| Music Medicine Soothes the Soul and the Body | | | | A music therapy instructor from Yale |
| | | | University tells a breakthrough story about |
| Researchers throughout the world are | | | | Jerry, a 26-year-old man who wouldn't speak, |
| reporting intriguing new ways about how sound | | | | whose mental age was between 2 and 8 and who |
| vibration heals the body, mind, spirit and | | | | threw extremely self-destructive tantrums. |
| the environment. The words people choose to | | | | Jerry was so transformed by music therapy |
| speak and the music people listen to have | | | | that he was able to free himself from his |
| profound power to decrease pain, draw people | | | | "autistic mold" and create a way to support |
| out of emotional and mental isolation and | | | | himself in the world. What'd he do? Pairing |
| even clear polluted water. And scientists are | | | | up with a graphic designer, Jerry launches a |
| discovering that certain deep space sounds | | | | profitable greeting card company. Jerry |
| are amazingly similar to the sounds of | | | | writes many of the messages and helps design |
| dolphins, Tibetan bowls and human choirs. | | | | the cards. Aptly, they name the company |
| | | | "Flew the Coop." |
| Why Is this Important to You? | | | | |
| | | | Trippy Space Sounds |
| Because you can use music, song, vibration | | | | |
| and words to dramatically affect your own | | | | What do the sounds of dolphins, human choirs |
| health and the well-being of other people. | | | | and Tibetan bowls have in common? The sounds |
| The impact, potential and mystery of the | | | | they make are uncannily similar to tones |
| healing power of sound is demonstrated in the | | | | found in outer space. |
| following heart-warming true stories. | | | | |
| | | | While examining the recordings of spacecrafts |
| Wake Up and Dance, Little Suzy | | | | Voyager I and II at the California Institute |
| | | | for Human Science, scientists discover that |
| Do you remember the movie "Awakenings?" Based | | | | sounds produced by the rings of Uranus are |
| on a true story, the film features the work | | | | virtually identical to those produced by |
| of neurologist Dr. Oliver Sacks with | | | | Tibetan bowls. Sounds emitted by the planet |
| Parkinson's disease patients. Many of these | | | | Jupiter strongly compare to the high- pitched |
| patients whose bodies had been immobile for | | | | cries of dolphins. And sounds from the |
| decades from the effects of Parkinson's began | | | | smallest moon of Uranus resemble vocal |
| groovin' to the sounds of music. Patients who | | | | choirs. |
| had not left their wheelchairs for years, got | | | | |
| up and began dancing to certain types of | | | | Researchers believe that this similarity is |
| music. | | | | no coincidence. The cosmic vibrations of |
| | | | dolphins, bowls and choirs are currently |
| After the success of these patients, Sacks, | | | | being used to stimulate alignment and healing |
| teamed up with the music director from the | | | | at the cellular level. |
| Institute for Physical and Neurologic | | | | |
| Function and has been using music as therapy | | | | "Tibetan bowls" are used spiritually to |
| with miraculous results. According to the | | | | assist people to relax plus the bowl's |
| music director, patients who can't walk | | | | vibration gently helps "break up" old |
| "bound out of their chairs and start dancing | | | | patterns of behavior that are no longer |
| as long as the music is present. For people | | | | useful or healthy. |
| who have motor problems, music acts as a | | | | |
| catalyst." | | | | Rockabye Baby |
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| Potent Prayer Power | | | | Hospitals report that newborns who are sung |
| | | | or spoken to on a regular basis go home 3-5 |
| When a Buddhist priest prayed for an hour | | | | days earlier and weigh more than babies who |
| over the polluted water in a lake behind a | | | | aren't exposed to specific periods of adult |
| dam in Japan, the crystalline structure of | | | | speech or song. 50% of women who listen to |
| the water changed from malformed and | | | | music during childbirth don't need |
| distorted to one of immense beauty and power. | | | | anesthesia. |
| The lake was transformed into a healthy | | | | |
| source of pure water. A distinctly visible | | | | A New Symphony |
| aura appeared around the water crystals in | | | | |
| photographs. | | | | We are only hearing the first few bars in the |
| | | | symphony of healing that awaits humanity as |
| Autistic Man "Flew the Coop" | | | | we open to the dynamic harmonious effects of |
| | | | sound. |