Music For Maternity

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Many other studies in recent years have shown that different types of music encourage different outcomes in humans. Soothing tunes tend to more effectively address conditions such as pain, stress and sleeplessness, while more upbeat tunes can boost mood and improve mobility.  Read more here…

Music therapy has been around for many years, however the Creative Music Therapy approach was pioneered by Paul Nordoff and Clive Robbins from the late 1950s to the mid ’70s. Paul Nordoff was a composer and Clive Robbins a special education teacher.  Read more here…

We are used to doing things to achieve results and happiness. Meditation involves just the opposite; it is conscious non-doing to realize the fullness that we already are. Our smaller mind driven by ego, desires, tendencies and anxieties dissolves and falls away and we find ourselves in the Original Mind- in it’s  expanse of Clear Infinite Light Bliss. Read more here…

You can do this one either sitting or walking. Allow yourself to become aware of your senses. Without thinking about what you are seeing, smelling, hearing, or feeling, become aware of all the sensory input that is surrounding you. Let yourself soak in it. Focus your attention on the sensations of your body. Read more here…

Sallam explained that music in general speaks to the unconscious of the listener. “If you are hiding a problem, listening to my music will make it rise to the surface and you will speak to me about it. And then, as a psychotherapist, I will find a solution to it.” Music therapy was common in Ancient Egypt but the practice disappeared until 2001 when the Egyptian Ministry of Health formally recognised it.  Read more here…

“There is plenty of evidence that meditation can improve a host of issues, such as pain and cognitive function, and anxiety is perhaps at the top of the list,” explained lead author Fadel Zeidan, PhD, a postdoctoral research fellow in neurobiology and anatomy at Wake Forest School of Medicine, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Read more here…

It’s the transformative moments that Nancy Skaliotis will most remember — like a smile sweeping across the face of a young autistic child as his usually repetitive body moves in concert with the notes he’s hearing. Read more here…

When Akron Children’s Hospital music therapist Sarah Tobias visits him every week or two, the constant whooshing sounds of the dialysis machine are replaced with the strumming of her guitar and the soothing blending of their voices. Read more here…

Scientists have found that meditation can reduce anxiety by as much as 39 per cent and have also identified the brain functions involved. Read more here…

Even more, our values and beliefs color the entire fabric of existence. After all, if a pickpocket sees a saint all he sees are pockets. People for whom only success or wealth are important become blind to simple beauty, moments of tenderness, the ability to enjoy what they have instead of always wanting more. A glass is half empty or half-full not because of how much liquid is in it, but because of what we believe. Read more here…