Re: Re: Music can boost your immune system

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Classic rock. ;-) Only music I listen to, when I bother to listen.

Samala,

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"Joyful dance music..." I'm thinking Swing. Anyone else have some

joyful dance music ideas?

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In terms of music and the immune system, there has been considerable research utilizing EEG (brain wave) instruments to determine the body's reaction to various types of music. There are also a number of musicians who have made use of this and related research to determine what type of music is helpful for different types of activity. For example, for sleep or relaxation, music that encourages the brain to move into the delta frequency range is helpful. When I was doing my doctoral work I utilized the research to use music at about 50-60 beats per minute to facilitate my concentration and studying. Beta frequencies are useful for intense, focused activity. Theta for meditatitve activity. For example, Halpern was a rock musician before he became involved with Zen, and then used EEG instruments to measure the

effects of his music. Eventually, as you can see from his extensive music on his website, he developed music that was intended to facilitate relaxation, for example, or healing, etc. Donna Eden, the internationally respected author of Energy Medicine, now being reissued in an updated 10th anniversary edition, recommends some musicians for activating various chakras. Caroline Myss, another highly respected and medically validated healer, and author of various books and tapes, has just issued a CD that focuses on the chakras.

Hence, depending upon what kind of mental state you want to be in, you can look into the voluminous research on what type of music would facilitate what you want to do.

Another important example, the HeartMath people, who also use EEG equipment in designing their music, have developed music that is joyful, but also specifically designed to

encourage heartful, harmonious cardiac and mind-body interaction.

From: Colleen K. Peltomaa <cygnifique@...>Subject: [ ] Re: Music can boost your immune system Date: Saturday, August 30, 2008, 6:37 AM"Joyful dance music..." I'm thinking Swing. Anyone else have

some

joyful dance music ideas?

Colleen

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> *Listening to music can give your immune system a boost and may help > fight off disease, researchers have discovered.

> *

> /By Gray, Science Correspondent/

> > Scientists found that after listening to just 50 minutes of uplifting > dance music, the levels of antibodies in volunteers' bodies increased.

> > They also found that stress hormone levels, which can weaken the immune > system, decreased after being exposed to the music.

> > Volunteers who played a percussion instrument along with the music also > benefited from the immune boost.

> > The researchers, from Sussex University and the Max Planck Institute in > Leipzig, Germany, say their findings demonstrate how music could be

used > to help aid patients' recovery while in hospital.

> > In a separate, unpublished, study they also found that playing music > while a patient was under anaesthetic during an operation also

helped to > lower the levels of harmful stress hormones.

> > Dr Ronny Enk, a neurocognition expert at the Max Planck Institute, who > led the research, said: "We think the pleasant state that can be

induced > by music leads to special physiological changes which eventually

lead to > stress reduction or direct immune enhancement.

> > "Stress reduction probably plays an important role, but the stress > reducing effect seems to be different for various types of music."

> > The researchers tested 300 people, asking them to listen to 50 minutes > of happy, joyful dance music or to a random collection of tones.

> > They found that levels of cortisol, the stress hormone, decreased > significantly in those listening to the dance music compared to the > control group. After listening, the levels of the antibody immunoglobin > A, the immune system's first line of defence, were heightened.

> > The researchers did not test whether different types of music would

have > different affects, but other studies have shown that personal

preference > for music can also influence the stress reducing impact it can have.

> > Dr Enk added: "We'd expect that different kinds of music might

show > different physiological and immunological effects. Not only the music > itself is important but probably the personal appraisal of the listener > will also be important. We did not use relaxing music, but rather > exciting music that were joyful dance tunes from different centuries.

> > "Listening to music in hospitals might show benefits for patients and

> may for example lead to shorter recovery times, but we are still to

test > this ourselves."

> >

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2569640/Music-can-boost-your-immune-system.html

> > http://tinyurl.com/5q4v5f

>

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right? To think that "scientists" had to spend only who knows how much on grants, studies to determine the obvious. Soothing Music should have been in all hospitals years ago. Regards, Carol Ann ~ The only thing that is different is how you think..

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/archivepix.html--- On Sat, 8/30/08, Colleen K. Peltomaa <cygnifique@...> wrote:From: Colleen K. Peltomaa <cygnifique@...>Subject: [ ] Re: Music can boost your immune system Date: Saturday, August 30, 2008, 9:37 AM

"Joyful dance music..." I'm thinking Swing. Anyone else have some

joyful dance music ideas?

Colleen

>

> *Listening to music can give your immune system a boost and may help

> fight off disease, researchers have discovered.

> *

> /By Gray, Science Correspondent/

>

> Scientists found that after listening to just 50 minutes of uplifting

> dance music, the levels of antibodies in volunteers' bodies increased.

>

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