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The Symbolic Image of Music

Wednesday, June 13, 2007 8:23:51 PM

This posting is an introduction to a new change in lifestyle music venue dedicated to kids across the world. All are welcome to participate.

The beauty found in the expression of our feelings and thoughts are sadly so limited by the common use of words. Sometimes we blurb them out and other times exert a little more care in what we say. We talk to get it out or look for perhaps an agreement or response from someone else. When we get none, we mumble in tears of frustration. We can use facial or body expression to do something more with these words we choose from. We can also type them to shout or highlight a point such as in a blog we can: add a link to a word or page.

How many sing out their feelings to reach a greater effect? The dialogue of words in song are made through the softness found in a whisper of love in the ear or in a sigh of relief. Children often use rhythmic tones in their expressions and adults respond to their song. It is the song of life's blessings being played. We can't resist it's charm and excitement. Fact is... we need this in life.

Music Therapy

Listening to music does wonders to alleviate stress. Please note that everyone has different tastes in music. Listen to the music that you feel comfortable. Sitting down and forcing yourself to listen to relaxation music that you don't like may create stress, not alleviate it.

Music has always been a great healer. In the Bible, we learn about how David played the harp to help ease his severe depression of King Saul .

Music is a significant mood-changer and reliever of stress, working on many levels at once.

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Many experts suggest that it is the rhythm of the music or the beat that has the calming effect on us although we may not be very conscious about it. They point out that when we were a baby in our mother's womb, we probably were influenced by the heart beat of our mother. We respond to the soothing music at later stages in life, perhaps associating it with the safe, relaxing, protective environment provided by our mother.

Music can be one of the most soothing or nerve wracking experiences available. Choosing what will work for any individual is difficult, most will choose something they 'like' instead of what might be beneficial. In doing extensive research on what any given piece of music produces in the physiological response system many unexpected things were found.

Many of the so-called Meditation and Relaxation recordings actually produced adverse EEG patterns, just as bad as Hard Rock and Heavy Metal. The surprising thing was many selections of Celtic, Native American as well as various music containing loud drums or flute were extremely soothing. The most profound finding was Any music Performed Live and even at moderately loud volumes even if it was somewhat discordant had very a beneficial response. Whenever the proper sounds were experienced an amazing right/left brain hemisphere synchronization occurred. The normal voltage spiking pattern changed to a smooth sinusoidal waveform and the usual voltage differential equalized. The entire human energetic system is extremely influenced by sounds, the physical body and chakra centers respond specifically to certain tones and frequencies. Special consideration should be given to the positive effects of one actually playing or creating music themselves.

Among the first stress-fighting changes that take place when we hear a tune is an increase in deep breathing. The body's production of serotonin also accelerates.

Music was found to reduce the pain during dental procedures.

Playing music in the background while we are working, seemingly unaware of the music itself, has been found to reduce the stress.

Music was found to reduce heart rates and to promote higher body temperature - an indication of the onset of relaxation. Combining music with relaxation therapy was more effective than doing relaxation therapy alone.

Maximizing With Music Therapy

As mentioned before, there is not a single music that is good for everyone. People have different tastes. It is important that you like the music being played.

The following are general guidelines to maximize the effectiveness of the music.

To wash away stress, try taking a 20-minute "sound bath." Put some relaxing music on your stereo, then lie in a comfortable position on a couch or on the floor near the speakers. For a deeper experience, you can wear headphones to focus your attention and to avoid distraction.

Choose music with a slow rhythm - slower than the natural heart beat which is about 72 beats per minute. Music that has repeating or cyclical pattern is found to be effective in most people.

As the music plays, allow it to wash over you, rinsing off the stress from the day. Focus on your breathing, letting it deepen, slow and become regular. Concentrate on the silence between the notes in the music; this keeps you from analyzing the music and makes relaxation more complete.

If you need a stimulation after a day of work, go for a faster music rather than slow calming music.

When going gets tough, go for a music you are familiar with - such as a childhood favorite or favorite oldies. Familiarity often breeds calmness.

Take walks with your favorite music playing on the walkman. Inhale and exhale in tune with the music. Let the music takes you. This is a great stress reliever by combining exercise (brisk walk), imagery and music.

Listening to the sounds of nature, such as ocean waves or the calm of a deep forest, can reduce stress. Try taking a 15- to 20-minute walk if you're near the seashore or a quiet patch of woods. If not, you can buy tapes of these sounds in many music stores.

Organizational Structure

To make your own kind of music is really not that hard at all. You may have been deeply touched by a matter of concern with your family or a friend or read it or heard about it and that very moment you went into a state of mental, physical, emotional, or spiritual shock. The topic research and stat: make your own song mixer chart below will be a common attachment to each post to keep you on the same page by clicking and by hitting the back button. So you have been shocked by a: Current Event's compulsion need to do or say something to just about anybody for a result!!!

Current Event

(Addictions, ADHD, Aging, Anxiety, Anger, Anxiety, Autism, Bipolar Disorder, Bullying, Children & families, Depression, Eating Disorders, Emotional health, Ethics, Intelligence, Kids & the media, Law & psychology, Learning & memory, Marriage & divorce, Natural disasters, Obesity, Personality disorders, PTSD, Race, Schizophrenia, Sexuality, Shyness, Sleep, Stress, Suicide, Testing issues, Trauma, Violence, Women & men, Workplace issues, etc.)

The topics becomes the beat or a steady rhythm to your song. The facts and statistics relating to the topic's compulsion need to give you the ability to extract some words or ideas on where to take it from here along with other linked source topics until your song is ready to be produced.

The Music for the Needy site is up but "under construction" and how it will be structuring your song is going to be exciting.

Let's do a simple practice run on the mixer chart. Let's say you had just heard about the Virginia Tech shooting!!! Your initial state of shock is what: sad, frustrated, angry, etc. What is the very first physical reaction in the above topic selection? Let's say it was violence and you ran a search. You found one of the links was: Two Successful Violence Prevention Programs Highlight the Importance of Early Intervention and the second paragraph that caught your eye had some points of interest were for example:

The first study highlights the success of the RCCP (Resolving Conflict Creatively Program) school-based intervention program in a highly representative sample 11,160 children in grades 1-6 from New York City public elementary schools. Results show that children whose teachers taught more lessons in the program's creative conflict resolution were less likely to make hostile attributions to peers in provocative but ambiguous social situations, were less likely to be aggressive in interpersonal negotiations, reported fewer conduct problems, depressive symptoms and aggressive fantasies and fewer teacher-reported aggressive behaviors. The effect of the RCCP intervention was essentially the same for both boys and girls and for children from different economic and racial/ethnic backgrounds.

Now you can click on the full report or read further down to find this:

In the second study, the PeaceBuilders program reduced child aggressive behavior, improved child social competence and improve peace-building behaviors in grades K - 5. The program teaches students and staff simple rules and activities aimed at improving social skills and the frequency of children's positive behavior, and in doing so changes the school climate. These rules include praising people, avoiding put-downs, seeking wise people as advisers and friends, noticing and correcting hurts and righting wrongs. For example, students are encouraged to use "praise notes" to pay attention to and reinforce positive, prosocial behavior in the classroom, at school and at home. Also, "peace feet" might be placed by the drinking fountains to encourage children not to cut in line while waiting their turn.

For further "stats": you chose this grid on the APA Help Center:

Youth Violence

School-associated violent deaths represent less than one percent of all homicides and suicides that occur among school-aged children. (National Center for Injury Prevention and Control)
More than fifty percent of all school-associated violent deaths occurred during transition times during the school day - either at the beginning or end of the day or during lunch-time. In 2000, the juvenile male arrest rate for Violent Crime Index offenses was 4.2 times the rate for females. 40% of youth have been concerned about a potentially violent classmate. 71% of youth say they are interested in learning about the warning signs of violence. A child will have viewed 8,000 murders and 100,000 other acts of television violence by the time they are 11 years old. Young adults between the ages of 12 and 24 face the greatest risk of being a victim of violence. One in twelve high-school students is threatened or injured with a weapon each year.

Extracting only what is needed to put some lyrics together that can make more sense on how to better approach and handle all types of important matters. Do you have enough higlighted words for verses with only a couple of subliminal repeats to put in a chorus to make your song? Now go to rhymezone.com and get a bunch of rhyming words to match the highlighted to build up your personalized style of line by line verses and who the most needy may be along with the hidden single subliminal message chorus? Now do you think you would get a strong support from the people at PeaceBuilders who in turn get strong support from schools and parents? Do you now have enough to decide what style of music you want it played in and a famous artist or yourself singing it for the WORLD to want to subliminate on and other neat kind of happening things? Going back to this new blog's first: "Cover Page" it had this part:

I've discovered a rather interesting not so obvious clue about most of the above topics and conditions with a unique method to subliminate a single theme message in your songAs this message gets heard it stays inside to help control a painWhen you discover how this new form of music worksYou will witness a new beginning to an end of pain

So if you find this exciting go and have some fun doing some practice runs on something and the next blog will show how everything interacts so hurry and get back in here with only a sample of a verse orsend me a private message for any ideas.The following is a sample of message tunes:

°∞ Music for the Needy © ∞°

How Does World Peace Begin?