Music For Maternity

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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…

Music has been used in medicine for thousands of years. Ancient Greek philosophers believed that music could heal both the body and the soul. When King Saul was having bad dreams, young David would play the lyre for him and this would calm the tormented king. Read more here…

Ghost frontman Masaki Batoh’s latest endeavor finds him making music from brain waves in order to heal people from the trauma of the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011. On Brain Pulse Music, he combines an experimental bio-electric procedure with traditional Japanese instrumentation to create alien zen ambience and Harry Partch-meets-Harry Bertoia sonic sculptures. Read more here…

A new study has found that elicitation of the relaxation response – a physiologic state of deep rest induced by practices such as meditation, yoga, deep breathing and prayer – produces immediate changes in the expression of genes involved in immune function, energy metabolism and insulin secretion. Read more here…

The push-up is an incredible tool to help you get in great physical shape; that’s why it’s used in almost every gym in America. With all the scientific evidence pointing to mindfulness meditation, the practice is literally becoming America’s next push-up for the brain. Read more here…

“We have seen how music can make a breaking point into a turning point. An important part of recovery is improving peoples’ image of themselves,” she said.” They need to know that they have value as an individual, and that they have a purpose. Read more here…

“Music, and the thing we do with an orchestra, can be a really cathartic experience,” Moody said. “The Mahler Fifth does it as well as any piece. Mahler was a composer who spent more of his thinking time than probably any other composer pondering the largest issues of life, death, the afterlife, resurrection, the pain involved, the mourning involved and also the healing involved.” Read more here…

A couple of years ago, 18-year-old Ram couldn’t communicate and was even incapable of making eye contact. Now, after many sessions of Carnatic music therapy, this boy with autism shows expressions on his face and is able to speak a little. Fifteen-year-old Tejas has got over her stammer, while 50-year-old Lalitha has gone back to her cheerful self after undergoing depression following menopause. Read more here…

Music touches the human soul across all illusionary boundaries of time, space and language. As we listen to music, there is a phenomenon known as entrainment occurring, in which our hearts involuntarily synchronize their beat to the rhythm supplied by external stimuli. Read more here…

“Stress weakens resilience and resolve and fuels anxiety and fatigue. Transcendental Meditation is a ‘warrior’s meditation’ that is practiced by thousands of professional and amateur athletes as well as active-duty personnel in all branches of the military to increase energy, focus, and power.” Read more here…