 Walk into the hospital in Brainerd and you can feel better almost instantly. Clayton Castle shows us how at Ascension Health St. Joseph's Medical Center, music is curing the souls of many. They say music has a curative power to it. Walk into Ascension Health St. Joseph's Medical Center in Brainerd and have all of your worries and anxieties lifted thanks to volunteers who spend anywhere from one to three hours a day lifting the spirits of those young and old. So we do have lots of volunteers that come and want to play. We have about 13 to sometimes 20 depending on what time of the year it is that come and play. The volunteers will play one to three hours and not more than that because their fingers get a little tired. Take Jan Anderson. She's been playing piano for over seven decades and has been a volunteer at Ascension Health for about a year. Jan says playing piano can help with dealing with any kind of emotion. It's relaxing and I love the music. It's just so relaxing to you and when you're angry or something you can take out your anger too. Sitting at a piano for an hour or more in a hospital allows pianists like Jan to interact with many different people, surgeons, patients, guests or just whoever needs an uplifting moment. The patients come by and in fact one lady was just here and was telling me don't just sit there play. As for the most memorable story? First time I played they had just brought they were just bringing a man up from surgery and he was conscious and and with it and he hollered to me play melancholy baby and I said I don't know how to play that one for him but that was that was fun and then people asked me to play different things and if I can I do. So next time you walk into Ascension Health be sure to look up and remember that with music everything will be okay. Reporting in Brainerd Clayton Castle Lakeland News. And volunteers are at the Medical Center playing the piano during the daytime hours Monday through Friday. If you've enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax deductible contribution to Lakeland Public Television.