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.
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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!!!
I am so excited and thrilled to announce the yesterday I was notified that my invention for delivering music during surgery has received a patent from the U.S. Patent Office. Needless to say, there are lots of small details ( like paying ANOTHER $1,000.00!!!) but now I can market the invention as a unique, proven, and patented device for surgery!!! HOORAY!!! It’s been a 3 1/2 year journey and I was turned down so many times in the beginning that I thought it might not happen at all. But as of yesterday around noon, the tides have turned and now I can begin looking for angel investors! Wouldn’t you like to invest in a simple device that will revolutionize the OR because of it’s proven ability to decrease the amount of anesthesia, anxiety medication and pain medication…all through music? I can only let a limited number of people join me in this venture so contact me at chantdoc@healingmusicenterprises.com if you are interested! HOORAY!!!
Just moments ago I read about a man who sang a love song to his six-month-old daughter during her open-heart surgery. The original citation of this can be found at http://teamtsunamiblog.blogspot.com/. What a beautiful thing! I would love to know more about this story but it definitely seems like a good idea! What do you think? Just click on “comment” and share your reaction to this. You don’t have to sign up for a Blogger account but you’d probably enjoy that!
Vocal Toning is different from traditional chanting, and allows for more flexibility and creativity. Because it is hard to drum and sing at the same time, you may find that vocal toning is easier than chanting. Instead of using words we use tones (such as om, ah, hey). Vocal Toning is about releasing. Toning in a circle with others is empowering. You will feel inspired by the others in the group. Using tones instead of words allows the mind to relax and take a rest from thinking. This allows the brain to be refreshed. After each session, you will find yourself feeling totally energized! The combination of vocalizing and drumming has a dramatic effect on your mind and body. If doing both at the same time is difficult, an option is to alternate. With a little practice you may be able to do both simultaneously.
Did you know that Dr. Cash has an ebook called “Drumming for Health, Wellness, and Fun?” It’s one of her best-selling and most popular products. To get it NOW click HERE. You’re going to love it and feel the difference!
I am sooo excited friends! I’ve put together the first in a series of downloadble soundtracks for surgery! This music will be available from a new page on my website and for those who are not adept at downloading music, I will also preprogram MP3 players for you to take directly into surgery. I’m working on the Ebook for Music and Surgery right now and putting the finishing touches on it. Please let all of your friends and families know about this exciting release. Surgery is an important and usually necessary event but it doesn’t have to be as dangerous. Numerous studies document that patients listening to slow, steady, instrumental music through headphones (or earbuds!) need less anesthesia and anesthesia is one of the things people have to recover from!!
Music under the microscope: the relation between biology and genetics and human music, its peculiarities and reasons. These are the main themes of the International Workshop on the Biology and Genetics of Music, to be held in Bologna, May 20 to 22, with leading scientists currently involved in researching the mysteries of music, invited to explain their recent findings to the audience. The meeting is organized by the European Genetics Foundation and the Fondazione Pierfranco e Luisa Mariani, in collaboration with the Orchestra Mozart, the Municipality of Bologna and the University of Bologna. It is part of the agenda of the second edition of the Festival of Music and Genetics, taking place from May 12 to 22, 2007 (http://www.musicagenetica.it/).
Learn all about the so-called “Mozart Effect” in Less Than 48 Hours! You Can Understand Why Mozart’s Musis Has Been Heralded by Musicians and Researchers Alike. Today….Until September 30 the first 100 Blog Readers will get an extra bonus of a free NPR interview with Dr. Cash. Order a download of the “Why Mozart” lecture and get your free bonus interview!
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The topics of the meeting are various: from the research of genes responsible for our becoming great pianists (or, on the contrary, being completely tone-deaf), to the evolution of music in the history of mankind through the comparison with other animal species; from the role played by music in children’s education, to the study of children to understand the musical mind. Why do infant prodigies exist? Why haven’t we all become one? Are there any types of music that are objectively better suited to be more appreciated than others? And especially what is the purpose of music? These and other questions will be addressed by geneticists, psychologists, biologists, but also anthropologists and musicologists during the open conferences hosted in the Palazzo del Podestà. “All this is not just caused by curiosity: studying the way music is read, interpreted and appreciated by our brain enables us to understand many things about the workings of the mind – adds Maria Majno, Executive Director of the Fondazione Pierfranco e Luisa Mariani. For example, it opens the way to research certain pathologic conditions or track and even modify children’s cognitive development. Also, it leads to imagining possible applications for patients with different medical problems as well as potential treatments based on listening and producing music”.
Recently one of my clients/patients asked me about Mozart’s health. What an interesting question! After all that’s been in the news about how Mozart’s music can do all kinds of wonderful things, we come back to Mozart’s own physical and mental health. Some of the things he is purported to have suffered from include:
depression
mania
addictions (both sex and spending)
narsicism (understandable!)
poor overall physical health (Thus his death at age 36!)
insomnia
One might ask, why didn’t the music he was writing help him? Of course that’s not an easy question…already, volumes have been written about it. One of his over-riding problems was poverty! He lived in cold, drafty quarters and often spent th money he earned with commissions on more velvet clothes, powdered wigs and fun out on the town! At least that’s what “Amadeus” seems to be protraying.
Mozart was one of the greatest musical geniuses that ever lived. Today, no one would deny that. It’s too bad he couldn’t have benefited from the “Mozart Effect” himself!
Have you ever wondered why some children are born with magnificent musical talents and some with devastating physical, mental and emotional handicaps? Much has been written about the latter but not nearly as much about the former. We know that musical talent tends to run in families. The study of genetics has come a long, long way in the past several decades, but some gifts are so staggering that it is hard to imagine these children exist. Mozart was one such wunderkind. If you haven’t seen the movie “Vitus,” you must go immediately and rent it. This little boy is a true musical genius and piano prodigy. Enjoy!
Vocal Toning is different from traditional chanting, and allows for more flexibility and creativity. Because it is hard to drum and sing at the same time, you may find that vocal toning is easier than chanting. Instead of using words we use tones (such as om, ah, hey). Vocal Toning is about releasing. Toning in a circle with others is empowering. You will feel inspired by the others in the group. Using tones instead of words allows the mind to relax and take a rest from thinking. This allows the brain to be refreshed. After each session, you will find yourself feeling totally energized! The combination of vocalizing and drumming has a dramatic effect on your mind and body. If doing both at the same time is difficult, an option is to alternate. With a little practice you may be able to do both simultaneously.
Did you know that Dr. Cash has an ebook called “Drumming for Health, Wellness, and Fun?” It’s one of her best-selling and most popular products. To get it NOW click HERE. You’re going to love it and feel the difference!
