THEORETICAL FUNDAMENTALS

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MUSIC + BRAIN
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Chronomedicine

Music as a Harmonic
Medical Data Carrier

The Special Status of the
Ear in the Organism

The Ear as a
Medical Instrument

The Significance of the
Soul to Medicine

The Significance of
our Consciousness
to Medicine

The Significance of the
Soul to Human Evolution

Scientists of Tuebingen discover the Brain Regions responsible for
Self Awareness

The Future of Pharmaceutics

Peter Hübner

 

 






Peter Hübner - Micro Music Laboratories
Prof. Dr. med. Horst Koeditz — The Ear as a Medical Instrument
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Un­like al­most any other or­gan, our ear is di­rectly con­nected with a vast num­ber of our or­gan­ism’s func­tions. This con­nec­tion runs via the 10th cere­bral nerve – the vagus nerve – which, as the “vaga­bond, is con­nected to all im­por­tant or­gans and vas­cu­lar sys­tems and, as op­po­nent of the “sym­pa­thicus– the sym­pa­thetic nerve – keeps its func­tions un­der con­trol. Looked at from this point of view, our ears have at their dis­posal, di­rect trans­mis­sion lines to the most im­por­tant or­gans of our body.
“Let it be known,
your illnesses and
your health,
your sadness and
your joys –
all of them come
from your brain.”

                    Hippokrates
At the same time, our in­ner ear – stored in a bony laby­rinth – is also where our or­gan of bal­ance is lo­cated and has eve­ry one of our body’s mus­cles un­der con­trol.

Prof. Tomatis talks of a “cy­ber­netic regu­la­ting cir­cuit: brain (com­mand) – mus­cle (exe­cu­tion) – ear (con­trol) – brain (cor­rec­tion of the com­mand). So in this way, our in­ner ear – un­like al­most any other or­gan – is cross-linked with our en­tire or­gan­ism. But our ear also has yet an­other spe­cial status: none of our other or­gans can rec­og­nize such fine im­pulses and, at the same time, cal­cu­late these with such exact mathe­mati­cal pre­ci­sion. At all times dur­ing this proc­ess the ear takes the cal­cu­la­tion of an oc­cur­rence of vi­bra­tion and clas­si­fies it in har­monic and dis­har­monic or­ders. And this brings us to the sec­ond part of my talk: to the natu­ral laws of har­mony.

“Our organism strives
to maintain
the natural
rhythmic harmony”
Eve­ry­one is born with the abil­ity to dis­tin­guish natu­ral har­monic sounds from un­natu­ral dis­har­monic ones – this is just as true for the small child as it is for the old per­son. This abil­ity to dis­tin­guish sounds is the re­sult of the ear’s exact cal­cu­la­tion of vi­bra­tion in­ter­vals in re­la­tion to one an­other.

Par­ticu­lar gaps or in­ter­vals be­tween two vi­bra­tions are rec­og­nized by the ear as “har­monic, other in­ter­vals as dis­har­monic. This or­der of the har­monic in­ter­vals is called har­moni­cal, and the laws which de­ter­mine this or­der are known as natu­ral laws of har­mony, just as Herr Huebner ex­plained to us ear­lier. This har­moni­cal con­for­mity to a law is not, how­ever, char­ac­ter­is­tic only of our ear, but is also an­chored in our psy­che.

You might now ask what all that has got to do with health. Well, a great deal, as you will soon see.

These har­moni­cal laws, you see, do not only de­ter­mine what hap­pens in the in­te­rior of the sound and in our ear and our men­tal tone ex­peri­ence, we also find these laws of har­mony in many of our or­gan­ism’s fun­da­men­tal func­tions. And this is surely no co­in­ci­dence.

Re­cent stud­ies have shown that the natu­ral func­tion of our hu­man or­gan­ism is de­ter­mined in many dif­fer­ent ways by these natu­ral laws of har­mony, which also gov­ern the mi­cro­cosm of mu­sic. Here, not only the spa­tial struc­ture of our or­gan­ism is vari­ously di­vided up, its bio­logi­cal-rhyth­mic time struc­ture is also or­dered ac­cord­ing to these natu­ral laws of har­mony – which Prof. Dr. G. Hildebrandt from the Uni­ver­sity of Mar­burg has, fol­low­ing ex­ten­sive re­search, been able to show.



Prof. Dr. med. G. Hildebrandt

is one of the fathers of chrono-medicine and is recognized world-wide as a leading medical authority in the field of:

   chronobiology
   balneology
   medical climatotherapy
   physical medicine

He founded the Euro­pean So­ci­ety for Chro­no­bi­ol­ogy and, for many years, was vice pre­si­dent of the In­ter­na­tional So­ci­ety for Chro­no­bi­ol­ogy.

He also founded the L.R. Grote In­sti­tute for Physio­ther­apy and Re­ha­bili­ta­tion in Bad Berleburg and the In­sti­tute for Re­search into Re­me­dial Medi­cine in Bad Wildungen.

At the Uni­ver­sity of Mar­burg – un­til be­com­ing emeri­tus pro­fes­sor – he was di­rec­tor of the In­sti­tute for Oc­cu­pa­tional Physi­ol­ogy and Re­ha­bili­ta­tion Re­search.


Chro­no­medi­cine shows that a natu­ral rhyth­mic har­mony forms the basis of those proc­esses re­spon­si­ble for the healthy and eco­nomic func­tion­ing of the or­gan­ism – whereas long-term aban­don­ment of this har­mony leads to mis­in­for­ma­tion in the nerv­ous sys­tem and to mal­func­tions in the meta­bolic ac­tiv­ity, and points the way to ill­ness. To­day there­fore, in many bran­ches of medi­cine, rhyth­mic dis­or­ders are rec­og­nized as im­por­tant in­di­ca­tors of an on­com­ing or ex­ist­ing ill­ness.

Our or­gan­ism strives to main­tain the natu­ral rhyth­mic har­mony and as soon as it loses it, the or­gan­ism be­gins to rec­re­ate it dur­ing rest­ing phases or sleep. Pro­fes­sor Hildebrandt was able to de­ter­mine how, each night, the or­gan­ism vari­ously re-es­tab­lishes its har­monic or­der again. This regene­ration of the natu­ral har­mony in our or­gan­ism en­ables us to em­bark re­freshed on the ac­tivi­ties of each new day, and it shows us that our re­gen­era­tion means pre­cisely the re­cov­ery of our or­gan­ism’s natu­ral har­monic mode of func­tion­ing.

If we con­sider all this, we can­not not be sur­prised that, nowa­days, Pro­fes­sor Hildebrandt de­scribes the hu­man or­gan­ism as noth­ing short of a ‘mu­sic physi­ol­ogy’, be­cause the way in which it func­tions ori­en­tates it­self on the same natu­ral laws of har­mony as the mi­cro­cosm of mu­sic does.



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