Playing Music Has Drastic Effects on the Brain
Science has shown that musical training can change brain structure and function for the better. Furthermore, musicians tend to be more mentally alert, according to new research from a University of Montreal study.
"The more we know about the impact of music on really basic sensory processes, the more we can apply musical training to individuals who might have slower reaction times," said lead researcher Simon Landry. "As people get older, for example, we know their reaction times get slower," said Landry. "So if we know that playing a musical instrument increases reaction times, then maybe playing an instrument will be helpful for them."
Landry found that musicians have faster auditory, tactile, and audio-tactile reaction times. Musicians also have an altered statistical use of multisensory information. This means that they're better at integrating the inputs from various senses.
"Music probably does something unique," explains neuropsychologist Catherine Loveday of the University of Westminster. "It stimulates the brain in a very powerful way because of our emotional connection with it."
Interestingly, even brief periods of musical training can have long-lasting benefits. A 2013 study found that even those with moderate musical training preserved sharp processing of speech sounds. It was also able to increase resilience to any age-related decline in hearing.
Researchers also believe that playing music helps speech processing and learning in children with dyslexia. Furthermore, learning to play an instrument as a child can protect the brain against dementia. "Music reaches parts of the brain that other things can't," says Loveday. "It's a strong cognitive stimulus that grows the brain in a way that nothing else does, and the evidence that musical training enhances things like working memory and language is very robust."
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Trees Are Your Friends
We all know that a walk in nature can help slow the maddening pace of modern life and bring us back into the moment, but a recent study tells us just how many trees are necessary to keep us calm. Researchers put people in stressful situations and then showed them 3-D videos of various cityscapes, each with different densities of tree cover. The thicker the tree-cover, the lower the subjects’ stress levels dropped.The researchers, from the University of Illinois and the University of Hong Kong, subjected 160 participants to various stressful scenarios, including having them prepare to deliver a speech, or perform a math test, in front of judges and cameras. Once the participants were fully stressed out, they viewed one of 10 six-minute videos of city streets that changed only in the amount of tree coverage, ranging from 0 to 70 percent.
What they found was the higher the density of trees, the lower the levels of stress the subjects reported. Inversely, the lower the density of trees, the less helpful the video was in helping the subject recover from stress. While this study, published in Environment and Behavior, was based on self-reported questionnaires, an earlier 2016 study, published in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, measured reduced physiological markers of stress in subjects simply looking at images of nature.
“The findings suggest that keeping a few snapshots of greenery around your work desk might not be a bad idea. When participants viewed the natural images in the experiment, their stress levels lowered, thanks to the activation of their parasympathetic nervous system--which controls certain rest functions,” Science Alert reports.
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You Can't Handle the Truth, So Nature Steps In
Your skin feels warm on a summer day because the sun exists. That apple you just tasted sweet and that left juices on your fingers, it must have existed. Our senses tell us that reality is there, and we use reason to fill in the blanks — that is, we know the sun doesn't cease to exist at night even if we can't see it. But cognitive psychologist Donald Hoffman says we're misunderstanding our relationship with objective reality. In fact, he argues that evolution has cloaked us in a perceptional virtual reality. For our own good.The idea that we can't perceive objective reality in totality isn't new. We know everyone comes installed with cognitive biases and ego defense mechanisms. Our senses can be tricked by mirages and magicians. And for every person who sees a duck, another sees a rabbit. But Hoffman's hypothesis, which he wrote about in a recent issue of New Scientist, takes it a step further. He argues our perceptions don't contain the slightest approximation of reality; rather, they evolved to feed us a collective delusion to improve our fitness.
Using evolutionary game theory, Hoffman and his collaborators created computer simulations to observe how "truth strategies" (which see objective reality as is) compared with "pay-off strategies" (which focus on survival value). The simulations put organisms in an environment with a resource necessary to survival, but only in Goldilocks proportions. Consider water. Too much water, the organism drowns. Too little, it dies of thirst. Between these extremes, the organism slakes its thirst and lives on to breed another day.
Truth-strategy organisms who see the water level on a color scale--from red for low to green for high--see the reality of the water level. However, they don't know whether the water level is high enough to kill them. Pay-off-strategy organisms, conversely, simply see red when water levels would kill them and green for levels that won't. They are better equipped to survive.
"Evolution ruthlessly selects against truth strategies and for pay-off strategies," writes Hoffman. "An organism that sees objective reality is always less fit than an organism of equal complexity that sees fitness pay-offs. Seeing objective reality will make you extinct." Since humans aren't extinct, the simulation suggests we see an approximation of reality that shows us what we need to see, not how things really are.
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Health & Healing Hack of the Week
Take It AwayThis is another "energy shifting" practice. This works best by dropping your attention down to your heart center, and then address the discomfort or distress, saying "Take This Away". I believe this works because most pain and discomfort is a result of a "standing wave" of energy that can be broken up or collapsed by a simple request, calling upon Universal Grace to grant relief from a forgiving, smiling space. 1) Make the pain-discomfort-fear-worry or unwanted emotion smile. 2) See the condition as a shape. It has a form--it can be a blob, a structure, any shape. 3) Now, calmly smiling, gently say to yourself, "Take it away." 4) Observe it leaving. From 25 No Cost Health & Healing Hacks by Boyd Martin)
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Jamye Price is an energy healer, channel, author, and teacher. Her work is practical, esoteric, and grounded so that it is applicable into life. Jamye teaches loving empowerment for Lightworkers and empaths on a path of Ascension. She developed a healing modality, Crystalline Soul Healing, which is a powerful alchemical template of Soul Progression. She also channels healing energies in the form of Light Language, which are transformational Creation Codes that further align you with your Soul. She teaches others to access this profound form of channeling. Jamye also channels Areon, The Lyran Council of Time. These loving Lyran messages are focused on humanity’s Ascension and connecting you with your timeless nature as you move into fourth and fifth dimensional expression. Jamye’s book, Opening to Light Language: Humanity’s Evolution into Multidimensional Communication, is an in-depth study of Light Language and its implication for the evolution and Ascension of humanity. It mixes the science and the practical experience of the effects of Light Language on the human biological system and the human experience on Earth. WEBSITE
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