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MM#50 – 5 Recommendations for Using Music with Greater Intention to Change Your Life
Our final musical motivator...# 50 Music is individual - Every person responds to music differently, and any one person may respond to music differently at various times throughout his or her life. Aside from some recent research on rhythm and movement, there are no...
MM#49 – Music is Medicine (without the warning labels)
Although Potent like a Drug - it comes with no warning labels.... We take music in by choice and at our own risk. Music can open doors WIDE and SHUT them just as fast. Our team is ON ALERT every session we facilitate. This is because many of our clients may have an...
MM#48 – The Juice to Boost Your Productivity
I am completely exhausted with at least 6 loads of laundry to do and after a full day of work today I will be taxiing my two children to separate events for the evening. As you can imagine and perhaps even relate to, anything to give a boost to my productivity (and...
MM#47 – Music Highlights the Possible
Registration for all 2012 JBMT SERVICES AND PROGRAMS (inclusive choir, drum circles, online special for music therapy and adapted music lessons) In another time and place (Saskatchewan, Canada) an opportunity for persons with disabilities to reach their performance...
Love Songs for Our Children
I don't typically write the feedback I get from blogs posted but with your permission here are just some of the messages I received after writing "A Love Song for My Children" from some incredible mothers and grandmothers. Thank you ladies. I know the pulls and tugs...
A Love Song to My Children
During a particularly difficult time in my life I felt overwhelmed and out of touch with what was important. I know there are many of you in this position – managing work, obligations at home, managing family schedules, doctors visits, grocery shopping, not to...
MM #45 – Create the Ultimate Sound Spa
Three Doctors give Three Statements that Suggest Music Can Soothe you like the Spa. 1. In 1959 a doctor named Teirich undertook one of the earliest studies into the therapeutic effects of music and vibration. He built a couch which contained loud speakers and which...
MM#44 – Let Us Entrain You
Entrainment is when one vibrating object is placed next to another vibrating object and they both move towards becoming the same vibration. It is also known as phase-locking or a sympathetic response. As you can imagine, entrainment can have its benefits as well as...
MM#43 – The Musical Brain – Part III
Our company organized an “open mic” for persons with disabilities who chose to display their musical growth and talent in front of an audience filled with loving friends and family. Some of the performers have autism and/or autistic tendencies. One young woman who...
MM#42 – The Musical Brain – Part II
It seems that there are many different spins on the musical brain. In an article by Mark Wheeler , he wrote of Istvan Molnar-Szakacs who will be using "emotional music" to examine the brain regions involved in emotion processing. "Music has long been known to touch...