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Healing Music Blog · 2W ago

Music Can Aid in Pain Relief, Especially When Anxiety Involved

Listening to music can provide a distraction that can help to relieve pain finds a new study published by researchers from the University of Utah Pain Research Center in The Journal of Pain, a publication of the American Pain Society. For the study, 143 subjects listened to music tracks, following t
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Healing Music Blog · 2M ago

Can music prevent organ rejection?

Music has a fundamental affect on humans. It can reduce stress, enhance relaxation, provide a distraction from pain, and improve the results of clinical therapy. New research published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery demonstrates that music can reduce reject
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Healing Music Blog · 2M ago

Music and Corporate Wellness

Businesses are struggling today, no doubt about it.  Businesses are going bankrupt, folding, going under.  Is there ANY chance at all that music, drum circles, or singing could make a difference?  Really?  Well, here are some of the things that music is credited with doing: Music is a powerful tool
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Healing Music Blog · 2M ago

Having surgery? Music for surgeon and music for patient

Today it is not unusual for the operating rooms of hospitals to have  music playing.   Thats a good thing for sure, but unfortunately, the music that the surgeon wants will usually have no benefit at all for the patient.  Yes, it’s important for the surgeon to feel good and have a high energy level
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Healing Music Blog · 3M ago

Brain Tumor Surgery: Awake and using music!

   An interesting article came my way today, written by a man who had undergone his second awake, brain tumor surgery!  In this article he talks about all of the things that helped him and can help YOU, including music!  Enjoy! The anesthesiologist grabbed my hand as I woke up in the room. As I [...
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Healing Music Blog · 4M ago

What are Therapeutic Characteristics of Music?

We all know that music makes us feel better!  It cheers us up, it calms us down, it brings back wonderful memories of love, childhood, holidays, vacations, and our whole lives.  The field of music therapy has provided lots of wonderful information on this and so much more. The following list is from
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Healing Music Blog · 4M ago

Music is Good for your Health: But we knew that!

Yes indeed, music is good for your health! In fact, Music Therapy is a recognized form of treatment for a variety of disorders and conditions. The American Music Therapy Association (AMTA) states that “Music therapy is an established health-care profession that uses music to address physical, emotio
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Healing Music Blog · 5M ago

How does music affect behavior?

Does music affect the behavior of adolescents? This is one of the most frequent questions I get when I go out to speak around the country. I think it’s a bit of a rhetorical questions because we know that music is powerful and does affect people’s behavior, but especially people who are unsure of th
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Healing Music Blog · 6M ago

What the Ancients knew about music and mathematics

This fascinating information can be found at http://public.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/greek.music.html.  The following is an excerpt: Archaeological evidence and written accounts, both historical and literary, show that music was vital to ancient Greek culture. Choruses in the Greek plays were sung, and musi
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Healing Music Blog · 6M ago

What makes music scary?

With Halloween here, I’ve been contemplating what makes music scary. Some of my younger readers may not know that for a couple of decades, movies were silent.  In other words, the audience just read the dialogue at the bottom of the screen, and a pianist sat to the side of the screen and literally i
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