Yes, without you noticing. The songs are not only dance them or to mourn, let you reflect on life situations of this way. It shows your feelings and thoughts, take it out of your subconscious to listen while you indentificas with the letter and follow up.
It's not just therapy, it is your time to connect with everything you are, live in the present tense, you know that last happened, the future will come, but you stay here now.
The salsa as a genre, is to dance to, to rejoice penalties, but without forgetting the difficulties of life, is a moment of reflection, to stop thinking and start feeling considering what happens around us.
As the song says we can not help what happens but how we react to it.