Music as Medicine: Spring by Vivaldi

Hidden Energies in the Song

 Spring by Antonio Vivaldi

This beautiful song written by Vivaldi in honour of the spring season can be used as medicine for our mind, body and soul.  It's properties can help you with the following:

·      Cleanse environment and mind of negative moods
·      Brings clarity & balance into the mind
·      Lifts depression
·      Removes the energy of feeling “stuck”; helps move you forward; knowing that you can
·      Lightens, brightens and uplifts
·     Bring joy
·      Determination and focus:  clarity in what needs to be done, and “I can do this”
·      Motivates and inspires

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Vivaldi is from the Baroque period where melodies were clearly focussed, bright, and uncomplicated, melodic and warm.  Therefore, the music entrains our brain to have more clarity and focus.  The simple melodies let us know that life does not have to be complicated; it’s easy, and straightforward if you allow it to be. 

After the initial presentation of the main melodic theme, it moves into bird like calls, which present as going back and forth.  During this part, the brain is being entrained to be balanced, as the notes go back and forth lighting up right and left brain, and the synopsis connecting the 2 parts through the corpus collosum.  If you were feeling too emotional about something, with repetitive listening, this song can help bring balance between your logical and emotional brain.  The hidden energies in this song put things into perspective, allowing you to make your “to do” list for solving life’s many situations, moving you forward. Later in the song, there is a sweeping like motion in the melody.  This part interestingly can help sweep away all that no longer serves, again, bringing more clarity.

The time signature is a standard 4 beats.  The strong first beat drives you forward, inspiring you to get off the couch, itemize what needs to be done in bullet point form, and in what order.  The music inspires us not only with the solution and how to go about doing it, but the inspiration and motivation needed to get started.  Listen to it repetitively until you have everything in order in your mind.  Then jump up and do it while the energy lasts.

HOW TO USE THIS SONG AS MEDICINE:
The spring season is about new beginnings, new ways of doing things, new life.  This song can be listened to any time of the year to uplift the mood.  This would especially be useful in nursing homes, but in all of our homes, to keep the mood light and bright, helping to move us forward.  In listening to this song in the springtime, you are aligning with nature’s energies of new beginnings, helping us to let go of the past, and any old worn out ways of doing things.  While listening to the song, you could focus your mind on the following affirmations: 

“I fully release all people, places and things that no longer serve my highest good” 

or

"I let go".

With repetition of this affirmation, pay attention to what may come to mind.  Allow the music to show you what it is you need to end, what you need to recycle or complete.  The key to using music as medicine, is to become ONE WITH THE MUSIC.  This means that you allow the vibrations to totally consume you.  Lie down or lie back in your chair, close your eyes, and become one with the song.  Repetition is key so listen to it over and over, until you notice the results you are looking for.  Sink deeper into the music each time you listen to it.  You may be surprised as the music brings the clarity.  Trust what you intuit as your highest guidance.  Music can connect you with universal wisdom.

I hope you enjoy Vivaldi’s Spring and add it to your music library!

Carla Rose Kelly