Healing music is so easy to incorporate into your day, especially if you suffer from anxiety and depression! Do you give yourself the recommended daily allowance of the music you love?? Most people listen to music on their car radios, their iPods, and their iPhones, but is it the music you really love the most? […]
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Healing Music comes in many forms
Have you experienced the healing power of music? Since the beginning of time, humans have been powerfully drawn to rhythm, to harmony and to melody. The original “music” consisted of the sounds of nature: waves lapping the shore, the wind through the pines and palms, the babbling brook and the gentle rain. Today, every country […]
NPR story on Music with Surgery documents the benefits!
Surgery with music is a topic that I’ve spent that last 25 years writing and speaking about. It is such an easy yet powerful intervention for the patient who is filled with anxiety and dread Now this wonderful meta-analysis has been published in the “Lancet,” a prestigious and highly respected British medical journal. I would […]
Children and Pain: Study looks at Power of Music
Have you ever had a child in the hospital? That alone is a painful and frightening experience for parent and child, but imagine if your child has to have surgery, and after surgery, is in pain. As a mother of three and grandmother of four, I can’t imagine anything more frustrating for a parent. No […]
Our singing President!
Did you ever think you’d hear the President of the United States sing? This is the 8th or 9th President in office since I was born in 1948, and I can’t think of a single President that I have heard burst into song, and do a great job of it!! Supposedly, Harry Truman was a […]