Music For Maternity

For as long as there has been music, and medicine, people have noticed that when patients listen to music — or better yet, play it — they are calmer, complain less about pain and are more receptive to doing the things they need to do to get better. Today, medical science has established in clinical tests that music helps with healing in some obvious and sometimes almost miraculous ways.Read more here…

Research suggests that meditation offers many benefits for our health and happiness. And we may even enjoy these benefits when we’re not meditating. Read more here…

Mindfulness seems to benefit the mind just as physical exercise benefits the body, Dr. Davidson said. And while the new study’s findings were based primarily on questionnaires and classroom observations, previous research–including a 2011 study by Harvard researchers–linked mindfulness-based stress reduction to structural changes in the brain. Read more here…

Music can be used to promote wellness and to treat those afflicted with certain diseases through music therapy, during which a patient listens to and creates music with the goal of treating the symptoms of an illness or for physical rehabilitation. Read more here…

A Wakefield woman has been helping children with behavioral problems, anxiety, sleep difficulties and more with meditation classes. Read more here…

Treatment includes clinic-based programs, social skills groups and music therapy. Each child’s treatment plan is individualized and can include anywhere from one to 20 hours per week at the center. Read more here…

Music playing in particular is something that people can continue to enjoy for longer than their occupations, or strenuous physical activity, Gatz said. It also has cognitive, physical and potentially socially components, so it engages many brain networks. Read more here…

This meditation will double the benefit of working out by connecting body and mind. It will inspire spiritual practice and keep your workouts from becoming another frenetic activity in an already busy life. Read more here…

According to Regulski, when a person participates in sound meditation, it allows for deep relaxation, deeper than if someone were to simply to just lie on a couch, for instance. This is due to the fact that our minds are constantly attached to sound. Read more here…

Meditation is not just for new-agey folks sitting in the lotus position chanting “om.” Increasingly, mainstream medicine is waking up to the healing powers of daily meditation, with hospitals opening integrative medicine programs that use mindful and transcendental meditation and guided imagery, alongside traditional treatments. Read more here…