Lifestyler with Josie McKenlay: Senses and your health

Josie McKenlay 11:43 21/05/2015
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  • Music is key to a healthy life.

    The impact of various stimuli on your senses can be positive or negative.

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    Surrounding yourself with those that satisfy your senses will positively contribute to your health and wellbeing. This week we look at sounds.

    Sense of Hearing

    The effect of music on people’s behaviour is evident throughout history: Rock & Roll was seen as a threat to society when it burst onto the scene in the 1950s, punk was viewed with horror by the establishment and warehouse raves attracted thousands and lasted for days.  Living in a noisy environment, for example, close of an airport can have a seriously bad effect on your health whereas listening to the seagulls and the waves rolling onto the beach can make you glad to be alive. 

    Here are a few interesting facts about the impact of noise on your health:-
    1. Effect of sound on matter:  The eighteenth-century German scientist and musician Ernst Chladni demonstrated this clearly by playing a violin next to plates of sand.  Each sound created a geometric pattern. The higher the frequency, the more complex the pattern.  

    2. Music destroys cancer cells:  Fabien Maman, a French composer, acupuncturist and bioenergetician wrote in his book The Role of Music in the Twenty-First Century, that when he played sounds that progressed up the musical scale, the cancer cells eventually exploded!

    3. Modern medicine:  Overwhelming clinical studies have verified that the use of sound can stabilize heart rate, reduce blood pressure, improve circulation, produce endorphins (the body’s natural painkillers), nourish DNA, and generate important proteins in body. It can help Alzheimer’s, pre and post-surgical trauma, insomnia and is recommended during labour and childbirth.

    Chanting has been used by yogis for thousands of years.

    4. Chanting:  This subject is far too big to cover in detail here, but briefly, chanting has been used by yogis for thousands of years. Sanskrit chants are most beneficial because of the placement of the tongue on the various points in the palate which contains 82 reflex points. The tongue positions and inflections of sounds stimulate the meridians and awaken dormant parts of the brain bringing energy to various parts of the body. The meaning of the chant is less important.

    5. Mantra:  A mantra is a positive phrase which if repeated over and over on a regular basis will become your reality.

    6. Binaural beats:  The world of hypnosis is fascinating, but for someone to be hypnotized, they must first be put into a deep state of relaxation and the music used in a session is specially formulated to do just that. Binaural beats refers to two beat which are of slightly different frequencies, one for the right ear, the other for the left, so headphones are required.  The difference in the beats is below the threshold of human hearing, but it has a profound effect on the brain, creating the deep state of relaxation required for hypnotherapy.

    Surround yourself with pleasant aromas and sounds that make you feel good to improve your health and wellbeing.

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