Music Therapy Lowers Aggression There was a Peanuts cartoon strip where Charlie Brown and Linus are waxing philosophical. Charlie Brown points out that we have two ears but one mouth, highlighting the need to listen. Linus points to Snoopy walking on all fours and they agree that walking must be most important. While this would […]
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Beating Illness… With A Drum Daughter Emily plans to be a Music Therapist once she has completed her degree and certification requirements. In the meantime, Emily really enjoys every opportunity to explore ways to promote health with therapeutic music. One such use of music stems from ancient times, the drumming circle where participants are beating
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Art Benefits Life There is certainly room to question this study that art benefits life. Assigning causation can be particularly difficult in analytics. However, there is at least a correlation. What is the harm is adding a bit more art and culture into our lives? The risk is pretty well 0 (even a bad book
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Music Activates Brain Regions Music brings back memories. It may that first dance with someone special or the excitement of an orchestra at the 4th of July celebration. Music activates brain regions and recent research has shown a connection between music and brain regions undamaged by Alzheimer’s disease. Ever get chills listening to a particularly
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Mind Body Approaches Help Substance Use Disorders At a time when the US faces a crisis of opioid abuse, it is refreshing to see that mind body approaches help substance disorders. The National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH) has pulled together research specific to a number of mind body approaches. Mindfulness-based approaches have
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Sound Health There is much about the human brain and nervous system that we do not understand. There is much about the health benefits from ancient practices like music that we still do not understand. But research continues and a recent workshop, Sound Health, explored these connections. The collaborative workshop, an early step in the
Listening Exercise Music inspires exercise. Think of “Gonna Fly Now” from Rocky (and most recently the Philadelphia Eagles). Too often we think of exercise only as activities that are exhausting and make you sweat profusely but there can also be a listening exercise, or at least listening as a component of exercise. Listening to music
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Moving To Music Therapy Music and moving go together like peanut butter and jelly (except for those with allergies). We walk to music. We exercise to music. We even play imaginary guitars to music. However, when applied to a medical need moving to music therapy may provide even more. “Music isn’t just to feel good,
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Music Therapy Addresses Trauma At the time of this article, daughter Emily is in her Junior year at university studying Music Therapy. That might be interesting enough but Emily recently shared an insight about Music Therapy that escapes many. Music Therapy is not about the music but the relationship between client and therapist. Music Therapy addresses
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Music As Medicine The familiar phrase “music calms the savage beast” usually comes to mind when we think about music and health. Music is, of course, relaxing… for savage beasts or wound-tight humans. But there is more than just relaxation. There is music as medicine. Again, we do not want to get rid of conventional
