Music For Maternity

Playing a musical instrument can be fun, but for people with lung problems it can also offer a health benefit. Music has always been a huge part of Larry Rawdon’s life. Read more here…

For some, meditation serves as a kind of mental cleansing, a conscious and often guided effort to empty the mind of any stressful or distracting thoughts. Read more here…

Yoga and meditation may help paralysed people learn how to link their brain with a computer, according to a new study.The researchers said their findings suggest that training in yoga and meditation techniques could help people master the computer-assisted technology in order to help them regain functions lost to injury or disease. Read more here…

One of the greatest things about meditation is that it truly can be enjoyed by all. There’s something for everyone, whether you prefer guidance or just to sit in stillness. It’s important to find the form that works best for you. Relax and let go with the three guided meditations below. Read more here…

Through more tests, the doctors had found that he wasn’t keeping things in his working memory long enough for them to be stored in his short-term memory. Although he was being helped to restore his memory skills, he found that studying the science and psychology of music and thinking himself was helping. Read more here…

A useful tool that provides relief both physically and mentally is meditation. Meditation teaches you how to be, and enjoy being, in all moments of life. It allows your mind to slow down enough to enjoy the peaceful silence between arising phenomena. Read more here…

The researchers sought volunteers interested in reducing stress and improving their performance, but the experiment was designed to explore how IBMT — previously shown to improve the self-control pathway related to addiction — would impact smoking behavior. Read more here…

Music has a way of stirring our innermost feelings and all of our senses, of tapping into parts of ourselves unlike anything else. Music is a universal language that has the ability to speak to us deeply and uniquely. Read more here…

According to “Use of Music in Speech-Language Therapy,” an article by Mary B. Zoller, “Using music is a multisensory experience that enhances a number of other skills that impact on speech and language development.” Read more here…

Sitting in a music room with someone who has been robbed of the mechanics of speech by a brain tumour or a stroke and hearing them reconnect with their language through singing is one of the most inspiring experiences I encounter in my work. Read more here…