Question: What results have your studies produced?

Prof. Dr. med. Reznikov: We were able to observe that several parameters of the vegetative nervous system underwent change under the influence of Huebner’s Medical Resonance Therapy Music^®. For example, the hormone beta-endorphin, the body’s own morphine, comes close to normal status as a result of the music treatment. Thus, this music has a harmonizing effect.

Headaches, for instance, got better, sleep became deeper and the patients simply felt better as a result of this therapy with the music. In other patients, there were improvements in problems like forgetfulness, lack of orientation, nervousness and lack of con­cen­tra­tion.

Ques­tion: Did lis­ten­ing to Mozart also have this ef­fect?

Prof. Dr. med. Reznikov: Lis­ten­ing to Mozart led to the ac­ti­va­tion of bod­ily func­tions, and this runs con­trary to the proc­ess of re­laxa­tion.

When Peter Hübner’s Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^® was used, we also saw an activation of the opioid system, which explains the reduction in pain and the improve­ment in sleep ex­peri­enced by many pa­tients. Opioids are sub­stances in our body that one might call the body’s own opium.

This also ex­plains why many pa­tients of both sex felt very much bet­ter whilst lis­ten­ing to and also af­ter hear­ing the mu­sic.

Ques­tion: Could this also be the physio­logi­cal ex­plana­tion for the fact that some lis­ten­ers feel ex­tremely happy when lis­ten­ing to Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic?

Prof. Dr. med. Reznikov: Yes, that could be one of the rea­sons.

Ques­tion: Is the suc­cess of the mu­sic de­pen­dent on the mu­si­cal knowl­edge and train­ing of the lis­tener?

Prof. Dr. med. Reznikov: No, suc­cess was evi­dent, com­pletely in­de­pend­ent of the pa­tients’ mu­si­cal and gen­eral edu­ca­tion.

Ques­tion: You are now work­ing with a team of 10 re­search­ers on dif­fer­ent stud­ies with the mu­sic. Which re­sult has had the great­est im­pres­sion on you so far?

Prof. Dr. med. Reznikov: Ac­tu­ally, all of the re­sults with Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^® are im­pres­sive, but there was one re­sult which was so clear, it really sur­prised us. We ex­am­ined moth­ers who were lis­ten­ing to the mu­sic dur­ing la­bor and saw that the child in the womb relaxes to such an ex­tent that it seems to sleep. This sur­prised us all.

This is a very posi­tive ef­fect, as this har­moni­za­tion of the mother and child, brought about by lis­ten­ing to the mu­sic, is not only re­liev­ing for the mother but also serves to coun­ter­act the trauma of birth for the child. And to­day it is pre­cisely such trauma which is held re­spon­si­ble for many sub­se­quent dis­or­ders the child may suffer. What also im­pres­sed us is the fact that the mother’s en­ergy dur­ing birth is clearly in­creased by the mu­sic, on av­er­age by 75%, and this serves to coun­ter­act any dan­ger­ous weak­en­ing of the mother dur­ing the birth.

We know that these ef­fects occur, but we still do not know pre­cisely what it is that spe­cifi­cally hap­pens, and this is what we want to find out with our con­tinu­ing re­search.

Ques­tion: What is it about the mu­sic that works in the way you de­scribe? The sounds, the har­mon­ies or the rhythm?

Prof. Dr. med. Reznikov: The most im­por­tant thing about Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^® that in­flu­ences the hu­man or­gan­ism is proba­bly its entirely natural structure, based strictly on the natu­ral laws of har­mony of the mi­cro­cosm of mu­sic – which in­deed, ac­cord­ing to old medi­cal sys­tems, also gov­ern bio­logi­cal life.

Ques­tion: Sur­veys con­ducted among more than ten thou­sand lis­ten­ers of the mu­sic in Berlin and Frank­furt re­vealed that approx. 90% said they like the mu­sic very much. How­ever, some said they were not able to re­late to the mu­sic and, in fact, a few said they could not bear the calmness, the or­der and the har­mony of the mu­sic.
So did some of your pa­tients have dif­fi­cul­ties with the mu­sic?

Prof. Dr. med. Reznikov: A few pa­tients ini­tially ex­peri­enced a slight worsening of their head­aches, and there­fore did not want to lis­ten to the mu­sic. We were, how­ever, able to per­suade them to lis­ten to the mu­sic nev­er­the­less – for if the physi­ol­ogy is in dis­or­der, it is quite likely that the regu­la­tory proc­esses which be­gin could well be found un­pleas­ant.

By the fourth day, at the lat­est, these peo­ple ac­tu­ally re­quested the mu­sic them­selves, be­cause in the mean­time, they had felt its bene­fi­cial regu­la­ting ef­fects, and in­stead of worsening, their head­aches had sig­nifi­cantly im­proved. If a lis­tener finds natu­ral har­mony un­pleas­ant, it sug­gests that his or­gan­ism is work­ing dis­har­moni­cally, and then it really is time to rec­re­ate a natu­ral or­der, and it is just such a per­son for whom Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^® can then be of great bene­fit.

Ques­tion: So what posi­tive ef­fects does this mu­sic have on healthy peo­ple, and is it suit­able for all peo­ple?

Prof. Dr. med. Reznikov: Yes, ac­cord­ing to cur­rent re­sults of sci­en­tific stud­ies this mu­sic is, with­out a doubt, suit­able for eve­ry­one. One can per­haps sum up by say­ing that the strong point of this Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^® for the healthy per­son lies in the fact that it ef­fec­tively counters stress factors present in the body.
And nowadays this is certainly a very useful thing. Both my family and I myself therefore use it. Many people suffer from poor sleep or have headaches, lack concentration or have many other general complaints as a result of being under stress. Here Medical Resonance Therapy Music^® can really do a good job: one can deeply relax with it at home and effectively distance oneself from the stresses of every-day-life.

Question: How should one go about doing that? Whilst lying down, sitting comfortably in an armchair or whilst doing some light housework?

Prof. Dr. med. Reznikov: One should listen to the music whilst relaxed and either sitting down or lying. It is hardly possible to do anything else at the same time. It is very pleasant to listen to it in the evening in bed before going to sleep, but also – if your colleagues do not object – during the day at work, for example. Best would be to relax to the music three times a day for 30 minutes.

Question: That is quite a lot. Would a shorter time suffice?

Prof. Dr. med. Reznikov: As I already said, three time a day is best; but listening just once a day in the evening is often enough. It is definitely good to listen to Medical Resonance Therapy Music^® after the stress of the day, in order to re-harmonize the disrupted vital functions. Those around you and your own body will be very grateful.

And: one should perhaps not necessarily expect conventional artistic pleasure, as this unusual music pursues, in a musical sense, new paths. The composer has not conceived it as a conventional work of art, but as a sci­en­tifi­cally based reso­nance me­dium for the health-pro­mot­ing en­er­gies of na­ture.

Ques­tion: In the same way, per­haps, that: he who drinks spa wa­ter should not ex­pect wine or whisky or vodka?

Prof. Dr. med. Reznikov: Yes, for some tastes per­haps in this di­rec­tion. But one should not for­get that re­nowned mu­si­cal ex­perts ac­knowl­edge this as mu­sic of the high­est mu­si­cal stan­dard and enjoy it as a new mu­si­cal ex­peri­ence.

Ques­tion: Are your stud­ies con­tinu­ing?

Prof. Dr. med. Reznikov: Yes, cer­tainly, the re­sults to date have in­spired us to deepen our knowl­edge in the dif­fer­ent fields. It is also a case of mak­ing re­newed use of an an­cient natu­ral branch of medi­cine in our pre­sent time and put­ting it in the ser­vice of our health. This is a chal­leng­ing task.


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