Chil­dren with high blood pres­sure due to auto­nomic nerv­ous sys­tem dis­tur­bances showed al­ready af­ter five weeks of regu­lar treat­ment with MRT-Mu­sic^® a nor­mal blood pres­sure (8). Simi­lar re­sults were ob­served in other pa­tient groups, for in­stance in high-risk preg­nant women with high blood pres­sure (9).

Often within two weeks of regu­lar treat­ment with MRT-Mu­sic^® at high risk preg­nant women ex­peri­enced a nor­mali­sa­tion of dif­fer­ent dis­turbed func­tions: too high stress hor­mone lev­els re­duced to nor­mal, the much too low preg­nancy hor­mone pro­ges­ter­one dou­bled to nor­mal, the weak im­mune sys­tem re­cov­ered strongly, the meta­bolic dis­or­der of gesto­ses re­duced sub­stan­tially, the heart ac­tiv­ity of the fetus left the dan­ger zone and in con­se­quence to all of this, the rate of pre­ma­ture births re­duced by half (9).

Women dur­ing de­livery with an ini­tial in­er­tia in the uterus de­vel­oped up to 70% more strength in uter­ine con­trac­tions while lis­ten­ing to MRT-Mu­sic^®. At the same time, the rhythm of the con­trac­tions be­came more har­mo­ni­ous. They also re­ported sig­nifi­cantly re­duced pain, which also had con­se­quences on the en­dor­phin lev­els. Preg­nant women regu­larly treated with MRT-Mu­sic^® for sev­eral month be­fore de­livery not only short­ened their labour time (on av­er­age by 1-2 hours in com­pari­son to those who did not lis­ten to MRT-Mu­sic); they also felt the move­ments of their ba­bies in the womb more force­fully 3-4 weeks ear­lier (9).

An in­ter­est­ing in­di­ca­tion, that such im­prove­ments are es­sen­tially de­signed by a har­moni­sa­tion of emo­tion is, that the MMPI-test (Min­ne­sota Mul­ti­pha­sic In­ven­tory) in its scales 1, 2 and 7 shows an im­prove­ment of the psy­cho­logi­cal func­tions by 68% and that at risk preg­nant women could free them­selves from de­pres­sive states al­most com­pletely (9).

A fur­ther in­di­ca­tion comes from a pilot pro­ject with mul­tiple scle­ro­ses pa­tients. On the one hand they ex­peri­enced through MRT-Mu­sic^® an in­ten­sive stimu­la­tion of such posi­tive emo­tional quali­ties as trust, love, thank­ful­ness, in­ner peace, se­cu­rity, care­less­ness, crea­tiv­ity, joy of life and hap­pi­ness; but on the other hand they also had un­com­fort­able ex­peri­ences of the past come back to their minds, which often lay as far as 30 years back, and were lived through again with an in­ner dis­tance – in a kind of in­ner pu­ri­fi­ca­tion. Af­ter 4 weeks of treat­ment the physio­logi­cal meas­ure­ments showed an im­prove­ment in the speed of nerve con­duc­tion, in its peak value by 27 mil­li­sec­onds (10). The pa­tients were so sat­is­fied with ef­fects of MRT-Mu­sic^®, that all of them con­tin­ued the treat­ment at home, af­ter leav­ing the hos­pi­tal.

This proc­ess­ing of un­com­fort­able ex­peri­ences (11) may be of great value. As stress medi­cine could show, emo­tion­ally over-board­ing ex­peri­ences get writ­ten down in our long term mem­ory and, via the way of as­so­cia­tion, may start the stress re­ac­tion over and over again – even in situa­tions that look only simi­lar, but in re­al­ity are in com­plete mis­pro­por­tion to the ac­tual threat (12). This has ad­verse con­se­quences for health.

If, by an in­ten­sive mu­si­cal har­moni­sa­tion of the emo­tional world, such an over-judge­ment of stress ex­peri­ences in the brain is re­duced to a healthy meas­ure, then this proves to be one of the most im­por­tant steps of treat­ment in stress medi­cine. It also speaks to the in­ves­ti­ga­tions on the ef­fect of MRT-Mu­sic^® in MS-pa­tients and pa­tients with neu­roder­ma­titis, who ex­peri­enced a sig­nifi­cant and last­ing re­duc­tion of their dis­or­ders (13), such as the im­pulse to scratch, ex­tent of sick­ness, etc.