Music For Maternity

During meditation, there was more activity in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, the area of the brain that controls worrying.When activity increased in the anterior cingulate cortex – the area that governs thinking and emotion – anxiety decreased. The study was published in the journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. Read more here…

The researchers studied 373 patients in several Minneapolis-St Paul-area hospital ICUs. A third received music therapy, with a therapist compiling a playlist of each patient’s favourite recordings to continuously loop on a bedside CD player. A third of the patients were offered noise-cancelling headphones to put on whenever they wished. The final third, the control group, received standard care. Read more here…

Studies on the many benefits of meditation have been pouring in lately. The PicktheBrain blog notes that research indicates that just three hours of meditation can increase self-control and focus, while after eleven hours changes in the brain are visible. Read more here…

A meditation invites you to focus on your breathing, your body, or your feelings; it does not usually involve visualising. It is designed to increase awareness of your body. Typically, meditation techniques are drawn from Taoism or Buddhism. Read more here…

This is therapy in a newborn intensive care unit, and research suggests that music may help those born way too soon adapt to life outside the womb. Many insurers won’t pay for music therapy because of doubts that it results in any lasting medical improvement. Some doctors say the music works best at relieving babies’ stress and helping parents bond with infants too sick to go home. Read more here…

Music therapy has been used for years in schools, hospitals and other settings. A music therapist works either in groups or one-on-one with individuals to achieve goals, whether that means helping them rehab from an accident or assisting in developing motor skills in a person with a developmental disability. Read more here…

Hundreds of people were rushing to the weekly class of Buddhist meditation teacher Tara Brach, a therapist who has become a must-listen for many urban professionals. Inside, her calm voice fills the silence. Read more here…

A brain-imaging study done at Stanford University used classical music by a somewhat obscure 18th-century English composer named William Boyce to measure how 17 people in their late teens and 20s responded. All were right-handed (the rarer lefty brain may have a different landscape) and had little or no musical training and no knowledge of Boyce’s work. Read more here….

The body is equipped with natural self-repair mechanisms that can be flipped on or off with thoughts, beliefs and feelings that originate in the mind. This is great news, because it means, in essence, that you can heal yourself. Read more here…

Dr. Hari Haran says his music is purely classical on traditional instruments which will not disturb the balance and equilibrium of your mind, and is very effective for healing ailments like blood pressure, nervous disorder, body pain, migraine, rheumatics, stress, anger, depression, heart ailments, sleepless-ness, and autism. Read more here…