Music For Maternity

Posts Tagged ‘therapy’

A small pilot study of veterans with combat-related PTSD showed that 73% of those who received 8 weeks of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) had significant reductions in overall PTSD symptoms compared with 33% those who underwent treatment as usual (TAU).  Read more here…

John Lennon’s song lyrics, All you need is love and Ma Bell’s advertising message: Reach out and touch someone have been ringing in my ear all week. Read more here…

As life’s events unfold, the inevitable aches and pains associated with injury, illness, and age eventually set in and affect our quality of life. Experiencing pain is expected, but living with pain is not necessary and in most cases physical therapy can significantly reduce or relieve pain. Read more here…

“Meditation is integral to our [Buddhist] philosophy. And when we focus on kindness, we call it ‘metta meditation’. This basically means that kindness becomes the focus of our meditation for that particular day,” he said. Read more here…

“One of the most natural things in the world is to sing to your baby and when you have this birth that’s interrupted by prematurity and hospitalization, it’s a very unnatural process and so what you want to do is normalize it,” pediatric nurse Ann-Marie Dassler told WCBS 880 reporter Marla Diamond. Read more here…

Parker, who recently sang the national anthem at on ROTC ball on the OU Athens campus, has always written songs as an outlet to express himself but didn’t realize how beneficial his songwriting was until returning from his enlistment. Read more here…

Hari-Om, founder of Bordermoon Yoga, has been practicing yoga for more than 20 years. He will speak about Classical Yoga of India, which is a meditative system of gentle, slow movements, stretches and held postures that typically result in greater flexibility and fitness.  Read more here…

In the annals of Ugandan music, there are a few names you can talk about in terms of creating lyrics that have influenced both the home base and beyond borders. Music that appeals to all age groups, classes and even the president (President Museveni is said to particularly love Basiima Ogenze).  Read more here…

When classical guitarist Karen Schoenhals first learned about how the Trauma Resolution Center of Miami was helping people overcome post-traumatic stress disorder, she thought she would be the one whom the center couldn’t help. Read more here…

It was an especially difficult December night in 2011 for then 11-year-old Braydon Hutchison. The young leukemia patient, quarantined at Seattle Children’s Hospital, couldn’t stop vomiting. It continued into the next day. But for two brief hours, his nausea magically subsided, thanks in large part to some musician he’d never met. Read more here…