Stimulating, authoritative and often lyrical, The Mozart Effect offers dramatic accounts of how doctors, shamans, musicians, and healthcare professionals use music to deal with everything from anxiety to cancer, high blood pressure, chronic pain, dyslexia, even mental illness. Students who sing or play an instrument score up to 51 points higher on SAT’s than the national average. During childbirth, music can relieve expectant mothers’ anxiety and help release endorphins, the body’s natural painkillers, dramatically decreasing the need for anesthesia. And now, whatever your listening taste, Don Campbell explains how to make the Mozart Effect work for you.
Drawing on medicine, Eastern wisdom, and the latest research on learning and creativity, Campbell reveals how exposure to sound, music, and other forms of vibration, beginning in utero, can have a lifelong effect on health, learning, and behavior. He shows how to use sound and music to stimulate learning and memory; how to strengthen listening abilities; how to use imagery to enhance the Mozart Effect; and how to harness the power of toning, chanting, mantras, rap, and other self-generated sounds. He lists fifty common conditions, ranging from migraines to substance abuse, for which music can be used as treatment or cure. And he recommends more than two dozen specific, easy-to-follow exercises to help you raise your spatial IQ, sound away pain, boost creativity, and make the spirit sing.
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'Don Campbell may change forever the way we view music. He shows how music transcends mere entertainment to bring about healing and wholeness. Campbell reveals how music is one of the most transformative forces in human experience—how it literally has life-and-death potency. Read this book. You may never hear music the same way again.'
------Larry Dossey, MD, author of Healing Words and Prayer is Good Medicine
For several years now Don Campbell has been releasing a secret known for ages: Music is not just entertainment. It is medicine for body and soul. Intelligent, informed, and practical, Don is an excellent guide to the wide-ranging power of music to inspire, educate and heal. The Mozart Effect could add a universe to the world you’ve been living in.'
----Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul and The Re-Enchantment of Everyday Life
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