Music For Maternity

To many Soldiers, the acronym SOAR represents Special Operations Aviation Regiment. For Soldiers in the Wounded Transition Battalion it is the Sounds of Acoustic Recovery music program. Read more here…

Our neurosciences have been able to locate the intuitive, emotional and sentimental experiences in human brain,in the right hemisphere,and when this part is injured or lost,much of our conscious memories of our experiences go too.Sometimes during the meditations,as is the feeling one gets in Sudarshan Kriya exercises,the manifestation in the form of a cry,perceptions of different images or ‘spiritual’ sounds,all these go to the right side of our brain,and get stored there. Read more here…

San Francisco, CA — (SBWIRE) — 05/30/2013 — The Ohio State University medical study focused on patients hospitalized in intensive care units on mechanical ventilators. Another music therapy study is being done at St. Louis University Cancer Center for patients with cancer who are receiving chemotherapy treatments, radiation therapy, and are recovering from surgery. 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…

Practicing a form of meditation and stretching can help relieve symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder and normalize stress hormone levels, according to a recent study accepted for publication in The Endocrine Society’s Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism (JCEM). Read more here…

“Many NICUs are noisy, or people put on random lullabies that are recorded. What we’re saying is, it’s not just any old lullaby that’s recorded, it’s the power of the parent’s voice synchronized therapeutically . . . and the other two sounds that can have a therapeutic benefit.” Read more here…

Those are the most powerful days for me as a therapist, when I go in to see a patient and they’re really down, and then when the music starts you just see that spark,” Nelson says. Read more here…

Twenty-five minutes of deep breathing a day helped keep the tension at bay, says one of the city’s high scorers in the Class 12 CBSE board exam, Varsha Vivek. Read more here…

Put down those dumbbells! Weight training isn’t the only way to tone your muscles. The next time you need to work your abs, arms, and legs, do these three yoga-inspired strength-training moves. Read more here…

10 Unexpected Ways to Meditate Every Day. Practicing meditation regularly has legitimate health advantages, especially for the brain. Studies suggest meditation can do it all: reduce anxiety and sensitivity to pain, make us smarter, ward off sickness, and prevent stress.  Read more here…