Classical Music|
Oct
21
Filed Under (Advice) by Beverley
Hal Clarkson asked:
There are many good reasons as to why you should use an alarm clock radio to help you wake up in the morning. The main reason is that it is a tried and tested method of getting the brain into gear quickly.
You see as the mind begins to awaken from sleep the alpha wave cycle that has slowed down as it were during the night needs to be restarted.
It needs a means of moving the stream of consciousness from a state of inertia to an alert state. A state that is ready to take on the challenges of the day with vigor, anticipation and excitement. Who wants to be ready for the day in a sluggish lethargic manner? This is what a good alarm clock radio can do for you.
How can this alert state be achieved and how can an alarm clock radio assist you? Well with an alarm clock radio you have a full range of choices you can pre-program. You can pre-set the channel you want to begin with. For instance you can tune into your favorite station and listen to your favorite music.
Personally I like to use the CD function on my portable alarm clock radio and listen to my favorite music by Brahms. This is a gentle way of entering the world of the living from the world of dreams.
The early morning tensions start to slip away to the gentle tones of the Brahms music and my alpha waves start the process of wakening up. I find without this gentle startup I can hit the crankies quite easily for the next three or four hours.
There are a number of different ways you can use your alarm clock radio if you should choose. You can pre-set on rolling channels and you don’t know what you are going to wake up to.
It can be quite a surprise.
There have been a couple of occasions when I have had to suffer hard rock first thing in the morning. But most times I have been pleasantly surprised by different kinds of music and the different stations I have discovered. You can use your CD, get the news, listen to soft music, and be surprised. All in all there is much choice.
Of course, if you are going to bother in the first place to invest in an alarm clock radio it just makes plain sense to get yourself a decent one. There are deluxe models, super deluxe and of course if you want to spend all of your money you can get the super super deluxe models, its just horses for courses.
So spend what you want to spend, but whatever you do invest in a quality product so that you will be happy with it for many years to come.
So get yourself onto the Internet and get searching for that alpha wave early morning resuscitator and good luck!
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There are many good reasons as to why you should use an alarm clock radio to help you wake up in the morning. The main reason is that it is a tried and tested method of getting the brain into gear quickly.
You see as the mind begins to awaken from sleep the alpha wave cycle that has slowed down as it were during the night needs to be restarted.
It needs a means of moving the stream of consciousness from a state of inertia to an alert state. A state that is ready to take on the challenges of the day with vigor, anticipation and excitement. Who wants to be ready for the day in a sluggish lethargic manner? This is what a good alarm clock radio can do for you.
How can this alert state be achieved and how can an alarm clock radio assist you? Well with an alarm clock radio you have a full range of choices you can pre-program. You can pre-set the channel you want to begin with. For instance you can tune into your favorite station and listen to your favorite music.
Personally I like to use the CD function on my portable alarm clock radio and listen to my favorite music by Brahms. This is a gentle way of entering the world of the living from the world of dreams.
The early morning tensions start to slip away to the gentle tones of the Brahms music and my alpha waves start the process of wakening up. I find without this gentle startup I can hit the crankies quite easily for the next three or four hours.
There are a number of different ways you can use your alarm clock radio if you should choose. You can pre-set on rolling channels and you don’t know what you are going to wake up to.
It can be quite a surprise.
There have been a couple of occasions when I have had to suffer hard rock first thing in the morning. But most times I have been pleasantly surprised by different kinds of music and the different stations I have discovered. You can use your CD, get the news, listen to soft music, and be surprised. All in all there is much choice.
Of course, if you are going to bother in the first place to invest in an alarm clock radio it just makes plain sense to get yourself a decent one. There are deluxe models, super deluxe and of course if you want to spend all of your money you can get the super super deluxe models, its just horses for courses.
So spend what you want to spend, but whatever you do invest in a quality product so that you will be happy with it for many years to come.
So get yourself onto the Internet and get searching for that alpha wave early morning resuscitator and good luck!
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Jun
03
Filed Under (Advice) by Beverley
Pat Wyman asked:
Have you ever noticed how your favorite music can make you feel better? Well, new research studies suggest that certain types of music can boost your memory, cut your company’s training time and make you smarter too.
Scientists at Stanford University, in California, have recently revealed a molecular basis for music known as the “Mozart Effect”, but not other music.
Dr. Fran Rauscher and her geneticist colleague H. Li, discovered that rats, like humans, perform better on learning and memory tests after listening to a specific Mozart Sonata in D. They found that various growth factors and a memory compound increased in an area of the brain that affects learning and memory.
In addition, some years before, at the University of California, Irvine, Dr. Rausher found that college students scored higher on the spatial portion of an I.Q. test after listening to the Mozart Sonata for only 10 minutes! The findings were published and the “Mozart Effect” craze officially began.
Although there is still some controversy over whether the “Mozart Effect” really exists, I’ve done my research and am a big fan personally. I listen to certain Mozart CD’s every day when I write my books.
They help me focus and concentrate, and give me the added boost of a better memory. OK, I admit, sometimes I forget where I put the car keys, but listening to these particular pieces called “Mozart Effect for Focus and Concentration” actually do help me focus better.
On a more serious note, there is substantial research showing that classical music lessons can really pay off, because music can “boost brain circuitry and increase certain mental functions”.
Ultimately, you may develop the more spatial areas of the brain, and the research shows that people who have had music lessons or play an instrument perform better on many types of cognitive tests.
Major corporations such as Shell, IBM, and Dupont, along with thousands of schools and universities use music, such as certain Baroque or Mozart pieces, to cut learning time, mask irritating sounds, and increase retention of the new materials.
Many industrial corporations provide music to their employees. Dupont, for example, used a music listening program in one department that cut its training time in half and doubled the number of people trained. Another corporation using music found that clerical errors decreased by one third.
I use many type of music in my Instant Learning workshops and trainings because I find that it reduces learning time and increases memory of the material. Music activates the whole brain and makes you feel more energetic.
There is also some compelling newer evidence to show that music, used properly, can calm people with ADD or ADHD and even autism.
A recent news article reported that researchers have discovered direct evidence that music stimulates different regions of the brain responsible for memory, motor control, timing and language. For the first time, researchers also have located specific areas of mental activity linked to emotional responses to music.
At McGill University in Montreal, neuroscientist Anne Blood, who conducted the study said, “You can activate different parts of the brain, depending on what music you listen to.
So music can stimulate parts of the brain that are underactive in neurological diseases or a variety of emotional disorders. Over time, we could retrain the brain in these disorders.”
Harvard University Medical School neurobiologist, Mark Jude Tramo, says, “Undeniably, there is a biology of music. There is no question that there is specialization within the human brain for the processing of music. Music is biologically part of human life, just as music is aesthetically part of human life.”
Given the exceptional benefits of listening to certain types of music, I highly recommend you add Mozart to your tool chest of rapid learning strategies. You can listen as a family, use it at work, or play it in the background when you want your to kick your memory into high gear.
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Have you ever noticed how your favorite music can make you feel better? Well, new research studies suggest that certain types of music can boost your memory, cut your company’s training time and make you smarter too.
Scientists at Stanford University, in California, have recently revealed a molecular basis for music known as the “Mozart Effect”, but not other music.
Dr. Fran Rauscher and her geneticist colleague H. Li, discovered that rats, like humans, perform better on learning and memory tests after listening to a specific Mozart Sonata in D. They found that various growth factors and a memory compound increased in an area of the brain that affects learning and memory.
In addition, some years before, at the University of California, Irvine, Dr. Rausher found that college students scored higher on the spatial portion of an I.Q. test after listening to the Mozart Sonata for only 10 minutes! The findings were published and the “Mozart Effect” craze officially began.
Although there is still some controversy over whether the “Mozart Effect” really exists, I’ve done my research and am a big fan personally. I listen to certain Mozart CD’s every day when I write my books.
They help me focus and concentrate, and give me the added boost of a better memory. OK, I admit, sometimes I forget where I put the car keys, but listening to these particular pieces called “Mozart Effect for Focus and Concentration” actually do help me focus better.
On a more serious note, there is substantial research showing that classical music lessons can really pay off, because music can “boost brain circuitry and increase certain mental functions”.
Ultimately, you may develop the more spatial areas of the brain, and the research shows that people who have had music lessons or play an instrument perform better on many types of cognitive tests.
Major corporations such as Shell, IBM, and Dupont, along with thousands of schools and universities use music, such as certain Baroque or Mozart pieces, to cut learning time, mask irritating sounds, and increase retention of the new materials.
Many industrial corporations provide music to their employees. Dupont, for example, used a music listening program in one department that cut its training time in half and doubled the number of people trained. Another corporation using music found that clerical errors decreased by one third.
I use many type of music in my Instant Learning workshops and trainings because I find that it reduces learning time and increases memory of the material. Music activates the whole brain and makes you feel more energetic.
There is also some compelling newer evidence to show that music, used properly, can calm people with ADD or ADHD and even autism.
A recent news article reported that researchers have discovered direct evidence that music stimulates different regions of the brain responsible for memory, motor control, timing and language. For the first time, researchers also have located specific areas of mental activity linked to emotional responses to music.
At McGill University in Montreal, neuroscientist Anne Blood, who conducted the study said, “You can activate different parts of the brain, depending on what music you listen to.
So music can stimulate parts of the brain that are underactive in neurological diseases or a variety of emotional disorders. Over time, we could retrain the brain in these disorders.”
Harvard University Medical School neurobiologist, Mark Jude Tramo, says, “Undeniably, there is a biology of music. There is no question that there is specialization within the human brain for the processing of music. Music is biologically part of human life, just as music is aesthetically part of human life.”
Given the exceptional benefits of listening to certain types of music, I highly recommend you add Mozart to your tool chest of rapid learning strategies. You can listen as a family, use it at work, or play it in the background when you want your to kick your memory into high gear.
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