Lorenzo Bonaiuti
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Medicine and Music :
“Music is frequencies, sounds, it is the substance of which we are made..
For the ancient Greeks and Indians, it was the language of the Gods..
The forms of Music resemble the forms of Nature..
Music moves on this plane.”
Stefano Bollani, jazz pianist and composer.
I smile because a few years ago, as part of the professional development and growth program we, as a professional association, call “Shiatsu Dialogues with Other Worlds,” we also proposed this name. As mentioned earlier, physicians, researchers, psychiatrists, and psychotherapists presented their integrated views on specific topics. On each occasion, two shiatsu practitioners with different backgrounds offered practical treatment ideas, creating an interesting roundtable discussion that integrated the language. However, many people’s lack of vision prevented them from understanding what topics could be discussed with an artist, for example. Some said I could only talk about the posture required for playing: back straight, shoulders down…
In fact, themes such as those depicted in the image, and others such as listening and improvised composition, thanks to the quality of the audience’s listening and the space, are important for an advanced practitioner who practices daily. Reflections of this kind take us back to the origins of the Shiatsu discipline and elevate the manual technique to an art, the art of healing (understood as healing in a broad sense).
In ancient China, for example, there is an enormous closeness between medicine and music, a closeness also graphically expressed in the name and recalled in many ancient texts, as a sign of the inseparable bond between humankind and nature.
The Chinese character for medicine, 藥品, was designed using the same character used for music, 音樂, but adding the herb root, the main ingredient in healing recipes.
The art of medicine is very close to the art of music in Chinese thought.
An art, without a doubt, made of listening and reproducing, of interpreting connections, but above all, an art that favors observing the whole, rather than breaking it down into individual parts: a holistic art…
And if we look back to our Greek roots, the idea wasn’t far off:
“When, in human relationships, we utilize harmony, rhythm, and an intimate understanding of the other, this is like making music.” (Plato)
Music is an art of harmony, which develops through connections.
But perhaps some of us were visionaries, imagining these paths of research and professional development for advanced practitioners.
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