You must hand it to the Chinese. They never fail to use body parts whatever the occasion! Now they are producing musical albums with some curious titles. Obesity and Constipation are two. Insomnia is another. There’s Liver, Heart, and Lungs, and also an orchestral piece that has been nicknamed The Kidney Bladder Suite by Don Campbell, a trained classical musician, composer, and author.
Category: Music Therapy
Music Therapy: Music as Medicine
Music enters the body through the ear, and the bones of the body act like a tuning fork. The neurological fields of the body are then stimulated by music. Music is a means by which all people can feel these healing vibrations. Even people with profound handicaps can benefit from music healing effects. Research in physiological responses to music supports the hypothesis that listening to music influences a person’s autonomic responses.
Music Therapy Impact on Emotions
Music is the harmony of the universe in microcosm; for this harmony is life itself; and in man, who is himself a microcosm of the universe, chords and discords are to be found in his pulse, in his heartbeat, his vibration, his rhythm and tone. His health or sickness, his joy or displeasure, shows whether his life has music or not. ~ From the Sufi Message of Nazrat Inayat Khan
Music Therapy: Healing Capability of Music
In recent years, the music of Mozart (1756-1791) has become part of many doctors’ pharmacopoeia as they’ve seen patients rebound under its influence. Krissy, for example, weighed just over one-and-a-half pounds when she was born prematurely in a Chicago hospital with a life-threatening condition.
Music Therapy for Stammering
Alfred Tomatis, MD, a celebrated French physician, has spent five decades studying the healing and creative powers of sound and music, the Mozart Effect in particular. Many of his patients call him Dr Mozart. Tomatis has tested more than 100,000 clients in his listening centres throughout the world for listening disabilities and vocal and auditory handicaps, as well as learning disorders.
Music Therapy: The Transformative Powers of Mozart
Why not call the transformative powers of music the Bach Effect, the Beethoven Effect, or the Beatles Effect? Does Mozart’s music have unique properties, eliciting universal responses that only now are yielding to measurement?
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Music Therapy: Understanding How Music Heals
To understand how music in general can heal – and why Mozart is particularly therapeutic for many people -one must understand sound and its effect on physical matter. In the book Cymatics, Hans Jenny, a Swiss engineer and doctor, describes the science of how sound and vibration interact with matter.
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Music Therapy: The Power of Mozart’s Music
The power of Mozart’s music came to public attention largely through innovative research at the University of California in the mid-1990s. At the Centre for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory in Irvine, a research team began to look at the effects of Mozart on college students and children.
Music Therapy: Music for Well-being
How does music affect our well-being? It seems there is no definitive answer to this question. However, experts in the field of music and sound therapy feel there are two major ways in which music and sound can affect our lives.
Music Therapy: The Power of Chant and Toning
Music of many different genres can help enhance the mind/body connection. Healing mantras, chants, and incantations have ancient and obscure origins but are seen throughout history and in every major world culture -Hinduism, Muslim, Judaism, Native American, Polynesian, Asian, Sufi, etc.
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