How does music affect our lives emotionally? Stimulation can increase mental alertness and lead to more awareness of the present, and of the individual self, toward restoration of self-care and positive involvement and independence (5). Music is the answer for loneliness, motivation, socializing influences, and rehabilitation (2). The Causes of isolation or loneliness is because of bereavement, separation from adult children, retirement, and physical disability (2). By being helped to accomplish in music some of the same things that his “normal” counterpart does, the handicapped individual may be led to a healthy acceptance of his limitations (3). When appropriately structured, musical activities may carry an inherent pleasure found in the performance itself (3). The adaptablility of music to learning, on many levels of required ability, makes it uniquely versatile for structuring situations leading to feelings of pride (3). Such experiences, considerately arranged, may support the individual in his feeling of being needed by others-to gain identity in a whole (group) larger than him/herself (3). In nearly all cases, long or short term, music can play a part in the recovery-both in specific applications to basic problems and in influencing the “will to recover” that is, motivation or “morale.”

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