And with this we now come to Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^®, which is struc­tured en­tirely ac­cord­ing to these laws of har­mony of the mi­cro­cosm of mu­sic. Ac­cord­ing to Pythagoras, in be­ing struc­tured in this way, it pos­sesses the same har­moni­cal or­der as the healthy body and can, there­fore, help to re­es­tab­lish new or­der in proc­esses within the lis­tener which have fallen into dis­ar­ray and, in do­ing so, strengthen the natu­ral health. In the opin­ion of an­cient doc­tors, our or­gan­ism re­acts to mu­sic like a reso­nance or sound­ing body and, by means of the cor­rectly struc­tured mu­sic, its proc­esses can be brought back into their natu­ral or­der – that is to say, har­mo­nized.

The sci­en­tific stud­ies and clini­cal ob­ser­va­tions now avail­able to us, docu­ment that Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^® also par­ticu­larly strength­ens our natu­ral regulatory andre­cov­ery proc­esses. This is par­ticu­larly no­tice­able in the re­lief of the physi­cal, men­tal and spiri­tual ef­fects of stress. To­day, in the area of stress re­lief, the medi­cal mu­sic prepa­ra­tions from the Mi­cro Mu­sic La­bo­ra­to­ries^® are even the most ef­fec­tive prepa­ra­tions known: 4 to 8 times as ef­fec­tive as any me­di­ca­tion, as was pointed out at the 1995 World Health Or­gani­za­tion Stress Con­fer­ence. To­day, with the help of these mu­sic prepa­ra­tions, medi­cal sci­ence is able to treat that cause of ill­ness – stress – in a sim­ple and, above all, cost-ef­fec­tive way. When one thinks that stress plays a great, if not the de­ci­sive role in all psy­cho­logi­cally in­flu­enced ill­nesses, then this age-old mod­ern mu­sic medi­cine is as­sured of a suc­cess­ful fu­ture.

With headaches and sleep­ing dis­or­ders, for ex­ample, which can very often be traced back to stress, stud­ies us­ing these stress-re­liev­ing mu­sic prepa­ra­tions have shown an av­er­age suc­cess rate of 70-80%.

Many gy­ne­co­logi­cal prob­lems, vari­ous heart and circulatory disorders, metabolic disorders and skin prob­lems could be im­proved, or in­deed com­pletely elimi­nated, with the help of the mu­sic. At ob­jec­tive pa­rame­ters of sur­gi­cal medi­cine, there was a clear re­duc­tion in the stress hor­mones (beta-en­dor­phin, ACTH, cor­ti­sol), which was simi­larly ob­served in ob­stet­rics. Posi­tive ob­ser­va­tions in cases of threat­ened mis­car­riage with har­moni­za­tion of the hor­mone lev­els are prom­is­ing signs, as are the im­prove­ment in the pow­ers of concentration and short-term mem­ory in cases of ar­te­rio­scle­rotic en­cepha­lo­pa­thy. The re­duc­tion in the du­ra­tion of in-pa­tient treat­ment is a posi­tive side-ef­fect.

The heal­ing ef­fects on the con­tami­nated child and adult vic­tims of the Cher­nobyl dis­as­ter (25% af­ter 2 weeks’ ther­apy with nor­mal im­mu­no­gram – hu­moral and cel­lu­lar) re­leased an in­ter­na­tional wave of soli­dar­ity. It would go out­side the bounds of my talk, should I wish to name all the es­tab­lish­ments which have been in­volved sci­en­tifi­cally with the heal­ing ef­fects of Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^®. They reach from Mos­cow, Minsk and Kiev, over Hei­del­berg, Berlin, Pots­dam, Hoyerswerda and Leutenberg to Mag­de­burg, where we have been study­ing the ef­fects of this mu­sic on pre­ma­ture ba­bies and neo­nates, as well as older children with heart diseases.

In my opin­ion, Medi­cal Reso­nance Ther­apy Mu­sic^® is of par­ticu­lar sig­nifi­cance for pe­di­at­ric medi­cine, be­cause, within the frame­work of their proc­ess of growth and the es­tab­lish­ment of neu­ronal cir­cuits, de­vel­op­ing chil­dren re­quire har­moni­cal sup­port to a far greater ex­tent than adults do.

The first tar­get group were pre­ma­ture ba­bies. These ex­hibit mini­mal watch­ful­ness, at­ten­tive­ness, and readi­ness to react. Com­pared to full-term ba­bies, they pos­sess only a lim­ited rep­er­toire of be­hav­ior, are eas­ily ir­ri­tated, their re­ac­tions are, in part, dis­turbed and un­pre­dict­able. Their daily rhythm is also ir­regu­lar. On the ward, the re­la­tion­ship be­tween pre­ma­ture ba­bies and their par­ents is like a vi­cious cir­cle, as the moth­ers try to com­pen­sate for their chil­dren’s lack of re­spon­sive­ness and at­ten­tion with ex­ces­sive stimu­la­tion, whilst the pre­ma­ture ba­bies, on the other hand, with­draw as a form of self-pro­tec­tion. There­fore, our code of prac­tice here reads: Sup­port of the pre­ma­ture baby’s own pos­si­bili­ties, in­stead of as­sault with in­ten­sive medi­cal in­ter­ven­tion.