Music For Maternity

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Music therapy has existed formally as a discipline since the 1940s, though its antecedents stretch back to the early 1900s. It can be used in a number of different clinical situations: with children with autism-spectrum diagnoses, older people with Alzheimer’s, those in correctional facilities, and those with chronic pain, among others. Read more here…

Golfers take a swing at yoga at Abu Dhabi Golf Club. The yoga teacher Pem Fassa recently started lessons aimed specifically at those who enjoy smashing a small, dimpled ball around a grassy expanse. Read more here…

Mindfulness meditation — nonjudgmental awareness of thoughts and emotions — is known for its anxiety-busting powers, and now scientists are getting a better understanding of why it has this impact in the brain. Read more here…

> Meditation in Action: Unleashing Your Limitless Potential. It is often said that as human beings we’ve have limitless potential. But how can we practically apply this to our experience of meditation? How can we use this idea to motivate us in our daily practice? Read more here…

These days, top money managers are meditating. So is US Representative Tim Ryan (D-Ohio). He wrote a book on the subject, “A Mindful Meditation,” and says that to his knowledge, no colleagues have accused him of going New Age. Eager to lower stress-related business costs — $300 billion annually in the United States, according to the World Health Organization — corporate America is getting in on the action. Read more here…

From autism to cerebral palsy – whether high functioning or more involved – the American Music Therapy Association states, “Research supports connections between speech and singing, rhythm and motor behavior, memory for song and memory for academic material, and overall ability of preferred music to enhance mood, attention, and behavior to optimize the student’s ability to learn and interact.”  Amy further explains, “Music that has a predictable structure can help children to process and remember ideas, movements, and language.”  Read more here…

Meditation is a state wherein the mind is calm, pure, positive, caring, lo­v­ing, com­pas­sio­na­te and frie­ndly. Th­is state acts as a bri­dge between one’s in­ner self and the external world whi­ch is, in fact, a ref­lection of the in­ner self. The pu­rer the inner self is, the better the external world be­comes. Meditation purifies the inner self. Everyone must strive to achieve this state of me­di­ta­tion as early in life as possible. Read more here…

According to Sanford Nidich, Ed.D, co-author and professor of education at Maharishi University of Management, “These results are the first to show that the Transcendental Meditation program can have a positive impact on student graduation rates. The largest effect was found in the most academically challenged students. Recently published research on increased academic achievement and reduced psychological stress in urban school students may provide possible mechanisms for the higher graduation rates found in this study.” Read more here…

If the sheer amount of work generated by school has you anxious, tense and worried, consider trying meditation before, during or after school. Even a few minutes meditation can give students and teachers a sense of calm and peace of mind that benefits their emotional and physical health. Read more here…

There’s this thing I do, every now and then. I will step away from the comforts of my life: my spouse and child, my home and dog. I pack a small bag with two pairs of old linen trousers, three T-shirts, a thin cotton wrap and flip-flops. Then I make the trek to a Vipassana meditation centre and begin a monastic life for 10 days. Read more here…