Any primary or supplementary discipline of Music Therapy in the medical, nursing, rehabilitation or rejuvenation environment must provide for calibrated delivery of the intervention tools or medium and evoke a perceivable response. Indian Classical and more specifically Carnatic Classical Music with its extremely precise and elaborate structure of ragas [scales], swaras [notes], srutis [pitch variations] and talas [beats] largely facilitates this requirement of specific design and calibrated delivery.   Also, the option to improvise and extemporize provides infinite variables to a Music Therapist required to initiate a client specific treatment program. Individuals exercising an over-the-counter self-select options are inevitable.  The emphasis is on consciously selecting one appropriate to your psychological ‘finger-print’.

• Carnatic Classical Music as a therapeutic tool

Indian Classical Music and its infinite application variables are used by Indian Music  Therapist as a means of establishing communication with the human body’s main and subsidiary energy centres.  In music therapy, swara specific frequency is to be generated and delivered by the therapist.  The basic seven notes or  swaras  are   sa,  re,  ga, ma,  pa,  da,  ni.    Sa is the base notes and foundation on which the whole edifice of music is built. See the illustration below.  Muladhara Chakra is the base Chakra.  Consequently, with this at the base and the Sahasrara Chakra at the apex and represented by ni  the human body’s rhythmic balance and functional harmony is maintained.   When there is a deficiency or weakening in a particular chakra or energy center, the functioning of the organs under its control display a disability or unhealthy performance.   The Swara associated with the particular Chakra is specifically calibrated in its delivery by the therapist, and employed to provide the corrective charge to boost this energy center.   Again, the importance of calibrated delivery of music cannot but be emphasized.   The practice and response is case specific particularly when it is employed as therapeutic intervention.