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Releasing the
Healing Power of
Creative Expression
Through Music
By Dr. John Diamond
Dr. John Diamond
John Diamond, M.D., a towering figure in the
field of holistic medicine, is one of our Westchester I
n every generation of doctors, there are a certain number who
seek to go deeper than the mundane, becoming more interested
in the transcendental qualities of human nature. Most choose to
neighbors. He has spent forty-five years in research
remain within the medical profession, continuing to treat patients.
and clinical practice, and his pioneering body of
Some, however, choose to vary a bit from that path, becoming
work includes his discovery of the link between the
teachers of students who are also interested in the transcendental.
Each of these teachers develops his or her own philosophy, employ-
meridians and the emotions. Dr. Diamond, whose
ing particular modalities to assist in the educative process. In my
work embraces a wide range of disciplines, began
case, I call this the Diamond Method for Creativity.
his career in psychiatry, but expanded into holistic Perhaps the best way to define the Diamond Method for Cre-
medicine, concentrating on the totality of the sufferer.
ativity is with this motto: It is through one’s art that the Spirit may be
Over the course of his long career in the healing and
most easily uplifted.
creative arts, he has undertaken a significant amount
It was over forty years ago that I learned to concentrate, not on
what people cannot do, but on what they can do—the strengths that
of research into many healing modalities, which form
would help lift them out of dis-ease. Ever since then, and increas-
the basis of his understanding of, and unique ap-
ingly over the years, I have tried to find out what their strengths are,
proach to, the nature of disease. Dr. Diamond is the encouraging their creative expression, helping them release their
author of over twenty books, including the best-sell-
Muse, or deepest self, who resides within every person. The aspira-
ing Your Body Doesn’t Lie and Life Energy: Unlock-
tion of the Diamond Method for Creativity is to help each person to
ing the Hidden Power of Your Emotions to Achieve
hear the Muse, so that he or she may then live life accordingly and
create true life-enhancing Muse-ic.
Well-Being. His newest book, The Diamond Color
Meditation: Color Pathway to the Soul, was published
muse-ic raises life energy
in 2006. Dr. Diamond now practices as a Holistic
While the Diamond Method for Creativity concerns all the Arts, I
Consultant, blending his extraordinary experience in have found that music is the most fundamental and thus most ef-
medicine, psychiatry, complementary medicine, the
fective at raising the Life Energy. This is because music, as the name
humanities, holism, applied kinesiology, acupuncture
implies, is the one that most directly comes from the Muse. For half
a century, I have systematically investigated the healing power of
theory, spirituality, and the arts to help sufferers over-
music by investigating almost every genre, examining thousands of
come problems relating to body, mind, and spirit.
recordings, and working with thousands of musicians, from novice
Dr. Diamond is the world’s leading authority in
to top professionals, to help them raise the Life Energy. From the
the healing power of music. In this article he explains unique body of knowledge that has resulted, I have drawn up the
the basis of his approach, which he calls the Dia-
Diamond Method for Music and founded The Institute for Music and
mond Method for Creativity.
Health, which trains people in the method.

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