The Positive Energy Behind Shen Yun’s ‘Healing’ Effects

A man suffering greatly from the effects of cancer heard Shen Yun’s unique music and that night began his journey of healing.

Shen Yun Performing Arts's curtain call at The Bushnell, The William H. Mortensen Hall, in Hartford, Conn, on Feb. 8, 2020. Edward Dye/The Epoch Times

A disabled marine veteran walked into a Shen Yun performance with chronic pain but left feeling only relief and gratitude. A man suffering greatly from the effects of cancer heard Shen Yun’s unique music and that night began his journey of healing. Headaches disappear, worries of the day melt away. It’s not even uncommon for audience members on their way out of the theaters to say that seeing Shen Yun has changed their outlook on life.

Medical professionals in the audience are seldom surprised when told of such cases; they, too, bring up the long-proven healing powers of art, or the fact that music therapy extends back through antiquity. Some even encourage people to see Shen Yun Performing Arts specifically, to bolster the spirit, which in turn helps strengthen the immune system. To many in the audience who are knowledgeable about health and wellness, New York-based Shen Yun, the world’s premier classical Chinese dance company, is the perfect example of the power of the body, mind, and spirit working in harmony.

‘A Perfect Prescription for Joy’

Lisa Miller is a doctor of internal medicine and believes the work of a physician is similar to an art. When she saw Shen Yun artists perform, she felt as if they were “physicians of beauty and grace and chemistry and electricity,” she said in October in Louisville, Kentucky.