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Percussion Provides a Medium for Individual Self-Realisation
Percussion helps reconnect us to our core, enhancing our sense of empowerment and stimulating our creative expression. The advantage of participating in a percussion group is that you develop an auditory feedback loop within yourself and among group members—a channel for self-expression and positive feedback—that is pre-verbal, emotion-based, and sound-mediated. Each person in a percussion group is expressing themselves through his or her “drum and listening to the other “drumsat the same time. Everyone is speaking, everyone is heard, and each person’s sound is an essential part of the whole sound. Each person can drum out their feelings without saying a word, without having to reveal their issues. Group drumming complements traditional talk therapy methods. It provides a means of exploring and developing the inner self. It serves as a vehicle for personal transformation, consciousness expansion, and community building. The primitive percussion group is emerging as a significant therapeutic tool in the modern technological age.
Percussion Reduces Tension, Anxiety and Stress
Percussion induces deep relaxation, lowers blood pressure, and reduces stress. Stress, according to current medical research, contributes to nearly all diseases and is a primary cause of such life-threatening illnesses such as heart attacks, strokes, and immune system breakdowns.
Percussion Helps Control Chronic Pain & Helps Boosts the Immune System
Chronic pain has a progressively draining effect on the quality of life. Percussion serves as a distraction from pain and grief. Moreover, percussion promotes the production of endorphins and endogenous opiates which are the body’s own morphine-like painkillers, and can thereby help in the control of pain. A recent medical research study indicates that percussion boosts the immune system. Renowned cancer expert Dr Bittman, MD, carried out a study which demonstrated that percussion actually increases cancer-killing cells, which helps the body combat cancer as well as other viruses, including AIDS. According to Dr. Bittman, “Drumming tunes our biology, orchestrates our immunity, and enables healing to begin.�
Drumming Creates a Sense of Connectedness
In a society in which traditional family and community-based systems of support have become increasingly fragmented, drumming in a group provides a sense of connectedness with others and interpersonal support. A drum group provides an opportunity to connect with your own spirit at a deeper level, and also to connect with a group of other like-minded people. Group drumming alleviates self-centeredness, isolation, and alienation. Music educator Ed Mikenas says that drumming provides “an authentic experience of unity and physiological synchronicity. If we put people together who are out of sync with themselves (i.e., diseased, addicted) and help them experience the phenomenon of entrainment, it is possible for them to feel with and through others what it is like to be synchronous in a state of preverbal connectedness.�/p>
