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Anxiety & Stress Management
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Behavioral Status
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Internet Address: http://www.algy.com/anxiety/index.html
Anxiety Panic Internet Resource. Online. Internet. 1 November 1997.
The Anxiety Panic internet resource (tAPir) is a self-help network and grass-roots project consisting of many people who are all working towards a common goal: to overcoming and curing overwhelming anxiety. They are mainly “interested in anxiety disorders such as panic attacks, phobias, shyness, generalized anxiety, obsessive-compulsive behavior and post traumatic stress.” This site contains information on all of these anxiety disorders including treatment, therapy options, medication used in assisting people with anxiety disorders, online support options, and “the web’s largest database of links to anxiety-related information.” There is also an online magazine, at this site, called the tAPir TIMES which is very useful for finding information on the latest news, research, reviews, updates, and mental health issues.
Internet Address: http://www.pacifier.com/~stwmt/stw.html
Welcome to Sound Therapy Works
This site addresses the exploration of song lyrics and the implications in our daily lives of words and music used to promote insight into the problems approached in therapy. During guided imagery the therapist takes the client on a journey using the music as a vehicle to explore an inner world each of us carries inside.
Internet Address: http://topclass.1itec.suny.edu/students/bio 380/Termpapers/BazioFlintion/ Termpaper/html
Biology 380 Term Paper
This site addressed the therapeutic music field as an aid to helping people recover from many different types of problems. They do this by focusing on relaxation to music, changing mood, and using music as a way to focus on tasks at hand. This is a term paper that was prepared for a biology course.
Breathing Techniques
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Internet Address: http://www.ivf.com/stress.html http://www.ivf.com/stress.html
Stress Management by Mark Perloe
In this site the following topics are discussed: What is stress?, How can I eliminate stress from my life?, How can I tell what is optimal stress for me?, How can I manage stress better? For managing stress, it gives suggestions on how to slowly and deeply breathe. It gives relaxation techniques and suggests listening to music to help relax the body. Since staying in shape also helps reduce stress, music can be used as a motivation to keep physical well-being.
Causes
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Internet Address: http://www.mentalhealth.com/mag1/p51-str.html#Head_4
his site provides useful information on the ways to manage stress. This site also lists common symptoms and causes of stress. Lifestyle, situational, and thought changes are listed as ways to possibly master stress.
Cognitive
Top
Internet Address: http://www.howtolearn.com/Mozart.html
The Mozart Effect by Don Campbell
According to some research, compositions of Mozart can relieve stress. Music activates the whole brain and makes you feel more energetic. According to this source, 43 of the world’s largest industrial companies provide music for their employees. For many years and with thousands of students, The Center For New Discoveries In Learning has been evaluating the use of music both in the classroom and while students study. They found that students using Mozart and certain Baroque pieces felt calmer, could study longer, and had a higher rate of retention as well as earned better grades, according to their teachers. When your body hears the even, one beat per second tempo of Baroque music, your heart rate and pulse relax to the beat. When you are in this relaxed but alert state, your mind is able to concentrate more easily. Tape II, Heal The Body, is recommended to reduce stress, tension, and accelerate healing.
Internet Address: http://stevenhalpern.com/relaxation_music.html
Steven’s Halpern’s Inner Peace Music by Keith Metcalfe
This site has a section on meditation, music and the stillness within. It explains that meditative music should provide a presence without forcing you to pay attention to it rather than to your own internal reality. Tempo for music should not exceed the speed of a relaxed heart beat (60 beats/minute) if you want the results to be a relaxing state on your body. This site explains why certain music is not relaxing, and why it can just as easily cause stress.
Internet Address: http://www.reiinstitute.com
Rhythmic Entrainment Intervention Institute. Online. Internet. 1 November 1997.
The Rhythmic Entrainment Intervention Institute (REI Institute) is a Music Medicine organization. The institute provides therapy that focuses on the effects of musical rhythms on the central nervous system. The musical therapy program “uses specific rhythmic patterns performed on a hand drum to aid individuals with neurobiological disorders, including autism and related developmental disabilities.” This site discusses the institute and the Rhythmic Entrainment Intervention technique and its effects.
Internet Address: http://www.ksp.or.jp/bfl/prev/eresult4.html
Application to Music Therapy
This site explains a study on music therapy which was used for relaxation. It shows the effect of music therapy in which listening to music is followed by playing chimes and bells and then music is played. As soon as the music starts, the mental stress starts to reduce, and gradually levels of ³joy² and ³mental relaxation² increase.
Coping Techniques
Top
Internet Address: http://topclass.1itec.suny.edu/students/bio 380/Termpapers/BazioFlintion/ Termpaper/html
Biology 380 Term Paper
This site addressed the therapeutic music field as an aid to helping people
recover from many different types of problems. They do this by focusing
on relaxation to music, changing mood, and using music as a way to focus
on tasks at hand. This is a term paper that was prepared for a biology course.
Drum
Top
Internet Address: http://stress-solutions.com http://stress-solutions.com
Stress Solutions-Drumming Away Stress by Robert L. Friedman
This approach to stress reduction allows for an active release of stress through percussive drumming and a passive release of stress through guided imagery exercises. In addition to the drumming, participants are initially invited to vocalize non musical rhythm words (scat) and African American chants in an atmosphere of humor and playfulness. These exercises help participants experience the magic of rhythm through their voices. The exercises often ease the concerns that some individuals may have about expressing themselves rhythmically.
Internet Address: http://www.reiinstitute.com
Rhythmic Entrainment Intervention Institute. Online. Internet. 1 November 1997.
The Rhythmic Entrainment Intervention Institute (REI Institute) is a Music Medicine organization. The institute provides therapy that focuses on the effects of musical rhythms on the central nervous system. The musical therapy program “uses specific rhythmic patterns performed on a hand drum to aid
individuals with neurobiological disorders, including autism and related developmental disabilities.” This site discusses the institute and the Rhythmic Entrainment Intervention technique and its effects.
Emotional Status
Top
Internet Address: http://www.gday-mate.com/stressed/html/music_therapy.html
This site provides some useful information about music therapy and how it can affect you emotionally, spiritually, physically and how it can produce a very positive therapeutic experience. There is also a link to some specific musical CDs that could assist a therapist in various activities.
Internet Address: http://www.audiocollage.com/indes2.html
Give Your Mind A Massage With Collage by Collage
This site is developed by the College Series, a company which sells music on tape to help people relax. It talks about research on psycho acoustics. It explains their study of their music on people who were stressed. Results revealed that there was a significant decline in stress levels, anxiety, and depression.
Internet Address: http://www.econ.unuc.edu/~hanko/Bio/stress.html
Stress And The Immune System by Hannah Koenker
This site describes how stress plays a role in everyday life. It explains the various forms of stress (acute and chronic), how stress affects the immune system and how that affectation influences disease. Music is a part of everyday life and can be used as a stress relief and as a relaxation for the mind and body.
Internet Address: http://www.chronicpainsolutions.com/articles/cecesummer98.htm
Sing, Hum, Chant, And Tone For Healing by CeCe Miller
"Crickets chant their love songs in the night. Waves of water vibrate to the shores. Birds carry ancient medleys to their off-springs. The grasses hum, rubbing against each other. Life is harmony. We join our melody with all that sings." This site gives several different suggestions for methods of relaxing. Every way involves music. The author tells us that each individual can develop sound health in mind and body. Ten minutes a day will bring remarkable benefits of charging the body, brain, and spirit. One suggestion is to sit comfortably in a chair with your eyes open, placing the palms of your hands firmly on your head, placing one hand over the crown and the other firmly on the back of your skull. Begin to tone the vowel sound "A" (as in say). Begin fairly loudly at the lowest pitch in your voice and then slowly raise to the highest pitch that is comfortable. Let your voice fall slowly back to the beginning. Rest a moment and continue with the rest of the vowels. When finished, close your eyes and sense your body. Notice the feelings, tension and energies. Repeat with your eyes closed. The author goes on to explain the importance of music while the baby is still in the womb, and also the role that music plays when helping a dying person make the transition between worlds.
Internet Address: http://www.algy.com/anxiety/index.html
Anxiety Panic Internet Resource. Online. Internet. 1 November 1997.
The Anxiety Panic internet resource (tAPir) is a self-help network and grass-roots project consisting of many people who are all working towards a common goal: to overcoming and curing overwhelming anxiety. They are mainly “interested in anxiety disorders such as panic attacks, phobias, shyness, generalized anxiety, obsessive-compulsive behavior and post traumatic stress.” This site contains information on all of these anxiety disorders including treatment, therapy options, medication used
in assisting people with anxiety disorders, online support options, and “the web’s largest database of links to anxiety-related information.” There is also an online magazine, at this site, called the tAPir TIMES which is very useful for finding information on the latest news, research, reviews, updates, and mental health issues.
Humor Techniques
Top
Internet Address: http://www.capsteps.com
This site is the homepage for the only group in America that attempts to be funnier than Congress. The Capitol Steps are current and former Congressional staff members who monitor events and personalities on Capitol Hill, in the Oval Office, and in other centers of power and prestige around the world and then take a humorous look at serious issues. The site provides links to available shows, recordings, and other information regarding this group. Humor is known to reduce stress and many people get a great laugh from the Capitol Steps work.
Imagery
Top
Internet Address: http://stress-solutions.com http://stress-solutions.com
Stress Solutions-Drumming Away Stress by Robert L. Friedman
This approach to stress reduction allows for an active release of stress through percussive drumming and a passive release of stress through guided imagery exercises. In addition to the drumming, participants are initially invited to vocalize non musical rhythm words (scat) and African American chants in an atmosphere of humor and playfulness. These exercises help participants experience the magic of rhythm through their voices. The exercises often ease the concerns that some individuals may have about expressing themselves rhythmically.
Internet Address: http://www.peacefulcenter.com/tape1.htm
The Peaceful Center author unknown
This site recommends eight different soothing musical tapes. Most of the tapes are used along with guided imagery. All the tapes are stress management tapes. A few of the areas that they cover are: learning to breathe, letting go, dealing with insomnia, dealing with bereavement issues, and meditation for healing relationships.
Internet Address: http://www.pacifier.com/~stwmt/stw.html
Welcome to Sound Therapy Works
This site addresses the exploration of song lyrics and the implications in our daily lives of words and music used to promote insight into the problems approached in therapy. During guided imagery the therapist takes the client on a journey using the music as a vehicle to explore an inner world each of us carries inside.
Keyboard
Top
Internet Address: http://www.betterhands.com/bhweb008.htm
Keyboard Trainer by Emil Pascarelli This site tells how playing the keyboard can be used as a stress relief device. Playing keyboard warms the hands and retains fingers in a curled position. These conditions are associated with many relaxation techniques requiring conscious effort. When conscious, relaxation is confirmed when the hands, frontal area, and other parts of the body become desensitized. The more one practices, the easier it is to reach the relaxed state.
Listening
Top
Internet Address: http://www.gday-mate.com/stressed/html/music_therapy.html
This site provides some useful information about music therapy and how it can affect you emotionally, spiritually, physically and how it can produce a very positive therapeutic experience. There is also a link to some specific musical CDs that could assist a therapist in various activities.
Meditation
Top
Internet Address: http://stevenhalpern.com/relaxation_music.html
Steven’s Halpern’s Inner Peace Music by Keith Metcalfe
This site has a section on meditation, music and the stillness within. It explains that meditative music should provide a presence without forcing you to pay attention to it rather than to your own internal reality. Tempo for music should not exceed the speed of a relaxed heart beat (60 beats/minute) if you want the results to be a relaxing state on your body. This site explains why certain music is not relaxing, and why it can just as easily cause stress.
Internet Address: http://www.peacefulcenter.com/tape1.htm
The Peaceful Center author unknown
This site recommends eight different soothing musical tapes. Most of the tapes are used along with guided imagery. All the tapes are stress management tapes. A few of the areas that they cover are: learning to breathe, letting go, dealing with insomnia, dealing with bereavement issues, and meditation for healing relationships.
Motor Skills
Top
Internet Address: http://www.dreamweaving.com/dwtour3.htm
This is a site related to the DreamWeaver Centers. It explains how relaxation and stress relief can be accomplished through the use of music. More specifically it provides some information on how vibrations from the music can travel through the body and help to reduce stress. This site provides links to other helpful sites that include articles related to stress management.
Internet Address: http://stevenhalpern.com/relaxation_music.html
Steven’s Halpern’s Inner Peace Music by Keith Metcalfe
This site is about Steven Halpern’s Inner Peace Music. It describes music for relaxation, self-care and well-being. It describes how psycho-neuro-immunology, which is the branch of medicine that studies the relationship between mind and body, affects stress and disease. It lists music tapes that can be helpful in relaxation. It also explains that music can help with stress by slowing down your heart rate, making you relax.
Performance
Top
Internet Address: http://www.reiinstitute.com
Rhythmic Entrainment Intervention Institute. Online. Internet. 1 November 1997.
The Rhythmic Entrainment Intervention Institute (REI Institute) is a Music Medicine organization. The institute provides therapy that focuses on the effects of musical rhythms on the central nervous system. The musical therapy program “uses specific rhythmic patterns performed on a hand drum to aid
individuals with neurobiological disorders, including autism and related developmental disabilities.” This site discusses the institute and the Rhythmic Entrainment Intervention technique and its effects.
Personal
Top
Internet Address: http://www.capsteps.com
This site is the homepage for the only group in America that attempts to be funnier than Congress. The Capitol Steps are current and former Congressional staff members who monitor events and personalities on Capitol Hill, in the Oval Office, and in other centers of power and prestige around the world and then take a humorous look at serious issues. The site provides links to available shows, recordings, and other information regarding this group. Humor is known to reduce stress and many people get a great laugh from the Capitol Steps work.
Internet Address: http://stress-solutions.com http://stress-solutions.com
Stress Solutions-Drumming Away Stress by Robert L. Friedman
This approach to stress reduction allows for an active release of stress through percussive drumming and a passive release of stress through guided imagery exercises. In addition to the drumming, participants are initially invited to vocalize non musical rhythm words (scat) and African American chants in an atmosphere of humor and playfulness. These exercises help participants experience the magic of rhythm through their voices. The exercises often ease the concerns that some individuals may have about expressing themselves rhythmically.
Internet Address: http://stevenhalpern.com/relaxation_music.html
Steven’s Halpern’s Inner Peace Music by Keith Metcalfe
This site has a section on meditation, music and the stillness within. It explains that meditative music should provide a presence without forcing you to pay attention to it rather than to your own internal reality. Tempo for music should not exceed the speed of a relaxed heart beat (60 beats/minute) if you want the results to be a relaxing state on your body. This site explains why certain music is not relaxing, and why it can just as easily cause stress.
Physical
Top
Internet Address: http://www.gday-mate.com/stressed/html/music_therapy.html
This site provides some useful information about music therapy and how it can affect you emotionally, spiritually, physically and how it can produce a very positive therapeutic experience. There is also a link to some specific musical CDs that could assist a therapist in various activities.
Internet Address: http://www.dreamweaving.com/dwtour3.htm
This is a site related to the DreamWeaver Centers. It explains how relaxation and stress relief can be accomplished through the use of music. More specifically it provides some information on how vibrations from the music can travel through the body and help to reduce stress. This site provides links to other helpful sites that include articles related to stress management.
Internet Address: http://www.howtolearn.com/Mozart.html
The Mozart Effect by Don Campbell
According to some research, compositions of Mozart can relieve stress. Music activates the whole brain and makes you feel more energetic. According to this source, 43 of the world’s largest industrial companies provide music for their employees. For many years and with thousands of students, The Center For New Discoveries In Learning has been evaluating the use of music both in the classroom and while students study. They found that students using Mozart and certain Baroque pieces felt calmer, could study longer, and had a higher rate of retention as well as earned better grades, according to their teachers. When your body hears the even, one beat per second tempo of Baroque music, your heart rate and pulse relax to the beat. When you are in this relaxed but alert state, your mind is able to concentrate more easily. Tape II, Heal The Body, is recommended to reduce stress, tension, and accelerate healing.
Internet Address: http://www.econ.unuc.edu/~hanko/Bio/stress.html
Stress And The Immune System by Hannah Koenker
This site describes how stress plays a role in everyday life. It explains the various forms of stress (acute and chronic), how stress affects the immune system and how that affectation influences disease. Music is a part of everyday life and can be used as a stress relief and as a relaxation for the mind and body.
Internet Address: http://www.chronicpainsolutions.com/articles/cecesummer98.htm
Sing, Hum, Chant, And Tone For Healing by CeCe Miller
"Crickets chant their love songs in the night. Waves of water vibrate to the shores. Birds carry ancient medleys to their off-springs. The grasses hum, rubbing against each other. Life is harmony. We join our melody with all that sings." This site gives several different suggestions for methods of relaxing. Every way involves music. The author tells us that each individual can develop sound health in mind and body. Ten minutes a day will bring remarkable benefits of charging the body, brain, and spirit. One suggestion is to sit comfortably in a chair with your eyes open, placing the palms of your hands firmly on your head, placing one hand over the crown and the other firmly on the back of your skull. Begin to tone the vowel sound "A" (as in say). Begin fairly loudly at the lowest pitch in your voice and then slowly raise to the highest pitch that is comfortable. Let your voice fall slowly back to the beginning. Rest a moment and continue with the rest of the vowels. When finished, close your eyes and sense your body. Notice the feelings, tension and energies. Repeat with your eyes closed. The author goes on to explain the importance of music while the baby is still in the womb, and also the role that music plays when helping a dying person make the transition between worlds.
Psychological Status
Top
Internet Address: http://www.algy.com/anxiety/index.html
Anxiety Panic Internet Resource. Online. Internet. 1 November 1997.
The Anxiety Panic internet resource (tAPir) is a self-help network and grass-roots project consisting of many people who are all working towards a common goal: to overcoming and curing overwhelming anxiety. They are mainly “interested in anxiety disorders such as panic attacks, phobias, shyness, generalized anxiety, obsessive-compulsive behavior and post traumatic stress.” This site contains information on all of these anxiety disorders including treatment, therapy options, medication used in assisting people with anxiety disorders, online support options, and “the web’s largest database of links to
anxiety-related information.” There is also an online magazine, at this site, called the tAPir TIMES which is very useful for finding information on the latest news, research, reviews, updates, and mental health issues.
Internet Address: http://www.reiinstitute.com
Rhythmic Entrainment Intervention Institute. Online. Internet. 1 November 1997.
The Rhythmic Entrainment Intervention Institute (REI Institute) is a Music Medicine organization. The institute provides therapy that focuses on the effects of musical rhythms on the central nervous system. The musical therapy program “uses specific rhythmic patterns performed on a hand drum to aid
individuals with neurobiological disorders, including autism and related developmental disabilities.” This site discusses the institute and the Rhythmic Entrainment Intervention technique and its effects.
Internet Address: http://www.pacifier.com/~stwmt/stw.html
Welcome to Sound Therapy Works
This site addresses the exploration of song lyrics and the implications in our daily lives of words and music used to promote insight into the problems approached in therapy. During guided imagery the therapist takes the client on a journey using the music as a vehicle to explore an inner world each of
us carries inside.
Internet Address: http://www.expressivetherapy.org/biblio.html
Music Medicine Bibliography
This site covered the areas of anxiety and relaxation, stress reduction, depression, and pain. It describes how music can contribute to helping in these areas.
Internet Address: http://www.tonyoconnor.com.au/
Tony O¹Connor¹s Music and Vision for Relaxation
This site address the question, ³ What is relaxation music?² It explains the affects of music in our lives. Tony O¹Connor, an Austrialian artist, creates music to benefit anyone suffering from anxiety.
Internet Address: http://topclass.1itec.suny.edu/students/bio 380/Termpapers/BazioFlintion/ Termpaper/html
Biology 380 Term Paper
This site addressed the therapeutic music field as an aid to helping people recover from many different types of problems. They do this by focusing on relaxation to music, changing mood, and using music as a way to focus on tasks at hand. This is a term paper that was prepared for a biology course.
Relaxation
Top
Internet Address: http://www.dreamweaving.com/dwtour3.htm
This is a site related to the DreamWeaver Centers. It explains how relaxation and stress relief can be accomplished through the use of music. More specifically it provides some information on how vibrations from the music can travel through the body and help to reduce stress. This site provides links to other helpful sites that include articles related to stress management.
Internet Address: http://www.stresscontrol.com/tape.htm
This site provides some useful information about relaxation and stress management programs. The program involves a list of musical selections to use that can help to establish a calming environment. Several pages are available that contain information related to stress management.
Internet Address: http://www.econ.unuc.edu/~hanko/Bio/stress.html
Stress And The Immune System by Hannah Koenker
This site describes how stress plays a role in everyday life. It explains the various forms of stress (acute and chronic), how stress affects the immune system and how that affectation influences disease. Music is a part of everyday life and can be used as a stress relief and as a relaxation for the mind and body.
Internet Address: http://stevenhalpern.com/relaxation_music.html
Steven’s Halpern’s Inner Peace Music by Keith Metcalfe
This site is about Steven Halpern’s Inner Peace Music. It describes music for relaxation, self-care and well-being. It describes how psycho-neuro-immunology, which is the branch of medicine that studies the relationship between mind and body, affects stress and disease. It lists music tapes that can be helpful in relaxation. It also explains that music can help with stress by slowing down your heart rate, making you relax.
Internet Address: http://stevenhalpern.com/relaxation_music.html
Steven’s Halpern’s Inner Peace Music by Keith Metcalfe
This site has a section on meditation, music and the stillness within. It explains that meditative music should provide a presence without forcing you to pay attention to it rather than to your own internal reality. Tempo for music should not exceed the speed of a relaxed heart beat (60 beats/minute) if you want the results to be a relaxing state on your body. This site explains why certain music is not relaxing, and why it can just as easily cause stress.
Internet Address: http://www.chronicpainsolutions.com/articles/cecesummer98.htm
Sing, Hum, Chant, And Tone For Healing by CeCe Miller
"Crickets chant their love songs in the night. Waves of water vibrate to the shores. Birds carry ancient medleys to their off-springs. The grasses hum, rubbing against each other. Life is harmony. We join our melody with all that sings." This site gives several different suggestions for methods of relaxing. Every way involves music. The author tells us that each individual can develop sound health in mind and body. Ten minutes a day will bring remarkable benefits of charging the body, brain, and spirit. One suggestion is to sit comfortably in a chair with your eyes open, placing the palms of your hands firmly on your head, placing one hand over the crown and the other firmly on the back of your skull. Begin to tone the vowel sound "A" (as in say). Begin fairly loudly at the lowest pitch in your voice and then slowly raise to the highest pitch that is comfortable. Let your voice fall slowly back to the beginning. Rest a moment and continue with the rest of the vowels. When finished, close your eyes and sense your body. Notice the feelings, tension and energies. Repeat with your eyes closed. The author goes on to explain the importance of music while the baby is still in the womb, and also the role that music plays when helping a dying person make the transition between worlds.
Internet Address: http://www.betterhands.com/bhweb008.htm
Keyboard Trainer by Emil Pascarelli
This site tells how playing the keyboard can be used as a stress relief device. Playing keyboard warms the hands and retains fingers in a curled position. These conditions are associated with many relaxation techniques requiring conscious effort. When conscious, relaxation is confirmed when the hands, frontal area, and other parts of the body become desensitized. The more one practices, the easier it is to reach the relaxed state.
Internet Address: http://www.ivf.com/stress.html http://www.ivf.com/stress.html
Stress Management by Mark Perloe
In this site the following topics are discussed: What is stress?, How can I eliminate stress from my life?, How can I tell what is optimal stress for me?, How can I manage stress better? For managing stress, it gives suggestions on how to slowly and deeply breathe. It gives relaxation techniques and suggests listening to music to help relax the body. Since staying in shape also helps reduce stress, music can be used as a motivation to keep physical well-being.
Internet Address: http://www.ksp.or.jp/bfl/prev/eresult4.html
Application to Music Therapy
This site explains a study on music therapy which was used for relaxation. It shows the effect of music therapy in which listening to music is followed by playing chimes and bells and then music is played. As soon as the music starts, the mental stress starts to reduce, and gradually levels of ³joy² and
³mental relaxation² increase.
Internet Address: http://topclass.1itec.suny.edu/students/bio 380/Termpapers/BazioFlintion/ Termpaper/html
Biology 380 Term Paper
This site addressed the therapeutic music field as an aid to helping people recover from many different types of problems. They do this by focusing on relaxation to music, changing mood, and using music as a way to focus on tasks at hand. This is a term paper that was prepared for a biology course.
Research
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Internet Address: http://www.audiocollage.com/indes2.html
Give Your Mind A Massage With Collage by Collage
This site is developed by the College Series, a company which sells music on tape to help people relax. It talks about research on psycho acoustics. It explains their study of their music on people who were stressed. Results revealed that there was a significant decline in stress levels, anxiety, and depression.
Internet Address: http://www.unsw.edu.au/clients/crufad/
Clinical Research Unit for Anxiety Disorders. Online. Internet. 1 November 1997.
This site is mainly a resource link database for other sites such as the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (WHO Collaborating Centre) and Substance Abuse and for the Anxiety Disorders Clinic in Darlinghurst, NSW, Australia. The WHO Collaboration Centre is an Australian Multi Site Collaborating Centre throughout Australia with six sites that each have a designated area of expertise, such as the Anxiety Disorders Clinic. The area of the site pertaining to this clinic defines areas, treatments, and statistics on anxiety disorders.
Internet Address: http://www.lexington-on-line.com/naf.html
National Anxiety Foundation. Online. Internet. 29 October 1997.
This site is targeted for educational purposes only. The National Anxiety Foundation’s intent with the information provided is to help someone who thinks that he or she might have an anxiety disorder. The foundation does this by defining several anxiety disorders (as well as panic disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorders), providing links and information about other sources, and then suggesting that “if you think you might have an anxiety disorder...see a physician who can diagnose and treat you, or
refer you to a specialist.”
Internet Address: http://www.nihm.nih.gov/anxiety/
National Institute of Mental Health (NIHM). Online. Internet. 1 November 1997.
This site is run by the National Institute of Mental Health, which developed the Anxiety Disorders Education Program. This program is a national education campaign with the purpose of increasing awareness about anxiety disorders and informing the public and health care professionals that anxiety disorders are real medical illnesses. NIHM is concerned with spreading awareness due to the fact that many people who have anxiety disorders are misdiagnosed, if they are diagnosed, and do not
receive treatment.
Internet Address: http://www.ksp.or.jp/bfl/prev/eresult4.html
Application to Music Therapy
This site explains a study on music therapy which was used for relaxation. It shows the effect of music therapy in which listening to music is followed by playing chimes and bells and then music is played. As soon as the music starts, the mental stress starts to reduce, and gradually levels of ³joy² and
³mental relaxation² increase.
Internet Address: http://topclass.1itec.suny.edu/students/bio 380/Termpapers/BazioFlintion/ Termpaper/html
Biology 380 Term Paper
This site addressed the therapeutic music field as an aid to helping people recover from many different types of problems. They do this by focusing on relaxation to music, changing mood, and using music as a way to focus on tasks at hand. This is a term paper that was prepared for a biology course.
Singing
Top
Internet Address: http://stress-solutions.com http://stress-solutions.com
Stress Solutions-Drumming Away Stress by Robert L. Friedman
This approach to stress reduction allows for an active release of stress through percussive drumming and a passive release of stress through guided imagery exercises. In addition to the drumming, participants are initially invited to vocalize non musical rhythm words (scat) and African American chants in an atmosphere of humor and playfulness. These exercises help participants experience the magic of rhythm through their voices. The exercises often ease the concerns that some individuals may have about expressing themselves rhythmically.
Spiritual Status
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Internet Address: http://www.thriveonline.com/health/news/RB/1998Jan29/526.html
This site has an interesting article that talks about how music therapy is helpful in lifting the mood and reducing stress. The study by Dr. Philip M. McCabe explains several useful points about the use of music in stress relief.
Internet Address: http://www.chronicpainsolutions.com/articles/cecesummer98.htm
Sing, Hum, Chant, And Tone For Healing by CeCe Miller
"Crickets chant their love songs in the night. Waves of water vibrate to the shores. Birds carry ancient medleys to their off-springs. The grasses hum, rubbing against each other. Life is harmony. We join our melody with all that sings." This site gives several different suggestions for methods of relaxing. Every way involves music. The author tells us that each individual can develop sound health in mind and body. Ten minutes a day will bring remarkable benefits of charging the body, brain, and spirit. One suggestion is to sit comfortably in a chair with your eyes open, placing the palms of your hands firmly on your head, placing one hand over the crown and the other firmly on the back of your skull. Begin to tone the vowel sound "A" (as in say). Begin fairly loudly at the lowest pitch in your voice and then slowly raise to the highest pitch that is comfortable. Let your voice fall slowly back to the beginning. Rest a moment and continue with the rest of the vowels. When finished, close your eyes and sense your body. Notice the feelings, tension and energies. Repeat with your eyes closed. The author goes on to explain the importance of music while the baby is still in the womb, and also the role that music plays when helping a dying person make the transition between worlds.
Students
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Internet Address: http://www.audiocollage.com/indes2.html
Give Your Mind A Massage With Collage by Collage
This site is developed by the College Series, a company which sells music on tape to help people relax. It talks about research on psycho acoustics. It explains their study of their music on people who were stressed. Results revealed that there was a significant decline in stress levels, anxiety, and depression.
Symptoms
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Internet Address: http://www.mentalhealth.com/mag1/p51-str.html#Head_4
This site provides useful information on the ways to manage stress. This site also lists common symptoms and causes of stress. Lifestyle, situational, and thought changes are listed as ways to possibly master stress.
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Internet Address: http://www.algy.com/anxiety/index.html
Anxiety Panic Internet Resource. Online. Internet. 1 November 1997.
The Anxiety Panic internet resource (tAPir) is a self-help network and grass-roots project consisting of many people who are all working towards a common goal: to overcoming and curing overwhelming anxiety. They are mainly “interested in anxiety disorders such as panic attacks, phobias, shyness, generalized anxiety, obsessive-compulsive behavior and post traumatic stress.” This site contains information on all of these anxiety disorders including treatment, therapy options, medication used in assisting people with anxiety disorders, online support options, and “the web’s largest database of links to
anxiety-related information.” There is also an online magazine, at this site, called the tAPir TIMES which is very useful for finding information on the latest news, research, reviews, updates, and mental health issues.
Internet Address: http://www.nihm.nih.gov/anxiety/
National Institute of Mental Health (NIHM). Online. Internet. 1 November 1997.
This site is run by the National Institute of Mental Health, which developed the Anxiety Disorders Education Program. This program is a national education campaign with the purpose of increasing awareness about anxiety disorders and informing the public and health care professionals that anxiety disorders are real medical illnesses. NIHM is concerned with spreading awareness due to the fact that many people who have anxiety disorders are misdiagnosed, if they are diagnosed, and do not receive treatment.
Internet Address: http://topclass.1itec.suny.edu/students/bio 380/Termpapers/BazioFlintion/ Termpaper/html
Biology 380 Term Paper
This site addressed the therapeutic music field as an aid to helping people recover from many different types of problems. They do this by focusing on relaxation to music, changing mood, and using music as a way to focus on tasks at hand. This is a term paper that was prepared for a biology course.