[Regulative music therapy and training as a means for enhancing adaptive potentials and for overcoming fatigue and stress].

Abstract

The method of regulative music therapy (RMT) by C. Schwabe is presented-its mechanisms, the caring out procedure, usability and application domains. RMT can help to cope with mental and physical overstrain, resulting in variety of disorders regarding sleep and cardiovascular system; stomach and muscle pains, irritability and lack of balance, anxiety. RMT is based on the learning of specific perception form-efficient observation on: one's own personality, body, functions, thoughts, emotions, and not reasoning. In this way the pathogenic attention narrowing is overwhelmed and the behavior changes which reflect on the general well-being and self-tolerance. The music in RMT has a starting function. RMT is used not only in the case of neurosis therapy, it is successfully applied in the preventive medicine as a training method to cope with over-tension and as means to prevent emotional alienation in every day life.