Abstract
Hanser presents techniques that attempt to help manage stress and reduce the perception of pain. She describes how music therapy can synchronize head and heart, bringing coherence to mind and body. Reframing and emotional-approach coping are presented as strategies that can reduce stress and anxiety. Singing and writing songs offer ways to take charge of illness and focus on communicating the meaning of the experience. Hanser elucidates how the use of entrainment through music and other creative techniques emphasizes the impermanence and malleability of pain, thus alleviating it.
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Hanser, S.B. (2016). The Way to Cope. In: Integrative Health through Music Therapy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-38477-5_13
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