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"Neuroscientist and New York Times bestselling author of This Is Your Brain on Music Daniel J. Levitin reveals how the deep connections between music and the human brain can be harnessed for healing. Music is perhaps one of humanity's oldest medicines as well as its most universal: from China to the Ottoman Empire, Europe to Africa and pre-colonial South America, cultures have developed rich traditions for using sound and rhythm to ease suffering,...
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"The Mozart Effect offers dramatic accounts of how doctors, shamans, musicians, and healthcare professionals use music to deal with everything from anxiety to cancer, high blood pressure, chronic pain, dyslexia, even mental illness. Students who sing or play an instrument score up to 51 points higher on SATs that the national average. During childbirth, music can relieve expectant mothers' anxiety and help release endorphins, the body's natural painkillers,...
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"Oliver Sacks explores the place music occupies in the brain and how it affects the human condition. In Musicophilia, he shows us a variety of what he calls "musical misalignments." Among them: a man struck by lightning who suddenly desires to become a pianist at the age of forty-two; an entire group of children with Williams syndrome, who are hypermusical from birth; people with "amusia," to whom a symphony sounds like the clattering of pots and...
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A sound healing teacher and musician presents a soundscape of gemstone-infused crystal bowls intended to evoke expanded inner space and illumination. Captured in a sacred open-mouthed New Mexico cave, these tracks merge the subtle presence of wind and birdsong with therapeutically tuned tones to suppor your natural bio-frequencies.
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Heal your body, mind and spirit using the profound power found in music. This research-based approach to wellness will help you to feel better. Learn to use music to manage your stress and reduce your physical suffering, whether due to the everyday stresses of life or emotional and physical pain. Dr. Hanser and Dr. Mandel share uniquely effective music therapy strategies, learned from many years of research, clinical practice and personal experience....
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We rarely pay attention to everything we hear, but every noise in our environment has the ability to affect our mood, productivity, and even our health. Decades of research show that sound can heal, but can also hurt us. Create your own perfect, personal soundtracks for every task, from the morning commute to getting a restful night's sleep.
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Music for the Mozart effect volume 3
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These musical selections composed by Mozart are designed to help you access your creative voice. Personal expression, whether in the form of journaling, drawing, painting, or simply letting the imagination run free, is an important part of mental and spiritual health. Mozart can provide a pathway to your personal creativity, unlocking waves of images and impressions and amplifying the expressive inner voice.
13) Box of rain
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Box of Rain is a documentary film not about the Grateful Dead, but about the fans that followed them, Deadheads told from the perspective of the director, who found safety among these colorful nomads at a very dark point in her life.
14) Alive inside
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A joyous cinematic exploration of music's capacity to reawaken our souls and uncover the deepest parts of our humanity. Filmmaker Michael Rossato-Bennett chronicles the astonishing experiences of individuals around the country who have been revitalized through the simple experience of listening to music.
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Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, On the Adamant is an affecting, enlightening documentary from nonfiction master Nicolas Philibert (To Be and to Have, In the Land of the Deaf). It invites viewers to come aboard the Adamant and witness the transformational power of art and community. The Adamant is a one-of-a-kind place: a floating refuge on the Seine River in the heart of Paris that offers day programs for adults with mental...
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Autism: Disability or Gift? This explores this question by looking at creative therapies and art programs designed to stimulate the brain and help young people on the autism spectrum reach their highest potential. Through eight compelling portraits, the movie celebrates the talents and creativity of youths with autism, and provides them with a platform to speak openly about their struggles, as well as their hopes and dreams.
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Deprived of his sight at an early age, Wolfgang Fasser turns to his ears for access to a world he once feared would be closed off forever. Awed by the restorative powers of sound, Fasser established a physical therapy retreat for disabled children where they use music and noise to communicate with others and gain control of their own bodies. As they embrace the physicality of sonic vibrations, the children's bodies slowly begin to move in harmony...
20) Music is my life
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"How are you feeling today? Content, stressed, miserable, in love-- or a million things in between? Fortunately, there's music to match any mood you can think of. This book has collected together a library of music's finest artists to get you through the good, bad, and sad times. Whatever you are feeling, these artists, have been there and played about it. Dip into the library, organized by mood, to fall in love with Elvis, shout about it with Lizzo,...
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