A Musician Who Performs With a Scalpel
He recently published a provocative paper suggesting that music may exert healing and sedative effects partly through a paradoxical stimulation of a growth hormone generally associated with stress rather than healing.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/20/health/20prof.html?th&emc=th
Daily Doses of Bach and Breathing Lower Blood Pressure
Spending just 30 minutes a day listening to rhythmically homogeneous music -- anything from classical to Celtic to Indian -- has a beneficial effect on blood pressure, researchers found.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/ASH/tb/9597
Healing Yourself with Your Own Voice
The best selling introduction to the Voice for Health improvement
http://www.mozarteffect.com/OnlineStore/MERCProductd.php?d=5274
Listening to music can reduce chronic pain and depression by up to a quarter
Listening to music can reduce chronic pain by up to 21 per cent and depression by up to 25 per cent, according to a paper in the latest UK-based Journal of Advanced Nursing.
http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid...
Music for Pain
A new systematic study of music for pain finds that while music won't replace painkillers, it can boost their effectiveness
http://www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?article_id=218392834
Music: Physician for Times to Come
Anthology edited by Don Campbell on music, health and therapy.
http://www.mozarteffect.com/OnlineStore/MERCProductd.php?d=0788
Music Together: The Joy of Family Music
Early childhood organization that brings music into the home
http://www.musictogether.com/
New Study Reveals music-relaxation link
This study establishes that music, by alternating fast and slower rhythms and pauses, can be used to induce relaxation
http://heart.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/92/4/445?maxtoshow=&HITS...
Open Ear Center
Training for healthcare professionals and laypersons in the use of sound and music to facilitate the healing process.
http://www.openearcenter.com/
Sing, Sing, Sing!
The biology of singing
http://www.musica.uci.edu/mrn/V3I2F96.html#sing
Spring Hill Music
From Classics to Ambient, Chants to Nuevo Flamenco- award winning music for healing, relaxation, yoga and massage/meditation
http://www.springhillmedia.com
THE MOZART EFFECT
Info and links regarding The Mozart Effect
http://www.westmark.pvt.k12.ca.us/music.html
The Mozart Effect: Tapping the Power of Music to Heal the Body, Strengthen the Mind, and Unlock the Creative Spirit--Audio Book, Read by the author
This groundbreaking book byDon Campbell reveals how exposure to sound and music has a profound lifelong effect on health, learning, and behavior, and points the way to a healthier, more harmonious lifestyle.
http://www.mozarteffect.com/OnlineStore/MERCProductd.php?d=7418
The Roar of Silence: Healing powers of breath, tone & music
Groundbreaking book by Don Campbell shows how by using sounds and toning, we can understand the vital connection between mind and body. Seven weeks of daily exercises provide keys to the healing power of the voice.
http://www.mozarteffect.com/OnlineStore/MERCProductd.php?d=0645
The Society for the Arts in Healthcare
Visionary Arts Society
http://www.societyartshealthcare.org/
Tomatis Association and Centers
The Tomatis Method builds strong listening skills through auditory , to improve learning and language abilities, communication, creativity, and social behavior.
http://www.tomatis.com/
Background of the Bonny Method (Music Therapy)
Excerpts from Presentation by Helen Lindquist Bonny at the World Congress of Music Therapy 1999
http://www.bonnyfoundation.org/bonny.html
Expressive Therapy Concepts
Creative arts therapies & related disciplines
http://www.expressivetherapy.org/
Jean Houston Online
Visionary educator, writer, teacher in Human Potential
http://www.jeanhouston.org/
Links to art and healing sites
Progressive and useful links to art and healing
http://www.artashealing.org/ahfw4.htm
Mickey Hart
Drumming and wellness
http://www.mickeyhart.net/home/
Music and Its Memories
Learn how music can effect memory
http://www.musica.uci.edu/mrn/V3I2F96.html#Memories
Music Education Madness
Fun site for music education and information
http://www.musiceducationmadness.com
Music: Food for the Brain
The Bolton Project research on music and learning
http://www.peterperret.com/bolton.html
Music Therapy Research and Resources - Univ of Wisconsin
Literature Reviews and Research with Goals & Methodology.
http://www.uwec.edu/rasarla/research/
MusikGarten
Early Childhood organization offering training for parents and children
http://www.musikgarten.org
Naropa University
Buddhist inspired, accredited University offers Creative Arts therapies
http://www.naropa.edu/
National Arts and Disability Center
center specializing in the field of arts and disability
http://nadc.ucla.edu/
National Library of Medicine (US)
Access to over 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
NewJour-Electronic Journals and Newletters
20,000 journals, links and news sources
http://gort.ucsd.edu/newjour/
Northern California Art Therapy Association
Dedicated to representing Art Therapists from an educational professional development, training, and political action standpoint.
www.norcata.com/
Shands Healthcare - Arts in Medicine
Program utilizing dance, music, drama, creative writing and the visual arts to enhance the patient experience.
http://shands.org/AIM/
Survival of the harmonious
Mounting evidence suggests that human beings are hard-wired to appreciate music. What researchers want to know now is why our distant ancestors evolved music in the first place.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2006/09/03/survival_of...
The Enchanted Way: A Unique Art Therapy Program
music, birds flying and fountains flowing to create a sacred space known as the "temenos".
http://www.enchantedway.com
The Mozart Effect - Music for Children Recordings: Vol. 2 - Relax, Daydream, and Draw
Inspires right-brain, creative thinking; induces relaxation; improves concentration and memory, stimulates verbal, emotional, and spatial intelligence.
http://www.mozarteffect.com/OnlineStore/MERCProductd.php?d=4292
The Orff Process
Suite 101 provides insight into thousands of topics int he arts
http://www.suite101.com/articles/article.cfm/2340
What is Healing Music?
Discussion of Health and music
http://www.shirleykaiser.com/healing/articles/healing.html
Educator's Reference Desk
Personalized Internet-based service providing education information to teachers, librarians, counselors, administrators and parents
http://www.eduref.org/
Behavior OnLine Forum
Dialogue with professionals
http://www.behavior.net/forumfront.html
ByRegion.net
Mind - Body Practitioners throughout the US
http://www.byregion.net/
Healing Music Organization
Information, resources, tools and a forum for dialogue to people interested in the healing power of music and sound.
http://www.healingmusic.org/
International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and Energy Medicine
Organization with insight into the subtle powers of health and wellness
http://www.issseem.org
Jack Kornfeld and Spirit Rock Meditation Center
Calm, Peace and inner resonance
http://www.spiritrock.org/
Journey of Hearts, an online healing place for anyone grieving a loss
Resources and support to help those in the grief process following a loss or a significant life change.
http://www.journeyofhearts.org/
Mental Health Net
The largest, most comprehensive guide to mental health online, featuring over 7,000 individual resources
http://www.mhnet.org/
Music Helps the Body Heal
Soothing melodies play part in recovery
http://www.healthscout.com/template.asp?page=newsdetail&ap=1&id=99329
Spirit, Sound, Music, and Health
Resources for using voice, breath and music to enhance body/mind health and well-being.
http://www.spiritsound.com/persona.html
Stepping into the Dance of Life
Dance therapy
http://www.dancetherapy.com/index_us.htm
Survivors Art Foundation: Healing through Art ... Art through Healing
Art therapy innovations
http://www.survivorsartfoundation.org/
The Alternative Medicine Homepage
jumpstation for sources of information on unconventional, unorthodox, unproven, or alternative, complementary, innovative, integrative therapies.
http://www.pitt.edu/~cbw/database.html
The Canadian Play Therapy Institute - Discussion Group
Child Play Psychology
http://www.playtherapy.org/discuss.htm
The Coloring of Life: Music and Mood
The power of Emotions
http://www.musica.uci.edu/mrn/V3I1S96.html#coloring
