check out post 6/28 oliver sacks..in re: brain development and music

[tobecome]

this is the second and final reminder to have people check out message posted on 6/28 it is for your benefit to read this.
tish

[faith]

Hi Tish,
i am back online! has been a full on month or so, but i anticipate that things will be quiet for a wee while now (i hope)... cant find a link to this post? also cant get onto the other link you recommended... if you can post a link to both or either i would greatly appreciate it... i am very interested.
how are you???
faith

[tobecome]

I am happy to say that I am excited about my life right now. Which has been a long time coming...
I will check the site and post it..I thought if I had myself more together that would have been my first attempt..I'm still 101 computers..but have alot to learn.
tish

faith said:

Hi Tish,
i am back online! has been a full on month or so, but i anticipate that things will be quiet for a wee while now (i hope)... cant find a link to this post? also cant get onto the other link you recommended... if you can post a link to both or either i would greatly appreciate it... i am very interested.
how are you???
faith

[tobecome]

faith,
ok this is the information..http://www.pbs.org/wnet/music instinct/about/
hope this helps...
tish

faith said:

Hi Tish,
i am back online! has been a full on month or so, but i anticipate that things will be quiet for a wee while now (i hope)... cant find a link to this post? also cant get onto the other link you recommended... if you can post a link to both or either i would greatly appreciate it... i am very interested.
how are you???
faith

[Daniel]

This is an interesting discussion and one which I can't....resist....replying...to..........music.....aaaaaaaaaaaah!

*ahem*

Anyway, my understanding of this article is that music has the effect of stimulating the brain and, through melodic rhythmical hypnosis (for lack of a better word), the brain is perhaps more capable of concentrating on a task and performing it more efficiently - my guess would be that it masks the human tendency to dwell on things in the mind, fears of things for instance (eg, "meeting this person will go so terribly" and it does, or, "I can't cross this road today as I'll get dizzy and lightheaded" and you do).

Obviously, the lightheaded part is one I'm personally very familiar with, but why I mention this is because a couple of things have occurred over the past year and a half or so which I believe justify the messages this article presents.

My personal musical tastes have undergone a reformation of sorts - where once I exclusively listened to hard rock music and loud, provocative rhythms from abroad, my main focus today is more soft rhythmical music, or rock music which isn't so much *loud* as it is just catchy and meaningful.
These newer songs have gone through my head everyday over the past year and half of life and funnily enough my presyncopal lightheadedness is virtually a thing of the past now.

Why I think this is relevant is that I believe that a few symptoms of this virus are exascerbated by tension and nervousness - speech control, logical thought processes and especially a perpensity to suffer blood circulatory related vertigo : all potentially a result of feeling stressed or lacking in focus.

When I'm at the gym and my heartrate is racing from exercise, there's music overhead accompanying the activity. I listen as I exercise and tend not to dwell on the physical stresses exerted - in other words, I feel the music takes my mind off being active in the midst of physical activity and allows less perpensity to suffer lightheadedness at such times as a result of this.

When I'm out and on the street walking, there's no music, just my thoughts and while standing at the edge of the road praying not to get dizzy when I cross, up until this past year or so, it used to *inevitably* go all wrong : why? I hear you all ask with baited breath. Well here's my theory :

When I leave the house now, I don't listen to my mp3 player, but I have music going through my head constantly, and this helps serve as distraction from the previous fear of becoming lightheaded at a roads edge, while also helping me remain calm and focused on the task at hand, and today I stand at 212 days since my last serious attack of presyncopal lightheadedness.

Obviously, one could argue that cardiovascular fitness has played a part in this turn around, aswell as just time itself repairing things - I don't disagree, but I passionately feel that music has proven to be a device which has bridged the gap between successfully crossing the road, and fearing suffering a brain haemorrhage instead (that's obviously melodramatic, but it's what I used to believe this symptom was).

Music is the difference between being positive and not, between being afraid and not (in my experience) - it's an invaluable distraction to wayward thoughts and something which helps the mind focus on the positive and I believe it is one of the best medications for neurological illness of this nature.

This was long, sorry bout that, but there is a darned good reason why I have 100 songs on my page - music is great medicine.

[tobecome]

cheers..i knew you love this site...
hope you got my belated birthday message..
take care,
tish

Daniel said:

This is an interesting discussion and one which I can't....resist....replying...to..........music.....aaaaaaaaaaaah!

*ahem*

Anyway, my understanding of this article is that music has the effect of stimulating the brain and, through melodic rhythmical hypnosis (for lack of a better word), the brain is perhaps more capable of concentrating on a task and performing it more efficiently - my guess would be that it masks the human tendency to dwell on things in the mind, fears of things for instance (eg, "meeting this person will go so terribly" and it does, or, "I can't cross this road today as I'll get dizzy and lightheaded" and you do).

Obviously, the lightheaded part is one I'm personally very familiar with, but why I mention this is because a couple of things have occurred over the past year and a half or so which I believe justify the messages this article presents.

My personal musical tastes have undergone a reformation of sorts - where once I exclusively listened to hard rock music and loud, provocative rhythms from abroad, my main focus today is more soft rhythmical music, or rock music which isn't so much *loud* as it is just catchy and meaningful.
These newer songs have gone through my head everyday over the past year and half of life and funnily enough my presyncopal lightheadedness is virtually a thing of the past now.

Why I think this is relevant is that I believe that a few symptoms of this virus are exascerbated by tension and nervousness - speech control, logical thought processes and especially a perpensity to suffer blood circulatory related vertigo : all potentially a result of feeling stressed or lacking in focus.

When I'm at the gym and my heartrate is racing from exercise, there's music overhead accompanying the activity. I listen as I exercise and tend not to dwell on the physical stresses exerted - in other words, I feel the music takes my mind off being active in the midst of physical activity and allows less perpensity to suffer lightheadedness at such times as a result of this.

When I'm out and on the street walking, there's no music, just my thoughts and while standing at the edge of the road praying not to get dizzy when I cross, up until this past year or so, it used to *inevitably* go all wrong : why? I hear you all ask with baited breath. Well here's my theory :

When I leave the house now, I don't listen to my mp3 player, but I have music going through my head constantly, and this helps serve as distraction from the previous fear of becoming lightheaded at a roads edge, while also helping me remain calm and focused on the task at hand, and today I stand at 212 days since my last serious attack of presyncopal lightheadedness.

Obviously, one could argue that cardiovascular fitness has played a part in this turn around, aswell as just time itself repairing things - I don't disagree, but I passionately feel that music has proven to be a device which has bridged the gap between successfully crossing the road, and fearing suffering a brain haemorrhage instead (that's obviously melodramatic, but it's what I used to believe this symptom was).

Music is the difference between being positive and not, between being afraid and not (in my experience) - it's an invaluable distraction to wayward thoughts and something which helps the mind focus on the positive and I believe it is one of the best medications for neurological illness of this nature.

This was long, sorry bout that, but there is a darned good reason why I have 100 songs on my page - music is great medicine.