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Today I want to talk about some of the benefits of playing a musical instrument–it’s important for your brain and you! The greatest brain benefits of music happen when you actually learn a musical instrument. By doing so you are exercising the left, right, front, and back portions of the brain—and when the entire brain is being utilized—learning increases….
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Wouldn’t it be amazing if you could just listen to music and have it positively affect the brain? Well, it can and does… Years ago, a man by the name of Georgi Lozanov, (1926-2012) a Bulgarian psychiatrist studied how music affected the brain when people merely listened to it. What he discovered was rather astonishing. He found that when we…
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Classical music is truly a multi-level experience. We’ve learned that music plays a role in our universe, is found in nature and even animals respond to music. Proportionately, though, its greatest impact is on human beings—to our learning processes, brain development and the refinement of our entire neurological system. Thousands of studies over the last two hundred years illustrate the…
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Our family loves animals, but we stick to the semi-domesticated ones for pets—dogs, cats, birds and fish. In nearly every case, our dogs and cats have enjoyed classical music and many times have curled up underneath our music system to listen and fall asleep. But many kinds of animals—domesticated or not—seem to love and respond to music. The late Stewart…
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Did you know that we live in a musical universe? Where the planets, the sun and the stars all play music? Seems impossible, until you realize that just about everything on this earth has a vibrational frequency. And when something vibrates, it produces music. Have you ever played with a toy top? As a child, I loved my toy top….
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I’m a voracious reader. Each time I pick up a book, it’s an exciting adventure; a chance to learn something new and a chance to add to my knowledge bank. In most cases, I find the author as interesting as the book. I ask myself questions such as: Who is this person? What is their background? Why did they write…
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