In this issue, CBT introduces a music therapist, Oh Sun-hwa. She is a pioneer of Korean music therapy. It is because she started to study music therapy when it was first introduced in Korea. She is a healer who treats the body and the mind of patients. She also treats people who suffer from stress and depression. Let’s listen to her heartful musical story. -Ed.
Harmonize your work with other works
“Music therapy is used with verbal remediation, physical therapy and drug therapy of rehabilitation.”
Music therapy was created to help people. Therefore, it is applied in various fields. Music therapy reduces a lot of dark emotions, like fear, which originate from other remedies. Furthermore, it makes people’s minds comfortable. These abilities have an affect on intense medical care like surgery.
“Music therapy makes a synergy effect with other treatments, like many works make a supreme effectiveness when they are in harmony.”
When doing work, taking out potential energy makes the best effect. The potential energy can work through the synergy effect. Then, the synergy effect reveals when factors are in harmony. In other words, to make a supreme effect, you should harmonize work with others.
Age is just a number
Generally, people think that there is a proper age to do something. For example, a person who idles in his/her early twenties is able to have hope to study in his/her thirties. However, he/she thinks that finding a job is better than studying at that time. Then, he/she gives up studying. However, Ms. Oh believes that people can challenge something again in their old age.
“I think the best time is when people have a passion for doing something. If people are in their forties or fifties, the important thing is just doing work that you want to do.”
Actually, Koreans choose their major following their parents’ words or their grades from the university entrance exam, which is different from foreign countries. Moreover, people choose their work to follow their major. For that reason, it is hard to find the best work for themselves. Even if they find the best work for themselves, they prefer to be content with their present work, especially for older people.
“Actually, age is nothing but a number. I’m not young either. However, I want to study more in a foreign country with students in their twenties.”
Have a positive mind
To challenge the work that you want with a positive mind is very important. Even if a lot of people surrounding you are against your decision due to many reasons,  you should do the work that you want to do. If you don’t have a positive mind, you will be attracted by their opposite words. Then, you can’t do what you want, and you will regret not doing that later. Your negative mind makes you repeat the same choices in the same situation. Finally, you will live your life with regret every time.
“I think people can live better than now if people do what they want and don’t consider their age.”