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0 - Integrating Mind, Body, And Spirit For Health And Wellbeing
A collaboration of diverse experts exploring the mind/body/spirit connection for health via science, psychology, spirituality and music.


1 - Choosing Relaxation Music For Health
When you choose to use relaxation music for health, it is extremely important that you select the most appropriate music for the particular problems you are treating. This isn't nearly as simple as it may appear.


2 - Music For Relaxation And Health - Is It Fact Or Fiction?
Believing in the mind/body connection and in music for relaxation and health doesn't have to be a huge leap of faith. Careful research is necessary.


11 - Sound And Music: The Relationship Explained
Mathematics, emotional response, algorithms and physics all come into play when analyzing sound vs. music.


15 - Effects Of Sound And Music On Prenatal Infants
Sound and music can cross barriers to communicate love, connection and comfort to infants during gestation. Babies have been observed to prefer stories, rhymes, music and poems heard before birth.


16 - What Is Meditation Music?
Meditation music establishes an atmosphere it helps us relax, forget, or think it drowns out noise, raises our hopes, helps us feel peaceful and harmonious, and releases stress and torment.


17 - Depression, Music, And Massage Therapy
Massage produces marked reductions in anxiety and depression, and music connects people to their feelings, expresses thoughts, and overcomes isolation. Together they provide a powerful complementary therapy for depression.


19 - Music, Healing, And The Power Of Intention
Music is useful in so many ways, from calming or strengthening the nerves, to producing desired effects such as sleep and meditation, to actual dis-ease prevention. The ear, mind, body and intention combine forces in the healing process.


20 - Massage And Music Therapy In Hospitals And Nursing Homes
Massage and music seem to work so well together in healing environments by soothing patients and caretakers alike.


21 - Music Can Help You Stop Smoking
By stimulating your nervous system's relaxation response, soothing music can become a healthy habit to replace the unhealthy habit of smoking to relieve stress.


30 - Music In The Classroom
Music in the classroom isn't just about music instruction, it's also about inspiration, beauty, relevancy and history.


31 - Links To Friends
Here we are assembling a few links to friends on the web that we think our visitors would enjoy and value for their relaxing, inspirational and healing ways.


33 - Music And Accelerated Learning
Music can invigorate and accelerate learning, create a positive learning atmosphere, and encourage harmonious relationships in the classroom.


34 - Music-Assisted Relaxation And Imagery: Prelude To A Trio
This article documents important music therapy research regarding the impact of music on the health of people living with coronary heart disease.


35 - Recommended Resources
Here you will find valued links to websites with more information about music, learning, healing, therapy, and relaxation.


36 - What Is Sound Healing?
Sound Healing: the intentional use of sound to create an environment as a catalyst for healing our physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual aspects.


37 - Music Therapy And Depression
On January 24, 2008 the New York Times reported a research review that supports benefit of music therapy in treating depression. A link to the article is provided.


38 - What Is Sacred Sound?
Sacred sound means using sound as a tool for self-exploration in order to relate to what we personally hold as Sacred.


39 - Harmony Of Mind And Body - A Case For MARI
Following a 7-month period of regular listening to the Music-Assisted Relaxation and Imagery CD, a cardiac rehabilitation patient improved his physical and mental health. Through the voice and music, he enjoyed relaxation and pleasurable images.


47 - Bryan's Lullaby: Music-Assisted Relaxation Imagery For A Child
Bryan, a 5-year-old boy, listens to the Music-Assisted Relaxation Imagery compact disc recording nightly at bedtime, to overcome his insomnia. It seems that the CD, Harmony of Mind Body: A MARI Experience, can be comforting as a lullaby.


48 - That Profound Sound, Sound As A Healing Vehicle
The nature of thoughtforms, their effect on the etheric bodies, and the role of creative will and intent in the use of sound healing.


49 - Music In The Classroom Creates An Emotional Connection To Curriculum
Young students can learn basic skills in fun ways with music, teachers can use music with teens to develop critical thinking skills and engage them emotionally.


50 - The Earth Vision Project
A lead-in to the Earth Vision project, presenting nature in the light of spiritual ecology via a North American travelogue of nature sites.


51 - Relaxation Music Artists Can Change Your Life
Relaxation music artists and their listeners know that music helps support balanced emotions, release of stress, and relaxation of both mind and body. Scientific research is providing the proof.


52 - The Relaxing And Rejuvenating Effects Of Classical Music
"I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music." George Eliot


54 - Experiencing True Relaxation With Meditation And Music
Even deep sleep cannot give you the rest you need if your mind stays busy. Meditation with the help of relaxing music can rest your mind.


55 - Music And Cognitive Abilities
Studies supporting children's cognitive benefits from music are revisited in this interesting paper.


56 - Encountering Nature Through The Twelve Senses
Opening the doors of perception to the natural world.


57 - Integrative Medicine Becomes More Mainstream
With so many alternatives popping up every day, some guidance is needed when deciding whether healing music is quackery and medicine.


58 - What Is The Best Relaxing Music During Labor?
Music listened to during labor can calm, relax, energize, inspire, and lend strength to your birthing experience. You need to start listening early in your pregnancy and choose various pieces to suit many possibilities.


59 - Music Enhances Learning And Spatial Reasoning
In recent years many studies have been conducted on the effects of classical music on learning. The results of these studies include increased I.Q.'s, enhanced spatial reasoning, and accelerated learning.


60 - Obscure Sound - Indie Music Blog
Mike Mineo does a wonderful job with this interesting, helpful blog so I thought I'd give him a little review here.


61 - Music Touches The Grieving Heart
Music created and performed with intention can touch the heart and sooth the soul of the grieving.


62 - The POWER Of Music As Therapy
This is Part 1 of Dr. Arthur W. Harvey's article. The References are at the end of Part 5.


63 - Physiological Effects Of Music
The POWER of Music as Therapy - "Musicogenic Eutherapeia" - Part 2


64 - Oncology Applications Of Music
The POWER of Music as Therapy - "Musicogenic Eutherapeia" - Part 3


65 - Wellness Benefits Of Music
The POWER of Music as Therapy - "Musicogenic Eutherapeia" - Part 4


66 - Emotional Expression Through Music, And References
The POWER of Music as Therapy - "Musicogenic Eutherapeia" - Part 5


67 - The Power Of Chant
Cultures the world over utilize chant to invoke and attune to higher powers and transformative consciousness.


68 - Raise Your EQ With Music
Part 1 of 5: An understanding of how music expresses and evokes emotions will help us realize what an important role that music can play in the education of our children. References are in Part 5.


69 - Raise Your EQ With Music - Part 2
This is Part 2 of Dr. Arthur W. Harvey's 5-part article, "Raise Your EQ With Music". The References are in Part 5.


70 - Raise Your EQ With Music - Part 3
This is Part 3 of Dr. Arthur W. Harvey's 5-part article, "Raise Your EQ With Music". The References are in Part 5.


71 - Raise Your EQ With Music - Part 4
This is Part 4 of Dr. Arthur W. Harvey's 5-part article, "Raise Your EQ With Music". The References are in Part 5.


72 - Raise Your EQ With Music - Part 5 - References
This is Part 5 of Dr. Arthur W. Harvey's 5-part article, "Raise Your EQ With Music". These are the References.


73 - Sounding The Codes: Divine Proportion And Harmonies, And Sacred Sound
The universe unfolds in divine ratios and proportions which have been understood and utilized through the esoteric arts, including Sacred Sound, throughout human history.


74 - Sounding The Codes - Sacred Sound And Divine Ratios
Part 2 of Blackburn's discussion of the utilization of Sacred Sound in the expression and understanding of divine ratios and proportions.


75 - Sounding The Codes - Harmony And Entrainment
Part 3 of Blackburn's discussion. One of the great principals of sound therapy is found within the universal truth that it is the nature of the universe to come into harmony with itself.


76 - Soothing Sounds
Music can affect us physiologically and psychologically through a process that is called "entrainment." As music is listened to, and if we "resonate" with it, it can change us.


77 - Physicians Speak Out On "MusicMedicine"
A brief discussion concerning the importance of music in health care, this article shows how Hospice Hawaii's vision puts it in the forefront of service providers using music as one of the healing arts.