and settle down for life, but unfortunately encounter the turbulence of the war in the Northern and Southern Dynasties. The man was ordered to go to war, while the woman waited at the city gate for him to return and marry. However, the war was unfavorable, Luoyang was lost, and the man was seriously injured and drifted to Jialan Temple, where he committed himself to Buddhism as a monk. The woman waited for him to come back day after day. It was not until the end of the war that the man returned to Luoyang City, only to find that the woman had died. He can only pray silently in the place where she once waited for him, and continue to guard the isolated city.

Wang Feng’s “When I Think of You” — — Love and Marriage Trauma

This is a love song of Wang Feng, “When I miss you”, as the lyrics say, even ten years, even as adults, we still have to face up to the weak corner of our hearts, there is no escape. It vividly depicts the pain of parting in love.

In the process of listening, I deeply felt the deep yearning and the pain after losing. It is not only a recollection of lost love, but also a profound reflection on the changes of life. At every moment of thinking of you, the warmth and pain of the past are intertwined, which makes people sigh at the impermanence of life and the complexity of emotions.

Zhou Shen’s “Happy Face” — — Love and Marriage Trauma

“Huan Yan” is a cover work by singer Zhou Shen, which was released in August 2015 and collected by various platforms in August of the same year. It tells the story of a person who, after experiencing setbacks, still maintains an optimistic and upward attitude and faces life bravely.

It weaves a musical picture full of warmth and happiness with delicate notes, as if telling a happy story in silence.

Author: Psychological Counselor Red Shirt Qianying