6 Easy Steps for Incorporating Healing Music into Your Life

Step 1 Keep a collection of a variety genres of music and classify each selection according to the mood, memory and emotion they draw out from you. If you are feeling blue, upbeat rock and roll may help. If you’re feeling a bit sorry for yourself, [...]

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by Dr. Arthur HarveyFrom recent brain research on learning styles, it has been esti­mated that 80-90% of what is experienced and learned is non­verbal, with what sometimes is described as a “right-brain” mode of processing.
We know that for most children and many adults, music is a “right-brain” dominant activity. Based upon that, music may be [...]

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Music Healing Goes Mainstream!
Beth Israel Medical Center in New York uses music therapy to sooth their premature babies and trauma patients. The hospital finds that music eases patients’ pain, lowers blood pressure, reduces anxiety and depression and allows patients to get well, faster and is less expensive than medication. Beth Israel is not alone. In [...]

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A Beautiful Song about Breast Cancer from Sarah McLachlan

A beautiful song to help you…

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Could Music Be a Path to the Fountain of Youth?

We live in a culture that really values youth and youthful faces, bodies, and interests. Every year, people spend thousands of dollars on surgeries, products, physical trainers, and special foods and diets so that they can look younger and cheat old age and even death. [...]

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Mozart for Christmas
Hmmmm…do you think Mozart would approve? Actually, I think he would be quite amused! Mozart had a wonderful sense of humor and was very playful, as is this wonderful video!

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Fears about Surgery and Anesthesia

Anxiety before elective surgery is common. Therefore, many studies have examined interventions to reduce preoperative anxiety, including pharmacologic anxiolysis, information, distraction, and relaxation procedures. This study compared different methods to measure preoperative anxiety. The aims of the study were threefold. First, to examine the validity and utility of the self-reporting visual [...]

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Music and Hip Replacements
This morning I was working with a new client of mine who is having total hip replacement surgery. She’s 75 years old and has had a couple ofunfortunate surgical experiences lately in large hospitals. This time she’s decided to go with a small local hospital and to try some alternative therapies [...]

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Music and Prostate Cancer: One Man’s Story
By Dana Jennings
I have prostate cancer, and sometimes I get mad. Not upset. Not annoyed. Not nettled. Mad. This isn’t mere “why me” moaning. My rage is pure and primal, like that of a wolf caught in a steel trap.
Dana Jennings. (Lonnie Schlein/The New York Times)
My anger, though, doesn’t [...]

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Who else is concerned about the anesthesia during surgery?
This research has just come to my attention and I thought you’d want to see it too! It confirms my research exactly. For those who are able to choose their own favorite slow, steady, instrumental music, it’s great. For those who don’t have the time or the [...]

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If you love the old-fashioned tunes of Christmas that you heard as a child, take a peek at the deal I’m offering on my Christmas CD, the one I recorded last year.  I’m offering dynamite reductions if you buy multiple copies!  You can even download the digital version onto your iPod or other MP3 player.  [...]

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Listen to Dr. Cash perform Bach

You’re watching a snippet of a lecture/recital that I did last Fall at Clemson University in S.C. The piece that I’m playing is Bach’s Prelude in C major from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Bk.1. If you close your eyes and listen to this piece, you will begin to feel calmer [...]

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Dr. Alfred Tomatis and Mozart
In April of 1991, I was very fortunate to study with Dr. Alfred Tomatis at the Tomatis Center in Phoenix, AZ. I attended a two-week seminar entitled “The Healing Power of Gregorian Chant.” I had no idea how wonderful and enlightening this would be! It was Dr. Tomatis who told [...]

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Music, Power, and the Brain
A man named Laurence O’Donnell has written a fascinating paper. and subsuquently a website called “Music Power.” I highly recommend that you check out both. He writes a lot about music and the brain. One thing he says is “Responses to music are easy to be detected in the human body. [...]

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Particpate in my Music with Surgery research!
Imagine that you have just been told that you must have surgery. What are your feelings? Fear, apprehension, anxiety, even terror?? Everyday around the world, people are told that they must have surgery for cancer, joint replacement, heart problems, organ transplants. And then there are those who sign up [...]

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