Music For Maternity

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A typical meditation class begins with the children expressing something they are grateful for, followed by some stretches and breathing exercises to calm them down. Laughton then guides her students through some relaxation exercises before taking them into their imagination using visualisation, which lasts between five and 10 minutes depending how old the children are. Read more here…

The research found meditation training worked better on freshman students, who may have more difficulty concentrating. “This data from this study suggest that meditation may help students who might have trouble paying attention or focusing,” said George Mason University, Virgina, professor Robert Youmans, who co-lead the study with Ramsburg. Read  more here…

Listening to or playing an instrument can lower heart and respiratory rates, Plume said. It also promotes movement. Simply putting a keyboard next to a child’s bed may encourage him or her to sit up when they haven’t in days. Playing the bongos or shaking maracas can ambulate body parts. Read more here…

Music is more than melodies and lyrics. According to the Washington Times, music affects our brain waves, emotions, heart rates and breathing rates. Music may even excite us to a state of joy, or move us to tears — a single song has this power. Read more here…

Dr. Ken Templeton, a neonatal physician at the hospital, said he and fellow physicians feel so strongly about the benefits of music for preemies that they donated some of their own money to help install a music system that plays in each private room. Read more here…

Justin Lopez, aka DJ Ju5tin, has trouble speaking and reading. But the 8-year-old has found a way to express himself: blending beats at his mixing board. The Bethlehem boy was born with a rare form of muscular dystrophy known as glycogen storage disease. It affects his liver, muscle strength and speech. But the upcoming DJ has found his voice through music. Read more here…

Music Therapy Week (MTW) is a week of campaigning to help raise awareness of how music therapy can improve the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in our communities across the UK.  Music therapy can help people of any age who find it difficult to communicate verbally, due to a physical or cognitive disability, emotional distress or mental illness. Read more here…

All “yoga” practices are about learning to pay attention. It doesn’t matter if you chant, do asana, breathe, meditate, study, or scrub floors. The training is the same: learn to pay attention. As we get stronger at focusing our attention, we become more conscious, more aware. Attention drives transformation!! Read more here…

A study of some 50 adults suggests that meditation and other practices evoking the “relaxation response” can counteract the “harmful genomic effects of stress.” That is, doing yoga, praying and meditating may actually have an “observable, biological effect” on us by altering gene expression. Read more here…

Running a business can be an emotional roller coaster ride, and it’s easy to get caught up in worries about the future or frustrations with the past. Meditation helps to center you in the present moment, making the trials of entrepreneurship more manageable and the lifestyle more sustainable. Read more here…