Music For Maternity

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When live music is provided, by a music therapist in conjunction with a family, baby’s tend to gain weight faster. It improves their oxygen saturation rate, and in some studies, they’ve been released from the NICU earlier than babies who have not had music therapist working with them,” said Dr. Kathleen Murphy.  Read more here…

What we found, was that right after the treatment the cognitive therapy was better for improving some of the sleep duration and sleep efficiency. But three months later, the mindfulness had caught up and help helped people improve their insomnia. Read more here…

Meditation, long associated with unwashed hippies and robed gurus, has recently been shown to boost focus, reduce stress, and improve the immune system. Brain scans suggest it can literally grow the gray matter in areas associated with well-being and compassion. Read more here…

While Buddhists have been practising the meditation technique for more than 2,000 years, medical science is finally beginning to catch up, discovering the extent to which focusing the mind on the present moment can help treat a range of mental conditions associated with cancer recovery. Read more here…

Mindfulness meditation was found to allow test subjects more time to think about their decisions rationally, thus increasing they odds of them reconsidering their initial positions after new evidence pops up. With short periods of practice, it is very likely that individuals who want to improve the way in which they make decisions, or the speed at which they do this, can achieve their goals.  Read more here…

Sound healers and psychoacoustic experts (they study sound’s effect on the nervous system) promote toning the body with vowel sounds. According to Jonathan Goldman, a sound-healer and proponent of over-toning (singing harmonics overtones to balance the body), musical practices that emphasize vowel sounds including Gregorian chant, Tibetan monk chant, and Indian raga vocals. Read more here…

Meditating participants also felt less depressed and less emotionally exhausted, according to Nidich and his coauthors. But meditation seemed to have the strongest effect on stress levels, they note in their report, published in the Permanente Journal. Read more here…

The patient does not need to have any musical ability to benefit from music therapy. Music therapy can be designed to: Promote wellness, manage stress, alleviate pain, express feelings, enhance memory, improve communication and promote physical rehabilitation. Read more here…

And with the help from Seattle Children`s staff, he got backstage to meet his musical idol, Macklemore. And life has pretty much returned to normal, proving sometimes the best medicine isn`t medicine at all. Read more here…

We found that a brief period of mindfulness meditation can encourage people to make more rational decisions by considering the information available in the present moment, while ignoring some of the other concerns that typically exacerbate the ‘sunk-cost bias,’” explains Hafenbrack. Read more here…