Just a quickie from beautiful Sorrento where the lemon trees and olive trees perfume the air and music is everywhere!  I’m having a fantastic trip and have taken so many pictures I’m not sure what I’ll ever do with them!  Any ideas for posting sites online?  I’ve heard some gorgeous music in Rome and Florence and it just seems to be int he air.  Will tell you all about it when I return October 4th!  In the meantime, check this out  http://www.healingmusicenterprises.com/ezine/2008-09.html!

Caio!!

Hello Friends and Followers,In about 25 minutes I’m leaving for the airport.  I’ll fly to Atlanta and then board a big jet place for Roma at 4:30.  You may not hear from me for a couple of weeks because I’m not taking my laptop (gasp!!!)

Be sure to enjoy the newest issue of HME Ezine here http://www.healingmusicenterprises.com/ezine/2008-09.html!

Kepp those comments and questions coming in!

Alice

You’ve been waiting for this for a long, long time, haven’t you?  I know I have, but when I got my U.S. Patent last month, that’s what I was waiting for.  Now that my process is protected I want to share this very logical idea with the world!!  Doctors, surgeons, anesthesiologists, and medical personnel of every kind have listened to me explain my idea and have said unanimously “Alice, this is a great idea!  Once it’s in every hospital people will be wondering why it wasn’t done long ago!”  I am just so excited for all of us because I think people are going to be much calmer about going into surgery, will now need less anesthesia and will recover faster!  It’s going to be a win-win for everyone!

Want to know all about it? 

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Please let me know what you think!

Sincerely,

Alice

Our surgery music and MP3 player launch is almost ready to go!  Sometime later today you will get an email from Healing Music Enterprises that the Surgical Serenity download is now available.  If you don’t have an MP3 player or iPod, I am also offering a pre-programmed player with ear-buds for you!

 If you or someone you love is having surgery in the near of distant future, now is the time or order the download or the player to take right in to surgery with you.  I’ve even written a script for you to use when talking with your doctor about the fact that you’d like to use music with your surgery.  Many doctors are well aware of the benefits, but for some it is a novel idea and you may have to do some educating about the many benefits.

In the meantime, you might want to review my Surgery with Music Blog which is full of stories about the powerful benefits of music and how you can have a safer and calmer surgical experience and a faster recovery with fewer medications and drugs to take.  Doctors and nurses have already told me “Alice this is fantastic!  We’re all going to wonder how we ever did wihout it!”

Also, the price will go up in a matter of months so now is the time to get it while the introductory price is available.  This is your opportunity to get in on the ground floor of an exciting major medical development that will change how surgery is done from here forward!

Breastfeeding and Lullabies

Nursing your baby is one of the best things you can do to get her off to a healthy start in life. Research and common wisdom tells us that Mommy’s milk is meant to feed a newborn baby and no baby is ever going to be allergic to Mommy’s mild. It almost seems like a miracle to me that the whole process works so beautifully—usually!

Sometimes new mothers or mothers who have had difficult pregnancies get tense and anxious and have trouble getting their mile to “let down.” This happened to me after my first child was born: my breasts were full of milk and my baby was crying but the milk would not “let down” into my breasts so that my daughter could satisfy her hunger!

So how do lullabies play a part? Women have been softly singing, humming and crooning to the infants since the beginning of time. The benefits of mother singing to her baby, rather than playing a CD or radio, is that THIS is the same voice that baby has been hearing for the past nine months and is the voice that makes baby feel safe and secure. When baby calms down, mommy calms down and before you know it, the milk is flowing. Is this immediate and instantaneous? Of course not. It’s a process and can take days depending on how anxious the mother is.

My recommendation is that mother listen to my lullaby CD during pregnancy so that the melodies come easily to her when she sits down to nurse baby! You can order the CD or you can download these classic lullabies that have been passed down from generation to generation! Do let me know how it goes!!

Why Does Music Have so Much Power in the Golden Years?

A newly published study by Northwestern University researchers suggests that Mom was right when she insisted that you continue music lessons — even after it was clear that a professional music career was not in your future.

The study, which will appear in the April issue of Nature Neuroscience, is the first to provide concrete evidence that playing a musical instrument significantly enhances the brainstem’s sensitivity to speech sounds. This finding has broad implications because it applies to sound encoding skills involved not only in music but also in language.

The findings indicate that experience with music at a young age in effect can “fine-tune” the brain’s auditory system. “Increasing music experience appears to benefit all children — whether musically exceptional or not — in a wide range of learning activities,” says Nina Kraus, director of Northwestern’s Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory and senior author of the study.  (to read the rest of this article, click HERE.)

Late, late, late last night, I returned from one of the most amazing vacations in my life!  My three grown daughters and two sons-in-law took me on a Caribbean cruise to celebrate my 60th birthday back in May.  We’ve all been looking forward to this for so long and as the day to leave drew closer and closer, up blew Tropical Storm Fay!  Some family members were sure the cruise would be cancelled but we all went to Miami anyway and prepared to board Carnival Cruise’s “Fascination.”  Almost as soon as we got to the Port of Miami, we were informed that instead of going to Key West and Cozumel, we would be going to Grand Turk, Bahamas.  After a pretty rough first night at sea, things cleared off and the ocean was calm and beautiful.

If you’d like to read more about it all and see a dozen or so of my pix, go to:

www.cashfamilytravel.blogspot.com

www.travelwithchantdoc.blogspot.com

www.boomeropia.blogspot.com

www.yourfountainofyouth.blogspot.com

Please let me know what you think and if you’ve ever been on a Caribbean cruise!

Hello everyone and welcome to the HME blog!  If you are also a member of my ezine list, www.HealingMusicEnterprises.com, you probably signed up for the blog as a result of my last ezine in which I said all new blog subscribers for the next 2 weeks will automatically get a free digital product if you also subscribe to the blog.  I never dreamed so many people would sign up and this week as been a blur since I found out I had gotten my patent. 

Tomorrow I leave on a one-week cruise with my adult children so it’s going to be a week before you get your digital product but I promise you WILL get it!  If you haven’t received an ebook or download by September 1st, please drop me a friendly note saying so.  Until then, bon voyage a moi!!!

Alice