The purpose of this study is examining the possibility of the fact that therapeutic instrumental music can be used in holistic therapy, especially in biblical context. Also this therapeutic music can be utilized as in both concept as listening music and playing instruments.
As we talk about the term 'biblical holistic therapy', it needs to be considered that what is the biblical view of the human. Under reformed theology, the essential concept of human can be described in three important concepts. First, the human is consisted of holistic body that can not be dividable in body, mind and soul. Second, the human is created by God following his divine image. Third, the human corrupted completely so that it can be recovered only by God's Grace. And this three concepts are different from the view of Hellenism or New Age movement that describe the human as transcended energy of the universe.
When the human deviated from God's divine image because of sin, he started to suffer from several disorder and disease. First, the human started to suffer from metal disease such as depression, obsession, stress and addiction. Second, the human started to suffer from physical disease. Third, the human started to suffer from social disease such as failure in relationship with others.
Then, those who suffer from disease can be helped to recover from it by remedy of therapeutic music. In fact, the music therapy has deep-rooted biblical orientation. As we consider the scripture of bible say that David cured Saul with playing instrument, we came to know that the elements of music therapy is therapeutic performer, sound and instrument.
As we examine that those elements are relevant to the standard of biblical holistic therapy, we first look at the qualification of the therapeutic performer. The performer needs to be professional, faithful and relevant to the purpose of biblical therapy. Second, we can see that sound itself has the therapeutic function. The sound and all the creature are consisted of vibration, and those resonate to each other to amplify therapeutic energy in same frequency. Third, listing music has the therapeutic function such as mitigating acute anxiety and stress. Fourth, playing instrument itself play the therapeutic roll.
To organize therapeutic session, we need to examine various instrument such as piano, brass, woodwinds and strings because they have unique sound characters those are different from each other. Next we take look about possibility of genre and formation of the music that can be used as therapeutic purpose.
The examples of therapeutic music sessions that conducted so far can give us important concept of organizing therapeutic session. Assesment, treatment, and evaluation, following those three steps we can effectively organize therapeutic music sessions both in remedy of music listening and remedy of playing instrument. We can see several successful case of off-line clinical session with this three-step manner.
On the advent of non-face-to-face social system, the need for the renovation of music therapy model is on hand, such as on-line music intersession model. At this point, I introduce the song 'Always with You' that was written for therapeutic purpose, both for listening music and playing instrument, which was written on the concepts I mentioned so far on this study. I expect this song will play a roll for the therapeutic purpose, and give inspiration to other researchers.