Hi, my name is Lisa. I am a pianist who lives in Hixson, TN. I am starting this website to talk about the healing effects of hymns on the mind/body. I started playing the piano when I was 3 years old and always found it to be healing. After I started having chronic health problems in 1999 when I was 16 years old, playing the piano was a key healing resource for me. My favorite kind of music to play on the piano is hymns. When I was little, my grandmother bought us a copy of the Baptist hymnal from her church and gave it to us as a present. So after I would get home from school, I would spend time playing through it and always found it to be very healing. In 2015, I bought a hymnal that had some different hymns in it and played through that over time. Then in 2022, I was trying to look up the words to a hymn that wasn’t in that hymnal, and I found an online library of hymns that has been a wonderful healing resource for me – hymnary.org. There are tens of thousands of hymns on there! They are hymns I had never heard before that are extremely beautiful. I think other people would want to hear these hymns, too. I knew that the hymnals I had did not contain all the hymns that had been written…but I had no idea that there were so many hymns out there that I had never heard before. So I’m going to be writing posts about the hymns I found on there and posting audio of me playing the hymnal arrangement of the hymns so you can hear the melody. I hope you find healing through listening to them.