PostHeaderIcon The doctor will sing to you now: Music therapy and the coming rise of minstrel medicine

Daniel Levitin, a researcher at McGill University in Montreal, is one of the leading investigators of the effects of music on the brain. A recent paper he wrote, called The Neurochemistry of Music, with colleague Mona Lisa Chanda, is helping pave the way for what music therapy could become.

Researchers have seen the stress hormone, cortisol, drop in brains that have been exposed to relaxing songs. According to a series of studies published in 2013, music can decrease the perception of pain for patients suffering from neuropathic disorders. Read more here…

PostHeaderIcon Guitar Therapy in Delhi-NCR to promote good therapeutic music

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NEW DELHI: Music can sooth the soul and has been proven to have therapeutic properties. In today’s hectic world, it is a necessity that we often ignore. Read more here…

PostHeaderIcon Yoga for Swimmers

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Swimmers know: It’s important to be in the water at least once a day to keep your feel for the water and your stroke. Outside of the water, it’s equally important to get in some dynamic dryland workouts for strength and flexibility. Read more here…

PostHeaderIcon Meditation enhances memory, intelligence: Dogra

The benefits of meditation and spiritual music therapy are not confined to a particular age or gender. It is a natural way of enhancing memory and intelligence of an individual. Read more here…

PostHeaderIcon Students using meditation to fight stress

GEELONG schools are turning to wellbeing programs and meditation to help students stay calm, happy and focused in the face of growing social media and academic pressures. Read more here…

PostHeaderIcon Meditation can spark compassion

The results showed that two weeks of meditative training on compassion made the participants become more compassionate than the control group. Also, the more changes that they saw in the brain regions that seem to activate when showing compassion, the more compassionate the response was. Read more here…

PostHeaderIcon For dementia sufferers, music as therapy

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Ball is one of five residents at Dove Healthcare-West, participating in a music therapy program for people with Alzheimer’s disease or dementia, the Leader-Telegram reported. Read more here…

PostHeaderIcon How Meditation Works

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Mindfulness meditation. Chances are that you’ve either heard or seen (or rolled your eyes at) these words in recent months, as studies, celebrity endorsements, and even apps continue to make headlines. Read more here…

PostHeaderIcon Moving Meditation: The Art of Tai Chi

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Tai chi is purported to be good for all health concerns. A number of renowned tai chi masters are said to have experienced sickness in the past from which they could find no relief until they began to practice tai chi. Such reports, however, are merely anecdotes, and may not represent actual benefit. Read more here…

PostHeaderIcon Ways In Which Yoga Leads To Weight Loss

Yoga promotes weight loss internally. As in the yoga poses not only work on your body on a physical level, but also harness the power of your ‘chitta’ or your ‘inner self’ to help you lose weight fast. To put in understandable terms, yoga helps in weight loss by stimulating your internal organs. Read more here…

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