Music For Maternity

Dr. Ken Templeton, a neonatal physician at the hospital, said he and fellow physicians feel so strongly about the benefits of music for preemies that they donated some of their own money to help install a music system that plays in each private room. Read more here…

Justin Lopez, aka DJ Ju5tin, has trouble speaking and reading. But the 8-year-old has found a way to express himself: blending beats at his mixing board. The Bethlehem boy was born with a rare form of muscular dystrophy known as glycogen storage disease. It affects his liver, muscle strength and speech. But the upcoming DJ has found his voice through music. Read more here…

Music Therapy Week (MTW) is a week of campaigning to help raise awareness of how music therapy can improve the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in our communities across the UK.  Music therapy can help people of any age who find it difficult to communicate verbally, due to a physical or cognitive disability, emotional distress or mental illness. Read more here…

All “yoga” practices are about learning to pay attention. It doesn’t matter if you chant, do asana, breathe, meditate, study, or scrub floors. The training is the same: learn to pay attention. As we get stronger at focusing our attention, we become more conscious, more aware. Attention drives transformation!! Read more here…

A study of some 50 adults suggests that meditation and other practices evoking the “relaxation response” can counteract the “harmful genomic effects of stress.” That is, doing yoga, praying and meditating may actually have an “observable, biological effect” on us by altering gene expression. Read more here…

Running a business can be an emotional roller coaster ride, and it’s easy to get caught up in worries about the future or frustrations with the past. Meditation helps to center you in the present moment, making the trials of entrepreneurship more manageable and the lifestyle more sustainable. Read more here…

Music has been used in medicine for thousands of years. Ancient Greek philosophers believed that music could heal both the body and the soul. When King Saul was having bad dreams, young David would play the lyre for him and this would calm the tormented king. Read more here…

Ghost frontman Masaki Batoh’s latest endeavor finds him making music from brain waves in order to heal people from the trauma of the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011. On Brain Pulse Music, he combines an experimental bio-electric procedure with traditional Japanese instrumentation to create alien zen ambience and Harry Partch-meets-Harry Bertoia sonic sculptures. Read more here…

A new study has found that elicitation of the relaxation response – a physiologic state of deep rest induced by practices such as meditation, yoga, deep breathing and prayer – produces immediate changes in the expression of genes involved in immune function, energy metabolism and insulin secretion. Read more here…

The push-up is an incredible tool to help you get in great physical shape; that’s why it’s used in almost every gym in America. With all the scientific evidence pointing to mindfulness meditation, the practice is literally becoming America’s next push-up for the brain. Read more here…