We often hear and agree with the phrase ‘music heals,’ but have we ever stopped to consider how or why? Or if it’s even true? Does music really have the power to heal?

When you sit down with your closest friends, you don’t have an agenda, nor do you take notes on what was said or should be said. It’s naturally a free-flowing conversation that’s unstructured and naturally inspires reflections, even if it’s reflecting on which current shows are worth watching.

Emotional and mental healing can feel unfamiliar to us as a society at times, but the Sikh Gurus taught the world how to deal with emotional and mental stress. The first step is acknowledging what we are feeling, being a friend to our mind, and meeting it where it is emotionally and empathizing.

We have been given the teachings and blessings through the Guru Granth Sahib to be empowered, but we must tune our inner self to connect the dots.

We nourish our mental body with education, experiences, conversation, reading, watching tv, etc. We know what good mental food is and what isn’t. But what about our emotional/spiritual body? How do we nourish this body? What do we feed it?

Learn how sikh music gave one man solace, and allowed him to heal his emotional and mental pain over the past year during the lockdown.