At the end of the eighties I was following workshops of the Australian psychiatrist John Diamond. He has written quite some books on what he called life energy also known as Ki, Ka, Prana etc. and related subject. I’m sure some of you have heard of him. Amongst others he had developed a system that he called Behavioral Kinesiology, where he related the meridian system to states of mind and emotion, and by working on the meridians and acupuncture points in combination with affirmations and other attributes was helping to free this life energy.
One of his greatest interest was music. He was training musicians to create high energy music and would write essays how certain composers would work on certain meridians or how the beat of certain types of music would block certain meridians. Very interesting stuff.
He had developed a very simple kinesiology test to measure the therapeutic value of certain pieces of music. The person that is tested listens to the music and at a certain moment holds his breath and then you measure the time till a person tests weak. The results differ a bit per person, but in general < 7 seconds stress; 10-12 seconds neutral and when you go over 30 seconds it becomes highly therapeutic. Some of his favorite composers were Furtwangler and Toscannini and indeed if you tested it you would go over 40 seconds. This was in the age of analog music (tape recorders and vinyl).
It was also the age that digital recording and cd’s where introduced. And that is where the bad news comes in. When he tested people listening to digitally processed music they would invariable test weak. Which made him conclude that all digital music was stressful and that the therapeutic value of music was lost for the generations to come.
I realize will I write this that some young readers may never even have heard analog music. I kept my vinyl and tube amp and are still listening to it.
I bet most of you never have considered this aspect. According to this finding you could conclude that any kind of relaxation CD etc is a contradiction in itself.
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