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"Listening to the music for at least 20 minutes each day can help slow down your heart rate and other body functions and can help you focus on your feelings, she says. Hoffman says you can try her tape, called Deep Daydreams. For other selections, see "Sailing Away to Key Largo" on page 129. Many of these are available from music stores. For mail-order information, refer to the resource list on page 642." - Bill Gottlieb, New Choices in Natural Healing: Over 1,800 of the Best Self-Help Remedies from the World of Alternative Medicine (Get the book.) "Look for music that is played at 60 beats per minute or less. Most music is faster than that and won't help slow your heartbeat, Hoffman says. "What you are looking for is the largo section of each piece. That's the part with a beat that works." These composers are among those who have largo sections in many of their compositions: Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, George Frideric Handel and Georg Philipp Tele-mann. Most records, tapes and CDs list the different sections of each piece, in order, on their covers. The problem is that these slow sections last only a few minutes." - Bill Gottlieb, New Choices in Natural Healing: Over 1,800 of the Best Self-Help Remedies from the World of Alternative Medicine (Get the book.) "Kansas City, Missouri. Whenever you feel anxious, Hoffman suggests sitting quietly in a comfortable chair and listening to the music for 20 to 30 minutes or until the anxiety has passed. Hoffman suggests her own tape, Musical Biofeedback; for other selections, see "Sailing Away to Key Largo" on page 129. For information on ordering these and other tapes, refer to the resource list on page 642. Vitamin and Mineral Therapy An amino acid available in supplement form in most health food stores can help those prone to anxiety, says Julian Whitaker, M.D." - Bill Gottlieb, New Choices in Natural Healing: Over 1,800 of the Best Self-Help Remedies from the World of Alternative Medicine (Get the book.)

"A single cornstalk has a demonstrable sound; atoms have individual resonating sounds that collectively form chords, or molecules; the atom is a tiny musical note and even a stone is frozen music. All of nature exists as a vast oscillatory spectrum. "It is the song of life par excellence, an immense choir, millions and billions of sounds that fuse into a grand polyphony, a harmony beyond human imagination," says Berendt in his book, The World Is Sound, Nada Brahma." - Richard Leviton, Physician: Medicine and the Unsuspected Battle for Human Freedom (Get the book.) "More specifically, alternative medicine (or "natural," "traditional," "holistic," "complementary," "integrated," "essential" medicine) includes at least forty modalities such as acupuncture, Ayurveda, herbalism, naturopathy, homeopathy, dietary/nutritional, chiropractic, osteopathy, color and music therapy, hydrotherapy, reflexology, and many others. Acupuncture, which is part of traditional Chinese medicine, has a traceable history of about 5,000 years; homeopathy has a 200-year documented history; reflexology and color and music therapy were practiced in classical Greece, and even Egypt." - Richard Leviton, Physician: Medicine and the Unsuspected Battle for Human Freedom (Get the book.) "They hunted, ate, made love, danced, killed: wherever their tracks led they left a trail of music. They wrapped the whole world in a web of song." Each of the antediluvian ancestors, while singing their way across the landscape, "left a trail of life-cells' or 'spirit-children' along the line of his footprints"—a kind of "musical sperm." - Richard Leviton, Physician: Medicine and the Unsuspected Battle for Human Freedom (Get the book.)

"So can separate bedrooms. We know that the pineal gland plays a role in aging because research has shown that putting young pineal glands in old animals helps reverse aging. The old animals' hair grew thicker and lusher when the new pineals were inserted. By contrast, putting old pineal glands in Figure 9.1 SeOKCt SdlSOK The pineal gland, which senses when we're exposed to light has cells that resemble those in the back of the retina and dictate our circadian rhythms. The human eye also receives the light and sends ft to the occipital brain area, which then relays ft to the pineal." - Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D., You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (Get the book.)

"I began to spontaneously hear music that I had played years before in concert band. I could hear the music note by note - every minute detail, every nuance, every crescendo and decrescendo. I began to hear peoples' voices in my head from conversations I overheard during the day. They weren't telling me to do anything, but the constant internal chatter made it very difficult to listen to people on the outside. I would wake up in the middle of the night, but instead of the chest pain, I would outright hallucinate." - Cynthia A. Foster, M.D., Stop the Medicine! A Medical Doctor's Miraculous Recovery with Natural Healing (Get the book.)

"Scientific research has revealed that music has a powerful effect, partly because certain sounds have the ability to change the frequency of our brain waves. When we are in an ordinary state of consciousness, our brain waves are in a beta state, a state in which the ego thrives. However, some music can slow down our brain waves, putting us into an alpha or theta state, deep meditative states of consciousness. The theta state is where consciousness can expand our experience of union. Shamans around the world use percussion to access such an expanded state of consciousness." - Sandra Ingerman, Medicine for the Earth: How to Transform Personal and Environmental Toxins (Get the book.)

"Peyote has appeared in the music world many times, often in very different forms. The contemporary composer Gyorgi Ligeti (born 1923) wrote the opera Le Grand Macabre during the years 1974 to 1977. The main role is sung by a female character named Mescalina. Unfortunately, the composer has not let it be known whether he was influenced by the soul of the cactus. The Seattle grunge band Pearl Jam, the most successful "alternative music" group of the mid-1990s, took its unusual name from the jam that lead singer Eddie Vedder's grandmother (Pearl) used to make from peyote and other magical plants." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.) "This new listening experience has also produced new music (Mezzrow 1995; Shapiro 1988). kazz, for example, has been profoundly affected by these new listening experiences. And the reggae that has developed in Jamaica is a "pure stoner music" (Epp 1984). Today, an increasing number of hemp leaves are gracing the covers of CDs as well as the rainbow-colored CDs themselves. The hemp leaf has become a political symbol of the underground and the counterculture." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.) "Tougher Than Tough: The Story of Jamaican music. 4 CDs. Island Records, 1993. Zion Train. Natural Wonders of the World in Dub. WWLP/CD5. Zion Records, 1994. Jazz, Pop, Rock, Metal, Ambient/Techno/Trance, etc. Alex Oriental Experience. Studio Tapes 1976-78. WR 08517122. Wiska Records, 1996. Black Crowes. The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion. 512 263-2. Def American Records, 1992. Blue Cheer. Oh! Pleasant Hope. 1971/LMCD 9.51080 Z. Line Records, 1991. Cannabis Weekend. Dope Records, 1995. Children of the Bong. Sirius Sounds. 540394-2. Ultimate Records, 1995. Cypress Hill." - Christian Ratsch, The Encyclopedia of Psychoactive Plants: Ethnopharmacology and Its Applications (Get the book.)

"Nashville therefore did an excellent job of destroying most of its center in an orgy of late-twentieth-century "urban renewal," while the stars of country music settled in suburban villas outside of town, that is, in the "country," along with their fans, who didn't want to have anything to do with the town, whose remaining inhabitants were predominately the descendants of deracinated African American sharecroppers." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "Of course the ersatz country folk of suburbia had their own art, country music, but wearing large hats immunized its practitioners against effeteness and made it manly. Eventually, its holiest shrine, the Grand Ole Opry, moved out of its downtown auditorium into a cheapjack plastic theme park in the suburban hinterlands. Southern small-town and rural life had been largely a culture of poverty for whites from post-Civil War reconstruction until the 1950s, when the broad southern cracker lumpenproletariat finally began to join the middle class for the first time." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "The broad themes of cracker culture, still very much alive in the middle class, include a marked tolerance for violence, even a glorification of it, as seen, for instance, in the regional strength of the National Rifle Association, the "outlaw" mythology of country music, and the disproportionate numbers of southerners in the armed forces." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.) "This dislocation is reflected ominously in pop music. Hip-hop has to be taken seriously because it is so pervasive, and it presents a range of compelling cultural meanings. The most threatening, of course, is its association with criminal behavior—the rhetoric of gangsterism, the glorification of gunplay and murder, and the grandiose imagery of unearned riches. Street mythology has it that hip-hop clothes, accessories, and lingo are extensions of jailhouse fashion." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

"When Seth Rogovoy, a music critic for the Berkshire Eagle newspaper in western Massachusetts, got out of bed on October 1, 2001, he felt pain in his right knee, which appeared red. By that evening his knee was tremendously swollen, it throbbed, and sickly red lines were radiating in an evil web down his leg. A fever suddenly soared. At 3:00 a.m. Rogovoy limped into Fairview Hospital sweating and dazed. The doctors admitted him and gave him intravenous antibiotics, but by the third day Rogovoy's leg was purple from his hip to his foot. His heart rate was 140 beats per minute." - Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.)

"The people here sang beautiftilly; they were proud to have their music recorded, and enchanted when I played it back to them . . . over and over and over. It is a strange music, hauntingly melodic, with tunes that turn in unexpected but lovely directions. Their voices are true and sweet and some have extraordinary range. On my second visit to Graciela and the tribe, I chanced to arrive only two days after Graciela had given birth to her fourth child. I remarked that she was looking a little peaked. Litde did I know, she answered. If the Indians hadn't come to her aid she would have died." - Nicole Maxwell, Witch-Doctor's Apprentice: Hunting for Medicinal Plants in the Amazon (Get the book.)

"Science has studied the effects on humans of various kinds of sound, and the consensus is that the right sort of music definitely has a beneficial effect on our state of health. The lullaby a mother or grandmother sings at a child's bedside is a good example of how a soft melody can have a calming effect. On the other hand, is it not true that the loud blare of pop music coming from a neighbour's open window, when one is trying to relax and rest, has just the opposite effect? How often have Mozart's delightful melodies boosted our morale?" - Alfred Vogel, The Nature Doctor: A Manual of Traditional and Complementary Medicine (Get the book.)

"Play relaxing background music in the kitchen. Sometimes, jangled nerves and stress lead to overeating. You can avoid nervous nibbling by listening to soothing classical music. 4. Be sure to eat before cooking your holiday meal. Many people skip meals before holiday feasts "to save their appetites." But the result of meal-skipping is a hungry cook who overeats in the kitchen! Even though you may be away from home, stick to your normal exercise routines. The exercise will help raise your energy level while also making you feel more at peace with yourself, thus preventing you from overeating." - Doreen Virtue, Ph.D., Constant Craving: What Your Food Cravings Mean and How to Overcome Them (Get the book.)

"Following the dinner, I put on my eyeshades and listened to music until I fell asleep. I woke up relaxed and refreshed after a good night's sleep, usually just at the time when they were serving breakfast. Joan and I each took two of these magic balls to ease our night flight to Reykjavik. When we landed, we were in a euphoric state of consciousness, one that was known among therapists as "the psychedelic afterglow," and we seemed to have remained in this special state of mind for many of the following days of our stay in Iceland." - Stanislav Grof, When the Impossible Happens: Adventures in Non-Ordinary Reality (Get the book.)

"There is a loss of pleasure in joyful music, but a profound reaction to sad music. remedies for flooding (irregular periods which stop for awhile and return very heavy); these remedies may also help younger women with extremely heavy periods: China. There is heavy bleeding, with dark, clotted blood. This leads to debilitating fatigue. Symptoms get worse with drafts and light pressure, but better with strong pressure and heat. Emotional symptoms are apathy with a strong disposition toward hurting other people's feelings (not the normal state). Sabina." - Gary Null, Get Healthy Now with Gary Null: A Complete Guide to Prevention, Treatment and Healthy living (Get the book.)

"Musical Healing: Bridging Immunology and Ecology Central to the healing effect of music is a clay statue. According to Hafiz, the fourteenth-century Sufi poet, in the beginning God made a clay statue as an image of divinity and asked the human soul to enter it. But the soul refused, regarding this forced incarnation as an imprisonment; after all, the soul was used to flying freely about the celestial world, unbound and unlimited." - Richard Leviton, Physician: Medicine and the Unsuspected Battle for Human Freedom (Get the book.)

"Auditory sensations with higher pitch sounds and music often accompany vivid imagery. Historical spiritual figures may appear. Situations which formerly brought empathy are now supercharged. You will wonder what is happening and if it will last. Spiritual feelings will seem to come from nowhere as though old triggers such as church ritual, liturgical music, biblical verse and poetry all simultaneously impinge upon you. Even your body enlivens in a way that no drug or physical stimulant could effect. You are in motion, vibrating, with few physical barriers." - Valerie V. Hunt, Infinite Mind: Science of the Human Vibrations of Consciousness (Get the book.)

"There is a loss of pleasure in joyful music, but a profound reaction to sad music. remedies for flooding (irregular periods which stop for awhile and return very heavy); these remedies may also help younger women with extremely heavy periods: China. There is heavy bleeding, with dark, clotted blood. This leads to debilitating fatigue. Symptoms get worse with drafts and light pressure, but better with strong pressure and heat. Emotional symptoms are apathy with a strong disposition toward hurting other people's feelings (not the normal state). Sabina." - Gary Null, Get Healthy Now with Gary Null: A Complete Guide to Prevention, Treatment and Healthy living (Get the book.)

"Dancing, that is, to real, live music? Some of the men lugged a big bass drum up the stairs. Someone else brought other drums and there were several bamboo pipes like primitive recorders. The music began. Sometimes they played mambos and rumbas, sometimes curiously primitive Witoto songs with a strongly marked rhythm. Everybody danced. Don Alfonso led me out on the floor for the first dance. For the next one, he presented Don Gumercindo, the administrator of the farm, a small, Spanish-looking man with a quiet voice and a big smile." - Nicole Maxwell, Witch-Doctor's Apprentice: Hunting for Medicinal Plants in the Amazon (Get the book.)

"Each of her two audio tapes-Awakening the Cobra and The Cauldron Journey for Healing-offers a healing visualization set to music on one side, and the same music without words on the other so you can create your own journey. Contact Nicki at PO Box 5025, Eugene, OR 97405. • There are many homeopathic remedies used against cancer. Those that are specific for women with breast cancer include the potentially poisonous plants hemlock (Conium), poke [Phytolacca), and bloodroot (Sanguinaria), as well as harmless remedies such as red clover (Trifolium) and violet [Viola)." - Susun S. Weed, Breast Cancer? Breast Health! The Wise Woman Way (Get the book.)

"If his flamboyant forays into country music and his courtship of the glitterati amused outsiders, inside HealthSouth, Scrushy was feared for his temper and dictatorial style. "King Richard" could be awfully highhanded, directing inspectors to subject department heads to a dreaded "white glove" spot check by sweeping surfaces for specks of dust. Those whose facilities didn't pass the test were penalized." - Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Critical Condition: How Health Care in America Became Big Business (Get the book.)

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