When birds sing - diseases go away

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Birds play a bigger role in our lives than we can imagine. Communication with birds convinced ornithologist-bioacoustics, Doctor of Biological Sciences Valery Dmitrievich Ilyichev that bird voices have a healing effect on humans.

“Nature has provided birds with a unique sound-producing mechanism,” says Valery Dmitrievich. “The vocal apparatus of birds is like a mini-orchestra - a duet or quartet, with the help of which the feathered miracle of nature performs its virtuoso musical works.

The singing of birds cannot leave a person indifferent. It calms, cheers, adjusts to a romantic mood, heals the soul, balances all the processes taking place in his body. The singing bird creates harmony of the soul, psyche and body, that is, it helps a person to heal.

Valery Dmitrievich Ilyichev explains the curative effect of bird singing on humans. Sounds through the ear enter the so-called auditory cortex and excite it. And from it the rest of the cerebral cortex is excited. Since all the work of the body is somehow regulated by the brain, the changes occurring in the brain affect absolutely all physiological processes. Even a simple sound vibration can affect the work of any organ, right down to the cell. But musical sounds are, in fact, primarily a fixed and stable harmony. Submitting to it, all organs and systems in the human body begin to work harmoniously and correctly.

A person is genetically related to the sounds that birds make, and this sound environment is initially pleasant to him. The voices of birds are anchored in the structures of the human brain as a stimulus associated with joy. And the link between positive emotions and physical health is well known.

Ilyichev noticed that among the people living surrounded by birds, there are many long-livers. He explains this by the fact that all biological processes in the human body will in this case be synchronized by the singing of birds. When people began to live in huge cities, they deprived themselves of communication with birds in their natural environment. But they could not do without their wonderful and healing singing for a long time, and then they decided to keep the birds in cages so that the little singer and doctor was always at hand.

For example, nightingale singing - iridescent, multi-generational, with alternating soft and harsh, loud and quiet musical overtones - invigorates, creates a mood, calls for work. It well heals depressive conditions, neuroses, relieves headaches. The perky flute songs of the little warbler have a similar effect on a person.

Rapid heartbeat, arrhythmia can be removed by bird songs with uniform rhythms - canaries, songbirds, buntings, finches. Sound cheerful melodies, played by a goldfinch or a siskin, help with neuroses, irritability, fatigue. Chronic hypertension is treated with the calm songs of the blackbird.

Sound vibrations emitted by zoryanka relieve headaches, heart and joint pains, spasms in the liver, stomach, heart, and blood vessels. These harmonious sound vibrations are also useful for those who suffer from insomnia.

Arriving in a forest or park, we must be able to distinguish the voice of the desired bird and focus on it. Therefore, first you need to learn to distinguish between the voices of birds recorded on records, disks, tape recorders. Then, in the forest, in the diversity of bird songs, you need to try to highlight the voices of already known birds. Then learn to hear the voice of one bird and tune in to it, as to a certain sound wave, turning off the rest of the sound background.

This is the basics of ornithotherapy: with such a setting, a person suffering from, for example, hypertension, as it were, creates a communication channel between a certain combination of sounds and control centers in the cerebral cortex, which dilates blood vessels and removes spasm. Blackbird singing will help chronic hypertensive patients, especially if you walk in the forest more often … The sounds emitted by blackbirds, with their frequencies, also affect the pain centers, the brain, which are excited during chronic migraines.

Larks will ring over the fields in April. Their singing is flowing, with melodic thirds. The lark has a forest counterpart, the whirligig bird, whose singing is dominated by long gentle trills that create joy and peace in the soul.

Later, in May, in the dense bushes along the river banks, you can hear continuous soft chirping, similar to the voice of a grasshopper. This is the voice of a cricket, a small brownish-gray mobile bird. Her rhythmic singing helps with overexcitation of the nervous system, increased heart rate, cardiovascular diseases.

- And how to be treated with poultry?

“If a bird lives in your apartment, in a cage,” advises Valery Dmitrievich, “first of all, you need to ensure that the bird sings as much as possible. To do this, use a variety of sound stimulants, such as tape recordings of classical music or bird trills. And the easiest way is to turn on the tap in the kitchen or bathroom and let the water gurgle. Soon, your bird, too, will hum, tenderly and pleasant to the ear. Any bird in the house is healing: it will create a mood, and dispel sorrow, and calm down pain. I still remember my first bird from my distant military childhood - the goldfinch Tishka. Once, in a fierce winter, they brought firewood, which we children also had to chop. From those times I have a deep scar on my hand when I wounded it with clumsy movements of an ax. I remember the gushing blood and terrible pain. There were no pain relievers in the house. I just shook the bandaged sore hand and at some point showed it to Tishka. Tishka, until then calmly sitting on the perch, began to jump restlessly, and then settled down on the highest place of the cage and began to sing. He sang his best songs to me, and they sounded especially sonorous and even fervent, as if consoling and encouraging me. I listened to the goldfinch, admiring his singing, and suddenly noticed that the pain was gone. She returned in the evening, when Tishka, exhausted, stopped singing and fell asleep. But this pain could already be tolerated …

All birds adore their owners and respond to affectionate treatment with wonderful singing. It is especially useful for children to communicate with them. Birds are active, mobile creatures, their behavior corresponds to the inquisitive nature of the child. When a child learns to speak, such a peculiar partner as a singing and speaking bird will be useful to him. Under the influence of birdsong, children develop an ear for music. Babies who are easily aroused become calmer, fall asleep more easily, and sleep better.

Talking birds are irreplaceable companions and friends of lonely elderly people. The most common of these birds, budgerigars, are inexpensive and have great benefits.

Valery Dmitrievich, together with Doctor of Biological Sciences O. Silaeva, created a Bioacoustic Rehabilitation Center on the basis of a hospital near Moscow. His doctors were looking for a way to quickly recover patients after surgery and exacerbations of chronic ailments. Ilyichev suggested that such patients listen to the compositions recorded on tape, composed of the voices of different birds, depending on the condition of the patients and specific diseases.

Ilyichev also has his own experience of using his method.

- Not so long ago I was in the hospital. My illness was accompanied by a severe headache, which the doctors could hardly relieve with powerful drugs. Then my colleagues compiled a sound composition that reduces pain. They installed a music center in my room so that I could listen to the birdsong. Before that, we had not yet tested "painful" compositions on humans, and I was the first to test my own invention. And I was shocked by the results: after half an hour, the excruciating headache disappeared and never returned.

Like other fans of bird singing, I have a lot of discs and records in my music library, so a polyphonic bird choir sounds in my house all the time. Although no disks can replace the bird that lives next to you, which you care about dearly. In gratitude, she gives you both joy and inspiration, saves you from loneliness and life anxieties, loves and heals.

You can listen to some birds singing here.