Do you wake up to your clock radio alarm set to music in the morning? Is the radio tuned to a certain genre of music and station that you know offers your choice of sound for starting your day? Or do you wade through a stream of silence for your wake time? As you go through your day what do you choose to listen to along the way? What’s coming through your earplugs and headphones and speakers? Why do you listen to music? Think about it. It’s not just background noise. Music can lift us up, bring us down, terrify and inspire us. It excites and cues us as we watch movies. Music moves our feet and our hears. So is it really any surprise that music offers medicine for our bodies, minds and souls?
What are you putting into your ears by choice? What sounds can’t you filter in or out? What’s your go-to music for chasing the blues away? I’ve still got Aldrey’s La Lista on the sidebar because of the song and all those smiling faces. It’s tough to stay down with all that positive energy flowing with so much fun.
Music and sound as medicine are relatively new concepts in western medicine. But this is are very old concept in eastern cultures where a holistic approach is taken in the healing arts.
One example of music as medicine being taken seriously on several levels in the state’s is Weill Cornell Medical College Music as/is Medicine program http://weill.cornell.edu/music/ . Theirs is a very layered approach which involves several forms of educational and practical collaborations between disciplines. A quick Google search of music as medicine will keep anyone interested busy reading for as long as they’re willing to pursue the concept. If you search for it on YouTube you’ll find hours and hours of music geared towards physical, mental and spiritual healing.
For a starting point there’s The Healing Power of Sound: Recovery from Life-threatening Illness Using Sound, Voice and Music by Dr. Mitchell Gaynor.
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The Road to Recovery with Dr. Mitchell Gaynor: Sound Healing
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Listen to Nahko Bear’s rendition of Aloha Ke Akua with your eyes closed and with them open — with and without the images. What does the music do to you physically and emotionally? Consider your being in relation to sound.
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Nahko Bear (Medicine for the People) ~ Aloha Ke Akua
Free Download of this piano version at http://nahko.com/free-download-of-alo…
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Robert Gupta Between Medicine and Music
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Lee Bartel Music as Medicine
Music therapy is often thought of as a tool to provoke an emotional reaction from patients and allow their brain to accomplish tasks in a different way. But Lee Bartel says it offers much more than that. Music is no longer just a therapy, music is medicine – and the results are measurable. Lee Bartel joins Steve Paikin.
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One form of music therapy:
Kirsten Nelson, one of three music therapists at UI Hospitals and Clinics and UI Children’s Hospital, uses music to help the youngest heal.
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Here’s another way in which music and medicine work together:
Unsinkable by Sam Tsui & Elle Winter
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Published on Sep 9, 2013ALL PROCEEDS from this track go toward pediatric cancer research!!
Downoload here! https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/uns…“Unsinkable” is a song we wrote for 16 year-old Cindy, a cancer patient at the Mount Sinai Kravis Children’s Hospital, through Music is Medicine’s Donate a Song project. ALL proceeds and support for the song will benefit pediatric oncology research at Mount Sinai Check out the video, buy the song, and share it with friends to support the fight against childhood cancer!
Donate a Song is a project that invites artists to write and record original songs for seriously-ill children that inspire the patients, share their stories of strength, and contribute to the greater fight against their diseases. You can learn more about the cause and how YOU can get involved by going to http://www.musicismed.org, http://www.facebook.com/musicismedicine, and http://www.twitter.com/musicismed or send an email to info@musicismed.org. Thanks for your support!
Elle’s info!!
youtube: http://www.youtube.com/ElleWinterX
twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ElleWinterX
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There are many versions of the Medicine Buddha Mantra available online. This one of my favorites because of its particular musical rendition. Namaste.
Medicine Buddha Mantra
To eliminate not only pain of diseases but also help in overcoming the major inner sickness of attachment, hatred, jealousy, desire, greed and ignorance.
Mantra chanted by Khenpo Pema Chopel Rinpoche from the CD ‘The Blessing from H.H. Penor Rinpoche for World Peace’.
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The Healing Power of Sound, publisher’s link http://www.shambhala.com/the-healing-power-of-sound.html
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Bear’s treatment of Music as Medicine –> http://bearspawprint.wordpress.com/2014/02/27/music-as-medicine/
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Johnny’s guitar and voice are available for your ears –> http://johnnyojanpera.wordpress.com/2014/02/28/her-favorite-song-music-as-medicine/
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willowdot21’s very personal experience with music as medicine => http://willowdot21.wordpress.com/2014/02/27/music-as-medicine-sorry-this-is-late/
om mani padme hum jewel in the lotus wahupa qi prana universal life energy
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H3nry J3kyll said,
March 9, 2014 at 3:27 am
Some great vibrations here! Some time back I stumbled across a piece of music that always brings a smile to the voice of the silence. I think with the theme of healing I should pass it on. Music as they say, bridges the divide between spirit and matter.
47whitebuffalo said,
March 9, 2014 at 3:10 pm
Yep, that definitely does create smiles, H2nry.
I hope you caught the rest of this post when there were more offerings on the side-bar prior to LP’s appearance.
Namaste
47whitebuffalo said,
March 7, 2014 at 3:01 pm
Jeff Olsenholler (@jolsenho) said,
March 6, 2014 at 5:18 pm
As a long-term hospice volunteer – one who’s witnessed nearly as many deaths as Jack Kevorkian – there’s always a great danger of becoming calloused to other’s pain. I use music to peel that callous away. Em’s pretty good at that:
47whitebuffalo said,
March 7, 2014 at 2:56 pm
That’s a lot of time spent at the river Styx forming callouses. One needs to take good care of one’s self when helping others to their next adventures. If Emmylou refreshes you, then it’s all good.
bearspawprint said,
March 6, 2014 at 5:33 am
THE WILD http://bearspawprint.wordpress.com/2014/03/06/the-wild/
Her Favorite Song ~ Music As Medicine | johnny ojanpera said,
February 28, 2014 at 4:46 pm
[…] in her ear so far. I have played a few healing songs for her, compliments of Bear , Willow and Eva, but none of mine. I also missed this week’s music theme, which coincidentally was on the […]
Johnny Ojanpera said,
February 27, 2014 at 10:05 pm
The misses will be wathing these this evening. Thanks for doing the research for me. 🙂
47whitebuffalo said,
February 27, 2014 at 10:17 pm
Waves to Johnny’s misses. 🙂 My pleasure.
Music as Medicine. Sorry this is late. | willowdot21 said,
February 27, 2014 at 7:24 pm
[…] EVA: https://47whitebuffalo.wordpress.com/2014/02/27/music-as-medicine-what-does-sound-do-to-you/ __________________ BEAR: http://bearspawprint.wordpress.com/2014/02/27/music-as-medicine/ __________________ JOHNNY: __________________ DEBORAH: […]
47whitebuffalo said,
February 27, 2014 at 6:52 pm
F*7%!-i;ng Wonderfully INTENSE choice, Bear.
Damn, Hendrix got nothing on those two cello rock star dudes. WOW. I love them.
Mato is the Lakota word for “bear.”
You can bring those 2Cellos to my blogcasa any day, Bear. Any day. Yeah…. I think Lady Pen will love them too. Oh yeah.
The end of the video is great. LOL. What does an audience do after a cello player literally gets down with his instrument? Hmm. LOL>
bearspawprint said,
February 27, 2014 at 5:37 pm
This is wonderful. Just wonderful. Thank you, Eva.
47whitebuffalo said,
February 27, 2014 at 5:46 pm
Hey Mato Amiga, gracias.
Btw, slowly but surely I’m extending this post into the musicial offerings on the sidebar. I considered doing another post then figured what the heck just go <<<—- there–to the left.
So what music do you head to when you desire a pick me up?
bearspawprint said,
February 27, 2014 at 5:53 pm
“Mato” = ??
“Pick me up” music changes, but this week it is:
bearspawprint said,
February 27, 2014 at 5:55 pm
bearspawprint said,
February 27, 2014 at 6:02 pm
2CELLOS Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser — Thunderstruck (AC/DC) 🙂 🙂 🙂 I find it quite mood elevating 🙂 🙂 🙂
47whitebuffalo said,
February 27, 2014 at 10:15 pm
Hey Bear, take note that my reply to your 2Cellos share is in #5. Right now the machine won’t let me move it around. LOL.
47whitebuffalo said,
March 7, 2014 at 2:58 pm
Mato = Bear in Lakota.
bearspawprint said,
February 27, 2014 at 5:21 pm
MARCH 6 WE SHALL EXPLORE — THE WILD —WITH MUSIC.
47whitebuffalo said,
February 27, 2014 at 5:42 pm
OH MY! The Wild—excellent choice, Bear.
bearspawprint said,
February 27, 2014 at 5:44 pm
🙂
Music as Medicine « bearspawprint said,
February 27, 2014 at 5:11 pm
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penpusherpen said,
February 27, 2014 at 4:31 pm
Music to feed the Body, soul, and the mind. Eva, I shall have to call back and listen to the Music video’s above, as to what is my Wake up music, I have it set to Classic FM, smoothly waking myself up,… (unless it’s a trumpet voluntary 😉 Then I’d be hopping outa bed pretty smartish!!) … Muchos besos. and catch up soon. xxPenxx
47whitebuffalo said,
February 27, 2014 at 5:52 pm
A trumpet–as in JUMP IT NOW! xPenx 🙂
Classical is good–if you’ve got a station you can count on.
Oh and this post is extending into the sidebar mainly with music to mellow out with.
PC is trailing along at its own slug a bed pace—I wish a trumpet would get it stomping. I’ll be very easy to catch up with at this rate. Cheers.
slpmartin said,
February 27, 2014 at 3:44 pm
I have been ending each day with this type of music…has been very helpful.
47whitebuffalo said,
February 27, 2014 at 5:40 pm
Yes,music can help us unwind and relax so much. What do you listen to throughout the day, charles?
Also, I’ve added healing music selections to the side bar <<<— on the left.