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Music Lessons Make Kids Smarter: Improves Academic Performance

Sep 28, 2018 11:59AM

Dutch 6-year-olds that sang, listened to music and played an instrument one to two hours a week showed significantly enhanced cognitive abilities and better grades two and a half years later.

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Meditative Melodies: How Sound Deepens Meditation

Aug 31, 2018 11:51AM ● By Dudley Evenson

Combining music with our meditation practice can lift our spirit and enhance healing.

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Pets Love Music: Each Species Grooves to Its Own Beat

Nov 30, 2017 05:14PM ● By Sandra Murphy

With their ears attuned to different frequencies, horses neigh to Bach, cats groove to New Age, and dogs de-stress to “Greensleeves.”

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Music Soothes Pain after Surgery: Listening to Tunes Eases Discomfort

Sep 29, 2017 07:19PM

Patients that listened to a half-hour of music soon after spinal fusion surgery reported lower levels of pain.

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Meditation and Music Aid Memory in Early Stages of Alzheimer’s: Study Shows Improvement in Cognitive Functions

Aug 31, 2017 12:14PM

West Virginia adults with early symptoms of Alzheimer’s improved their memory and cognitive functions after three months of kirtan kriya meditating or listening to other music 12 minutes a day.

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Raising a Music Lover: Kids Thrive to Rhythms of Head and Heart

Aug 31, 2016 02:07PM ● By Randy Kambic

Adding an M for music to the three R’s boosts students’ self-confidence and bolsters not only their appreciation of music but also vocabulary and math skills.

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Music as Medicine: Music Soothes, Energizes and Heals Us

Aug 31, 2016 01:43PM ● By Kathleen Barnes

Whether it involves strumming a guitar, humming, or listening to a favorite tune, music has potent healing abilities for what ails us, from depression to addiction to pain.

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Inside the Chant with Krishna Das: Kirtan Music Transports Listeners to a Deeper Place

Aug 31, 2016 01:43PM ● By Robin Fillmore

His soothing, rhythmic chants open up soul spaces and connections by which we can feel touched by the Divine.

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Music and Audio Books Help Kids Move Past Pain: Soothing Sounds

Sep 30, 2015 10:25AM

After major surgery, children that listened to their favorite music or an audio book felt significantly less pain.

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Sad Music Can Lift Our Mood: Melancholy Tunes Improve Spirits

Jul 31, 2015 11:49AM

Melancholy music can raise feelings of peace, tenderness, wonder and transcendence in us, say Berlin researchers.

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