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How to Make Gratitude a Daily Habit

July 08, 2021 - 08:05 AM It’s easy to focus on what we want rather than what we have. But when we shift our awareness to the present moment, we begin finding moments of gratitude in everyday life. We tend to talk about gratitude as a way of expressing thanks—thanks for a meal, an event, or an act of kindness. Following the lead of researchers in the field of positive psychology, the definition of gratitude is a little more broad. We define gratitude as the conscious appreciation of any aspect of our life experience. Sonja Lyubomirsky, on the other hand, offers a more poetic descri...

Top 5 Benefits of Listening to Positive Music

July 01, 2021 - 08:05 AM Can you imagine living a day without music? I can’t, and I’m not alone. Americans listen to 4 hours of music every day. There’s no other activity that we do that takes up as much of our time as listening to music, besides work and sleep that is. Despite music taking up such a signi...

10 Benefits of Listening to Relaxing Music

June 29, 2021 - 08:05 AM Maybe you have your own playlist of relaxing music. You turn it on when you need to calm your mind. Music can make us feel so wonderfully peaceful. It produces serotonin to relieve our stress and relieve physical pain. It’s always there for us. And it’s not a coincidence....

Music Therapy as an Alternative Cancer Treatment

June 24, 2021 - 08:05 AM What do we know about music therapy for cancer patients? We know that music has a large effect on us in general. It can make us smile when we're feeling stressed. It can take us out of a robotic "do" mode and put us in touch with our "feeling side." But what about people living with cancer? Do ...

Music Therapy

June 21, 2021 - 08:05 AM What Is It Cross-cultural beliefs have long held that music has a healing effect on mind and body. Music can promote relaxation and distract from pain associated with many illnesses. It can also relieve anxiety and distress. Music therapy emerged as a formal discipline in the US in the 1940s, ...

Music as Medicine: The Healing Power of Music

June 17, 2021 - 08:05 AM The late neurologist, Oliver Sacks in his book “Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain,” argued that music is essential to being human in ways that we’ve only begun to understand. Music stimulates the brain centers that register reward and pleasure, which is why liste...

10 Simple Ways to Bring Peace to Your Day

June 15, 2021 - 08:05 AM There’s a Zen koan that says: Meditate for an hour every day unless you are too busy. In that case, meditate for two hours. I think of this line frequently when people tell me they are “too busy” for mindfulness. The parents and teachers and students I work with describe days of&...

The Uses and Benefits of Music Therapy

June 11, 2021 - 08:05 AM What is music therapy? Sound healing therapy uses aspects of music to improve physical and emotional health and well-being. The person being treated partakes in the experience with a trained practitioner. Music therapy may involve: listening to music singing along to music moving to the beat...

9 Health Benefits of Music

June 08, 2021 - 08:15 PM Music can improve mood, decrease pain and anxiety, and facilitate opportunities for emotional expression. Research suggests that music can benefit our physical and mental health in numerous ways. Music therapy is used by our hospice and palliative care board-certified music therapist to enhance conv...

A Mindful Minute: 10 Simple Ways to Bring Peace to Your Day

May 24, 2021 - 10:30 PM Meditate for an hour every day unless you are too busy. In that case, meditate for two hours. I think of this line frequently when people tell me they are “too busy” for mindfulness. The parents and teachers and students I work with describe days of perpetual motion: school and wor...

News

How to Make Gratitude a Daily Habit

Top 5 Benefits of Listening to Positive Music

10 Benefits of Listening to Relaxing Music

Music Therapy as an Alternative Cancer Treatment

Music Therapy

Music as Medicine: The Healing Power of Music

10 Simple Ways to Bring Peace to Your Day

The Uses and Benefits of Music Therapy

9 Health Benefits of Music

A Mindful Minute: 10 Simple Ways to Bring Peace to Your Day

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