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The
Power of Music
World class music, with safety
knowledge embedded in the lyrics, is at the core of The
Yello Dyno Method™ to
ensure recall in a crisis.
Findings of the internationally recognized research on children in crisis of Dr. Bruce Perry
"If
a child has information stored in cortical areas but in the specific
moment is very fearful, this information is inaccessible. In this
regard, cognitively-stored information does little good in the life
threatening moment."
(On the other hand...)
"Information learned in song, rhyme or rap is more easily recalled when
in a state of high arousal (anxiety). This is due, of course, to the fact that
this information is stored in a different fashion than traditional verbal cognitive
information."
- Bruce D. Perry, Ph.D.,Civitas, Violence
and Childhood Trauma: Understanding and responding to the Effects
of Violence on YoungChildren
The Mozart Effect
Don Campell is the world’s foremost educator on the connection between music and healing. His research shows how to use sound and music to stimulate learning and memory; how to strengthen listening abilites. Following are excerpts from The Mozart Effect, Avon Books.
“…Music can dance and sing our
blues away. It conjures up memories of lost loves or deceased friends.
It lets the child in us play, the monk in us pray, the cowgirl in
us line-dance, the hero in us surmount all obstacles...”
- page 1
"The power of Mozart’s music has come to public attention largely through
innovative research at the University of California in the early 1990s.
At the Center for the Neurobiology of Learning and Memory in Irvine, a research
team began to look at some of the effects of Mozart on college students and
children….Rauscher’s team
concluded that the relationship between music and spatial reasoning was so
strong that simply listening to music can make a difference…The scientists
suggested that listening to Mozart helps 'organize’ the firing
patterns of neurons in the cerebral cortex, especially strengthening creative
right-brain processes associated with special-temporal reasoning. Listening
to music, they concluded, acts as 'an exercise’ for facilitating
symmetry operations associated with higher brain functions. In
plain English, it can improve your concentration, enhance your ability to
make intuitive leaps…”
- pages 15, 16
"From the very first vertebrate life, he
(Tomastis) discovered, the ear had been used not only for auditory
purposes but also to regulate movement…The ear choreographs
the body’s dance of balance, rhythm, and movement...the ear
is the gyroscope, the CPU, the orchestra conductor of the entire
nervous system...Listening well creates a range of positive effects,
including improved vocal control, more energy, a better disposition,
and even improved handwriting and posture…It enables the entire
body to become, in Tomastis’s words, “a receptive antenna
vibrating in union with the sound, whether it is musical or linquistic….”
- pages 53, 54
"Tomastis is credited with the discovery
that 'the voice can only reproduce what the ear can hear,’ a
theory with profound practical application for language development …dubbed
the Tomatis Effect..But possibly his most important contribution
was to recognize that the fetus hears sounds in the womb….The
mother’s voice serves as the sonic umbilical cord for her developing
baby and a primal source for nurturing… (This) led to (treatments
for) listening disabilities and emotional disorders.
- pages 17, 18
"…Music can increase endorphin
levels. Endorphins, the brain’s own 'opiates,' …The
healing chemicals created by the joy and emotional richness in music (movie soundtracks, religious music, marching bands, and drumming
ensembles) enable the body to create its own anesthetic and enhance
the immune function… The Journal of the American Medical Association
reported in 1996 …’Music stimulation increases endorphin
release and this decreases the need for medication. It also provides
a distraction from pain and relieves anxiety,’…”
- pages 71
World class music is at the core
of the Yello Dyno Method™ to ensure recall in a crisis
The Yello Dyno Method™ incorporates music because:
“Music has been recognized
as a calming agent and an antidote to stress and tension since ancient
times. The new study indicates that listening to music affects the
release of powerful brain chemicals that can regulate mood, reduce
aggression and depression…”
- Research by Dr. Ardash Kumar,
study co-author and research associate professor in the department
of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Miami
School of Medicine in Florida
"The average adult
in America can sing significant portions of over 1000 hit songs they
didn't choose to learn...another example is jingles such as, "Winston
tastes good like a cigarette should," was last aired in 1970.
Over thirty years later, those of us who were at least ten at the time
can still sing this jingle."
- Roy Williams, Best
Selliing Author, QUOTE SOURCE: TheWizardAcademy.com
Wonderful true stories of the power of music
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Research Links
1. Independent, Evidence-based Research
2. The Power of Music
3. Self-Efficacy
4. Rational Decisions guided by Emotion
5. Humor Plays a Powerful Role In Balancing Negative Emotions, Such As Fear
6. How The Brain Learns Best:
The Bob-and-Weave Lecture
7. The Importance of Play in Learning
8. Children can be attentive and receptive or incapable of learning
9. Statistics
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