music in relation to health and well-being

Music in Relation to Health & Well-being
With Emphasis on POSITIVE Health and POSITIVE Well-being!

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http://www.holisticonline.com/stress/stress_music-therapy.htm
"Music can be one of the most soothing or nerve wracking experiences available."

http://healingmusicenterprises.com/articles/music_human_bond.html
"Music brings comfort as well as pleasure and memories
are immediately triggered with music from different times in our lives."

http://www.getselfhelp.co.uk/music.htm
"Music is able to cut across boundaries,
through language, culture, age and religion."

http://newsinhealth.nih.gov/2010/January/feature1.htm
"Over the past decade, new brain imaging techniques have
shown that music activates many unexpected brain regions."

http://www.brainready.com/blog/music_for_your_brain_health.html
"no side effects"

http://www.healthliteracy.com/article.asp?PageID=7196
"...music has been used in conjunction with medical care
throughout history and across cultures."

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1126738,00.html
"People with Alzheimer's often respond to music
when they respond to nothing else..."

http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/the-songs-they-cant-forget/
"Familiar songs can help people with dementia relate to others,
move more easily, and experience joy."

http://www.teachingexpertise.com/articles/how-music-can-promote-wellbeing-1437
"The fact that music is processed in many different ways, and has
physical, emotional and cognitive effects, may be the key to its power."