Dr. Kniffin and his colleagues from Cornwell University, Dr. Jubo Yan, Dr. Brian Wansink, and Dr. William Schulze, referenced two separate studies that they spearheaded to evaluate the influence of different types of music on the cooperative behavior of 266 people.
In each study, the participants were organized into groups of three and given tokens. The members of each group were presented with "multiple opportunities to contribute to the team's value" by using the tokens. They also had the options to keep the tokens for themselves.
In both studies, when music like Van Morrison's Brown Eyed Girl, which has an upbeat tune and is deemed a "happy" song, is played, the chances that team members would use the tokens to boost the group's value was higher, unlike when "unpleasant" music was played or if there was no music at all. This proves that happy music can encourage employees to make decisions that can benefit the whole team.
Dr. Kniffin shares that "music with rhythm" often boosts a person's mood, and the results of their studies reveal that there is a higher chance that individuals can work well together once they're listening to music that has a steady beat.
Dr. Wasink, study co-author and director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab, notes that aside from having a scientific reason to let employees listen to some music while they're working, happy music is an effective way of fostering cooperation among workers and positively influencing their mood.
If you want to improve your own mood with music therapy, try some of these tips:
- Play some soft, relaxing music at a moderate level. Make sure that the volume isn't high enough to distract you and that you can hear the melody or instrumental. Find a quiet space and sit comfortably. Close your eyes and pay attention to your breathing as you try to harmonize with the music. Relax and free your mind from worries.
- Try to learn how to play an instrument. If you're feeling down, rocking out on a guitar or trying out some melodies on a ukelele can help cheer you up. Playing an instrument is just another way to help you channel your creativity and it can also help you de-stress when you are feeling overwhelmed.
- Listen to upbeat music that you can dance to. Clear some space in the living room, play some of your favorite songs, and dance your worries away.
- Listen to music while you're doing one or a couple of your daily activities. Enjoy some music whether you're washing the dishes or working out. Keep in mind that this will only work if you choose music that "complements" the task, such as classical music when you're starting a project for the office or an upbeat playlist when you're shooting some hoops.
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The Power of Breathing
Here are some sample medicinal breathwork techniques that are examples of medicinal breathwork techniques to simply and intentionally activate the rest-and-digest response to take the body out of "fight or flight" stress response.
1. Exhale focus. Breathe naturally without thinking about the breath or deliberately making it wispy, extended, and long. Just lightly place your intent on the exhale. People sigh in relief (exhale) and gasp in terror (inhale). One leads to "rest and digest" and the other to "fight or flight."
2. Sink the qi. With each exhale, place your intent in the gut or sacral chakra, which is three inches below the belly button and in between the front and back of the abdomen. Then imagine a light bulb going on there with every exhale--feel free to use any other similar visualization that resonates with you. In "fight or flight," all the qi or energy in the body rises up toward the head and heart. It's common for your face to flush and head to feel swollen as your heart rate and blood pressure increases. By guiding qi back down, the body can relieve itself of the intense energy needed for "fight or flight" and divert it to fuel a "rest-and-digest" response.
3. Release tension. With each exhale, find and release a bit more tension. This can happen area by area or totally randomly. The task is to be mindful of sensation anywhere in your body. Think about the way your whole face feels when unclenching your teeth--that's what we're going for in other areas. In each part of the body where tension is released, blockages open, stagnation is cleared, and the flow of qi improves, and the ancient texts say that health and vitality returns.
Medicinal breathwork to be one of the easiest to master, incorporate into a busy life, and see fast results.
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Nature and Nurture Found to be Inextricably Linked
Are you the way you are because of the genes you inherited from your parents or because of the experiences you have had in your life? That has been the question asked for hundreds of years in the nature vs. nurture debate. Yet, this is where it gets quite fascinating. It turns out that nature and nurture are inextricably intertwined.
This is very apparent in an experiment done in 2013. Mice have a mutated gene called the agouti gene which makes them yellow in color, prone to diabetes and other diseases, and obese. In a study of epigenetics in agouti mice, cloned mice--that is, genetically identical mice to the agouti mice in the experiment--were given different nutrients than the control study, and they slowly began to change into non-obese mice.
One could argue that this epigenetic (outside regular genetic) change was simply due to nutrient density and the associated physiological changes, but this experiment has been conducted again in various forms using environmental cues such as love, anger, poverty, and more. Each of these emotional nutrients--as we'll label them--result in changes in the genome. Researchers are even now discovering an epigenetic connection between DNA methylation of the serotonin transporter gene and how we respond to stress.
The genome adapts to both intrinsic and environmental signals. This means that you are a product of both nature and nurture because nature will always respond to how you are cared for and loved (even by yourself) or ignored, hated, feared, abandoned, etc.
It is now known that our epigenetic memories are passed down through our DNA. Scientists have recently observed this happening for at least 14 generations! Can you even imagine what kind of stresses or lifestyle your grandparents, great grandparents, great great grandparents were enduring, that then imprinted upon your genes and created a chemical signal that can incite either stress or relaxation and joy in you?
Some of those inherited environmental traits were passed down through nature, and are now in you. There are those which will make you respond to challenges in a heroic way and those that will make you crumble with the weight of a feather. Just knowing that your DNA has been altered by the experiences of your ancestors can seem daunting, but it also gives you the power to change maladaptive responses that may have been created when your great-great-great-great-great grandmother was running from a tiger, or your uncle ten times removed endured a six-month-long famine in the desert during an extended absence of rain.
Now that you know this, you can choose a different response, and start a new chain of positive adaptation--DNA mutation, if you will--that allows you to stay calm under any circumstance. This new trait can then be passed down to future generations, as well as alter the DNA of your relatives.
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Kinesiology
The body can use many methods to signal you as to its knowledge and awareness about something. In kinesiology, it's "weak" and "strong". The body will go weak when addressing something not good for it, and will remain strong when it's something good for it. There are many demonstrations of way to access this response on YouTube, but I have my favorites. One is the index finger to thumb method. Place the pad of your thumb over the nail on your index finger. Then, "flick" the index finger off the thumb. You are attempting to hold the index finger with the pad of the thumb. When there is a weak response, you will not be able to hold the index finger on the thumb. When there is a strong response, you'll be able to hold the index finger on the thumb. To begin using this method, you'll need a reference as to what the "strong" and "weak" signals are. A simple test is to hold the index finger with the thumb pad and test the statement: My name is JOE (a name not yours). You'll find there is a weak response, and you will not be able to hold the index finger with the thumb pad. This will calibrate how much strength to use while holding the index finger with the thumb pad. You can use this method to find out "yes" and "no" answers about virtually anything, and those answers will be uncannily accurate. Although I mostly use this technique when it comes to shopping for food for the body to eat, it's great for selecting restaurants, car mechanics, TV shows, well, anything. (From 25 No Cost Health & Healing Hacks)
Tammy Braswell
Tammy has been sensitive to energy, and the unseen planes, since she was a young child. She's experienced a wide variety of interactions and experiences that have cultivated the desire to nurture, explore and understand what it is that she has been experiencing. Much of her journey she had to figure out on her own and knew others weren't necessarily experiencing what she was. She is highly connected to spirit, higher energies and the unlimited consciousness of Source itself, which she channels as ALL THAT IS. She knows the value in having support, so she helps others along a similar path in their own journey, to navigate through all the unknowns, unseen and unfamiliar to embrace who they really are by stepping into their truth to experience and express their gifts, abilities and connection in ways that serve them and the collective whole as their soul intended. Tammy considers the work she offers as her proprietary blend of all that she has studied, intuited, channeled and experienced firsthand in her own life, as the intuitive channel, high vibrational healer and Energetic Creation coach, guide and teacher she is now. Connect with Tammy at CreateByVibration.com
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