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Brainwave 'Music' May Soothe a Troubled Psyche By Catherine Donaldson-Evans
FoxNews.Com features a story and video about a new psychological kind of music which they call "Brain Music Therapy" The article also quotes Bill Harris whose Centerpointe Institute I have written about before in a post last October.
Here are some excerpts from the article:
If you suffer from depression, anxiety or insomnia, a new kind of therapy could be music to your brain.
The treatment involves recording a person’s brainwaves on a computer and then converting them into music that the patient listens to on a CD. Over time, says one psychiatrist involved in developing and administering Brain Music Therapy, the mind is soothed by its own sounds so much that depression, anxiety, insomnia and attention deficit disorder can be alleviated.
“When you give a person his own brainwaves expressed as music, the brain recognizes it and responds to it and it really helps it slow down,” said Dr. Galina Mindlin, who runs the Brain Music Therapy Center in New York and worked with the doctor who created the treatment in Russia.
Another alternative form of therapy called Holosync Audio Technology, whose original purpose was to help people learn meditation faster, uses various tones and sounds to calm the brain and get the right and left sides to communicate more — which happens whenever two sides of the body are used for one activity. In the case of Holosync, some tones play in the right ear and are picked up by the left brain and some slightly different tones play in the left ear and are picked up by the right brain. In order to process and synchronize the sounds, both sides need to increase their communication with each other.
