Music For Maternity

“We have seen how music can make a breaking point into a turning point. An important part of recovery is improving peoples’ image of themselves,” she said.” They need to know that they have value as an individual, and that they have a purpose. Read more here…

“Music, and the thing we do with an orchestra, can be a really cathartic experience,” Moody said. “The Mahler Fifth does it as well as any piece. Mahler was a composer who spent more of his thinking time than probably any other composer pondering the largest issues of life, death, the afterlife, resurrection, the pain involved, the mourning involved and also the healing involved.” Read more here…

A couple of years ago, 18-year-old Ram couldn’t communicate and was even incapable of making eye contact. Now, after many sessions of Carnatic music therapy, this boy with autism shows expressions on his face and is able to speak a little. Fifteen-year-old Tejas has got over her stammer, while 50-year-old Lalitha has gone back to her cheerful self after undergoing depression following menopause. Read more here…

Music touches the human soul across all illusionary boundaries of time, space and language. As we listen to music, there is a phenomenon known as entrainment occurring, in which our hearts involuntarily synchronize their beat to the rhythm supplied by external stimuli. Read more here…

“Stress weakens resilience and resolve and fuels anxiety and fatigue. Transcendental Meditation is a ‘warrior’s meditation’ that is practiced by thousands of professional and amateur athletes as well as active-duty personnel in all branches of the military to increase energy, focus, and power.” Read more here…

While music is magic therapy for us all, it “can make the difference between withdrawal and awareness, isolation and interaction” for those with special needs according to Barbara Crow, past President of the National Association for Music Therapy. Read more here…

Today, music therapy is used by health care professionals to promote healing and enhance quality of life for their patients. Music therapy may be used to encourage emotional expression, promote social interaction, relieve symptoms, and for other purposes. Read more here…

Music can spark compelling outcomes in the late stages of Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, according to the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America. Because rhythmic responses are influenced by a part of the brain that responds directly to auditory cues and requires little cognitive functioning, music has the power to stimulate positive interactions and manage mood changes. Read more here…

Sound healing expert and yoga teacher Amy Beveridge, who teaches at Alchemy in Camden, says it now hosts five gong classes a week to meet demand, while special sessions held on the new moon and full moon — seen as especially significant times to meditate — are packed. Read more here…

Studies show that meditation is associated with improvement in a variety of psychological areas, including stress, anxiety, addiction, depression, eating disorders and cognitive function, among others. There’s also research to suggest that meditation can reduce blood pressure, pain response, stress hormone levels and even cellular health. Read more here…