Effect of Medical Resonance Therapy Music^®
on Most Severe Sleep Disorders

Thirty years old, Mrs A first de­vel­oped de­pres­sion due to dif­fi­cult fam­ily situa­tions. She was treated with tran­quil­lis­ers. These calmed her down in the be­gin­ning, but be­cause of the un­changed in­abil­ity to cope with her fam­ily pres­sures, her con­di­tion got in­creas­ingly worse. For many years, Mrs A fol­lowed the ad­vise of her doc­tors to sup­press her de­pres­sion with dif­fer­ent drugs of in­creas­ing dosage, but with poor suc­cess. The de­pres­sion got worse and in ad­di­tion more and more ten­sion and pain­ful ab­domi­nal prob­lems were re­ported. Mrs A. re­ceived a strong drug for en­dogene de­pres­sion. In the fol­low­ing 5 years she de­vel­oped an im­mense urge to sleep. Her wak­ing times were re­duced to a few hours and her so­cial and fam­ily life came to a stop. The change of me­di­ca­tion to neu­ro­lep­tica and an in­pa­tient treat­ment at a uni­ver­sity hos­pi­tal for many month pro­vided only lit­tle help. Soon Mrs A. was only awake for one hour per day.

At her 60th birth­day Mrs A’s daugh­ter got her a cd-player and sev­eral mu­sic prepa­ra­tions of MRT-Mu­sic as a birth­day pre­sent. Al­though in the be­gin­ning no re­sults be­came ob­vi­ous, the mother was treated with the mu­sic regu­larly. Af­ter 3 months of treat­ment first re­sults were that Mrs A. slept less. She started to take part in fam­ily life again, to show in­ter­est in dif­fer­ent things and to un­der­take ac­tivi­ties on her own – some­thing which had not been the case for nearly 20 years.

18 months af­ter the start of the treat­ment with the mu­sic prepa­ra­tions her sleep was nor­mal, ten­sion and pain in the ab­do­men were gone. She rode alone by bus to the next city to visit her daugh­ter, over­looked the home­work of her grand­chil­dren of her son and started ac­tivi­ties with her old friends.

For an un­der­stand­ing of these re­sults the re­search find­ings of Prof. Dr. med. Hildebrandt of the In­sti­tute for Re­ha­bili­ta­tion Re­search at the Uni­ver­sity of Mar­burg in Ger­many are of help. In his work “Chro­no­bi­ologi­cal As­pects of Mu­sic Physi­ol­ogy" (23) he shows, how the or­gan­ism is widely ruled by har­monic or­gani­sa­tion prin­ci­ples, dur­ing re­gen­era­tion and, par­ticu­larly dur­ing sleep. Due to this mu­si­cal or­der of many im­por­tant physio­logi­cal proc­esses Prof. Hildebrandt calls the hu­man body a mu­sic physi­ol­ogy.

Since MRT-Mu­sic de­picts these har­monic pat­terns mu­si­cally, they come via the ear to the brain and are rep­re­sented there and via the way of reso­nance, stimu­late the natu­ral re­gen­era­tion proc­esses, which were in dis­or­der in Mrs A. A con­se­quence of a regu­lar stimu­la­tion, step by step, the natu­ral pro­por­tions be­tween the states of con­scious­ness come back. In this way the in­ten­sive posi­tive ef­fects of MRT-Mu­sic on sleep dis­or­ders of the most di­verse kinds can be ex­plained.

The case of Mrs A. and many oth­ers, make clear that mu­sic is not only ex­peri­enced in the wak­ing state but that the acous­tic pat­terns also in­flu­ence the ac­tiv­ity of the brain dur­ing sleep. As soon as the air pres­sure changes have reached, via the me­chani­cal sig­nal paths, the coch­lea, they are trans­formed into bio­elec­tro­chemi­cal im­pulses and start their jour­ney into the com­plex world of the brain – in­de­pend­ent of whether we are asleep, awake or dream­ing.

There­fore it is not as­ton­ish­ing that mu­sic of natu­ral har­monic struc­ture has such a great suc­cess in the nor­mali­sa­tion of states of con­scious­ness be­cause the cog­ni­tive and emo­tional brain sys­tems – as ex­pres­sion of our con­scious­ness – and the brain sys­tems which regu­late the re­gen­era­tion dur­ing sleep, are si­mul­ta­ne­ously stimu­lated by it.