ABSTRACT
Academic interest in music’s potential efficacy continues to grow across several fields. Psychological ?exibility stands out as a key conceptual frame to explore and better understand diverse cultural and clinical practices of healing, health, and wellness where music is involved. Priming a state of psychological ?exibility can be musically accomplished in varying degrees to improve health and facilitate healing. This chapter presents a case study of the preeminent genre of meditative music among the Pamiri people of Tajikistan, which, along with other cultural exemplars, is shown to prime psychological flexibility
