Music For Maternity

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For more than nine minutes, each person listened to sound samples containing some elements similar to music — rhythm and off-key tones — as well as actual segments of Boyce’s symphonies. The imaging showed that several auditory structures in the midbrain and thalamus showed significant synchronization with the music but little or no response to the pseudo-music. Read more here…

Music therapy became a profession around the time of World War II as a way to help injured veterans. Patients suffering from Parkinson’s disease, like Jean Wilkinson, can control their tremors by following a musical rhythm. Read more here…

In hoop classes, students start out by learning to swirl the hoop slowly overhead and around their shoulders. With practice, they’ll eventually be able to do flowing, improvised moves that involve the whole body. Read more here…

Addiction is a disease of “lack.” At the core level, we feel something is missing and we set out to try to fill the void through a set of behaviors that leave us further depleted. We damage the systems of our body and sap ourselves of “life force.” Our endocrine system gets taxed. Our nervous system is overworked. We live in nearly constant fight or flight, bringing on the horrible consequences of stress. Read more here…

Researchers have seen the stress hormone, cortisol, drop in brains that have been exposed to relaxing songs. According to a series of studies published in 2013, music can decrease the perception of pain for patients suffering from neuropathic disorders. Read more here…

NEW DELHI: Music can sooth the soul and has been proven to have therapeutic properties. In today’s hectic world, it is a necessity that we often ignore. Read more here…

Swimmers know: It’s important to be in the water at least once a day to keep your feel for the water and your stroke. Outside of the water, it’s equally important to get in some dynamic dryland workouts for strength and flexibility. Read more here…

The benefits of meditation and spiritual music therapy are not confined to a particular age or gender. It is a natural way of enhancing memory and intelligence of an individual. Read more here…

GEELONG schools are turning to wellbeing programs and meditation to help students stay calm, happy and focused in the face of growing social media and academic pressures. Read more here…

The results showed that two weeks of meditative training on compassion made the participants become more compassionate than the control group. Also, the more changes that they saw in the brain regions that seem to activate when showing compassion, the more compassionate the response was. Read more here…