Modern equipments and inventions such as satellite TV, telecommunication, computer, fast moving vehicles etc. make our life comfortable, but they have disturbed environmental balance, natural energy and ecological harmony resulting increased psychometric disorders
and stress, which have become the main killers today.

Although the population of the world has increased tremendously, but stress has increased loneliness in man and his vitality has gone down. Man, in search of sensual pleasures, has gone berserk. Human body is composed of 5 elements – prithvi (earth), apah (water), agni (fire), vayu (air) and akasha (space). These five elements form tree dasha or basic humans in body. They are vatt-wind (a form of air element), pitta (a form of fire element), kapha (a combination of water and earth).
Human body is also encircled with these energy fields i.e. physical energy, magnetic and cosmic energy. In the same way there are seven aspects of every person, which must be recognized and evolved in harmony with natural laws. These seven aspects are – (1) sound (2) touch (3) sight (4) taste (5) smell (6) defection, and (7) sex. The physical body is also made up by – (1) raja - clay, earth, (2) Rasa - fluids, (3) rakta - blood (4) manas - flesh, nerve fiber, tissues, (5) medha - fat (6) asthi - bone (7) majjah - bone marrow.

There are also seven types of desires (security, protection, longevity, sharing, knowledge, self-realization and union).

As per Ayurveda, the definition of a healthy person is told that the person who has all dosha, dhatu in harmony and man (mind) pure is healthy. Ayurveda also says that most of the diseases are the cause of restless mind and brain. New discoveries link with brain the immune system and suggest that state of mind can affect us right down to our cells.

An American psychologist named Sheldon Cohen also has carried out a research project in Salisbury, UK and has come to the conclusion that we catch cold more readily when we are feeling threatened. He says that mental abstraction like loneliness or sadness can have impact on human bodies. Investigations are demonstrating that emotional states can translate into astride response in the immune system. The complex array of organs, glands and cells comprise the body's principal mechanism for repelling invaders.

EMOTIONS & THEIR EFFECT ON HEALTH

There is a direct linkage of state of mind, altered immune response and illness. It has already been established that illness among those people who have recently lost a spouse, are occurring at higher rates because bereavement significantly affects their immunity. In the same way, mortality has been found three times higher among those people who feel socially isolated or having fewest close relationship.

The reverse is also true. A positive mental state seems to bear favorable effects on health and longevity. A psychologist, Sandra Lavy at the Pittsburgh Cancer Institute this year has found that a factor called ‘joy’ meaning mental resistance and vigor, was the second survival time for a group of patients with recurrent breast cancer.

Neurologist Karen Bulloch (San Diego, California) has trailed direct neurological pathways between brain and immune system. The two are joined in an intricate ‘feed back’ loop by which each influences the others. This denotes that there is a kind of shared consciousness in the mind and body. Immune system is a congestion of white cells or lymphocytes that reside in thymus glands, spleen, bone marrow and lymphnodes and monitor blood stream.

Mental Stress and Health

We are talking about mental stress resulting due to imbalance of bioenergies. What are they ? Signs for mental stress are shown as below :

1. A constant feeling of uneasiness.

2. Constant irritability with family and work associates.

3. Boredom with life.

4. A recurring feeling of being unable to cope with life.

5. Anxiety about money.

6. Morbid fear of disease, specially cancer and heart disease.

7. Fear for death, your own and others.

8. A sense of suppressed anger.

9. An inability to have a good laugh.

10. A feeling of being rejected by your family.

11. A sense of despair at being an unsuccessful parent.

12.Dread as the weekend approaches.

13.Reluctance to take a vacation.

14.Inability to concentrate for any length of time or to finish one job before beginning another one.

15. A feeling that you cannot discuss your problem with any one.

16. A terror of heights, enclosed spaces, thunderstorms or earthquake.

These are mental signs of stress. These may be resultant of various aspects such as personal, family, society, environmental, ecological and work condition, whatever may be the cause, its adverse effects have already been discussed.

To avoid adverse effects of these stresses, one will have to attain good mental health. What is this ? Mental health is a sum total of–

1.  Emotional stability.

2.  Maturity of character.

3.  Ability to cope with stresses of life.

4.  Ability to judge reality accurately.

5.  Ability to foresee and to evaluate things with foresight.

6   Ability to work cheerfully.

7.  Ability to a gratify hunger, thirst and sex in such a way as not to hurt others and oneself.

8.  Having an effective conscience.

How to Manage Stress

Changes in dietary pattern, subtler exercises, swadhyay, positive mental attitude promotion, proper relaxation, proper meditation, music therapy and mantra chikitsa, agnihotra becoming a part of society are means of managing stress. Here we will discuss the use of music as a tool for energy balancing and stress management.

Music & its Relation with Energy & Body

The bip-bip-bip of a tiny fetal heart, the muffled syncopation of a mother's pulse, oscillating brain waves, the ebb of flow of hormones, the cadence of death. These countless other organic rhythms make up the biological drum beat of life. If we go further, we find that the whole universe is rhythmic. There exists particular frequency relation among all particles.

The sound is first sign of universe. As per vedic methodology, the three lords are khalve (matter), nad (sound) and akhar (alphabet). The first tanmatra of chetna or life is sound.

Even in deep meditation a person hears sounds such as –

1.  The chirping of birds.

2.  The sound of crickets.

3.  The sound of bells.

4.  The sound of conch.

5.  The sound of the ring (an Indian lute).

6.  The sound of mridanga (barrel drum).

7.  The sound of flute.

As per Narad Samhita (an ancient book of music and drama) it is said :

"Birds, crickets, deer etc. each animal sings." Therefore, it is proved that music exists in all our environment.

Maharshi Panini in his book Paniniya Shiksha describes the origin of sound as :

"When soul wishes to express the means of mind, of wisdom, then it stimulates fire of the body and that fire forces air, which generates basic sound. This sound as per the place of origin i.e., heart, throat, and vocal is known as mandra (slow), madhya (medium) and tivra (loud). The sound multiplies and become audible and is called shruti (which can be heard). These shruti are 22 on which seven swar are based. At present,

we have 7 basic and 5 secondary, total 12 swaras. We know very well that sound is a kind of energy and human body is encircled by physical and etheric (cosmic, magnetic, and telluric) energies. The change in harmony of environmental energy affects the mind of a human and the resulting misbalance and stress is seen in the form of various mental and physical illness. Therefore, use of music can be a tool for balancing human energy.

How music can be used ?

A particular type of sound generates particular type of energy-waves, which can be measured by their frequencies whose unit is Hertz.
The music has seven basic chords and similarly body has 7 chakras, 7 dhatus (constituent), 7 sensory organs, 7 desires and obstacles. These all are in harmony with each other. Even the sound and color of the chakras are 7 and also there exists so many combinations of 7 in universe i.e., 7 seas, 7 continents, 7 lokas etc.

Effect of Sound 

According to scientists world has been created by sound. Rains, floods, storms, earthquakes come because of occasional change in frequencies of sound. All the momentum of earth and space is based on sound. Here we will discuss some of experiments on sound.

During the First World War, Germany used one machine which could generate million hertz per second sound which used to disturb all sensory nerves of man and they died. 

Dr. Painter of Euro College of medicine used ultrasonic waves for treatment of mentally retarded patients.