Music Healing and Harmony
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What Makes Music So Powerful and Healing? Why Does Everyone Love Music? Is Music the Universal Language? You will discover: How great music, carefully selected, changes your mood, energizes you, calms you, improves your mental focus, lifts you up spiritually, and helps you to become healthier.
Fascinating research using music to aid healing, reduce pain, improve insomnia, control heart rate, improve your love life, help you relax, and increase your intelligence. How to choose specific music for a wide variety of conditions and states of mind. How to change dissonance (dis-ease) into harmony (ease). Why music is like a spiritual vitamin.
Sally Fletcher
Sally Fletcher knows from experience what it is like to be diagnosed with a supposedly incurable disorder. For many years she had epileptic seizures the result of a concussion from an ice skating fall. She couldn‘t undo the skating accident, and since medication didn’t work for her, she found other solutions.Her book, The Challenge of Epilepsy, describes the various methods that helped her take control of her life and end her seizures. She has been seizure-free with no medication for 20 years.Sally is a professional harpist. She performs and has recorded eight CDs. Most of the music she plays at events is now from memory, which was definitely not possible before.Her next book project, currently in progress, is about the healing power of music.
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Music Healing and Harmony - Sally Fletcher
MUSIC HEALING AND HARMONY
How Music Can Improve Your Health, Enhance Your Brain Power, and Help You Relax
by
Sally Fletcher
Smashwords Edition
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Published on Smashwords by:
Aura Publishing Company
San Rafael, CA
Copyright 2011 by Sally Fletcher
www.heavenlyharpist.com
Book design and production by
Joel Friedlander http://www.thebookdesigner.com/
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All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.
DISCLAIMER
This book is meant to be educational in nature and is not designed to instruct anyone in complete self-treatment or diagnosis. The research and techniques described in this book are not substitutes for professional care.
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DEDICATION
To my mother and father, Sarah and Ira Frazier, who made sure all four of their children had the opportunity and encouragement to study music. There were times when there was barely enough money to survive, but they always found a way for us to have lessons. I thank them every day for making possible this beautiful gift of music in my life.
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: The Power of Music
Chapter 2: Music, the Universal Language
Chapter 3: Music, Mood and Love
Chapter 4: Music and Healing
Chapter 5: Relax with Music
Chapter 6: Music and Vibration
Chapter 7: Music, Spirituality and Worship
Chapter 8: Music, the Brain and Intelligence
Chapter 9: What Music Shall I Listen To?
Where to Find More Information
Notes
About the Author
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thanks to all the wonderful people who contributed to this book from start to finish. Some people shared their stories and others offered encouragement. Others helped in the final editing and production.
My sincerest thanks to the following:
Linda Jay Geldens and Elissa Rabellino, my brilliant, insightful copy editors.
Joel Friedlander, talented book designer, who brought my project to completion.
Paula Hendricks, thought-provoking, creative developmental editor.
Kim Spencer, my incredibly meticulous proof reader, who made sure the book was of professional quality.
Thanks to all those who added spice to the book with their shared stories and experiences:
Bhagwan Mirchandani, Mark Susnow, Owen Jackman, Wayne L. Misner, Pablo Solomon, Linda Lane-Bortell, Nikki Ragsdale.
Thanks to those who kept asking, When will the book be done?
And thanks to my friends and family who offered encouragement and suggestions while listening to me talk endlessly about my project.
Thanks to all musicians, composers and music teachers for your inspiration, dedication and love of music. The sharing of your talent helps everyone experience the beautiful gift of music.
Thanks to all the researchers, authors and music therapists who continue to learn and share their knowledge about the power of music.
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CHAPTER 1: The Power of Music
How powerful is your magic sound.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, The Magic Flute, 1791
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How would you like to learn how to use something that’s mind-altering, legal and free or low-cost, and has no negative side effects? Music can change your mood, help you get to sleep, increase your brain power and make you forget your troubles. Music affects your psychological, spiritual and general well-being. Music can also be healing, either used as a complementary method along with other healing methods or by itself. You have a powerful tool available to you at little or no cost—your own inner sound system that includes your ears, your voice and your choice of music.
Imagine you’re watching The Sound of Music for the hundredth time. You hear the von Trapp family—with Julie Andrews as Maria von Trapp— singing Climb Ev’ry Mountain
as they escape to Switzerland. Do you feel a warm, happy glow, as though the world is good? Does that feeling return even when you hear Climb Ev’ry Mountain
without watching the movie? You may have your own favorite song that reminds you of a movie, a story or something that happened. If every time you hear the song or hum the tune you feel happy, you’re already using music to alter your mood.
Learning how to play an instrument or singing in a group often enhances self-esteem and imparts a sense of accomplishment and camaraderie, and improves learning skills in general. Music, known as the universal language, also heals conflict, promotes peace, and blurs differences between cultures, nations, ages, sexes and religions. Centuries ago, Chinese philosophers believed that music could change the course of an entire society.
You can’t see or touch music, sound, thoughts or emotions. For this reason, until about 50 years ago there wasn’t much scientific research conducted to measure the effects of music. Now, thanks to modern technology, it is possible to show exactly how music affects our brains, bodies and emotions.
When you listen to or perform music you like, your brain produces more endorphins and dopamine (the feel-good
brain chemicals that act as neurotransmitters). These chemicals reduce stress, which in turn reduces illness and pain. Reducing your stress level is the very best thing you can do for your health. That is also why laughter is the best medicine,
and music may be a close second to laughter. The vibrations of music can affect your mood, energy level, intelligence and health.
How Do We Explain Music?
The dictionary defines music as a composition of rhythmical, melodic, harmonic sounds.
Music can also be defined as the result of our conscious development of sound into an art and a science. Goethe called architecture petrified music.
[1] I call music a spiritual vitamin
or, simply, a miracle.
Music is the most direct of the fine arts; the harmony of the universe is attracted to the harmony of the music. Music, which is composed of vibration, energy and sound waves, surrounds us. The universe is a complete harmony of many sounds— many lives and energy vibrate together as they fill the silence. All this energy can end up as harmony or as noisy discord, dissonance or disharmony. The music we choose to listen to contributes to our energy, mood and state of health.
The Five Variations in Music that Affect Your State of Being
You need to be aware of five general variations in music that have the power to change your health, mood and energy level.
* Tempo: the speed of the music; fast, moderate or slow.
* Dynamics: the volume of the music; loud or soft.
* Pitch: the frequency of the music; high or low.
* Timbre: the tone or color of the particular instrument or voice.
* Style: classical, romantic, jazz, Celtic, pop.
How Music Affects the Growth of Plants
Music is so powerful, it can affect the growth of plants! Dorothy Retallack, a graduate student in Denver, Colorado, placed plants in five greenhouses with different types of music playing. All the greenhouses had identical soil, light and water conditions. The plants in the greenhouse with classical and Indian music thrived, were green and healthy, and