Music For Maternity

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The country singing great — and member of the Country Music Hall of Fame — released new record “Reflections” earlier this year, and plays the Paramount Theatre on Wednesday. On the record. Williams interprets the songs of other greats, including Townes Van Zandt and Merle Haggard. Read more here…

We have all experienced the effect music can have on our emotions and state of mind. We have felt our spirit lift when a happy song comes on the radio, or a pinging sense of nostalgia when we hear the songs of our childhood. While this link between music and emotion has long been a part of human life, only in recent decades have we had the technology and foundational knowledge to understand music’s effect on our brains in concrete terms. Read more here…

Practicing Transcendental Meditation (TM), a 20-minute twice-a-day mindfulness regimen, may help people with HIV feel better, a small new study finds. Read more here…

Music therapy, the article said, “is a practical intervention which involves children writing songs or composing music to express their feelings. Guitars and keyboards were the often the most popular choice of instruments for participants.” Read more here…

Music has been interwoven with societal evolution since time immemorial. There is no culture on earth that doesn’t have its music. Of late, music has transcended the boundaries of art and pleasure, to which it was oft relegated, and has showed strong potential as a healing agent for the brain. Read more here…

Music therapy works against depression in young people. The credit for this discovery belongs to the Queen’s University of Belfast, that has carried out the  largest ever study of this kind. Read more here…

Music therapy as an aid to regaining emotional health and stability has changed lives and helped victims of abuse, trauma and intimate partner violence, and it is used by some therapists in treatment of physical disabilities. Read more here…

Mike Haines (69), a resident of Canmore Lodge Care Home on Robertson Road, is living with cerebral amyloid angiopathy, a disease of small blood vessels in the brain that can cause speech difficulties, confusion, brain haemorrhage and stroke. Read more here…

Until now, becoming a music therapist in California has meant competing for limited seats each year in music therapy programs at University of the Pacific’s Stockton campus or Cal State Northridge, the only two institutions statewide that have been accredited by the American Music Therapy Association. Read more here…

A singer in Saskatoon has released a CD she hopes will help people nearing the end of their lives. Ruth Eliason, a music therapist in the palliative care unit at St. Paul’s Hospital, said she has seen the difference music has made. “For patients and family members, their time in hospital can be really intense. Music can help to alleviate some of the difficult parts of their experience whether it be pain or anxiety and music is also used to draw people together,” Eliason said. Read more here…