PostHeaderIcon Healing Harmonies: Testing the Power of Music to Improve Senior Health

Music – as poets have noted – has the power to wash away the dust of everyday life, and medical experts believe it may also imbue physical and social benefits. Read more here…

PostHeaderIcon Meditation In Action: A 10-Step Mindfulness Practice For Better Sleep

It’s no secret that meditation can help us sleep better. There are some specific meditative exercises that can help us nod off when our minds are in overdrive. In the exercise below, the meditation experts at Headspace share some insight for feeling more at ease when your head hits the pillow. Read more here…

PostHeaderIcon How Meditation Helped Me get Through my Mom’s Cancer

Meditation has now become a common part of the health care field because of evidence suggesting a positive connection between the practice and emotional and physical health. Examples of such benefits include: reduction in stress, anxiety, depression, headaches, pain, elevated blood pressure, etc. Read more here…

PostHeaderIcon Meet the Dallas Doctors Using Music for Therapy

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Music can be incredibly therapeutic. Whether it’s keeping us from road rage during rush hour traffic, helping us fall asleep, or uniting us with others as we sing along at a concert, music has a certain unique healing power. Read more here…

PostHeaderIcon Tried And Tested: Headspace – Meditation For Modern Living

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Meditation is a practice that can change your life so much so for the better, than when you read about it, or rather the benefits of it, it can be easy to dismiss it as being too good to be true. It helps with stress, can improve your sleep, give you better focus and creativity and work, and gives you better perspective day-to-day. Read more here…

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PostHeaderIcon Music therapy shows amazing effect in medical patients

Advances in technology let doctors do amazing things to help their patients recover from injuries and illnesses. But more and more, they are finding that a simple tune can have a powerful impact on a person’s health. Read more here…

PostHeaderIcon Music therapist in tune with neurological research

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Neurological music therapy is defined as the therapeutic application of music to cognitive, sensory, and motor function due to neurological disease of the human nervous system. Neurologic music therapy is research based.  Read more here…

PostHeaderIcon Music therapy helped tackle Parkinson’s

Victor Trivett, 88, plays on his blue kazoo. The instrument is used to help regulate the breathing of people with Parkinsons. Trivett was a ballroom dancer and a disk jockey for over thrity years, which ended when he began to manifest the symptoms of Parkinson's disease over a year and a half ago. Now, his caretaker, Trudy Milone, 71, comes with him to music and dance therapy classess at the church. Cayla Nimmo // Photo Editor

“Music gives the central nervous system so much information,” she said. “There is so much going on in the brain, and rhythm helps organize everything.” Read more here…

PostHeaderIcon Fighting addiction with music

Jim Borling is the man who brought her back from emotional suicide.
For more than 20 years as a board certified music therapist he’s helped alcoholics, drug addicts and those suffering from post traumatic stress. Read more here…

PostHeaderIcon Singing may be just as healthy as yoga, scientists say

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Deep, controlled breaths and coming into harmony with those around you. It sounds like a description of some of the basic fundamentals of yoga. But it could also be applied to singing. Read more here…

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