Pulsing to the Rhythm of Health

by Buffy Owens

We are rhythmical beings living in a world pulsating with life. Our lives pulse with the rhythm of our inner landscapes – from the pounding of our heartbeat and the tempo of our stride, to cycles of our sleep patterns and the cadence of our brain processes. We [...]

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Sound Healing has become more popular over the last couple of decades, simply because more and more research has proven that we are greatly affected mentally, emotionally, and physically by sounds or combinations of sounds. Sounds can essentially bring us up or bring us down, from a mental and emotional standpoint, and this works the [...]

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Hold the presses! Here’s a new study about sleep apnea, something that affects so many people around the world! Cure for obstructive sleep apnea: didgeridoo?
The didgeridoo has been used for over 1500 years in the Kakadu region of Australia’s Northern Territory. Apparently, it is now investigated as a treatment of obstructive sleep apnea [...]

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The Magic of Music with Parkinson\’s Disease  This is one of the most amazing and impressive videos that I’ve seen in a long time! It demonstrates beautifully the power of music with Parkinson’s patients.
Now I am offering to people diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease my specially programmed, wireless headphones, programmed with the specific type of music that [...]

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http://the-brain-and-music.blogspot.com/2009/07/music-releases-endorphins-in-brain.html
Everyone knows that music makes them feel better, but apparently, music immediately after surgery is even more powerful than previously known. today I came across this article: By Denise DadorLOS ANGELES (KABC) — A local hospital takes the healing properties of music right to the patients.
She’s in the hospital, but Carol Starks feels she’s being [...]

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Musicians on CallMusicians On Call: “Help us raise $10,000 dollars in 10 weeks”Posted by Music Ninja in Uncategorized on 06 18th, 2009 | no responses Musicians On Call, a nonprofit organization formed in 1999, brings live and recorded music to the bedsides of patients in healthcare facilities. Musicians On Call uses music to promote and [...]

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Music Therapy

The ability to appreciate and respond to music is an inborn quality in human beings. This ability usually remains unimpaired by handicap, injury or illness, and is not dependent on music training. For people who find verbal communication an inadequate form of self expression, music therapy offers a safe, secure space for the release [...]

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The next Mozart?
Mozart is often considered to be one of the greatest prodigies that ever lived. He was performing at age 3 and composing at age 5. But today, there is a little girl named Emily Bear, who is also a piano prodigy and composes as well. What do you think of little Emily and [...]

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I think that this questions has probably been asked many times but it bears asking again. When people from different cultures choose to perform each others music, it is a way of honoring that other culture. In my lifetime I’ve probably heard more Western European classical music that any other type, but there [...]

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Can music prevent the “Swine flu”????
Of course, the short answer is “no!” but I did get your attention didn’t I?  The serious answer is that music can help your overall state of wellness and many music therapy studies have documented that listening to your favorite music for at least 30 minutes a day can actually [...]

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Why do we all love lullabies? Read this and find out! You’ll be glad you did!

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Who IS Susan Boyle?  She is a kindly, 47 y.o. single woman from Blackburn, Scotland who has spent most of her adult life caring for her elderly mother.  She claims she was made fun of as a child and was a “slow learner.”  Several years ago she started singing karaoke in a local pub in [...]

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I’ve just returned from a fantastic trip to Paris and Dublin with two of my daughters and we had such a wonderful time.  I think most of you know that I have a background as a harpsichordist (as well as a pianist) and did all of my Ph.D. dissertation research in Paris in 1987.  I [...]

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Music is powerful…that is a given. We need no scientific proof for this, all we have to do turn on a radio, or a TV or an iPod or even start humming or whistling or even THINK about humming or singing or listening to a favorite song!

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For almost 20 years I have been reading about, thinking about and finally creating headphones for patients to wear during surgery. The research is there: through the process of rhythmic entrainment, patients who are listening to steady, rhythmic music through headphones, stay relaxed and as a result, require less anesthesia, less anxiety meds before and less pain medication afterwards!

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Well, my mother has done it again! She loves to help other people (being a good preacher’s wife!) and even though she is well into her 80’s and legally blind from macular degeneration, these things don’t slow her down too much! The other day at Eden Terrace, her assisted living community, she said that in [...]

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