RAAG THERAPY
Music is a sound or nada generating particular vibrations which moves through the medium of ether present in the atmosphere and effects the human body. Sarangdev mentions in his Sangeet Ratnakar that ahata-nada or music is always produced by striking or aghata by a living being on an instrument of any kind So music is a power or universal energy in the form of raga. We might be familiar with the word music therapy or Sound healing, which is practiced globally these days. Raag therapy is basically Indian music therapy as the base of Indian classical music rendition is RAG. Healing through the rendition of ragas is Rag therapy. Indian classical music is recited in ragas which is the reason ragas play an important role in treatments too. The therapeutic procedures through ragas comprises of making a patient listen to tunes or a specific tonal structures and notes in which a particular raga has been created. In India, legend has it that Thyagaraja, the famous musician of South In