Sea Dream

The SEA DREAM was composed and recorded by Mejrema Reuter for the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralyzed (CRP) in Bangladesh. Listening to this music helps the patients to lower their adrenaline level before long lasting and complicated spinal operations. CRP staff recognized the importance of the music therapy and started to put it in practice. The complications from the effect of large amounts of anesthetic in the patients already malnourished bodies were avoided. Tremendous results were achieved.
How it all started?
Mejrema said
"Once, in Bangladesh, at the Centre for the Rehabilitation of the Paralyzed, I was standing beside the man who was in excruciating pain. No pain killers around, only my willingness to help. Due to a fall from a building, he was waiting for an operation. The pain was literarily chocking him. His small malnourished body was shaking. Fear in his eyes. I could not speak Bangla at that time, he did not understand English, I was not allowed to touch him, so I started to play my flute to him. As I soon as I played a few tones, he took a deep breath and started to look at me so gratefully. I will never forget that moment. I could actually read his pain. It was as if I was pulling the net full of monsters out of his body and with each minute his breathing was becoming calmer. I didn't stop to play until he started to breath regularly. We were surrounded with other patients with severe spinal injuries who were all completely immobile waiting for their operations.. Looking at all of them I realized that the only way for them to receive the therapy, prior to their long and exhausting operations is aural way. The power of sound is immense. The power of love is immense too.
As I could not be with them all the time, I recorded music for them which is pulsing as a spinal liquid bringing the awareness of breathing. With self-empowerment one can at least try to manage the pain himself or herself and try not to suffer.
This is what I have learned from the sea. You have to float, otherwise you drown. The sea will help you but you have to try to float."
Music by Mejrema Reuter
Photos by Boris Dmitrović
www.mejrema.com

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